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Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter

The work Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter explores the act of scanning and wandering through narrative spaces of image, sound, and text by “touching” the image surface with a computer mouse. Through these…

21 October 2026

Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter is an adventure developed by Christoph Frey, released 21 October 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter is

Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter is an adventure game developed by Christoph Frey and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The work Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter explores the act of scanning and wandering through narrative spaces of image, sound, and text by “touching” the image surface with a computer mouse. Through these acoustically represented touches, the viewer sinks through layers of collage-like images. On the audio level, field recordings and electronic sound collages contrast with the images. In addition, each image can trigger texts and position them spatially. These texts are read from a text file and processed using a cut-up-like technique, pioneered by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. The resulting sentence fragments place the image and audio layers in their own context. It's about the…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter launched on 21 October 2026, within three weeks of Gears of War: E-Day, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Star Wars: Galactic Racer and Valor Mortis.

Released around the same time: Gears of War: E-Day, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Valor Mortis.

Official trailer

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When did Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter come out?
Poems of Touch: Half Sleep Winter was released on 21 October 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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