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BREAKING 4 WALLS

BREAKING 4 WALLS is an endless terminal horror-puzzle game about rooms, false endings, hidden files, strange items, encrypted traces, and a system that slowly stops pretending it is only a game.

You wake inside a procedural maze of offices, archives, basements, server rooms, service doors, broken elevators, and places that feel like they were loaded from a damaged memory. Every move changes the structure. Every choice leaves a mark.


What you do

  • Explore endless procedurally generated rooms.
  • Find items and combine them into new tools.
  • Use terminals to create encrypted artifact files.
  • Search your own game folder for clues.
  • Decode ciphers manually.
  • Collect lore fragments hidden in files.
  • Trigger false endings that reveal small pieces of the truth.
  • Search for the hidden true ending.

Features

  • Endless rooms: the maze does not simply repeat.
  • 50 items: strange objects, tools, keys, notes, tapes, badges, and more.
  • Inventory combinations: some items can unlock new effects when combined.
  • 10 room types: archive, server, basement, dream, error, mirror, storage, and more.
  • 10 cipher types: Base64, ROT13, Caesar, HEX, Binary, reverse, XOR-HEX, Vigenere, Morse, and Polybius.
  • False endings: endings that are not really endings.
  • Hidden files: artifacts and lore are created only after you reach certain events.
  • Secret terminal codes: some commands change the rules.
  • Windows sounds: terminal beeps, item feedback, errors, and endings.

The files are part of the game

This is not only a terminal game. The game creates files while you play. Terminals leave encrypted traces inside the artifacts folder. Lore fragments appear inside lore_fragments.

Some answers are not shown directly on screen. You must search, read, compare, decode, and notice what the system tries to hide.

Lore system

Every lore fragment contains a small hidden mark. If you collect enough of them, sort the pieces correctly, and decode the result, you may find something that was never written as a normal instruction.

The first wall was built from postponed decisions.

Controls

  • 1 — move forward
  • 2 — move back
  • 3 — move left
  • 4 — move right
  • 5 — move down, if available
  • 6 — move up, if available
  • 7 / 8 — rare passages, if available
  • e — interact with item
  • k — combine inventory items
  • t — use terminal
  • l — listen to archive noise
  • o — open WWW signal, if available
  • i — inventory
  • s — status
  • c — clean temporary artifacts
  • q — quit

Recommended play style

Do not rush. Read files. Try codes. Keep notes. Pay attention to numbers, strange marks, repeated symbols, and things that look like jokes.

The game will not always explain itself. That is part of the door.


Download. Run Breaking4Walls.exe. Enter the maze.

Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Release date 3 days ago
AuthorSomeTimesAtNight
GenrePuzzle
Tagsascii, Ciphers, codes, Endless, files, glitch, lore, secrets, Surreal, terminal
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard
ContentNo generative AI was used

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