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Dead Relay

Dead Relay is a first-person retro survival horror game inspired by PSX-era classics. Explore a sealed communication facility, restore power, solve environmental puzzles, manage limited resources, and uncover why the missing technician is still answering the phone.

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Yagir.inc
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About the Game

ABOUT THIS GAME

Dead Relay is a first-person retro survival horror game inspired by the PSX era.

You are sent to a remote communication facility after a series of signal failures across the region. The previous technician never returned. The relay is dead, the main doors are sealed, and the building’s systems behave as if someone is still operating them from inside.

At first, your job is simple: restore power, check the lines, open locked doors, and find a way out. But the deeper you go, the clearer it becomes — this is not a normal equipment failure.

The signal is still active.
The system is still listening.
And the man on the phone is not as human as he sounds.

Explore offices, staff rooms, archives, laboratories, cable corridors, and restricted sectors. Search for keys, fuses, codes, tools, and encrypted logs while trying to survive the things being released inside the facility.

FEATURES

  • Retro PSX-inspired horror
    Low-poly environments, grimy photo-based textures, harsh lighting, and old-school survival horror atmosphere.

  • Classic survival horror progression
    Locked doors, codes, fuses, shortcuts, backtracking, limited resources, and environmental puzzles.

  • First-person exploration
    Search the facility room by room, read terminal logs, inspect notes, and piece together what happened.

  • Techno-horror story
    A dead relay station, an unknown signal, digitized consciousness, alien experiments, and a missing technician who became part of the system.

  • Limited combat
    Weapons can help you survive, but they will not make you safe.

  • Atmospheric facility design
    Staff rooms, security areas, server rooms, bio labs, archive rooms, locker rooms, cable tunnels, and sealed sectors.

STORY

You are not a soldier.
You are not a hero.

You are an electrician called to restore a broken relay.

The previous technician left notes behind. The logs mention signal failures, unauthorized commands, and a manual override no one admits using. Doors close by themselves. Incubators open remotely. Terminals display entries that were never typed.

Then the phone rings.

The voice says he wants to help.

But he already belongs to the relay.

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