PALEHOUR

Eight fragments. One forest.
Something is already counting.

OPTIONS

MASTER VOLUME 70 MOUSE SENSITIVITY 100 FIELD OF VIEW 75 VHS / GRAIN 100 RENDER SCALE 100 CAMERA SHAKE INVERT Y AXIS WORLD SEED

Settings save to this browser. Leave the seed empty for a new forest every run — or share a seed so a friend walks the exact same trees.

DIFFICULTY

HOW TO SURVIVE

W A S DMove

SHIFTSprint — costs breath, and it hears you

CTRLCrouch — slow, quiet, small

FFlashlight — light finds fragments, and it finds you

ETake fragment

ESCPause

Collect eight fragments. They are nailed to trees, walls and ruins. Your flashlight makes them glow at distance.
Every fragment wakes it further. It moves faster, closer, and more often. Eight is not a countdown to safety — it is a countdown to the exit.
Never hold your gaze. Looking at it fills the static. When the static fills, the tape ends.
Break line of sight and keep moving. Trees, walls and darkness cut the signal. Standing still does not.
Kill the light to hide. A dark screen is safer than a bright corpse — but the fragments stay hidden too.

CREDITS

BUILT BY

bxzex — github.com/bxzex

ENGINE

three.js (MIT) · WebGL2 · Web Audio API

ASSETS

100% procedural. Every texture is drawn to a canvas at load, every model is built from geometry in code, and every sound is synthesised in the browser. There is not a single binary asset in this repository.

INSPIRED BY

Slender: The Eight Pages · Analog horror · Found footage

LICENSE

MIT. Fork it, reskin it, make it worse. Make it scarier.

TAPE PAUSED

PAUSED

0/8 FRAGMENTS

00:00:00

SIGNAL LOST

CAUGHT

PACK

CARRYING

CRAFT

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