Better World

Better World is a 2–3 hour narrative psychological-horror story about Arthur, who works twelve-hour shifts and comes home to Elaine, their five children, a table with seven chairs and a jar of pills on the kitchen counter. He takes one pill each evening, and the house feels warm, the children laugh and the music box plays. If he skips a pill, the house remembers something he does not.

Seven nights

Across seven nights, you follow Arthur through an ordinary routine: saying goodnight to the children, fixing the hallway light, taking out the trash, taking his pill and going to sleep. The routine gradually changes. Something appears on the wall at the end of the hall, a child asks a question you do not understand, and the rain outside turns red.

A family story

The game has two endings, followed by a verdict after each. Its slow-building dread focuses on the family and on what a person will swallow to keep an evening lovely. There is no combat or inventory puzzle, and no monster to run from most of the time. The game has an authentic PS1-era look.