There's Something in the Corner

About There's Something in the Corner

There's Something in the Corner is a short horror game by the small studio Blyant Games, released on Game Jolt in 2015. It plays in the browser and as a Windows download, and its makers recommend headphones.

Everything is drawn in rough white chalk on a black board: a girl in pigtails and bunny slippers, a bedroom with paper butterflies over the bed, a kitchen with a stove and shelves. There is a power failure, and the house is almost entirely dark. You walk her left and right from room to room and click on things to search them.

A sanity counter in the corner falls while she is in the dark. To bring the light back you need fuses, which are hidden around the house, and a safe whose combination you have to work out stands in the way. The fear is the childhood kind: a house you know well turned strange, and the corners of each drawing where the chalk fades into nothing.

It is very short, and most players finish in a single sitting. It suits anyone who wants a quick, drawn piece of dread more than a long game, and players who like a small puzzle in their horror.

How to play There's Something in the Corner

1. Open the game's Game Jolt page and press Play in the browser (its makers recommend Chrome), or download it for Windows.
2. Move the girl with the arrow keys or A and D.
3. Click on furniture and objects to search them for fuses.
4. Work out how to open the safe.
5. Find every fuse and restore the power before her sanity runs out.

Tips

• Search everything in each room before you move on; the last fuse is the one players miss.
• Keep an eye on the sanity counter in the top left corner and do not linger.
• Play with headphones, as the makers suggest.

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