Lacey's Flash Games

About Lacey's Flash Games

Lacey's Flash Games is the official game of ghosttundra's YouTube horror series of the same name, and it carries that story on. It's developed by ghosttundra, Euroclipse and Brand New Groove, and published by Brand New Groove and Euroclipse. A free demo for Windows is on itch.io and on the game's Steam page. The full game still reads coming soon on Steam, with no date given.

The setting is the mid-2000s. Charlie, known online as Charchar887, comes across the Lacey's Flash Games website, a pink, sparkly site that promises the real girls' games. Its guide is Grace, who introduces the games in a chatty voice and insists she has nothing to do with what people have been saying. The site's creator, Rocio Yani, has vanished, and the games she left behind are the trail to follow.

Each game is a small point-and-click scene in its own place. The demo has three of them: Lacey's Wardrobe, where you dress Lacey up for a theme like a picnic in the park, Lacey's Petshop, where you groom one animal after another, and Lacey's Love Meter. The makers also mention skateboarding and cake baking for the full game. You read the instructions, click on things and make choices. It all happens on an old desktop, with the website in one window and a webcam window beside it where Grace chats and comments on how things went.

The horror is in the gap between the bright art and what slips through. The makers write that a character might act strangely, an object might appear where it should not and the instructions might stop making sense, and that doing the wrong thing is sometimes more interesting. Your choices lead to different endings, and some of them are not predictable. The Steam page warns of violence and insinuations of murder, with blood, corpses and dismemberment.

Steam lists English and Brazilian Portuguese with full voice acting, plus French, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Russian and Hungarian text. Germany's age rating is 18, for drastic violence, drugs and crude language. Brazil's is 16.

It suits players who like cute-and-creepy games where an innocent surface hides something, and fans of internet horror about lost websites and old computers.

How to play Lacey's Flash Games

1. Download the free demo for Windows from itch.io, or get it from the game's Steam page.
2. Open the Lacey's Flash Games website on the in-game desktop and read Grace's introduction.
3. Pick a game from the site, follow its instructions and click on the scene to dress Lacey up or groom the pets.
4. Make your choices in each game and note the ending you get, then replay to try something different.
5. Watch for anything that seems out of place in the games and on the site, since that is where the story of Rocio Yani is hidden.

Tips

• Try doing what the instructions do not ask for; the makers hint that the wrong choice can be the more interesting one.
• Replay each game, since your choices change how it ends.
• Keep an eye on the whole desktop, not only the game window.
• The makers note a bug that stops the demo opening on some devices; check the itch.io page for updates if it will not start.

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