Confabulation
Released Jan 2023
Your memory is fading. Things around your home keep changing; they are not what they appear to be. Find what is wrong, take pictures to restore your memory. Try to remember. Learn what you have forgotten, learn what has happened. It is not what it seems to be.
91% positive · 104 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $4.99
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Evaluation
Confabulation launched on January 13, 2023 as a complete, self-contained experience. The developer shipped one feature update on February 10, 2023 (Patch 1.1.0), which added two new Endless game modes and a set of bug fixes. That appears to be the last meaningful content added to the game itself.
On May 29, 2023, the developer announced a separate sequel — Confabulation: Homestead — along with a free standalone demo. This announcement was posted to the original game's news feed but describes an entirely new game, not additional content for this one. Since then, there have been no further updates, announcements, or communications directed at this game.
The 18 developer posts on record consist almost entirely of bug fixes (16 posts), with one feature patch and the Homestead sequel announcement — no roadmaps, no unreleased DLC, and no statements of intent to add more content to the base game. The store description presents the game as a complete package with defined mechanics, two difficulty modes, and a statistics tracker, with no mention of planned updates or additional content. The game appears to have launched as a finished product and received one post-launch content addition before the developer moved on to building a sequel.
Evidence
Patch 1.1.0 added two new Endless game modes (Endless and Endless Helpless) along with new achievements, balance changes, and bug fixes — the last substantive content update to the game.
Store description presents the game as a complete, self-contained experience with defined mechanics, two difficulties, and no mention of planned updates or future content.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Authogin
Achievements
12
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
You wake up at your home, but something does not seem right. Looking around your house, you begin to notice things are different than what you remember. You use a camera to take photos to reveal the truth, to remember what was there. Your memory is fading; the longer things remain different, the faster you succumb. Keys to find, mysteries to solve, a home to explore. You need to keep your memory intact to put together pieces of your life and remember who you are and what has happened. Only then will you get the peace that you desire.
During your play-through, you will need to study the layout of the home and what each room looks like. Over time, things will change and it is up to you to correct what changes in order to keep your sanity in tact. The more you let your sanity drain the more horror elements will occur and things that will change. If you let your sanity drain too far you will succumb and lose. There is no saving, a loss will end your play and you will need to restart.
What you will be doing while playing:
- Take photos of objects that have changed to return them to normal and prevent sanity loss.
- Solve puzzles around the house to keep unlocking new rooms.
- Piece together story elements to progress the main story and discover what happened. Piecing together the entire story is how you win.
- Take pills to restore memory and keep your sanity in check.
- All puzzles, changing objects, horror elements and story elements are randomized on each play, allowing multiple plays to keep each play feeling different.
- A normal and hard difficulty setting, both difficulties unlocked from the start.
- Normal difficulty is meant to be an appropriate challenge, ramping up in difficulty the longer you play.
- Hard difficulty is meant to be very challenging, introducing many new things that can change, increased puzzle difficulty and less overall time.
- Statistics to track what you have accomplished and your best completed time for each difficulty.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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