Permeable Cage
Permeable Cage presents

A Place For The Broken

An atmospheric story-driven game about sickness, distance, memory, and the horror of returning to a home that no longer feels like yours.

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In development Psychological narrative game

A game about what stays behind when people don’t.

Permeable Cage is building a focused, cinematic experience where every room, sound, object, and memory has a reason to exist.

This is not a loud game. It is a heavy one. A quiet return home that slowly becomes harder to understand.

01 Story-first structure
02 Environmental tension
03 Personal atmosphere
A man standing before a foggy house
The return

Home is not safe anymore.

The house is more than a location. It is the center of the story: familiar enough to hurt, quiet enough to feel wrong, and full of things that should have been said earlier.

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A Place For The Broken

A father returns home searching for his family, but the deeper he moves through the world he once knew, the more unstable the truth becomes.

Foggy road from A Place For The Broken
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Core feeling

Loneliness, memory, denial.

The game is built around emotional pressure, not cheap noise. The player should feel like every quiet second matters.

World

Places that feel lived in.

Homes, hospitals, roads and strange interior spaces are designed to feel personal before they feel frightening.

Direction

Simple mechanics. Strong mood.

The experience focuses on walking, observing, uncovering, listening and slowly understanding what happened.

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Narrative

Three fragments of a broken home.

The story moves through sickness, return and truth. Each part changes the meaning of the last, turning a family drama into something darker and harder to escape.

Hospital scene
Fragment 01 / Sickness

One little cold. One little fall.

You have been trying to keep your family together while your youngest daughter battles sickness. Health feels normal until it becomes the only thing that matters.

House scene
Fragment 02 / Return

A house is not always a home.

You come back knowing you may only have one chance left. What begins as a search for the people you love becomes a search through everything you failed to notice.

Bright statue interior
Fragment 03 / Truth

Some things do not wait to be found.

The truth does not arrive cleanly. It leaks through rooms, objects, memories, and silence until pretending is no longer possible.

House artwork

The house

 Hospital artwork

The sickness

 Fog artwork

The road

 Statue artwork

The truth
Melle Koot
Lead developer

Melle Koot

Permeable Cage

Small studio. Strong identity.

Permeable Cage focuses on atmospheric games with a clear emotional direction. The work combines story implementation, level design, animation, programming, testing, music direction and community feedback into one focused experience.

Story Programming Level design Animation Sound Testing Feedback
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