Gestalt: The Fifth Day

Gestalt: The Fifth Day is a story-driven point-and-click horror game set entirely in a haunted house. You play as Wickeina “Wicke” Gestalt, who inherited the house from an old woman she barely knew. While holding down her full-time job, Wicke tries to cope with the house’s entities and strange phenomena, as well as her declining mental health. The story unfolds over five days, as she tries to survive the horrors and regain control of her life.

The haunted house

You navigate and explore the house, growing more familiar with it as you face its everyday oddities and horrors. Puzzles, problem-solving and drag-and-drop sequences challenge you to use your wits, pattern recognition and navigational skills. The game uses a grainy, black-and-white graphic novel aesthetic, with psychological horror built around dread, depression and the unknown.

Choices and endings

Scenarios and the story change according to Wicke’s choices, and mistakes have consequences. Both success and failure move the story forward, leaving you one chance each day to try to lead a normal life. Your actions shape the outcome, with multiple endings; the goal is to help Wicke get through the fifth day.

The game is designed to take about 2–3 hours to finish and contains approximately 29,000 words.