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The Apartment – A very polite neighbor, a mogging fish. Demo out now!

A topic by borisreason created 12 hours ago Views: 239 Replies: 4

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Hi everyone! We're a two-person team and we just released a free demo of our horror game on itch.io.

You just moved into a new apartment. The neighbor is very polite. He watches you through the door hatch, he knows about every package delivered to you, and he wants his share, a bit more every day.

- Short first-person horror with a PSX/VHS look

- 6 in-game days and nights; the rules change every night

- 3 endings, one of them secret

- A human-faced fish in the aquarium that is mogging you. You can talk to it through your microphone and it answers (optional, opt-in)

- A drunk low-poly anchor reads very strange local news on the TV

- The demo takes about 45 minutes, Windows

Play it here: https://borisreason.itch.io/the-apartment

Feedback is very welcome, especially if anything breaks on your hardware.

haoyiming80097545-web8 hours ago

Your neighbor asking for more every night while the rules keep shifting really makes the apartment dynamics feel like they're slowly souring. Just from the description, my biggest question is how players figure out the new rules: do the door, packages, or TV give you clues beforehand, or do you only find out after making a mistake?

borisreason8 hours ago

Thanks for the comment! Every evening the neighbor tells you what he wants the next day, so you always get a warning. You have a budget and can order things in advance, so the real challenge is planning ahead: get the right items in time and don't get anything wrong. Mistakes are... not well received. 😃

haoyiming80097545-web6 hours ago

Oh, so your neighbor tells you what he needs a day in advance, and the real pressure comes from budgeting and stocking up—got it haha. My team is also making an AI anime RPG, and we're trying to see if players can clearly tell how their actions impact the story. Would you be up for trying the opening of our free web version? If so, I'll drop the playtest link and your personal invite code right here in the comments.

borisreason5 hours ago

Sure! Why not