RESIDUAL

Recover the Truth.

A routine data recovery turns into an investigation you were never meant to begin.

An anonymous archive appears on your desktop. Inside are ordinary files—family photos, text messages, emails, calendars, browser history, voicemails, and forgotten documents. At first, nothing seems unusual.

Then the inconsistencies begin.

A vacation photo taken in sunshine on the same day a severe thunderstorm warning was issued. A missing five-hour gap in an otherwise perfect timeline. A stranger caught in the reflection of an old photograph. A conversation that was never meant to be recorded.

Every recovered file reveals another fragment of someone's life.

Every answer creates new questions.

Using realistic digital forensic tools, you'll reconstruct events from recovered phones, computers, cloud backups, photos, videos, GPS data, and deleted files. Search hidden metadata, repair corrupted media, connect timelines, and uncover the truth buried beneath thousands of seemingly ordinary memories.

But be careful.

Not every memory is complete.

Not every perspective is correct.

And the deeper you recover...

...the more you'll question whether you're uncovering the past—or reconstructing it.

Features

• 🖥️ Explore a realistic desktop operating system
• 📱 Recover and investigate multiple phones and computers
• 📸 Analyze photos, metadata, GPS locations, and timestamps
• 🎥 Restore corrupted videos and audio recordings
• 💬 Read years of believable messages, emails, notes, and social posts
• 🧩 Solve environmental and digital forensic puzzles
• 🕵️ Connect evidence across multiple timelines and perspectives
• 🎭 A slow-burn psychological mystery inspired by modern digital life
• 🔄 Discover clues hidden in plain sight that reward a second playthrough

The truth wasn't deleted.

It was scattered.

A note on Windows SmartScreen: Residual is an independent, unsigned build — Windows may show a "Windows protected your PC" / unknown publisher warning the first time you run it. This is expected for small indie titles that don't have a paid code-signing certificate; it does not mean the game is unsafe. To run it, click "More info" → "Run anyway".