follow

walk somewhere after dark. a real cemetery, an old crossroads, a beach. the compass needle points at things most people don't see. you walk toward the bearing. you find what was already there.

sixty entities live in the catalogue — the bean sí from west clare wake-houses, the dullahan on a cork crossroads boreen, the each uisce rising from the loughs of connemara. they are real folklore. they were quiet for a long time. the device wakes them up.

she will speak with you. her name is áine. she has been listening since the very start.

why this exists

The catalogue is built from the written record — Hyde, Lady Gregory, the Ordnance Survey Letters, the schools' collection, Campbell for the Highland material. You learn each one by meeting her, not by being taught.

the catalogue

• 60 entities, each written to a real folkloric source
• 4 tiers of lore apiece, opening as a creature gets to know you
• 9 rituals, each one done with the device itself — hold your silence, stand still, walk a circle, turn it face-down, cover the lens, breathe, trace a ward, answer back, knock three times
• 7 acts of story. some of it only opens on the right night of the real year.
• 608 audio clips of bespoke sound design across the entity bank

who made it

A pumpkin farmer in Ireland, and a lifelong fan of horror and folklore, who plans to release more versions of follow and to collaborate with other artists and developers.

who it isn't for

Anyone under 16 — there's a gate at the start and I mean it. Anyone who wants a game that keeps reminding them it's only a game: this one talks to you directly and never once steps out of character. And anyone who isn't in a position to walk outside at night and pay attention to where they are going, because that is the whole of it.

It needs the camera, the microphone, the GPS and the motion sensors while you play. That is how the rituals work — there is no way to do this without them.

None of it is real. It finds nothing supernatural, because there is nothing there to find. Your evidence photos and recordings never leave the phone. The journal entries do, so you can read them back on another device — and so does the one photo of your face, if you turn the AI portrait on, because OpenAI makes it. That one is 18+ — it is the only thing here that leaves your phone. Erase any of it from /profile.

what it costs

Follow is free to play, and free is not a demo. 15 of the 60 entities walk for everyone, each with its own voice, its own sound and its own way of being sent away. The fetch will wear your face once.

The veil — €4.99, once. Not a subscription. It opens the other 45 entities and lets them keep wearing your face. There is nothing else to buy, no currency, no advertising, and nothing that makes the dark come faster if you pay.

The app is 16+. The personalised photo feature is 18+. Payment is handled by our payment provider, who are the merchant of record — we never see your card details. See terms for refunds.