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Eternal Threads

Critic score3 critics
First release
May 19, 2022
Publisher
Secret Mode
Genres
Indie, Adventure, Puzzle · Action, Survival

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Also known as Second Chance, EternalThreads.exe

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Storyline
You are Operator 43, who works for the newly created Second Chance project, whose mission is to restore the many mistakes of the past. As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event. From the outset, you have free and complete reign to explore the seven day timeline before the fire. You can watch and alter the significant events from the entire week as many times as you like and in whatever order you wish. Some decisions will have only minor effects on the timeline, moving objects around the house or revealing deeper stories and secrets. Major changes however, rewrite the timeline by changing existing events, adding new events and even replacing other events entirely. You must traverse up and down this timeline, changing decisions at different moments throughout the week so that their effects interact and combine together to save all six housemates. However, it is not just the housemates who have choices. Each of them can be saved from the fire in multiple ways, with each outcome having a profound effect on their lives in the future. Will you just search for the quickest and easiest solution, or can you find the best possible outcome for everyone? Ultimately, everything is about choices and consequences.Read more

You are Operator 43, who works for the newly created Second Chance project, whose mission is to restore the many mistakes of the past. As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event. From the outset, you have free and complete reign to explore the seven day timeline before the fire. You can watch and alter the significant events from the entire week as many times as you like and in whatever order you wish. Some decisions will have only minor effects on the timeline, moving objects around the house or revealing deeper stories and secrets. Major changes however, rewrite the timeline by changing existing events, adding new events and even replacing other events entirely. You must traverse up and down this timeline, changing decisions at different moments throughout the week so that their effects interact and combine together to save all six housemates. However, it is not just the housemates who have choices. Each of them can be saved from the fire in multiple ways, with each outcome having a profound effect on their lives in the future. Will you just search for the quickest and easiest solution, or can you find the best possible outcome for everyone? Ultimately, everything is about choices and consequences.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
May 19, 2022
PlayStation 4
May 23, 2024
Xbox One
May 23, 2024
All 6 release dates
Nintendo Switch
May 23, 2024
PlayStation 5
May 23, 2024
Xbox Series X|S
May 23, 2024
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Keywords
post-apocalyptic, exploration, time travel, interactive fiction, investigation
… All 12, time manipulation, female protagonist, atmospheric, story rich, sexual content, narrative, meaningful choices

At a Glance

Critic Score
63

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Steam review summary

Steam users rate this Very Positive, 544 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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