Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

You are a broke ghost hunter with a phone, a backpack full of Temu exorcism gear, and a live audience that wants to see you die.

Welcome to the gig economy of the paranormal. Y

ou play as a semi-failed streamer who takes “danger money” contracts from mysterious clients—haunted houses, cursed mirrors, abandoned theaters—and turns them into content.

The twist: every single “holy artifact” you carry is either a cheap knockoff or a genuine antique you can’t afford to break. Your job is to keep the ghost entertained (and the donations rolling) until the very last second, then drop the real deal and cash out. Miss the timing? You become the finale.

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Science Has Left the Chat is a first-person survival horror management game where you balance two meters:

Heat (how much your audience loves you) and Loss of Control (how close you are to getting eviscerated on stream).

• Use cheap props (plastic swords, bargain-bin talismans, screaming chickens) to enrage the ghost and spike your viewership.

• Watch the "Loss of Control" bar climb.At 50%, the ghost starts hunting. At 90%, your screen warps, your heart rate spikes, and one wrong move means death.

• At the brink of disaster, deploy a real, expensive artifact (heirloom coin sword, genuine Bagua mirror) to banish the entity and lock in your earnings.

• If you cross 100% Loss of Control? You die. All earnings are lost. The chat clips it.

• You don’t fight ghosts—you manage them. Like a volatile stock portfolio, except the stock can crawl out of your wardrobe and rip your face off.

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Core Loop: Greed vs. Survival

Each mission is a high-stakes negotiation between your wallet and your lifespan.

1. Gear Up– Spend your earnings at Bibabo's Cabinet of Curiosities, a shady secondhand shop where authentic might mean used in a murder. Choose between cheap junk (high heat, high risk) and real relics (safe, but expensive and limited).

2. Go Live – Enter the location. Use your items to provoke the ghost, read the chat for clues, and decide when to push further or pull the plug.

3. Cash Out or Die Trying – If you survive, you keep the donations. If you die, you lose everything—including your gear. The game saves your progress, but your wallet doesn’t forgive.

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Key Features

• Dynamic Ghost AI – Each entity has a personality and a breaking point. Some can be soothed with a lullaby; others will only respect a 9.9¥ plastic sword to the face. Learn their patterns or become a cautionary tale.

• Live Chat as a Mechanic – The audience isn’t just flavor. They send tips, give advice, troll you, and sometimes reveal hidden lore. A viewer named Antique Collector might send you a cursed bell. A donator might tell you the ghost’s real name. Pay attention.

• Inventory Tetris – You have limited backpack slots. Fill it with cheap junk and you’ll make bank—until you can’t defend yourself. Bring too many real artifacts and you’ll go broke. Every loadout is a gamble.

• Perma-Panic – No reload saves. If you die, you lose the mission’s earnings and your equipped items. The only way to recover is to buy new gear with your savings and try again. Every run is a fresh horror story.

• Procedural Storylines – The game is built around 10–20 narrative arcs (haunted houses, cursed objects, urban legends). Each playthrough generates different ghost behaviors, chat interactions, and item availability. No two runs are the same.

• Visual Novel-Style Death Screens – Die in a memorable way? The game rewards you with a stylized illustration and a lore entry. There are dozens of ways to go: scared to death, torn apart by a poltergeist, or simply bankrupted by your own hubris.

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What You’ll Experience

• The tension of a countdown you can’t pause. Every second you stay in the room, the ghost gets stronger. So does your bank account.

• The satisfaction of a perfect bailout. You’re at 95% Loss of Control, the chat is screaming, and you whip out the one real item that saves you. The donation sound drowns out the ghost’s scream.

• The comedy of failure. A cheap talisman catching fire mid-ritual. A screaming chicken bouncing into a cursed mirror. The game doesn’t punish you for trying stupid things—it rewards you with views.

• The horror of consequences. Die too many times, and you’ll be stuck with nothing but a broken phone and a list of ghosts that now have a personal grudge against you.

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Who Is This For?

- Streamers and content creators who want to play a game that feels like a live stream.

- Anyone who’s ever wondered, “What if I could make money by being a terrible ghost hunter?”

**Science Has Left the Chat.** But the ghost hasn’t. And neither has your audience.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Use Ai to help create game assets.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Terrifying cartoon images of ghosts and a haunting atmosphere.