Count down from 100. Don't open your eyes for nothing.

🎧 Headphones on, please. One of the three things in the dark can only be heard — with the sound off you will miss a third of the game.

Controls

Hold SPACE or LEFT MOUSE — open your eyes.
Release — close them.

With your eyes closed, you count down. With your eyes open, the count stops — and anything real stops with it. But the ceiling is always empty when you look, so opening your eyes when nothing was there just wastes your progress. Reach 0 before the alarm.

Tips

• The dots are your speed. More dots = counting faster. Keeping your eyes shut adds dots.
• Opening your eyes for nothing loses your dots. You go back to counting slowly.
• Being right is free. Stop something real and you keep your dots.
• Getting caught hurts. The number jumps back, and you lie awake a while.
• The clock never stops. Waiting with your eyes open never helps.
• Let it get close. You can't tell what it is while it's small.
• Listen. One of the three is only sound.

Goodnight.

⚠ SPOILERS BELOW — try to work them out yourself first

The Anomalies

Every night, three things visit you. Each one has a safe version and a real version. Learn to tell them apart.

THE HAND — count the fingers.

A hand reaches toward your face from the edge of the screen, getting bigger as it comes closer.

• Five fingers is safe. It's your own hand.
• Six fingers is real. Open your eyes.

It only becomes clear when it's close, so you have to let it get close.

THE FIGURE — watch how it moves.

A pale figure leans into view around the edges of the room, over and over, in a different spot each time.

• If it moves smoothly, it's safe.
• If it stutters and jerks each time it appears, it's real. Open your eyes before it lunges at you.

THE COUGH — count the coughs.

You'll hear coughing in the dark, but you'll never see anything.

• One or two coughs is just you.
• Four coughs is real. Open your eyes.

Don't wait for the fourth — three coughs is already proof.

Credits

Sound

• Night Crickets Back Porch by hdfreema — CC0
• Light Switch Turn Off Sound by ChrisTutorials — CC0
• Scream and breathing 2 by olzzy — CC BY-NC 3.0

All from freesound.org. Remaining sounds recorded by us.

Fonts

• Courier Prime by Alan Dague-Greene / Quote-Unquote Apps — SIL Open Font License
• DSEG7 Classic by Keshikan — SIL Open Font License

Made for GMTK Game Jam 2026.