Ancoly

Controls: WASD or Arrow Keys to move, E to interact

Ancoly is a dark 2D puzzle game. In the 1960s, an unexplored disease began to spread. A researcher lives in a large manor house but cannot remember anything. He discovers a sick child in his home as well as a fragment of a medical formula. He attempts to complete the formula and recover his memories. Along the way, he uncovers unsettling truths about himself, the child, and a mysterious woman. 

Story

Ancoly tells the tragic story of a father who unknowingly infected his wife and child with a deadly disease. He himself is immune to this disease. Because the disease is so rare, and therefore of no interest to the pharmaceutical industry, it is not being researched. But the father is a scientist himself, and he does not give up, trying to find a formula for a cure. His wife dies from the medicine he made himself. When his son falls into a coma and he still hasn't found a solution, he spreads the disease so that a cure can be researched. Shortly afterwards, he collapses in his bathroom and, due to exhaustion, forgets what happened...

Credits

Team Ancoly — Graveler Game Jam 2025, Tübingen

Programming:
– Pedro Retzkowski
– Marco Piechotta

Art & Visual Style:
– Paula Schnellhardt

Writing & Narrative:
– Elena Marouli

Sound & Music:
– Marco Piechotta

Special Thanks:
– Kevin Körner

– Maike Gerstenkorn 

Reference: 

The game Ancoly is set in a fictional house in Germany in the 1960s. All of the characters, as well as the disease Ancoly and its cure, are fictional.