• WASD to walk
• SPACE to pick up item
• 1 Rest (mana) returned per turn
• 12 Fear = death

You’re thirteen years old, left alone for three nights in a quiet home. 

The walls are familiar, but something unsettling crawls through the air…

By day, the house is just a house, cradled in the soft safety of daylight. Sofas, plants, known rooms for you to explore. Search through them and solve small puzzles for items that may comfort and help you later.

Choose wisely what you bring into the night, because safety is non-existent. Your nightmares prowl around you, eager to test what you’re made of. Survive eight hours until morning using the cards in your deck and the items you've carried in from the day. 

With a heart condition, fear can be fatal here. If your fear reaches critical levels, your heart will give out.

This game was made for GMTK Game Jam 2026 with the theme: Count Down.

How to Play

Day

Use WASD to move around the house. Press Space or click on items to pick them up.

You have a few hours until nightfall, so watch the clock as you explore and search. The items you find will become one-time-use artifacts in the night.

Head to your bed when you’re ready to sleep, or wait until dusk arrives.

Night

You have eight hours, counted down in turns until morning.

Each turn, your nightmare will attack. Check below the FEAR bar to see how much fear is incoming. If your FEAR reaches 12, you lose, doomed to stay in this unfamiliar place forever.

Protect yourself with cards. Play them to reduce incoming fear before it reaches you. Your deck is fixed, but cards can be drawn and used again.

You have 3 rest points (mana) which are refreshed by 1 each turn. Each card costs rest points to play, so check the bottom of the card for its cost.

Items collected during the day can be used as artifacts for a powerful effect, but each can only be used once in the entire game. Choose carefully when to use them.

Team

Cielu aka RetsotStudio - Lead, Programmer

Chaosrising - Programmer

CSponge36 - Music

Barghuest - Enemy and Cards Artist

Demior - Character Artist 

Spero - Lead Writer

Mirisy - Store Page Writer, Tutorial Writer