🏠 New area: Inside the Paper House
This area follows the opening dream — it is a dream within a dream. A complete new map with 39 investigation points and 127 new lines of dialogue, and the largest single addition in this update. Here you can open things with your own hands — and see a few things you should not see.
🎮 New gameplay
Step prompt cards: when you interact with objects (heating up a meal in the microwave, for example), a row of cards appears on screen, and each frame tells you which key to press (Space / arrow keys / mouse wheel). Follow them and the character performs the action step by step — no more one-click, instant result.
Throwable items: some items can be picked up and thrown. Only landing them on the right spot triggers a mechanism.
WASD movement: besides the arrow keys, you can now move around and navigate menus with W/A/S/D.
Quality-of-life: using an item no longer asks "who uses it / who it targets"; long text wraps automatically; multiple nearby interaction targets show their icons at the same time; the protagonist has new poses, including sitting.
🔧 Fixes & polish
Fixed the title screen stutter
Fixed interaction keys occasionally not registering
Improved item-menu interaction (no longer getting stuck on items that cannot be used)
Smoother dialogue advancing and name-box presentation
Character portraits redrawn as crisper, pixel-perfect art
💾 CompatibilitySave files are backwards compatible — existing saves can be loaded as usual. This is a content update for the demo; the full game is still in development.If you run into any problems, please tell us in the community. Thank you to everyone still waiting for Lingering Echoes.