Y O U

About Y O U

Y O U is a short piece of interactive fiction by The Horned Sphinx, made in the Decker tool for the Deck-Month 2 jam, which ran through December 2024, and released on itch.io at the start of 2025. It plays in the browser, and the maker states that no generative AI was used.

You play a woman late for a job she hates, in a cluttered flat, living a life with little in it. As her days go on she becomes sure that something is stalking her. She walks alone, but she can still feel it beside her. The game shows her world in grainy, dithered black-and-white photographs with short lines of text and a few choices to click.

The horror is the slow build of being watched by a presence she cannot pin down. The maker warns of stalking, spiders, animal death, possible human death and paranoia. Players in the comments describe it as horrific, tragic and heartbreaking at once, and several say it moved them to tears.

It is a quiet, literary horror story rather than a game of scares, and it suits players who like short browser fiction such as a man outside or my father's long, long legs.

How to play Y O U

1. Open the itch.io page and press Run game to play in the browser (name your own price, including nothing).
2. Switch to full screen with the button at the bottom right, as the maker recommends.
3. Read each line and click the highlighted choices to go on with your day.
4. Play to the end in one sitting; it is a single short story.

Tips

• Read the maker's content warnings first if stalking, spiders or animal death are hard for you.
• Take your time on each picture; small details in the photos matter.
• Full screen makes the dithered photos much easier to read.

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