7Days

About 7Days

7Days was released on Game Jolt in May 2013 by Revolab, the studio that later made Mirror Layers together with Ivan Zanotti's MyMadness Works. It was built in Game Maker: Studio and is a free download for Windows, with a soundtrack by Nicola Porcu. Its makers added more languages after release, including Portuguese.

The makers describe it as an experience rather than a game. You wake in a strange house you do not know, and the game is divided into seven days, each with its own meaning. What you do each day is to look around, and the aim is to find out what is going on in the house and why you are there.

The look is low-resolution, heavily pixelated 3D: plain rooms with a dining table and dark paintings, a wardrobe, a red-lit corridor with a vent, a graveyard behind iron railings at night, and a white wall with blood running down it. The title art is a dark figure with two glowing white eyes over the red 7Days logo.

Comments on its Game Jolt page say the low-resolution look did not stop it from scaring them, and the game has had over a million page views there. It suits players who like short, strange first-person horror from the Game Jolt era of the early 2010s, played in one evening.

How to play 7Days

1. Open 7Days on Game Jolt and download the Windows build.
2. Unzip the folder and run the game.
3. Explore the house you wake up in and look at what has changed.
4. Move through the seven days one by one and piece together what is happening.

Tips

• Play in the dark with headphones; much of the mood is in the sound and music.
• Look closely at each room as the days pass, since the makers built each day around its own meaning.
• Use the latest build on the Game Jolt page; there are two versions listed there.

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