Take a walk. Stay a while.
Places is a game for walking and experiencing places. Wander through quiet interiors, follow a trail into the night, or spend a little longer beside the water. Let the architecture, light and small details set the pace.
There is no prescribed route through these spaces. Open a door, try a light switch, look around a corner. Some places feel familiar. Others become stranger the longer you stay.
Download the 32-second walkthrough (MP4) — real walking footage from all eight environments, with a short cut between each.
The Quiet Collection connects eight environments through a central hub. Enter a themed door and use the destination's return door to come back. Each visit starts fresh; objects and local objectives stay in their environment.
The environments offer different moods: the three floors of Office: After Hours, the still water of Pool, the domestic spaces of Home, the night trails of Lantern Hollow, the snow and ice of Winter, the open waterfront of Beach, the bright architecture of Frutiger Aero, and the bowling lanes, cabinets, birthday room and restroom of Cosmic Lanes & Arcade.
| Office: After Hours | Beach |
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Doors, switches, weather and occasional encounters give the spaces their own rhythms. Adjustable graphics and remappable controls let you settle into yours. Separate editable game modes include Closing Time, It Only Exists in the Beam and Relay Annex. They remain independent of the collection.
Move with WASD and look with the mouse or arrow keys. Gameplay bindings can be changed in Settings; Escape always pauses.
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Walk forward | W |
| Walk backward | S |
| Strafe left | A |
| Strafe right | D |
| Look up | UP |
| Look down | DOWN |
| Look left | LEFT |
| Look right | RIGHT |
| Jump / swim up | SPACE |
| Crouch (toggle) | C |
| Interact | E |
| Pause | ESC |
Places 0.12.0 is a prerelease. Current native validation is on macOS arm64 with Metal. The release summary records what was checked and the remaining limitations.
This release contains the nine-map Quiet Collection project and native editor. The eight standalone environment demos are superseded by this single package. See the collection handoff for the exact retirement inventory, validation and remaining work.
To play an existing collection package with a matching player and asset library:
PLACES_ASSET_ROOT="$PWD/assets" ./target/release/places --import /absolute/path/environments.placesmap
PLACES_ASSET_ROOT="$PWD/assets" PLACES_LEVEL=hub ./target/release/placesChoose Places / The Quiet Collection in Explore for normal menu entry.
Authors can open projects/environments/ in the native editor; an explicit
collection export is only needed after changing its sources.
The images and walking footage above were captured from the native 0.9.0 game. Developer documentation · Changelog · Documentation index
Installation, first launch and map imports documents the 0.12.0 path foundations: optional maps, external resources and writable user data.
Places is open source under the MIT license. Third-party notices.