Pierrot
Pierrot is a first-person psychological horror set in a twisted theater where a small puppet is trapped in its grasp. Violence is routine and you exist only to obey. Forced to harm others Pierrot dreams of tearing his strings. Even as the curtain falls his role never ends.
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10 itemsAbout the Game
The Role
You are Pierrot - a puppet in a twisted theater. The violence here is routine and you exist to obey. Forced to harm others, Pierrot dreams of tearing the strings. Even as the curtain falls his role never ends.
The Cast
There are others, puppets like you, trapped by the will of the Puppet Master.
Not everyone you try to help wants to be saved, and not everyone is willing to fight for freedom — let alone accept it.
The Performance
You are forced to harm others as part of the performance, whether you want to or not. You can try to resist, or give in and do what is expected of you, but the outcome never feels different. Your master would never hurt you, at least not without a proper reason.…or would he?
The Exit
You can try to escape, once you find the courage to leave the theater behind.
This means facing what waits beyond the stage: hiding, running, killing when there is no other choice, and staying out of the eternal gaze of the ancients. You don’t lose when you stop — only when you let it take over.
The End
You weren’t meant to fight back, only to endure what was given to you. But once you step out of your role, the path forward begins to demand more than resistance. The further you go, the more it begins to resemble the one you came from. And at some point, it becomes difficult to tell whether anything has truly changed...except you?
