NULLA VIA

Some places were never meant to be remembered.

Wassim is a young historian obsessed with the hidden scars left behind by World War II. During a trip with friends to isolated French war memorials and abandoned villages destroyed during the occupation, one of them jokingly photographs him using an old military camera obscura found among forgotten relics. The device should no longer function… yet the photograph develops anyway.

After returning home, Wassim begins suffering from terrifying nightmares that feel impossibly real. Each time he falls asleep, he is dragged into a distorted version of the past where shadowy figures roam ruined streets and horrific events replay endlessly in the darkness. He witnesses executions, disappearances, and atrocities committed by SS soldiers against civilians trapped inside the village during the war. Among the recurring visions are Marcel, a grieving villager driven mad after discovering his murdered family, and Leonarda, a woman whose final days became part of the town’s buried nightmare.

Every awakening leaves Wassim weaker, more exhausted, and increasingly disconnected from reality. Strange wartime objects begin appearing inside his apartment. Voices echo through empty rooms. The boundary between present and past slowly collapses. Unable to escape the visions, he turns to alcohol while desperately trying to understand why these memories are haunting him.

But the nightmares are not random.

The camera captured more than a photograph.

Long ago, before being executed, one of the victims was photographed by the same device moments after witnessing the massacre of his family. Since then, the camera has carried the final echoes of the dead, binding itself to anyone connected to the forgotten tragedy. Wassim eventually realizes he was not chosen to suffer… but to uncover the truth history buried.

Guided by visions and fragments of the past, Wassim returns to the real ruins of the village and discovers the hidden remains of the victims abandoned beneath the town for decades. By revealing their identities and bringing their story to light, he finally understands the purpose of the nightmares:

Some ghosts do not seek revenge.
They seek to be remembered.

Psychological Horror in a Preserved War Ruin

NULLA VIA is a WW2 psychological horror experience set inside a forgotten village where the past refuses to die.

• Explore abandoned homes, forests, underground shelters, churches, and mass graves frozen in time

• Experience oppressive psychological horror inspired by fragmented memories and wartime trauma

• Witness shadowed echoes endlessly replaying moments of violence and despair

• Uncover the hidden truth behind Marcel, Leonarda, and the massacre buried beneath the village

• Fight against entities born from suffering, memory, and death itself
  
  

Fight the Dead

Wassim can defend himself using authentic WW2 weapons including Lugers, shotguns, STG44 machineguns, and other firearms recovered throughout the village.

Alongside them, he carries the mysterious military camera obscura itself.

• Use the cursed camera to reveal hidden entities and damage supernatural manifestations

• Expose invisible presences lurking within darkness and ruined structures

• Combine firearms and light to survive against hostile apparitions

• Face entities that cannot always be destroyed... only escaped
  
  

Some ghosts attack.
Some only watch.
Some remember.

Themes

• Civilian massacres and erased identities

• Psychological collapse and inherited trauma

• Obsession with the past and forgotten history

• The fear of losing yourself to memories that are not your own

NULLA VIA

The village was abandoned after the massacre.
But the dead never left.