Relapse protocol

A telephone rang at 3:33 in the morning and nobody picked it up. Relapse Protocol rebuilds that night inside the memory of the man who did not 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.

First person psychological horror, made in Blender and Unity 6. One place you come to know in detail, and that turns on you.

What is here

• Play in the browser: the house, cut short.
• Download for Windows: the house, whole. 25 to 40 minutes.
• English and Spanish: voices, handwritten 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.

Controls

W A S D to walk, mouse to look, E to use, Tab for the pocket of papers, F for the flashlight, Esc to pause. Keyboard and mouse.

Before you start

• Headphones, and the lights off if you can. Half of this is sound.
• Screen brightness is in Options. Set it there, in the calibration strip, before your first lap.
• Not made for phones or tablets.
• Content: grief, the loss of a child, long stretches of darkness, blackouts, sudden loud sounds and some blood.

About the project

Five sessions planned. This demo is the first one, the house. The second is finished and will come later; the rest are designed and not made yet. Everything you see here was built by one person in Argentina with Blender and Unity 6 URP.

More, and the telephone in 3D: https://relapseprotocol.netlify.app