The Curse ofOoty
Wishlist
The Curse of

OOTY

You drove her to Ooty.
Something else got out of the car.

First-Person Indian Folk Horror

Wishlist on Steam Watch the trailer
Releasing 27 October

Official Trailer

A night drive that does not end

The Curse of Ooty trailer thumbnail

The Premise

She was fine when you left the city.

You picked her up for the drive to Ooty. Somewhere on the road into the Nilgiris, something followed her into the car.

By the time you arrive she is not herself. A stray dog leads you through the dark to an aghori who keeps a fire burning at the edge of the village. He knows what has her. He will give her back — but first you bring him what he asks for.

What You Do

One lantern. One night.
A list you did not write.

Light is the only thing you control

  • Carry a kerosene lantern that lights a few feet of ground and nothing past it.
  • Navigate by compass through fog, groves and unlit village lanes.
  • Search a lake boat, an abandoned railway station and a house full of puppets for what the aghori needs.

Every door has a ritual behind it

  • Align occult dials to open what somebody sealed.
  • Rebuild torn family portraits to learn who lived here, and who did not.
  • Light shrine offerings in the right order while something moves outside.

Speak carefully

  • The aghori answers what you ask, in the way you ask it.
  • Dialogue choices decide what you learn about the thing holding her.
  • What you learn changes what it learns about you.

Things that are already awake

  • A doll that follows you between the huts.
  • A child trailing a red balloon through the fog.
  • Twin spirits in red saris that will not stop screaming.
  • And at the end of the aghori's list, the snake.

Screenshots

The road, the list, and what waits on it

The Setting

Set in a place, not a backdrop

Ooty, in the Nilgiri hills of southern India. Tamil station signage, mud-brick homes, kerosene light, village shrines and aghori fire. The Curse of Ooty is built on Indian folk ritual rather than borrowed ghosts.

Dialogue and subtitles in Hindi

You drove her here. Drive back with her, or do not drive back.

Wishlist on Steam