Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.
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About This Game

GESTALT: The Fifth Day is a story-driven point-and-click horror game solo-developed KINJAKO, with publishing and localization by 072 Project.

FEATURES:

  • A grainy, black and white graphic novel aesthetic

  • A point-and-click style of navigation and exploration

  • Puzzles, problem-solving, and drag/drop sequences to solve problems and mysteries

  • Ever-changing scenarios and story based on Wicke's choices that bare consequences with each mistake

  • Multiple endings based on Wicke's actions

  • Psychological horror based around dread, depression, and the unknown

  • A story-driven narrative

  • A short game meant to be finished within 2-3 hours (Appx. 29k words)

GAMEPLAY:

GESTALT: The Fifth Day is set entirely within a haunted house, which acts as Wicke's home. Inherited from an old dead woman she hardly knew, you play as Wicke, navigating house's everyday oddities and horrors while trying to balance it all with her day job and her deteriorating mental health. You will face many strange scenarios that you must overcome using your wits, pattern-recognition, and navigational skills as you steadily grow familiar with the strange house the more you are forced to live in it.

The game takes place over the course of five days spent within the house. During each day, both success and failure both progress the story, meaning you've got one chance per day to try and lead a normal life. The goal of the game is to simply help Wicke survive the strange horrors within, and get through the fifth day.

STORY:

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house.

It can be difficult to find happiness when toiling away at your full time job. Combine that with a house full of entities and strange phenomenon that all seem to work against her, and it's clear that Wicke is stuck in a difficult circumstance. Inheriting the house from a dead, old woman that she hardly even knew, Wicke has lived in the house for some time now, trying to strike a balance between the hours toiled away by her job, and the strange horrors of the house. She is at her wit's end. The cannot keep living a life without control. During these five days within the house, what may be an ordinary week of lost autonomy and horror may just be her last chance to regain control of her life and overcome the decline of her mental state.

All will be decided on the inevitable fifth day.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains themes of depression and suicidal ideation, and contains psychological horror, body horror, and other disturbing imagery. Viewer discretion is advised.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows® 7/8/8.1/10/11
    • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows® 7/8/8.1/10/11
    • Processor: 2+ GHz Processor
    • Memory: 4 MB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware driver support required for WebGL acceleration. (AMD Catalyst 10.9, nVidia 358.50)
    • Storage: 4 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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