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The Melting Apartment

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A missing woman, an old building, and every step feels wrong.

Platforms: Browser
Stores: itch.io
Price: Free
Rated: 165 ratings on itch.io, rated 4.7 of 5
Length: under an hour
Players: 1
Controls: Z or J to interact and use items, X, K or Enter to cancel and open the inventory
Made by: flower studio

Not on PlayStation. The Melting Apartment is on itch.io and Browser. It is not in the PlayStation part of the site you came from.

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What frightens A young woman disappears soon after moving into an old building at the edge of town, and you go in to find out what happened and escape with your life. In surreal Game Boy-style pixel art inspired by giallo films and Junji Ito, every step on the stairs feels wrong and a figure with glowing eyes waits in the red-lit halls.
Content: disturbing imagery.

The Melting Apartment is a free, short point-and-click horror game in Game Boy style. You investigate a young woman's disappearance in an old apartment building at the edge of town, and try to get out alive.

About The Melting Apartment

The Melting Apartment is a short horror adventure by flower studio, with Ashley Black, made in the style of a Game Boy game. The makers describe it as a moody and surreal horror adventure inspired by Italian giallo films and Junji Ito.

A young woman disappears soon after moving into an old building at the edge of town. You arrive by car to solve the missing persons case, a detective with a gun in the inventory, and climb into a building drawn in a few strong colours at a time: deep blue stairwells, yellow halls, dark red rooms where something with glowing eyes stares out of the dark. The text tells you every step you take feels wrong.

You play it like an old point-and-click adventure, searching rooms, picking things up and using them where they fit. The horror is in the place itself and in what you find of the woman who lived there. There are different paths and multiple endings depending on what you do.

It is free to play in the browser, and the same makers made Don't Let Her In, a short body horror story in a similar Game Boy style. It suits players who like short, strange pixel-art horror and manga-style body horror.

How to play The Melting Apartment

Open the itch.io page and press Run game.
Move the cursor and press Z or J to look at and interact with things.
Press X, K or Enter to open the inventory and choose an item to use.
Search the building, solve the case and find a way out; replay for other endings.

Screenshots

The Melting Apartment screenshot: a figure in a lit doorway at the top of a dark blue stairwell, with the text Every step you take feels wrong

The Melting Apartment screenshot: a dark-haired figure with glowing eyes in a red-lit hallway

The Melting Apartment screenshot: the inventory with a gun, a notebook and a hammer beside the detective in a coat and tie

The Melting Apartment screenshot: a top-down view of a long yellow-lit corridor with a man in a coat between dark rooms

Tips

Look at everything twice: descriptions often point to the next item you need.
Open the inventory often to remind yourself what you carry.
Different actions lead to different endings, so try another approach on a second run.