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Self-referential story about a haunted video game, February 3, 2025
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This game is one of the most unusual commercial Choicescript games. It's much shorter than usual (at 90K words), is intended to be replayed several times for the full experience (rather than just finding different paths), and is self-referential.

In it, you play as one of five friends in a kind of 'outcasts' group. You work a dead-end job with an awful boss, struggle with grades at school and the lack of love at home, and play a haunted video game with your friends that can lead to death.

In this game about a haunted game you can also play an interactive fiction game about a haunted game, which is pretty neat.

The game does have a mystery component in it, and replaying alone isn't enough to solve it, so once you're ready for it it's a good idea to 'get help from others' as the game suggests.

Clever concept. Only issue I had was that the beginning somehow felt hard to get through, and I had to try three different times over a few months to get into it enough to finish it. Glad I'm did.

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