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Announcement of 《Shan Wen》 Steam Demo Launch (March 20)

Dear Explorers:

A long-silent mining town has finally received a tentative gaze of exploration.

The free demo of the Chinese folk horror puzzle game 《Shan Wen》 will be officially launched on Steam on March 20.

This time, we will not create deliberate scares. Instead, we hide unease in the atmosphere, undercurrents in the dialogues, and chills in the details.

What You Can Experience in This Demo

- Experience the complete prologue chapter and immerse yourself in a closed mountain town shrouded in a strange illness

- Solve Chinese folk-style atmospheric puzzles and uncover the truth through clues and dialogues

- There are multiple key story branches, and your choices will change the direction of the current narrative

- No jump scares throughout the entire experience, providing an immersive horror experience with a story that becomes more terrifying the more you think about it

Launch Time

March 20 00:00 — Free Download Available

(Demo progress is not carried over to the official version; the experience content is an independent trial chapter)

Welcome to this forgotten mountain town and uncover the truth buried by time.

We look forward to every piece of your feedback, which will help us polish the story to perfection.

—— 《Shanwen》 Development Team

About the Game

In the 1990s, there was a small, isolated mining town named "Lingshan Town", where the cold winds blow all year round and the economy relies on an aging coal mine that is gradually depleting. Most of the residents in the town are descendants of miners, and most people in the town believe in the "Mountain God Stele". However, recently, the Mountain God Stele has suddenly fallen ill. Cracks have appeared on the stele, and brown liquid is seeping out from the cracks. At the same time, a strange illness has mysteriously spread in the town. The cause of the illness is unknown, and the number of people falling ill is increasing. After learning that his father was ill, Lin Tianqing hurried back to the town. The whispers he heard on the bus gave him an ominous feeling. Looking out the window at Lingshan Town, which was getting closer and closer and exuding a strange aura, he wondered what else would happen in the town next.

"Eating the mountain" town, "silent" patient, "anger" of the mountain god

What "dirty" and "stupid" secrets will the truth reveal?

Is the worship of superstition a "redemption" for people or a deliberate "concealment"?

Everything awaits you to dispel the fog, break the silence, and reveal the truth.

You will experience

In the 1990s, a northern town that relied on coal mines for its existence and development immersed itself in solving mysteries to drive the story forward