The Kind Machine

Best on a phone, in portrait, sound on, in one sitting.

The world has ended. A machine is reconstructing your memories of its final day: kindly, patiently, and incorrectly. You walk through what it rebuilds. It asks what you remember. It disagrees. Sometimes it is lying. Sometimes the world really did change while you weren't looking. Sometimes it is telling the truth and you are the one who is wrong, and the game never lets you be sure which. At the end it assembles its account of that day out of your answers, including the wrong ones it fed you, and asks you to accept it or keep your own.

What it is

• An 8 to 12 minute psychological horror vignette. Four scenes (an ash field, a chapel, a signal tower, and a vast hall with a door) and two endings. No jump scares, no combat, no inventory, no timers.
• Made for the phone in your hand. It runs in any modern browser and is composed for a portrait phone screen. On a desktop it keeps that portrait frame, letterboxed.

Controls

On a phone: tap the ground to walk, tap things that glimmer to look at them (look carefully), tap the green mark when you are ready to remember together, and tap to hurry the machine's text along.

On a desktop: WASD or the arrow keys to walk, click to look closer, and Space, Enter or E to act and hurry the text.

Answer honestly. Or don't.

The source is on GitHub, with notes on how it is built.