Unsummon
Stop an elder being with household items in this time-pressured story game
Unsummon
Unsummon — Save the World with Everyday Objects
Unsummon tells the story of an ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. An elder being threatens to destroy the world, and you—armed with nothing but a mysterious book from a thrift store—must stop it using everyday household items. Race against the clock to solve riddles, explore your house, and gather the objects that hold the power to banish this ancient threat.
🎮 What is Unsummon?
Unsummon is a super tiny story-driven adventure game that asks: What if saving the world didn't require legendary weapons, but rather the random stuff in your house?
The premise is wonderfully absurd yet compelling. You discover a book at your local thrift store—an ancient tome filled with cryptic knowledge about stopping elder beings. According to this book, you need specific household items to perform an unsummoning ritual. The catch? You have limited time before the elder being destroys everything.
Your house becomes a puzzle box. Each room contains potential ritual components: kitchen utensils, bathroom supplies, bedroom knickknacks, living room decorations. But which items does the book require? The tome provides riddles and clues pointing to specific objects. You must interpret these riddles, search your house methodically, and collect everything before time runs out.
The game combines exploration, puzzle-solving, and time management. You're not just wandering aimlessly—you're racing against an apocalyptic countdown, trying to decipher cryptic hints while frantically searching drawers, closets, and shelves for mundane items that somehow hold cosmic significance.
Unsummon embraces its "super tiny" scope, focusing on a single, tense scenario: one person, one house, one book, one deadline. This tight focus creates a concentrated experience where every second matters and every discovered item feels like progress toward saving the world.
🕹️ How to Play Unsummon
Unsummon features simple controls that let you focus on exploration and puzzle-solving:
Controls
| Action | Keyboard Option 1 | Keyboard Option 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Move | WASD | Arrow Keys |
| Interact | Z | Space |
Note: Use either Z or Space for interaction depending on your keyboard layout preference.
Gameplay Objectives
- Read the book – Study the thrift store tome to learn which household items you need
- Solve riddles – Decipher cryptic clues pointing to specific objects
- Explore your house – Search every room systematically for required items
- Collect items – Interact with objects to gather them for the ritual
- Beat the clock – Find everything before time runs out
- Stop the elder being – Complete the unsummoning ritual and save the world
Strategy Tips
- Read clues carefully – The book's riddles are your roadmap; misinterpret them and you'll waste time
- Search systematically – Don't randomly wander; methodically clear each room
- Prioritize based on clues – If a riddle strongly hints at a specific location, go there first
- Interact with everything – Not all items are obviously interactable; test suspicious objects
- Watch the timer – Balance thorough searching with speed; you can't afford to be too slow
- Remember house layout – Knowing where each room is saves precious seconds
📸 Unsummon Gameplay Walkthrough
📖 The Thrift Store Discovery
Unsummon opens with a seemingly mundane event: you find a strange book at the thrift store. It's old, weathered, and filled with incomprehensible diagrams and text. But as you read, the meaning becomes clear—this is a guide for stopping elder beings from destroying the world.
And according to this book, an elder being is coming. Soon.
The initial shock gives way to urgency. The book lists specific household items needed for an unsummoning ritual—mundane objects that, when combined properly, can banish cosmic threats. You have limited time to gather everything and perform the ritual.
This opening establishes the game's core tension: the absurd contrast between the apocalyptic threat and the solution (random household items), combined with real time pressure. The clock starts ticking, and you're thrust into action.
The pixel art aesthetic gives Unsummon a retro adventure game feel, reminiscent of classic point-and-click games but with modern pacing and urgency.
🏠 Exploring Your House
Your house—a place you know intimately—suddenly becomes unfamiliar territory. You're not looking at it as a living space anymore; it's a scavenger hunt arena where cosmic survival depends on finding the right spatula or candle.
As you move through rooms using WASD or arrow keys, you'll need to interact with objects using Z or Space. Some items are obviously interactable—highlighted or visually distinct. Others blend into the environment, requiring careful observation.
The book provides riddles and clues:
- "Where water falls and steam rises, seek the vessel of cleansing" might point to a bathroom item
- "In the realm of nourishment, find the tool of flame containment" could indicate a kitchen fire extinguisher
- "Beneath where dreams are made, rest the foundations of comfort" might reference something under the bed
Interpreting these clues quickly and accurately is essential. Waste too much time puzzling over a riddle, and you might run out of time before collecting everything.
🧩 Solving Riddles Under Pressure
The riddles in Unsummon aren't impossibly difficult, but they require thought—and you don't have unlimited time to think. This creates a fascinating cognitive challenge: balance careful consideration with urgent action.
Some riddles are straightforward once you understand the pattern. Others use poetic language that could refer to multiple items, forcing you to make judgment calls. Do you spend extra time confirming you're right, or grab the most likely item and move on?
The game also features environmental puzzles beyond just riddle interpretation. Maybe a required item is locked in a drawer, and you need to find the key first. Or perhaps you need to move furniture to access a hidden object. These mini-challenges layer additional complexity onto the time-pressured scavenger hunt.
As you collect items, they're likely tracked in your inventory or checklist (depending on the game's UI). Seeing the list shrink provides tangible progress feedback—you're getting closer to stopping the elder being with every mundane object you gather.
⏰ The Final Countdown
As the timer ticks down in Unsummon, tension escalates. You've found most items, but a few remain elusive. Do you have time to search thoroughly, or should you make educated guesses about where the last objects might be?
This endgame phase is where all your strategies converge:
- Your knowledge of the house layout (from earlier exploration)
- Your understanding of the riddle patterns (from successful interpretations)
- Your time management skills (from balancing speed and accuracy)
Finding that final item with seconds remaining triggers genuine relief. You've done it—gathered every bizarre household object the book demanded. Now comes the unsummoning ritual itself.
Whether Unsummon shows you performing the ritual or simply confirms your success, the satisfaction is the same: you saved the world using a toothbrush, a stapler, and whatever other random items the ancient tome required. It's absurd, it's tense, and it's wonderfully unique.
Unsummon proves that compelling gameplay doesn't require massive scope or complex systems. Sometimes, all you need is a ticking clock, a house full of items, a book of riddles, and an elder being that desperately needs to be sent back where it came from. Who knew saving the world could be this mundane—and this thrilling?
Unsummon — Save the World with Everyday Objects
Unsummon tells the story of an ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. An elder being threatens to destroy the world, and you—armed with nothing but a mysterious book from a thrift store—must stop it using everyday household items. Race against the clock to solve riddles, explore your house, and gather the objects that hold the power to banish this ancient threat.
🎮 What is Unsummon?
Unsummon is a super tiny story-driven adventure game that asks: What if saving the world didn't require legendary weapons, but rather the random stuff in your house?
The premise is wonderfully absurd yet compelling. You discover a book at your local thrift store—an ancient tome filled with cryptic knowledge about stopping elder beings. According to this book, you need specific household items to perform an unsummoning ritual. The catch? You have limited time before the elder being destroys everything.
Your house becomes a puzzle box. Each room contains potential ritual components: kitchen utensils, bathroom supplies, bedroom knickknacks, living room decorations. But which items does the book require? The tome provides riddles and clues pointing to specific objects. You must interpret these riddles, search your house methodically, and collect everything before time runs out.
The game combines exploration, puzzle-solving, and time management. You're not just wandering aimlessly—you're racing against an apocalyptic countdown, trying to decipher cryptic hints while frantically searching drawers, closets, and shelves for mundane items that somehow hold cosmic significance.
Unsummon embraces its "super tiny" scope, focusing on a single, tense scenario: one person, one house, one book, one deadline. This tight focus creates a concentrated experience where every second matters and every discovered item feels like progress toward saving the world.
🕹️ How to Play Unsummon
Unsummon features simple controls that let you focus on exploration and puzzle-solving:
Controls
| Action | Keyboard Option 1 | Keyboard Option 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Move | WASD | Arrow Keys |
| Interact | Z | Space |
Note: Use either Z or Space for interaction depending on your keyboard layout preference.
Gameplay Objectives
- Read the book – Study the thrift store tome to learn which household items you need
- Solve riddles – Decipher cryptic clues pointing to specific objects
- Explore your house – Search every room systematically for required items
- Collect items – Interact with objects to gather them for the ritual
- Beat the clock – Find everything before time runs out
- Stop the elder being – Complete the unsummoning ritual and save the world
Strategy Tips
- Read clues carefully – The book's riddles are your roadmap; misinterpret them and you'll waste time
- Search systematically – Don't randomly wander; methodically clear each room
- Prioritize based on clues – If a riddle strongly hints at a specific location, go there first
- Interact with everything – Not all items are obviously interactable; test suspicious objects
- Watch the timer – Balance thorough searching with speed; you can't afford to be too slow
- Remember house layout – Knowing where each room is saves precious seconds
📸 Unsummon Gameplay Walkthrough
📖 The Thrift Store Discovery
Unsummon opens with a seemingly mundane event: you find a strange book at the thrift store. It's old, weathered, and filled with incomprehensible diagrams and text. But as you read, the meaning becomes clear—this is a guide for stopping elder beings from destroying the world.
And according to this book, an elder being is coming. Soon.
The initial shock gives way to urgency. The book lists specific household items needed for an unsummoning ritual—mundane objects that, when combined properly, can banish cosmic threats. You have limited time to gather everything and perform the ritual.
This opening establishes the game's core tension: the absurd contrast between the apocalyptic threat and the solution (random household items), combined with real time pressure. The clock starts ticking, and you're thrust into action.
The pixel art aesthetic gives Unsummon a retro adventure game feel, reminiscent of classic point-and-click games but with modern pacing and urgency.
🏠 Exploring Your House
Your house—a place you know intimately—suddenly becomes unfamiliar territory. You're not looking at it as a living space anymore; it's a scavenger hunt arena where cosmic survival depends on finding the right spatula or candle.
As you move through rooms using WASD or arrow keys, you'll need to interact with objects using Z or Space. Some items are obviously interactable—highlighted or visually distinct. Others blend into the environment, requiring careful observation.
The book provides riddles and clues:
- "Where water falls and steam rises, seek the vessel of cleansing" might point to a bathroom item
- "In the realm of nourishment, find the tool of flame containment" could indicate a kitchen fire extinguisher
- "Beneath where dreams are made, rest the foundations of comfort" might reference something under the bed
Interpreting these clues quickly and accurately is essential. Waste too much time puzzling over a riddle, and you might run out of time before collecting everything.
🧩 Solving Riddles Under Pressure
The riddles in Unsummon aren't impossibly difficult, but they require thought—and you don't have unlimited time to think. This creates a fascinating cognitive challenge: balance careful consideration with urgent action.
Some riddles are straightforward once you understand the pattern. Others use poetic language that could refer to multiple items, forcing you to make judgment calls. Do you spend extra time confirming you're right, or grab the most likely item and move on?
The game also features environmental puzzles beyond just riddle interpretation. Maybe a required item is locked in a drawer, and you need to find the key first. Or perhaps you need to move furniture to access a hidden object. These mini-challenges layer additional complexity onto the time-pressured scavenger hunt.
As you collect items, they're likely tracked in your inventory or checklist (depending on the game's UI). Seeing the list shrink provides tangible progress feedback—you're getting closer to stopping the elder being with every mundane object you gather.
⏰ The Final Countdown
As the timer ticks down in Unsummon, tension escalates. You've found most items, but a few remain elusive. Do you have time to search thoroughly, or should you make educated guesses about where the last objects might be?
This endgame phase is where all your strategies converge:
- Your knowledge of the house layout (from earlier exploration)
- Your understanding of the riddle patterns (from successful interpretations)
- Your time management skills (from balancing speed and accuracy)
Finding that final item with seconds remaining triggers genuine relief. You've done it—gathered every bizarre household object the book demanded. Now comes the unsummoning ritual itself.
Whether Unsummon shows you performing the ritual or simply confirms your success, the satisfaction is the same: you saved the world using a toothbrush, a stapler, and whatever other random items the ancient tome required. It's absurd, it's tense, and it's wonderfully unique.
Unsummon proves that compelling gameplay doesn't require massive scope or complex systems. Sometimes, all you need is a ticking clock, a house full of items, a book of riddles, and an elder being that desperately needs to be sent back where it came from. Who knew saving the world could be this mundane—and this thrilling?
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