Sincere Deceit
A downloadable game for Windows
Sincere Deceit is a fangame based on the indie title OFF by Mortis Ghost. You play as The Batter once more, dropped into a world slowly falling apart from a mysterious force corrupting it. It is your job to decide whether to fight against this force, or let it consume the world around you. Follow either of the two voices guiding you, or choose to cut your own path to find out the truth of what happened.
Sincere Deceit is a horror game at heart, and thus deals with many heavy topics, such as violence/cruelty, gore/body horror, suicide, cult indoctrination, jumpscares (both visual and audio based) and some flashing on the screen. This is not a game for the faint of heart.
The game features multiple endings, depending on your choices throughout the story. The average playtime of a single playthrough is around 8 hours when ignoring multiple playthroughs or optional content.
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The game comes in a ZIP file, so make sure to unzip and extract the folder so that you can save your game properly! You can launch the game by double clicking the exe file in the first folder. Make sure to also install the fonts found within the first folder so that text displays properly while playing. If the game doesn’t run properly or it says you’re missing the RTP file, check the link in the READ ME file to get the proper files.
We recommend wearing headphones if you aren’t sensitive to loud sounds and keeping notes as you play for the best experience! Make sure to make saves often as well, as this game will sometimes close itself (the errors are intentional).
Developed by:
-JimJam: Main Developer/Creator: https://disparu-gaming.tumblr.com/
-Vivi/FourEyes: Co Developer/Creator, Artist: https://offspinoffs.tumblr.com/
-Choco: Creative Idea Advisor, Musician
-Lemon: Musician, Artist: https://soundcloud.com/hamtwolamtwo
-Tiamat/Lee: Artist: https://tiamat-hatchling.tumblr.com/
My Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/disparu_gaming
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/disparu_gaming
My Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Dismal-Uprising/shop
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Development log
- Version 1.1.3 is out now!Sep 28, 2022
- Small Bug Fix for Optional/Secret Scene in TheatreJun 24, 2021
- Small Patch for a Bug in 1.1.2Jun 15, 2021
- Version 1.1.2 (and Optional Hotfix) is Out Now!May 26, 2021
- Bug Fix For PrisonMay 24, 2021
- Sincere Deceit Ver. 1.1 is Now Up!May 20, 2021
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so I'm in the OUTSIDE and there's this npc after a rock pushing puzzle but when I interact with them they softlock me in place and I can't progress, this bug literally makes progressing in this area impossible I really hope this could get patched
|Spoilers regarding the Tower|
To start, my file was named SMILE and this was my first time ever through the Tower.
During Layer 3, I encountered a glitch. For starters, I had all the Supreme items, and to recount what happened, I: went to Jadon, did not give him the item. Went to Malachi, did not give him the item. Asked to do the favor for him. Went back to Jadon, still refused to give the item. Did the task of getting the stuffed cat. Returned to Jadon and gave him the item (I wanted to see if I could keep the cat...). His dialogue started with that of giving him the cat instead of the item and then after that dialogue was finished he said the dialogue he does upon giving him the item. The item disappeared from my inventory and not the cat, so I figured it counted as giving him the item. Went to Malachi, gave him the item. Went to Gaius, didn't give him the item, and did the task for him. Gave him the item. Went to Adam, gave him the item. Returned to stickman Abram, his dialogue remained as telling me to find his friends and wouldn't update no matter what even though all 4 of his friends were there, rendering me softlocked. Reload a previous save (I saved after Jadon and Malachi), did Adam before Gaius, giving him the item before even interacting with Gaius. Abram's dialogue updates and registers all of his friends as being present when they aren't and he remarks they're all happy except for one (I assume it's Jadon due to the above oddity with his dialogue and that it actually counted as the cat being given and not the item but taking the item out of my inventory instead of the cat?).
Thankfully I had an even earlier save that was before I interacted with any of them. I gave them all the items right away and things worked correctly.
I recently experienced a softlock concerning Layer 2 of the Tower on the Blue route where upon doing all Zones up to where I could battle the blue guardians, I instead went and put the grand items in the corrupted areas but for zones 2 and 3 the grand item would visibly appear in the hole nor would the doors to those zones disappear. If I go back, all the Batter says is that an object can be placed in the hole. Killing the blue guardians and being prompted to place the item in that hole prompts the same response without the option to put in the item (since it was taken from my inventory). Edit: I managed to get through Layer 2 by doing the red offerings out of order. Doing that prompted the cutscene so I could leave.
Minor spoilers: I died to a rather nasty encounter and got sent to the game over screen. I alt tabbed to look something up and then went back into the game. But the main menu had something different about it. I decided to explore my options and got jumpscared, so I closed the game.
Now I can't get whatever that is to trigger again, and there is absolutely no mention of this even existing in the walkthrough. Any hints on this one?
Sorry for the late reply, but it's just a random RNG event. simply restart the title screen enough and it'll appear again
every time i try to download this and play it, it tells me it is a trojan virus and wont let me play it but ive heard good things about it and i really wanna play it
Made an account just to comment. Highly doubt this'll be read, but I just wanted to express my graditude for you for making this game. I remember playing it a few years back and it got me through some tough times and inspired me to shape a lot of my own personal stories due to how much i liked the storyline of SD. This game is just overall very important to me, and Ijust wanted to leave this here <3
15 save files is not enough for this game
Soooo... bit of an issue I encountered on the Blue Route's tower on layer 2: I can't offer the grand items in restored zones 2 and 3. Whenever I TRY to, it gets rid of the respective grand items, but won't actually count the items as "offered," and I can't get them back under any circumstances. As a result, I literally can't continue.
Can anyone help?
woah I've never seen that. Are you offering them in the heart rooms or the boss rooms
First I did the heart rooms, then loaded back to offer them in the boss rooms when that didn't work. End result was the same, unfortunately.
It's worth noting that Blue Zone 1 worked just fine, though.
When it says to start with a SMILE, does that mean I have to make a new save and name myself that? What does that change?
by the gods the off fandom yet still live's i must begin playing this immediately
This game broke me.
If you don't want to redownload the whole 1.10GB for the new update, you can download the Hotfix here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/qtkbip7ulgmd45l/Bug_Fix_General_5.25.21.zip/file
If you've saved your game in the church after the prison and didn't get the scene that plays in the church, download either of these files, then walk out the front entrance and back into the church. This should fix it! Thank you, and have an awesome day!
I deleted my comment and placed the new bug fix in a dev log instead! Hopefully this will be the last fix that will need to be put out. If not, we will release an actual patch. I'm trying to avoid it, since it would require having to reupload 1GB. It's easier to just post a link for a couple hundred KBs. I hope this is ok! Have a great day everyone!
Hey, I recently watched a video of someone fighting the warden and it was completely different from mine. In their playthrough the warden was holding the judge hostage and he fights you normally, but in my playthrough the judge isn't there and the warden transforms. Is this dependent on something I do in the game or is it something else?
Yes, there is a chance for the battle to be different depending on a choice you make in the prison! It all depends on whether you choose to go down into the chop shop first, or you go straight to the boss of the prison. :>
Hey again, it's me i just finished all the endings for the restored route and it was phenomenal! I really loved the ending of this route. Just a quick question, where can i find this secret path on this worn paper? Thanks!
Hello again! :D I'm so happy to see you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!!! As for that note, if you go back to Outside you can go to the left and right of the main room to find more bosses. This note is for the upper most northern area of that section. The main room will become more obvious that there are more rooms in the updated version of the game. Thank you again for playing! < 333
Hey! I'm enjoying your fan-game so far, it's one of the best OFF fan-games I've ever seen!
I've come across a problem in both routes at the end of the game regarding the tower.
At the postal Service in Red Zone 1, After I kill all the Spectres on floor Secret ??? then head to Lost ???, the shadows immediately come and instantly crash the game before i have time to do anything.
And in Blue Zone 2, I can't get past the Pedalo Trail Minigame
This trail Activates this block instead of the proper one
it activates this one instead, and i have no way of activating the last block. A reply would be most appreciated! Thanks!
Thank you for playing the game! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying it so far! I'm sorry to hear you're having issues with the game though.
The first one shouldn't be happening since there is a timer that counts down for that one. I will have to look into it and fix it so that you have plenty of time to get to the elevator. As for the second one, that will also be fixed! If you can, try to continue forward to the very last block you see in that room and see if it activates when you interact with it. That should complete the puzzle. I believe this might just be a visual issue that I overlooked, but it will be fixed in an update we're planning on releasing sometime soon! Thank you again for playing and commenting. :>
How did you do both versions of floor 2? Did you just play the whole game twice?
I logged back in after two years just to answer your question! Yes I did play through the whole game twice! If I recall correctly I remember enjoying it so much that I basically did multiple playthroughs to 100% everything. There are a lot of secrets that are very very well hidden! Hope this answers your question!
-Merra
you did it grandpa. you made gaem in arpeegee maer
Finally did it, yes! It is finally done!
HELL YEAH!! CONGRATS ON FINISHING! Imma play asap
Thank you so much! < 333 Enjoy!