Relapse protocol: a P.T. style looping hallway, first-person horror. Free, 25-40 min

Free demo · browser and Windows

The phone rang at 3:33 and nobody answered. Now the house repeats that night, lap after lap.

Relapse Protocol rebuilds that night inside the memory of the man who didn’t answer, and makes him walk it: the same house, the same storm, the same L-shaped hallway that starts over every time you cross the door at the end. Every lap opens one more room and hands the house back a little changed.

It’s first-person psychological horror, made by one person in Argentina with Blender and Unity 6. P.T. is the obvious reference: one place you come to know in detail, and that turns on you.

Play free on itch.ioWatch the teaser

PriceFree
Length25 to 40 min
Play it onBrowser · Windows
LanguagesEnglish · Spanish
Session1 of 5, the house
Made byOne person, Argentina

Guilt is not solved. You accept it, or you relapse.

What you can play

  • In the browser: the house, cut short. Nothing to install.
  • For Windows: the whole house, 25 to 40 minutes.
  • English and Spanish: voices, papers, signs and menus. It starts in English, and Spanish is one line down in Options.

How it plays

  • Walk, look, use. No weapons, no combat, no running and no jumping.
  • No text on screen inside the memory. The story is on the radio, on the telephone, on the papers you pick up and on the photographs.
  • Something else walks the house. Losing to it repeats the lap, not the game.
The hallway of the house
The bathroom, with the light over the mirror
The living room, with the rain on the window
The house in the dark, with the flashlight

Before you start

  • Headphones, and the lights off if you can. Half of this is sound.
  • Brightness is in Options. Set it with the calibration strip before your first lap.
  • Content: grief, the loss of a child, long stretches of darkness, blackouts, sudden loud sounds and some blood.

About the project

Five sessions are planned. This demo is the first one, the house. The second is finished and will come later; the others are designed and not built yet.

Play free on itch.ioWatch on YouTubeGame website

On the website you can sign up to hear when the next session is out, and look at the house’s telephone in 3D.