The Riese Project - Prologue

The Riese Project - Prologue

Released Aug 2023

Some stories are better left in the dark. But some will find you. In Riese, echoes don’t always answer the same. A narrative FPP/VR experience about a past that refuses to stay silent.

75% positive · 197 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

The Riese Project – Prologue is a free, self-contained first chapter of a larger narrative game, released on August 1, 2023. The store description makes clear it is a complete prologue experience — the full story is being told in a separate product. On November 30, 2025, the developer confirmed that The Riese Project entered Early Access on Steam as a standalone title (App ID 4128150). The developer explicitly stated that the Prologue will remain available and continue to receive technical and linguistic refinements, but that the story's continuation lives in the full Early Access game. As of August 28, 2026, the developer's most recent post confirms that all active development work is focused on the Early Access version, not this Prologue. Updates to the Prologue since the Early Access launch have been maintenance in nature: VR controller support improvements (January 14, 2026) and prior localization additions (Spanish in October 2025, Russian in November 2025). No new story content has been added to the Prologue, no unreleased DLC is listed for it, and the developer has not announced any further story content for this specific product. The Prologue is a finished, complete chapter — its narrative purpose was to introduce the story, and that role is fulfilled.
Evidence
Developer states that all active work and optimizations are focused on the Early Access version of The Riese Project, not the Prologue.
news post · Aug 28, 2026 source development ending
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Developer confirms the full game has launched in Early Access as a separate Steam product, describing it as the continuation and evolution of what began in the Prologue. The Prologue will remain available but story progression moves to the new title.
news post · Nov 30, 2025 source development ending
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Details

Developer
Publisher
Real Invented Studio
Achievements
5
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

🎮 Welcome to the prologue of The Riese Project

A missing grandfather. A hotel with a past. Underground tunnels that refuse to stay buried.

„I got you... Wait. I’ve seen this place before.”

Anna returns to her family's old guesthouse in the Owl Mountains. Not for rest. For the truth.
rapped in a room, with a fogged mirror and a phone call from her mother, she triggers a chain of events that lead straight to “Projekt Riese” — a real, unfinished Nazi complex buried deep beneath Lower Silesia.

This is a free prologue of a narrative game where every click speaks. Every item means something. Every decision echoes.

🔍 What to expect?

🎙️ Anna speaks — you listen
You’re not a silent shell. You’re the protagonist — sarcastic, stubborn, sharp.

„Yesterday I was a quiet student. Today? A seasoned break-in artist.”

🧠 uzzles driven by context, not code
Open grandpa’s safe, find a hidden map, match piano tones to underground valves.
You think like Anna. You feel like Anna. That’s the key.

🌍 Real location, digital obsession
Hotel Szyprówka, photogrammetry, Lumen, Nanite — but the spotlight isn’t on tech. It’s on touchable atmosphere.

🕹️ FPP or VR (OpenXR)
Play your way: keyboard, controller, headset — everything works. The choice is yours.

🆓 Free. No strings attached.
This is just the first chapter of a larger story. Leave feedback. Help us shape what comes next.

🎯 For players who:

  • Want silence that hurts more than jump scares.

  • PRemember “Gone Home”, “Firewatch”, “Ethan Carter” — and want more.

  • Own RTX, but value truth in pixels over realism for realism’s sake.

🔓 Not a tech demo. A trial by story.

The clock is ticking. Someone’s walking up the stairs. And the map doesn’t lie.

„Be a bull terrier. Be a storm. Be Jodie Foster in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.”

📥 DOWNLOAD NOW.

Play. Review. Leave a trace. Help forge the full game.
Because if not you — then who?

Last evaluated Sep 1, 2026
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