Left Alone

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Look for your missing friends in an abandoned school with a horrific past.

Platforms: PC
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Mostly Positive on Steam (75% of 645 reviews); on Game Jolt, 676 likes and 6,949 followers
Players: 1
Made by: Volumetric Games (sold on Steam by SpeedTutor)
Released: 2016

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What frightens Searching for friends who vanished on a camping weekend in the Wisconsin forest, ex-soldier Joel Dent is drawn to Mount High School, abandoned and with a horrific past. Inside are dark corridors, blood on the floors, a wall daubed with 'He never lets you leave', and audio built room by room to raise the tension toward shocking moments.
Content: blood.

Left Alone is a first-person psychological horror game first released on Game Jolt by Volumetric Games and sold on Steam since 2016. You play Joel Dent, an ex-soldier whose camping weekend in Wisconsin ends with his friends missing and a trail leading to an abandoned high school. You solve puzzles and read the notes of former students to find out what happened there.

About Left Alone

Left Alone was made by two developers over two years, as its store page says, and first appeared on Game Jolt under the name Volumetric Games before going on sale on Steam in April 2016, where it is listed under SpeedTutor. Its Game Jolt page still links the Steam release and announces a remake, Left Alone: Rebirth, which has its own Steam page but no release date yet.

You are Joel Dent, an ex-military officer, recently divorced and still recovering from physical trauma. He and his best friends meet in the forests of Wisconsin for a weekend of camping, but strange goings-on lead him to Mount High School, abandoned and with a horrific past. The search for his friends takes him from the hiking trails into the school and the grounds around it.

You play in first person, exploring, reading clues, notes and memories left by past students and visitors, and solving puzzles to find traces of your friends. The store promises shocking moments throughout and audio designed separately for each area to build tension. The screenshots show the sunlit forest at the start, the red-brick school under a full moon, a laundry room with blood on the tiles, a power room with banks of switches, a security room full of monitors and a wall where someone has written in red that he never lets you leave.

It is a modest indie game, short on combat and long on atmosphere, and Steam players rate it Mostly Positive. It suits players who like exploring a single abandoned building, reading what was left behind and working out a mystery at their own pace.

How to play Left Alone

Buy Left Alone on Steam (Windows, 64-bit).
Start on the forest trails and follow the signs of what happened to Joel's friends.
Enter Mount High School and search its rooms for notes, clues and items.
Solve the puzzles that open new parts of the school, such as its power and security rooms.
Keep piecing together the school's past until you find your friends, or what is left of the truth.

Screenshots

A wall in a dark room written in red, He never lets you leave, above bloodied bags and boxes

The red-brick Mount High School at night under a full moon, its clock tower lit

A dark laundry room in the school with washing machines and blood smeared on the tiled floor

A power room lit green and red with switch panels and a High Voltage sign

An abandoned classroom with scattered desks and chairs in the dark

Tips

Read every note: the store says the clues and memories of past students carry the story.
Play with headphones; each area's sound was built to raise the tension.
The minimum PC needs a 64-bit Windows and a GTX 560m class graphics card.