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While Sleeping

A first-person horror game dealing with sleep paralysis. You are lying in bed, unable to move, experiencing creepy phenomena and having to survive until morning from ghosts.

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Developer
Sangwoon Jin
Publisher
FLUXJIN
Release
December 12, 2024
1 year and 232 days ago
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Very Positive95 reviews81.1%

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About the Game

'While Sleeping' is a first-person horror game about experiencing sleep paralysis.

You are sleeping to go to work tomorrow, and you get sleep paralysis.

Your body is paralyzed and you can't move, and you can't do anything except look around or close your eyes and open them.

You have to survive until daybreak by experiencing ghosts and creepy phenomena that appear around you while you are sleeping paralyzed.

Playtime: Average 15 ~ 30 minutes.

Caution: To create a scary atmosphere, some of the details may be exaggerated compared to actual sleep paralysis.

Sleep Paralysis

You can't move your body. You can only open or close your eyes.

Creepy Phenomenon

Creepy phenomena continue to appear as time passes.

Don't get caught by ghosts

Each ghost that appears has a different way you should act.

Survive until the sun rises

You have to survive until you get out of sleep paralysis.

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