ProtagonistDemo
Nima Lee
The girl whose fractured memory the player inhabits. Nima wakes in a basement without reliable memories, while her mother insists on testing whether she really is Nima.
Full Nima profile →NPeople file
Am I Nima characters
Five files, two confirmed family members, one dead father, one fish, and a voice that may not be a person at all. The line between character and theory matters here.
Official key art / HO! Games01 The cast so far
Who is in the basement?
The demo contains only a handful of people, but it already asks whether “person” is the right category. These profiles stick to what the demo and official material establish.
Protagonist
Nima’s mother / “Mom”Demo
Annabelle Lee
The woman holding Nima in the basement. She calls herself Nima’s mother, runs her “tests” and controls access to the rest of the house.
Full Annabelle profile →
Father / memoryDemo
Nima’s father
A presence in Nima’s memories rather than a character you meet in the demo. He is tied to the aquarium, the shark plush and Nima’s grief.
Pet fish / memory objectDemo
James Pond
A pet fish with a very deliberate name. James Pond is part of the life Nima had before the basement, and one of the demo’s lighter discoveries.
Unidentified internal presenceUnconfirmed
The second voice
In the demo, some thoughts do not sound like Nima. They are colder, more strategic, and sometimes violent. The game shows them without naming them.
How to read the profiles
“Confirmed” means the demo or a first-party source establishes the detail. It does not mean the character is telling the truth inside the fiction. The mother is an unreliable narrator and the demo deliberately withholds context.
02 The family tree
Every relationship is missing a line.
Nima’s father is dead. Her mother is present and controlling. James Pond is a pet fish. The voice is uninvited. The only other family member the word web keeps trying to name is the version of Nima her mother wants back.
- Nima Lee — protagonist, daughter, swimmer, memory holder.
- Annabelle Lee — mother, paleontologist, examiner, unreliable narrator.
- Nima’s father — dead before the demo, remembered through water and gifts.
- James Pond — pet fish, father’s gift, pun.
- The second voice — not named, not explained, not safe.
NIMA
MOM
FATHER
JAMES POND
THE VOICE
03 Theory control
What is not confirmed.
Theories are not forbidden. They are just not allowed to wear a “fact” badge. These are the questions the game wants you to sit with.
Unconfirmed
Is Nima dead?
The demo’s imagery and the family’s language about loss make the question unavoidable. The studio has not confirmed that Nima is literally dead, resurrected or possessed.
Unconfirmed
Is there a parasite?
Many players connect the fossil and the second voice to a parasite. That is an interpretation of visual and narrative evidence, not an official creature description.
Unconfirmed
Did Mom cause the accident?
The demo gives the player reasons to distrust Mom’s account. It does not confirm what happened to Nima, what happened to her father, or how much Mom knew.