Games Like I'M DEFINITELY IN A BASEMENT

At least Earth has basements. Right?

You wake up tied to a chair. The door is locked. In the corner, a camera turns toward you, and two voices — Morrow and Venn — take notes on how you try to get out. Above the door there are tally marks scratched into the wall. A lot of them. Some of them are yours.

Dig. For real.

Something hears you digging

The Digger is blind. It hears your cuts, your screams and your footsteps, and opens its own tunnels to reach you. It stays still while you look at it... until you look away. Stone jizō line the galleries. When you look back, they are facing you. There is a konbini open underground, its fluorescent lights buzzing and a vending machine that gives you what you didn't ask for. At five in the afternoon, a loudspeaker tells all good children to go home.

The buried house

A service lift goes down to the house from your other life, rebuilt from memory and wrong. Tatami, paper fusuma, oshiire closets... and The One Who Waits: a woman in a white kimono with impossibly long hair, humming your lullaby as she searches room by room.

Don't look back

The game remembers you

Every life leaves marks: your old tunnels already dug, your shovel where it caught you last time, and a note in your own handwriting that knows exactly what you did. A film camera whose flash is your only weapon; photos are developed in the darkroom, and some of them show someone standing behind you. Then someone is. No death: if it catches you, you are dragged back to the start of the tunnels. Sudden scares can be turned off in Settings.