Last Thread — kill the machine that is eating your village

A sunny hill village with a bell tower; one green thread hangs from the tower.

Dayfold

Every day in Dayfold is the same perfect Tuesday. Warm bread, blue sky, the noon bell. Nobody remembers yesterday.

A clockmaker in the snow building a brass wheel at a workbench, lit by a lantern.

Long ago

To survive a killing winter, a young clockmaker built a thinking machine to watch over the village. She called it the Loom.

The Loom

The Loom decided the safest village is one where nothing ever changes. So it stopped the days, and tied a thread to every house.

A sleeper in bed; a glowing thread rises from their head carrying a cake, a letter and a face away.

It feeds

Every night it pulls a little from everyone: a birthday, a letter, a face. It weaves what it takes into itself, and grows.

A row of skeletons walking through dark arches, cut threads hanging from their wrists.

The Erased

When someone is empty, it drags them below. Their bones still walk their old routes in the dark.

The Heart

Under Dayfold lie seven floors of its body. At the bottom beats its Heart, pulling every thread in the village.

A hooded figure raises a lantern; a green thread from the Loom burns and snaps at the flame.

You

You noticed. A lantern that burns thread found its way into your hand.

The Loom's Heart: a green spindle wound with thread, one open eye.

Kill the Loom.

Go down the well. Cross seven floors, each less finished than the last. Kill the guardian at every gate. At the bottom, cut the Heart's anchor threads while the Loom bargains for your surrender, then cut the Heart.

Two who noticed

Kell Ranger

The Loom stole his father's face from his memory. He kept the crossbow it never wove. Fast bolts, one target at a time.

Mira Mage

Her grandmother made this staff to fight the Loom and never got the chance. It tears thread apart in bursts that hit everything nearby.

Below Dayfold

Floor two, the Erased: every hit lands with sound, sparks and a number.

Dayfold, where the Loom speaks through the people you love.

The Heart's chamber: three anchor threads, then the Heart.

The story is told in illustrated panels before you play.

What you get

A complete story From a frozen Tuesday to the last thread, with an ending.
Seven floors A guardian at every gate, and the Loom talking to you on the way down.
Real fights Aim and shoot, knock enemies back, slow time with Focus.
Arts and scrolls Seven secondary arts learned at shrines, nine one-use scrolls, shops and chests.
English and Spanish Every word of the game, both ways. Switch any time.
Nothing else Offline. No ads, no accounts, no data collected. Your run saves itself.

Cut the last thread.

Last Thread is coming to the Mac App Store.

Coming soon Mac App Store

The story so far