Press Kit

Short (~50 words)

Echoes of Lyra is a third-person narrative adventure about a thirteen-year-old girl who stopped speaking, and the world she walks through to find her voice again. Explore Velaria, a world born from the feelings she couldn't face, solve puzzles by listening, and face its creatures alongside Caelum, her guardian. You don't kill them: you set them free. A game about memory and the things we can't say out loud.

Long (~200 words)

Echoes of Lyra is the debut project of Velaria Studio, and from the very start it was never meant to be just another game. You play as Lyra, a child who buried her voice to survive and now finds herself lost in Velaria — a vast, aching world shaped from the feelings she was never able to face. You explore it in third person, with no arrows or markers: Lyra's lyre, which is her voice, turns toward what matters and sounds an off-key note near the places that hold something. Memories come back as sound, and puzzles are solved by ear. And when its creatures appear, echoes of pain, fear and loss, you face them in real time alongside Caelum, a guardian who never fights for her: he breaks what protects them, and only Lyra can set them free. Because the game deals with childhood trauma and mental health, we chose to treat it with real care rather than spectacle: clinical psychologist Ángeles Esteban works alongside the team to make sure the story is told honestly, without ever turning pain into a costume. It's a responsibility the whole studio — artists, animators, designers and musicians, many with AAA experience, all bound together by this story — takes to heart. Made in Unreal Engine 5, with a bespoke original score at its emotional core and a tone drawn from Pan's Labyrinth, A Monster Calls and The Piano, Echoes of Lyra is an intimate, hopeful journey through everything a person couldn't leave behind — and a reminder that no one should feel alone in what they carry.