Dark Tales from México. Prelude.

DARK TALES FROM MEXICO
is a series of 10 short 3D survival horror games based on Mexican horror legends and hand-made and hand-painted physical sculptures.

STORY
You are Alma Guerrero, a young woman who lives with her grandmother Esperanza, her only remaining relative. However, last night Esperanza did not return home, and the only clue you have to find her is a dream in which you saw her inside the Cloister of San Jerónimo, an ancient building in the heart of Mexico City that is now used as a museum.

Inside this cloister (which is a recreation of the real cloister where Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz lived and died), you suddenly find yourself surrounded and trapped by darkness. Then, a talking black cat named Roble appears. He seems to know your grandmother and, for some reason, also seems to know thousands of legends and ancient stories. The key to finding Grandmother Esperanza and getting out of the Cloister is to face the specters that arise from those legends, so the cat can help Alma, but each story will question her own being, her true origin, who she really is, and what she is truly looking for inside the Cloister.

5 YEARS OF TERROR IN 10 SHORT GAMES
The 10 games are based on intensive research that has been going on for more than 5 years, in which we have managed to compile not only thousands of Mexican horror legends, but also hundreds of references to Mexican horror culture, movies, radio programs, and more.

A HANDMADE VIDEO GAME
By physically sculpting and painting all the specters by hand, we seek to retain the essential energy that artists imprint on their pieces and transfer it to the game, just as the ancient Mexican peoples believed artisans did in their crafts.

In this way, the resulting models are unrepeatable, beautifully imperfect, and unique, and even the artist's fingerprint is often preserved.