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About This Game

You wake up strapped to a table under a sheet. A woman in scrubs is getting ready to examine you. She thinks you're a body, and her job is to make sure.

Your body is the controller. Hold your breath when her instrument touches your chest. Let your arm hang dead when she lifts it. Hold a dead stare when she shines a torch in your eye. Every check has its own rule, and getting it wrong is something she can see, feel or hear.

She notices what she's looking at. A small box tells you where her eyes are. When something's off she stops, stares, and checks: a palm flat on your stomach, the strap pulled tighter, the hammer held over you. She remembers what she saw.

Every time she turns away, you get a few seconds. Flatten your thumb, roll the buckle, slip a pin, hook a clip off her tray. One mistake while she's watching and you lose the opening.

And you're not the only thing breathing. Something under your ribs has started to move on its own, and you have to hold it down without her seeing your hand.

Please Remain Dead is a first-person horror game about lying perfectly still while a tired, careful professional tries to prove you're not alive.

Features

• An examiner who reacts like a person: a pause, a stare, her hand on you, the hammer.

• Breath, muscle, eyes and one free hand, each with its own rules.

• Escape work in the gaps when her back is turned.

• A second breath inside you that you have to keep down.

• Captions for every sound, rebindable keys, controller support, toggle holds, assisted timing, and a Less Annoying Sounds Mode.

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.