Abandonware

Abandonware is a horror game framed around an internal 3.5-inch hard drive found in early 2023. The drive contains a largely custom operating system and horror mini-games. You play through the games to extract the drive’s contents, while new menu options appear and disappear as you progress.

Games on the drive

Four games have been extracted so far:

• Red Riding Hood: Find items while the Wolf stalks you around a map that changes with every run. Numbers appear on the forest floor, though their purpose is unknown.
• Hansel: Play in two stages: first, find the witch’s house as Hansel; then play as Gretel and rescue your brother. The Witch teleports around the map while searching for you.
• Mr Gnome goes Skating: Save the animals in a game that starts simply and grows more complex. Glitches and out-of-bounds errors hint at something else within it.
• A fourth game: The drive contains another extracted game, but no details about it are given.

Uncover the drive

The mini-games contain unusual glitches, and some reveal new options that disappear before they can be extracted. You work to uncover what the drive contains, including the purpose of the numbers, glitches and fleeting menu options.