UNSTRANGE

About UNSTRANGE

UNSTRANGE is one of a run of short horror games by Fear Scape, a young solo maker who sells them on itch.io for a dollar or more, for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

You play an 11-year-old whose mother drops them off every month at their grandmother's house, a wooden farmhouse at the end of a dirt road far from the city. The visits have always been quiet and lonely but safe. This time grandmother has had an accident, and afterwards she is not the same: what she says stops making sense, her habits change and some rooms are suddenly locked to you.

You explore the house and its yard in first person, by day in the warm light of the fields and by night in near-total darkness, while the noises and the feeling of being watched build. The look is the coarse, low-poly style of late-1990s 3D games, with a grainy video filter.

The horror is the slow kind that comes from someone you trust turning strange, until it turns bloody. It suits players who like short PSX-style horror to finish in one sitting, and anyone who enjoyed being looked after by a relative who should not be trusted in games like SHE WAS 98.

How to play UNSTRANGE

1. Buy UNSTRANGE on itch.io and download it for Windows, Mac, Linux or Android.
2. Move with WASD and look around with the mouse.
3. Press E or click to talk, read and use things in the house.
4. Hold Shift to run when you need to get away.
5. Follow what your grandmother tells you, and notice when it stops making sense.

Tips

• Play at night with headphones; much of the game is very dark and the sounds matter.
• Turn your screen brightness up a little if you cannot see the rooms at night.
• It is short, so play it in one sitting.

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