This is my quiet playthrough of the Human.exe demo — a retro, text‑based psychological horror experience that feels like a modern cousin to Zork and Majestic. You’re dropped into a cold terminal interface and asked to make decisions that seem simple… until they aren’t. In my run, the moral weight of each yes/no choice really hit me — especially when the subject’s fate took a turn I wasn’t expecting.

It’s short, eerie, and surprisingly emotional for a terminal‑style demo. If you enjoy cozy narration over unsettling games, you might like this one. This demo was originally played live on Twitch during a “let’s try a few horror indies” stream.

Developer: ⁠ @Weird.Engine ⁠

Genre: Text‑based horror, psychological, retro terminal

Vibe: Horror‑Zork, moral choices, eerie system messages

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Experience The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce; a classic American horror story first published in 1893. This eerie tale unfolds through a coroner’s inquest, diary entries, and witness testimony, all circling around a terrifying creature that cannot be seen. Bierce was one of the earliest writers to explore the idea of an invisible monster, long before it became a staple of modern horror.

The Damned Thing originally appeared in Town Topics in 1893 and later in Bierce’s collection In the Midst of Life. Its documentary style, dry wit, and slow‑building dread make it one of his most memorable supernatural works.

Settle in, get comfortable, and enjoy this unsettling classic from one of America’s sharpest - and strangest - writers ❤️

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Tools used: Presonus Studio One M7, Motionleap, Movavi, and Canva Pro

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A long, quiet, deeply unsettling journey through Year Walk, a folklore‑rooted mystery that feels part ghost story, part documentary, part “did this really happen?” Blair Witch energy. This playthrough ended up spanning almost four hours because we deep dive into and read everything - including the Journal at the end and all of its entries.

I'll be thinking about this game for a long time. The folklore, the symbols, the creatures, the journal entries… everything feels like it’s pointing to something older, sadder, and more human than a typical horror story. And when you reach the researcher’s notes at the end, the whole narrative reframes itself in a way that’s genuinely tragic, shocking, and leads you into a rabbit-hole of wonder.

If you like slow, atmospheric mysteries, Scandinavian folklore, or stories that blur the line between myth and memory, I think you’ll enjoy settling into this one with me. Thank you for walking with me through this strange, beautiful, heartbreaking little world ❤️

Developer: ⁠ ⁨@simogogames⁩ ⁠

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