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Dying in dread

Dying in dread is the dark survival horror about daily life collapsing after AI takes your job. Explore a shifting neighborhood, scavenge for food, manage hunger, debt, sleep and mental health. Endure the anxiety until you find a job.

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SHINING GAMES
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SHINING GAMES
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About the Game

Dying in Dread is a dark survival horror game about everyday life falling apart. You wake up unemployed, replaced by AI. A cold assistant on your computer offers “advice” while debt and hunger slowly strip away your peace of mind. Every sleep resets the world, but not the consequences. Explore the neighborhood, scavenge for food, and spend your last coins on antidepressants. Take care of your mental state — neglect will lead to hallucinations or severe psychosis, where you’ll have to fight your own fears to survive. Fail to pay the bills, and you’ll lose the roof over your head. Go without sleep, and you’ll spiral into psychosis, where monsters are as real as the debt collector knocking at your door.

Key Features

  • Body and psyche management: HP, stamina, hunger, sleep, intoxication, calm, hygiene, and bodily needs.

  • Psychosis: When your fears take control, the world turns into a nightmare — only medication can drag you back to the surface.

  • Search trash bins and buildings, and rob people to find items that will help you survive.

  • Manage your inventory and supplies — resources in the game world are finite.

  • Upgrade your character to become more resilient and better adapted to this new reality.

  • Survival economy: bills, debt, debt collectors. Sell, pawn, steal — or disappear.

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