(A puzzle/story/mystery game using the mechanics of a Discord-like chat interface. Special thanks to Leonardo 'Degaul' V.)
"It's 2016. A friend wants help getting guides back from a MMORPG community, one with a game, forums, and now a chat app.
But a poor redesign of the chat interface, as well as server outages prevent you from seeing the whole picture.
But maybe it wasn't possible to see the whole picture after all. Not while you are still blind."
Created for Confounding Calendar 2025.
NOTE: Intended to be played in browser, a puzzle is not possible in the itch.io app and the downloaded files are outright misleading to look at in the wrong order.
(inspired by a large mix of events I've witnessed in my own lived experience, mechanics in murder mysteries (although this is a much softer and smoothened way to present the ideas in this than any real life event lol), as well as a sort-of-mild interest in chatrooms as mechanics. Some assets: Unsplash, Pixabay, https://sketchfab.com/features/free-3d-models, ToDitherer, https://pdimagearchive.org/infinite-view - also testers that gave me the most useful changes and testing feedback for this project: Tixxy, MisshapenSmiley, olie, Cactos, Hazelstorm, slabdrill, noa, Robotic Press, Poklolio, opanker!)
rate story if you enjoyed it, feel free to post your videos of playthroughs/streams of this game, I allow it :)
Small note: if your save is softlocked, typing "deletemysave" anywhere will clear it (in case a bug is there)
Spoilers in the comments below!
(This is a story based game, and I've seen so many comments of other games like this have twists and reveals that you can easily accidentally find by carelessly scrolling down. Use text selection if you want to read it, but they're spoilered/hidden for a good reason!)