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Mind the Gap

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You wake on a train you never boarded, among strangers you cannot trust.

Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, Android
Stores: itch.io
Price: Pay what you want
Rated: 4.9 of 5 from 432 ratings on itch.io
Length: about 4 hours so far (three chapters)
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse or one button: click to advance the voiced dialogue and pick choices; Save, Load, Skip and Prefs sit beside the text box
Made by: SweePix

What frightens You wake in a train compartment you do not remember boarding, with strangers who are just as lost, on a train that never stops; the maker promises very slow-burn suspense and unsettling details, and warns of graphic violence and character death, psychological manipulation and gaslighting, references to torture, body horror and suicidal ideation.
Content: graphic violence, character death, psychological manipulation, references to torture, child endangerment, suicidal ideation, body horror, strong language.

Mind the Gap is a psychological thriller visual novel by SweePix, free to download on itch.io for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. You wake in a train compartment you do not remember boarding, and the strangers in the corridor are just as lost, as trust between them starts to wear thin. Three chapters are out, about four hours of reading, with more on the way.

About Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap is a visual novel by SweePix, made in Ren'Py and released in chapters on itch.io. The second chapter came out in December 2025 and the third in May 2026, with voice acting added along the way and a Brazilian Portuguese translation alongside the English and Spanish. The maker draws every CG and sprite and most of the backgrounds by hand.

You wake up in a train compartment you do not remember boarding. The air is too heavy and the silence too deliberate, and outside the door there are voices and footsteps: other passengers who do not know how they got there either. Before long a figure with an old television for a head tells you only that this is an experiment, and the group has to decide who to trust and how to behave in a place that seems to expect them to follow its rules.

It plays as a classic visual novel. You read voiced dialogue over dark, hand-drawn scenes of carriages and corridors, and at key moments you choose what to do or who to side with. The maker describes the pacing as very slow-burn: the dread builds from unsettling details, like a cracked doll in a dim corridor, and from the way people change when they are trapped together.

The maker warns that it contains mature and disturbing content: graphic violence and character death, psychological manipulation and gaslighting, references to torture, child endangerment, suicidal ideation, body horror and assault. It suits readers who like death-game and trapped-strangers stories, and do not mind a story that is still being finished.

How to play Mind the Gap

Download Mind the Gap from its itch.io page, paying what you want or nothing, for Windows, Mac, Linux or as an Android APK.
Unzip the PC or Mac version and run the game, or install the APK on your Android phone.
Choose English, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese and click to advance the dialogue.
Pick your answer when a choice appears, such as whether to take a stranger's hand.
Save before big choices, and check the itch.io page for new chapters as they come out.