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About This Game

A message at 1:47 a.m.

It's the last day of the Chuseok holiday. You are Jung So-yoon, a proofreader at a small publisher.

In the middle of the night, Seo Jae-yoon, a high-school classmate you've barely spoken to in years, forwards you his father's obituary. Under it are two more lines:
“I'm sorry. There's something I should have given back to you a long time ago.”
“I'll be back before the procession. I promise.”

In the morning you try him on a voice call. No answer. You open the link again: the obituary has been revised, and the name at the top, the one that speaks for the family, isn't his anymore.
His family says Jae-yoon isn't feeling well and is resting.
The funeral procession leaves tomorrow at 7 a.m.

86 names

All you have is your own computer: a browser, KOKOTALK, social media, an old-school mini-homepage, community forums, maps, photos and files.

Three generations of one family, 86 names, scattered across the obituary, old news stories, a class group chat, social posts and guestbooks from more than a decade ago. Match each person's name, year of birth and photo, and little by little you'll understand why Jae-yoon won't answer, what happened one night fourteen years ago, and what it is he should have given back to you.

How to play

• Search: type a name, nickname, place or organization into the address bar and open news articles, blogs, MOA posts, URI ROOM homepages and forum threads.
  
• Take excerpts: click a useful sentence to save it to your Notes. A kinship term, the way an age is written, a school uniform in a photo: any of them could be the answer.
  
• Confirm: fill in a name and birth year in the Family Tree, then pick the matching photo. Only when all three match is that person confirmed.
  
• Get in: answer forum join questions and URI ROOM ilchon questions to see pages that aren't public.
  
• Reach out: message confirmed people on KOKOTALK or give them a voice call, and hear the part each of them knows.
  
• Take your time: no countdown, no game over. When you're stuck, ask for a small hint.

Features

• 86 characters across three generations of one family, each with a job, a life and traces left online.
  
• 90+ web and app pages: obituaries, news, blogs, social posts, forums, mini-homepages, maps, shopping and banking.
  
• Present-day Korean funerals and family life: the funeral room, the encoffining, condolence money, the procession, and everything relatives can't bring themselves to say.
  
• Interface and subtitles in 10 languages. Text only, no voice acting.
  
• Fully offline. No internet connection needed; the game itself collects no personal data.

Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction. All characters, groups, organizations, websites and events are fictitious, and any resemblance to real ones is purely coincidental. Some plot elements were inspired by stories found online.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Character photos, web page illustrations, avatars, some icons and the store artwork were generated with AI and then selected by hand. The story text and its translations into 10 languages were produced with the help of AI tools. The game does not generate any AI content while it runs.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game is set around a death and a funeral. The story involves a family member who was badly injured in a fall down a staircase years ago and later died of illness (told only through text and documents; no graphic depiction, no gore), as well as admissions fraud, money changing hands and family conflict. No violent imagery, no sexual content, no gambling.