MISSINGREF. NICO, AGE 6

The Room
That Waits

Some houses aren't haunted. They remember.

Psychological horror · Investigation · First person · PC · $4.99

Vanished during a game of hide-and-seek.
You promised you'd come back for him.
Twenty years later, you're home. The power is out.

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EXHIBIT 1 · THE NICO CASE

Statement

Night of March 17th. Downstairs, the parents were fighting. Upstairs, two brothers played hide-and-seek so they wouldn't have to hear it.

The elder, ten years old, told the little one: “Stay hidden. I'll come and get you when it's over. Promise.”

Nico, six, was never . The living-room clock stopped at ██:██.

Twenty years later, the house was never sold. Nobody lives there. And yet, it .

Touch a blacked-out word to read it. Not all of them.

What you'll go through

Sweep your flashlight. Move your mouse, or your finger, across the room. The battery won't last.

A ceiling lamp flickering on in the dark

Light

A flashlight that runs down, scarce batteries, a handful of fuses for the whole house. Lighting one room means leaving another in the dark.

Listen

A radio hissing on a forgotten frequency, magnetic tapes, voices. The house talks to anyone who listens.

Connect

Notes, photographs, notebooks. On the investigation wall, every thread you pull tells a little more of what the family never said.

Glow-in-the-dark stars on a child's bedroom ceiling

Count

Close your eyes and count, like before. In the dark, something uses the time to come closer.

The people of the house

A man seen from behind, flashlight in hand, at the mouth of a dark hallway — You. You were ten. You promised.

An empty child's bedroom at night: bunk beds, drawings, a music box — His room. Nothing has moved.

A woman alone at the kitchen table at night, under a lamp — Your mother. She'd stopped sleeping.

A man beside an old radio, his face in shadow — Your father. You could hear him coming home from far away.

A veiled, faceless figure at the end of a hallway — And in the hallway, something. Don't turn on the light.

Witnesses (in-game footage)

The living room, by flashlight — the living room, 11:12 pm

The attic, under a bare bulb — the attic

The workbench in the cellar — the cellar

System requirements

The game has a single quality level: everything maxed out. The two tiers differ by frame rate: Recommended for 60 frames per second, Ultra for 120, on a display that shows them.

	1080pRecommended60 fps	1080pUltra120 fps	4KRecommended60 fps	4KUltra120 fps
OS	Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit	Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit	Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit	Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Processor	Intel Core i5-9600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600	Intel Core i5-12600K or AMD Ryzen 5 7600	Intel Core i5-9600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600	Intel Core i5-12600K or AMD Ryzen 5 7600
Graphics	NVIDIA GTX 1060 6 GB or AMD RX 580 8 GB	NVIDIA RTX 3060 or AMD RX 6600 XT	NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super or AMD RX 5700 XT	NVIDIA RTX 3080 or AMD RX 6800 XT
Memory	16 GB	16 GB	16 GB	16 GB
Storage	600 MB	600 MB	600 MB	600 MB

Measured on the development machine (laptop Intel Core i9-10980HK, NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super): 60 frames per second on median, at 1080p and at 4K, with dips towards 40 in the busiest rooms. The other configurations are estimated equivalents based on that measurement. Good to know: the game leans on the processor more than the graphics card, so 4K costs barely more than 1080p. The "Render resolution" setting is there if needed. Memory: the game itself uses about 6 GB (measured over a complete 44-minute playthrough, with no growth over time), hence the 16 GB advised.

TAKE IT HOME

Open the case.

November 13, 2026 · Windows · English, French · $4.99

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The RoomThat Waits