Next Player
You boot an unmarked cartridge on an old CRT TV. It looks like an ordinary platformer. It isn't. A 30-minute, single-room, first-person psychological horror where the game on the screen refuses to stay on the screen—and starts playing with you.
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6 itemsAbout the Game
Next Player is a tense, first-person psychological horror experience set in a single room, lasting around 30 minutes.
The year is 2001. You find a mysterious game cartridge with no clear origin. When you insert it into an old console and boot it up on a CRT TV, it first appears to be an ordinary platform game.
But the game on the screen does not stay on the screen.
You are alone in a single room. There is nowhere to escape. All you can do is keep playing... and watch the nightmare spill out of the screen and into your room.
Don’t just watch the screen. It might be watching you too.
WARNING!
This game contains flashing lights, loud noises, and visual distortion. These may trigger epileptic seizures in some players.
