About This Game

A Horror Game About... People

Most horror games have zombies or monsters, here there are people.

Weird, black & white people, but just... people. The problem is you're different, and they don't like you.

Your Mind is Your Inventory

You watch them, you study them, and you collect social skills.

Your goal? Learn to be human. Find acceptance. Make them think you're one of them.

The Weight of Perception

Every failed attempt affects your mental state: the game tracks your Overwhelm, Paranoia, and Dissociation. 

They alter your perception and unlock different branches of the story.

With every successful social interaction you level up at Masking, but this also affects your mental state, and not always in the good way.

The Voice Within

To guide you, an Alter Ego follows you around. A voice only you can hear. An extension of yourself.

Don't trust everything it says. Its advice might not always be the best.

Three Realms

Gameplay shifts between:

• The Real World - a world that views you as broken and in need of fixing. For example, the black & white people are unable to see color and can’t perceive the protagonist's red hair. In return, they all look the same to her (and the player), as she suffers from face blindness. Neither can perceive the other as they really are.

• The protagonist's whimsical Inner World, a place of maladaptive day-dreaming where she interacts with imagined creatures and friends.

• The Nightmare World, a place where all her anxieties roam free and take the shapes of monsters.

Features

• A creepy, cute & disturbing point & click adventure

• A story-rich game about anxiety, perseverance, giving up or fighting back, the choice is yours

• Multiple endings

• Choices that matter

• Overwhelm, Paranoia & Dissociation meters that alter your perception

• A social-skills inventory mechanic

• Hand painted and animated frame by frame

• Original soundtrack

• Ethically Crafted

  

About the Developer

Miss Self Destruct is a one-woman studio founded by Cami Cuibus in 2026. With over 10 years of experience in the game dev industry, co-founder & artist at Stuck In Attic, she worked on titles such as Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure, Near-Mage, and Hocus Focus.

Hell Is Other People marks her debut as a solo developer.

No generative AI was used in the making of this game. 

Thank you for supporting independent, human-made art.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Hell Is Other People is a psychological horror game and is not intended for children. It explores themes of anxiety, isolation, and mental health struggles, including some difficult and intense moments.