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RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 19


Hmm, breathing is a little hard today, don’t you think? It’s like the air is a little thin. Anyway, I have a job to get to and this guy is going to mentor me on my first day. A nice looking but not particularly talkative guy named Moe. He prefers paper and pencil.

yes it is. limitation. God my lungs are going to explode.

Ed. Constraints is a short psychological horror about working a shift on a mountaintop alone. Told from a first-person perspective, your first port of call is to find the mon you’re switching. But first, he’ll show you the ropes, since you’re new to it.

First, the air is very thin, which makes it difficult to breathe, but it is more efficient to write things on pen and paper – speaking is for an amateur. to the work. Notice the train blasting past the post? Whenever you see what the lights indicate, you have to whistle and make it run at “expected speed”. is not Run at the desired speed. In order to make it work at the expected speed, it is necessary to make the water flow in the border pillar at a good level.

Blowing into a whistle, however, forces air out of your lungs. So Mo tells you to bite into an air capsule that shatters in your mouth and causes you to spit blood on the dirt. He shows you around the border post, where the ticket machine takes extra capsules… and that’s about it. It explains the bloody words and the obscure exterior construction and why you’re doing your job in the first place. What’s on the train? who knows.


I'll hand you a piece of paper saying I'm tired and need a shower.


Mo is standing in front of him with two buildings behind him.

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Critical Reflex

And so, you have to pick up where Mo left off. But with Moe gone, you’re given a little more autonomy to explore the post between train whistles. It is, at its core, a game about shooting and exploring. Find an object, use the mouse wheel to equip it, then move it to anything that interacts with it. Slowly, slowly, you will find the border post things you never knew you wanted…

…and that’s about all I can say without spoiling things for you. Know that the whistling shifts and voices and the urgency of it all consumes you completely. I’ve never been so engrossed in something for so long, and I’m fully aware that what I’m doing is completely pointless. This is a compact horror game that you must play now! You’ve read this section, which is to sign the “must play” clause with your eyes. Sorry.

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