P. Lovecraft story this is based on, or perhaps look into actual indie games with this title?
The forum post was dated 2009, buried on a dead site dedicated to Lovecraftian point-and-click adventures. There were no screenshots, only a single link titled: .
Elias tried to Alt-F4. The screen stayed violet. He tried to unplug the monitor, but the image of the attic remained, glowing with an internal light. On screen, the character of Walter Gilman turned around. His face was gone—replaced by a mirrored reflection of Elias’s own room, seen from the perspective of the ceiling corner. Dreams.in.the.Witch.House.v1.05.rar
When Elias opened the .rar file, there was no installer. Just a single executable and a text file named READ_ME_BEFORE_OPENING_THE_DOOR.txt .
Elias downloaded it because the retail version of the game kept crashing at the same spot—the moment the protagonist, Walter Gilman, first measures the non-Euclidean angles of his attic room. The "v1.05" patch promised a fix for "spatial inconsistencies." There were no screenshots, only a single link titled:
In the game, Gilman stood in his room. Usually, you had to click objects to move. This time, Gilman moved on his own. He walked to the corner of the room—the sharp, impossible angle where the walls met the ceiling—and began to whisper.
In the reflection on the screen, Elias saw a small, rat-like shadow with a human face creeping out from under his own bed. He tried to unplug the monitor, but the
He ignored the text file. He was a gamer; he knew how to run an .exe .