Delete After Reading

Delete After Reading is a text-based puzzle adventure about a secret mission to change Destiny’s plans. You read the story for clues, then solve puzzles and riddles to move it forward. The game combines literature, escape-room mechanics, audio and puzzles with a humorous story and cartoon visuals.

The mission

On the worst day of your life, you find a strange device containing a classified file named Delete After Reading. Nina, Cinco and Tomate, a clandestine group of kids, ask you to help correct Destiny’s latest injustice: billionaire Martin Skrilhlex has stolen the only existing copy of The Curse of Penguin Island, a highly coveted video game, so that only he can play it. You must help the group sneak into his mansion and steal it back for kids around the world, while keeping Destiny—the personification of fate—from discovering your plans. Your choices have consequences, and the friends learn how to shape their own destiny as they carry out the mission.

The unlikely crew

Nina is a ghost girl, Cinco is a goblin rapper, and Tomate is a rabbit who claims to be the reincarnation of a certain Blues Brother. Together, they face Skrilhlex and Destiny itself. The story uses cartoon characters, strange devices, real voices, sound effects and disco music.

Read and solve

The text is both the story and the gameplay: it reveals what happens next while providing the hints and clues you need to solve puzzles and riddles. The story cannot advance without your help, and the game’s layout and audio combine with its mechanics to place you in the role of the protagonist.