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The Very Last Night I Spent at Ethelred Estate

by Kai DeJesus

(based on 5 ratings)
Estimated play time: 8 minutes (based on 3 votes)
Members voted for the following times for this game:
  • 11 minutes: "first playthrough couldn't progress due to bug, reached an ending on 2nd playthrough" — HereticMole
  • 7 minutes — Passerine
  • 8 minutes: "carelessly" — joes
1 review — 9 members have played this game. It's on 1 wishlist.

About the Story

A young woman recalls a very important night, but the details in her mind keep changing. Recall what happened that fateful night in this gothic horror where you try to remember what happened to your once prosperous family.

Content warning: gore, pregnancy, miscarriage, child death, family death

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Average Rating: based on 5 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1
Short horror texture game with surreal story related to pregnancies, September 26, 2026
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The Very Last Night I Spent at Ethelred Estate

When you're making a surreal horror game where you doubt your own reality, it's hard to tell if the story has problems or if its accurately simulating the protagonist's mental state. I think this game has problems, though. I reached a point where I could no longer play (with the only choice being 'listen close') and there were several types (like "It's if" where it should have been "It's as if".) Other things could be mistakes or intentional. At one point the game says you're "pregnant again" right after saying you're pregnant for the first time; that would fit with the game's blurb ("the details in her mind keep changing").

The plot that I saw (starting from a wedding) has the player's mother warn of a huge problem that will occur related to firstborns in the family. Something's wrong with the estate itself, with cracked mirrors and a cockroach infestation.

The core concept is something I've seen executed well before, and if the bugs and typos were fixed, I think it would be worth putting out an updated version of the game. I would immediately increase my score from a 1 to a 3 (I only have it lower since my rubric penalizes buggy games).

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