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About This Game

You wake up on a table, and the people around you think you're a body. Over the next eight days they'll cut into you, take parts of you away and sew other things on, and none of them can find out you're still alive.

Play dead with your whole body. Hold your breath while something touches your chest, let your arm hang when it's lifted, and hold a dead stare when a torch goes in your eye. A box on screen shows what they're looking at. Move where they can see and you're caught.

Every day is a new room with its own rule.

• Day 1, The Teaching Theatre: forty students watch from the gallery while you breathe slowly through the pain.
  
• Day 2, The Cold Room: your breath shows in the cold, so you breathe when the fan blows. Today they take your left hand.
  
• Day 3, The Machine: a robot sees anything that moves while its red band passes over you.
  
• Day 4, Live on Air: they open your chest on television, with three cameras and your heart up on the monitor wall.
  
• Day 5, Blackout: the power's out, two frightened people have torches and a syringe, and a fever means the box showing where they look can be wrong.
  
• Day 6, The Kitchen: two people who know you're alive and only care that you don't scream.
  
• Day 7, Two Tables: Ros is on the table next to yours, and she shakes. You can draw the examiner's eyes to yourself to cover for her, but it puts her attention on you.
  
• Day 8, The Bloom: the thing living inside you gets out, and when something comes for you, it deals with it.

At night you're back in a drawer, and someone in the next drawer knocks. Her name is Ros. Press W to knock back and she'll talk to you: about the saw she heard through the wall, her sister, and the chips she's going to eat on a wall by the sea when she gets out. Every day you also keep something hidden under the sheet, and every night another strap is a little looser.

Two endings. What you do for Ros on Day 7 decides whether you leave together or on your own.

A clean run through all eight days takes about an hour. If you're caught, you retry that part of the day.

Features

• Eight days, each with its own room, people and rule, and a night in the drawer between each one.
  
• Two endings, decided on Day 7.
  
• Hardcore mode: no meters. Your view closing in and your heartbeat speeding up are the only warnings that your air is running out.
  
• Microphone mode: she can hear you, so if you make a noise in your room while she's watching, she reacts.
  
• 15 Steam achievements.
  
• Captions for every vital sound, rebindable keys, controller support, toggle holds, assisted timing, Story mode (getting caught doesn't end the day), reduced gore, reduced flashes and camera movement, and a Less Annoying Sounds Mode.

Contains graphic surgery, amputation, organ removal, body horror, sudden attacks and loud sounds. The reduced gore setting hides wounds and organs.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Please Remain Dead is a horror game set in a fictional mortuary examination room. You play a living person, strapped to a table under a sheet, who has to pass as a corpse while an examiner checks the body. It includes: being restrained and examined while helpless; the threat of being incinerated alive; post-mortem instruments (scalpel, forceps, rib shears, a bone saw) laid out beside you, and a cut line drawn on the sheet over your chest; an unexplained organism breathing inside the body; tense sound design including breathing, gasping and a scream; and a violent death if you are caught, in which the examiner attacks you with a hammer. The strikes are shown without gore, and the screen cuts to black on impact. There is no surgery shown, no nudity or sexual content, and no drug use or self-harm. Options include reduced flashes, reduced camera movement and a Less Annoying Sounds Mode.