Pink

About Pink

Pink is a small horror game by AugoGames, released free on itch.io for Windows at the end of 2020. It was the first game its maker coded from the ground up, and it is drawn entirely in a few shades of pink, in a tidy top-down pixel style.

You play a young woman in a studio apartment full of plants. The maker's list of features is dry: trendy decor, plant watering, weathering the apocalypse alone in your studio apartment. You walk from the bed to the kitchen to the bathroom, fill something at the sink, and read her thoughts about the things around her. Days pass, and what she says about the same objects changes.

There are no monsters to run from and no jump scares to brace for. The horror is in what is not shown: why she cannot leave, what is going on beyond the walls, and how calm she is about it. Free Game Planet found it a chilled-out but genuinely unsettling take on horror, and players come away arguing about what the ending means. The sound is made for headphones.

It suits players who like quiet, cosy-looking horror that builds unease through routine, in the line of You Will (Not) Remain or To Do List, and anyone wanting something to finish in one short sitting. Spanish and Portuguese versions are offered as separate downloads.

How to play Pink

1. Download Pink from its itch.io page for Windows, in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
2. Put on headphones, start the game and press Enter on the title screen to begin.
3. Move with WASD or the arrow keys and press Space to look at or use things.
4. Do the day's tasks, such as watering the houseplants.
5. Read what she says about the flat each day, and keep going until the story ends.

Tips

• Use headphones, as the maker intends.
• Look at the same objects again on each new day; the descriptions change and tell the story.
• If Begin does not respond to a click, press Enter.

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