Twenty Till Him

Twenty Till Him

About the Game

TWENTY SECONDS. FOUR DOORS. ONE WAY OUT.

You wake up on the floor of an old Japanese house, wrists and ankles tied with red rope. A very tall, very thin old man in a cracked white mask watches you for a long moment. Then he slides the door shut and walks away.

He always comes back. You have twenty seconds.

READ THE ROOM OR DIE IN IT

Every room has four exits: sliding fusuma, low crawl doors, trapdoors, windows, vents, gaps behind furniture, holes in the floor. Only one of them leads on. The other three hide a trap or him.

The house always tells you which one is safe, if you know how to listen:

  • a draft bending your candle flame

  • footprints in the dust that are not yours

  • blood dragged toward a door

  • a paper crane left by another girl, or a thread pulled tight across a doorway

  • breathing behind the wall that stops when you stop

Every clue is real and every room can be solved on the first try. They never come easy, and the house learns to lie.

ONE MISTAKE AND YOU START OVER

There are no checkpoints. Any death sends you back to the first room, tied up on the floor. Learn the rules of the house, then survive all 100 rooms in a single run.

100 ROOMS. ONE FAMILY SECRET.

Storerooms full of watching dolls. A bath that was never drained. Wooden cages sized for women like you. Rows of stolen shoes. Altars with names carved into fresh wood.

Room by room you work out what he is, how long this has been going on, and who brought you here. The last door opens onto the night. Something is waiting there.

FEATURES

  • First-person retro horror: fine-grained pixel-voxel 3D, candlelight and deep shadow

  • 20-second rooms with a ticking clock, a racing heart and his footsteps getting closer

  • 100 rooms in 20 themes, with clues that get harder and decoys that get crueler

  • Brutal, varied deaths: spike boards, blades, pits and the man in the mask

  • 3D positional audio: hear which wall he is breathing behind (headphones strongly recommended)

  • Permadeath: one life for the whole house

  • Accessibility: visual sound cues, volume per category, reduced motion and flashes, brightness calibration, rebindable keys

Contains frequent violence, blood and gore, death, kidnapping and themes of serial murder. All characters are adults. Intended for adults.

Initial Release