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The Orderly

Pixel-art horror puzzle: a prison that does not want to let you out

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The Orderly is a pixel-art horror puzzle game: point-and-click escape rooms stitched into a descending prison, Holloway State Penitentiary. The whole world is rendered in shades of blue because blue is the color of drained life, and color is the lore: red is the Bluecoat that hunts you, sick green is the supernatural, amber is memory. It runs on backrooms logic, the way out is always down and in, and the real lock is a Confession Inventory assembled from what you did. You assume the orderly names some staffer you will meet. It names you. And you have been dead the entire time.

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