Expiration

Expiration is a single-player, first-person psychological horror strategy game about managing diabetes in a deadly duel of numbers, limited resources and hidden information. You wake in a quiet hospital with no clear way out and face the Doctor Dealer across a table. To try to take the cure, you measure your blood glucose, set insulin doses, eat when needed, manage supplies and read your opponent.

Manage your condition

Your condition is not represented by a conventional health bar. You interpret glucose readings and plan around how rapid and basal insulin act differently over time. Food raises glucose, and previous doses continue to affect later turns: too much insulin can lead to dangerous hypoglycemia, while too little can lead to severe hyperglycemia, ketones and ketoacidosis. A choice that seems safe now may create a problem several turns later.

Use the table

The objects in front of you serve as your interface and resource pool; there is no traditional inventory screen. You set a dose with an insulin pen, insert a strip into the glucometer and wait for a reading, open the medical bag, handle food and emergency supplies, read monitors and documents, and commit your turn through the objects on the table. Clocks and other physical devices also hold information, so you need to inspect the room to track what you have used, what is still affecting you and what you can afford to spend.

Face the Doctor Dealer

In competitive encounters, the Doctor Dealer manages a condition, supplies and opportunities under the same fundamental system as you. Items that keep you alive can also serve as tactical tools: a resource may save you, deny the Dealer an advantage or be sent across the table to cause trouble for the other side.

Some information is visible and some is hidden. You may know what the Doctor Dealer has done without knowing exactly how much; an injection, for example, may be a blank or a real insulin dose. Watch his actions, remember what has happened and consider what he knows about you.

Search the medical bag

When your options run short, a medical bag may contain what you need—or almost nothing. Its random supplies create new possibilities, but each choice changes the position at the table while time continues to pass. Decide whether another chance is worth taking or whether it risks too much.

A compact nightmare

The game combines psychological horror, strategy, resource management and first-person interaction in a short, focused single-player experience built around increasingly dangerous rules. You can plan across several turns, but a single medical bag delivery can overturn the position for either side.