01 · One timeline
These games share one timeline. It turns on the Sector 7 incident of June 18, 1993, in a Liminal facility beneath a sleeping city. Each game is set before, during or after it.
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A city sleeps above the Sector 7 facility. Liminal's custodial machines sweep the streets before every dawn.
Free · In your browser and on Steam
A first-person exploration game rendered in 3D ASCII. Scavenge the city at night, get back to your shelter before the dawn sweep, and upgrade your equipment in the Foundry. Beyond Dawn also opens the Observation Station, which leads to the research lab, Cleaning Crew and Wasteland.
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June 18, 1993 · 14:22 EST
The Sector 7 reactor beneath the city enters critical resonance. The facility becomes an addressable lattice, and a breach called RIFT-01 opens inside it. Liminal sends Operators in through T-Link.
Early Access on Steam · Free demo
First-person survival horror for one player or co-op with up to four. Climb from the original works toward the surface, calibrate Transmit Nodes and manage your lamp and sanity. The Story chapter, The Unlisted Return, starts at a receiver station.
NewFree in your browser
A fast ASCII shooter with Liminal's armed operatives. Play Act I of the story, five handmade levels from the dark ring to the hatch, or the run: calibrate three Transmit Nodes, put down their guardians and reach the hatch within ten minutes. Solo or co-op for up to four.
Inside Beyond Dawn
Work for Liminal Corp from research bay four while the incident runs. Analyse specimens brought back from the caverns and repair equipment. Finished repairs open new futures in Wasteland.
03
Contractors go back into the facility to finish what the incident left behind.
Very early alpha · Inside Beyond Dawn
Turn-based squad tactics. Lead four contractors through a contamination job: choose equipment, manage light and action points, finish the contract and extract. It has had no tuning or bug-fix pass yet, and work on it continues.
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Thirty-three years on
The incident is still running and the records backlog never closed. Liminal hires contractors to work its records from home.
NewFree in your browser · In development
An idle game. You are a remote contractor for Liminal, signed in to the company's remote desktop: its Records Browser, Text Editor and Bin. Tickets arrive and you do them by hand, then you automate, and the workstation files itself while you use your own computer.
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One possible outcome, not a fixed ending. Repairs made in the earlier eras change which versions of the future you can choose.
Playable preview · Inside Beyond Dawn
The trams have stopped and the dead roam the streets. A new contact works from the old shelter. Bring supplies home, recover the receiver coupler from the service annex, and pick a version of the future before each trip.
How the games connect
Beyond Dawn opens on the Observation Station, a console with this timeline down its side. Beyond Dawn, the research lab, Cleaning Crew and Wasteland all start from it in your browser, and Liminal Protocol links to Steam.
02 · In pre-production
A first-person surreal horror drama. A sound engineer finishing a cursed 1979 film slowly becomes the people in it.
Night Road is built in Unreal Engine 5 and is not part of the Liminal universe. The first two chapters are being made now: Chapter 0, set in a flat, and Chapter 1, in the town of Hollis Mill.
03 · In your browser
Build a 3D block game from a bucket of parts, wire up machines, make creatures that fight and drop in physics toys, then play it with friends in co-op from a link. It runs on my own ASCII 3D engine, the one the Liminal games are built on.
Four example worlds, Vault Run, Toy box, Wiring lab and Arena, open from the File menu, and a tutorial walks through a new world step by step.
