Breakout 13

Breakout 13 is an interactive narrative game about a game-loving teenager sent by Principal Yang to a harsh correctional institute for supposed internet addiction. There, you make choices that shape your fate and those of your companions as you investigate the institute and try to expose the truth behind it. The complete story comprises Part I: Gratitude and Part II: Fight.

Life at the institute

The institute is headed by the enigmatic Principal Yang, a character inspired by Dr. Yang, a controversial psychiatrist who advocated electrotherapy to “cure” troubled teens. You undergo the institute’s “Gratitude” therapy, which involves verbal abuse, corporal punishment, psychological pressure through mutual accusations and electroshock treatments. The story explores the institute’s transformation plan and the power its villain still holds in the real world.

You can try to escape, investigate concealed truths, scheme to earn your companions’ trust or uphold justice through your choices. Your decisions affect your own future, your companions and the correction center.

Choices and investigations

The branching narrative has hundreds of paths, eight major endings and hidden plot twists. Gameplay combines story choices and quick-time events with scene exploration, interactions, clue gathering, deduction and puzzle-solving. You can also eavesdrop in real time and monitor surveillance from multiple angles, as well as take on escape-room puzzles and electroshock challenges.

Allies and adversaries

Your companions’ loyalties are uncertain, and relationships shift as the story unfolds. These changing dynamics can lead to team showdowns.