Heather Side

Radices Meminerunt — the roots remember.

A Heart Scale game · Windows · horror

A slow-burn Lovecraftian horror in an empty British secondary school. Four bindings. The roots remember.

You stayed after last bell to mark books. Detention never arrived. The front doors will not open.

Heather Side is a first-person, slow-burn horror game set in Heather Side Secondary — a vast empty British school after dark. Walk the corridors. Read what the walls will only show you once. Four bindings must be laid on the mound in the woods before the school finishes taking the register.

The motto over the foyer is Radices Meminerunt — the roots remember.

Features

• A full baked British secondary campus: classrooms, canteen, chapel, sports hall, toilets, woods
• English, Français, Español, Polski (chosen on the menu, remembered)
• Keyboard/mouse, with gamepad bindings
• Settings for look, volume, brightness, quality, and windowed/fullscreen

Content warnings

Supernatural horror, pursuit, implied violence, and a school setting after dark.

Requirements (Windows)

Windows 10/11 64-bit · DirectX 11 GPU · keyboard and mouse · a dedicated GPU is recommended.

This is a downloadable Windows build. It uses Godot Forward Plus and is too heavy for the browser.

How to play

Unzip the archive. Double-click HeatherSide.exe. If Windows SmartScreen appears, choose More info then Run anyway.

WASD walk · mouse look · Shift run · Ctrl/C crouch · E interact/hide · F torch · Esc pause.

Credits

A Heart Scale game. Made with Godot Engine. 3D models generated with Meshy. Character animation by Mixamo. Uncial Antiqua by Brian J. Bonislawsky (SIL OFL).

Music by Giulio Fazio on Uppbeat: Stige, Dance of Devils.
Music: Halloween Time by Pecan Pie on Uppbeat.