Restore, Reflect, Retry

Restore, Reflect, Retry is a 90,000-word, text-based interactive horror novel with hundreds of choices and no graphics or sound effects. Set in the 1990s, it follows a group of teenagers in a small town who begin playing a mysterious game on a black box with a small screen. The story shifts slightly each time it is told, and the players change each time they return to the real world.

The game within the game

You explore pixelated alternate realities to investigate the game's origin and consider deeper truths about reality. You can try to save your friends from the game within a game, befriend the being behind the screen, or attempt to destroy the game and face its response.

Your character and choices

You choose to play as male, female or nonbinary, and as gay, straight or bi. You can experience the world as a visionary artist, a strategic gamer or a thoughtful book lover. Your choices can lead you to befriend, become or consume a ghost.