Psychological horror 2D horror Short horror Body horror

Don't Let Her In

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It has been weeks since your father left. Someone is at the window.

Platforms: Browser
Stores: itch.io
Price: Free
Rated: Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 153 players on itch.io
Players: 1
Controls: Z to confirm (the Game Boy A button), as the page states
Made by: flower studio (story and programming by flower, art and sound by hemlocks)

What frightens It has been weeks since your father left and you are alone in the house when a woman with a wide smile appears at the window, wanting to be let in. The makers call it a short body horror story about being alone: the game warns you that you do not want to look at yourself, and players say its few pixels made their skin crawl.
Content: body horror.

A short Game Boy-style horror game you play in the browser. Alone in the house weeks after your father left, you meet a smiling woman at the window who wants to come in, and the body horror starts close to home. Free, with a ROM for real Game Boy hardware.

About Don't Let Her In

Don't Let Her In is a short horror game by flower studio, with story and programming by flower and art and sound by hemlocks. It is made in the Game Boy style and plays in the browser on itch.io; the page also offers the ROM to play on a Game Boy or an Analogue Pocket. It is free, and the makers say no generative AI was used.

The makers describe it in one line: a short body horror story about being alone. It opens on a black screen: it has been weeks since your father left. You walk a small figure through the rooms of the house, a portrait with its face blacked out hangs on the wall, and a woman with long hair and a fixed, wide smile shows up at the window. Another screen tells you that you do not want to look at yourself.

The art uses a handful of strong colours on black, pink, blue, orange and green, and the horror comes through suggestion more than detail. Players compare it to classic body horror films and to The Magnus Archives, say it made their skin crawl, and one now fears looking out of the window at night. A few wished it were longer or had a way out.

Players on itch.io rate it 4.6 out of 5 from 153 ratings. It suits players who like very short, minimal horror where a few pixels and one simple rule do the work.

How to play Don't Let Her In

Open the game's itch.io page and press Run game to play it in the browser.
Press Z to move the text on and to confirm, as the Game Boy A button.
Walk through the house and look at what is there.
Decide what to do about the woman at the window.

Screenshots

Don't Let Her In screenshot: a long-haired woman with a wide smile seen through a window, drawn in blue pixels

Don't Let Her In screenshot: a small pink figure in a dark red room with a dresser, a window and a sofa

Don't Let Her In screenshot: the words you don't want to look at yourself, handwritten in pixels on black

Don't Let Her In screenshot: a framed pink portrait of a girl whose face is blacked out, with a blue band across the corner

Don't Let Her In screenshot: an orange figure and a green figure face each other, with the question who are you?

Don't Let Her In opening screen: It's been weeks since your father left, in blue handwriting on black

Tips

If you seem stuck on a text screen, press Z; that is the only button you need to move on.
Play in the dark with sound on; the game relies on mood.
It is short, so play it through in one sitting.
You can download the ROM to play it on Game Boy hardware or an emulator.