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There is a game where a routine investigation turns into true horror within just a few hours. You arrive at a house on the outskirts of Chicago where something strange has occurred.
A detective investigates a mysterious death in a haunted Chicago house, uncovering secrets, betrayal, and supernatural horror.
Key Takeaways
- The case is more complex than a simple suicide, involving hidden motives and cover-ups.
- Supernatural elements add a unique horror dimension to the investigation.
- Personal and professional betrayals play a central role in the story.
- The detective must navigate both physical and otherworldly challenges to uncover the truth.
- The game blends investigative mechanics with psychological and horror storytelling.
What the video covers
- Detective Connor Grains investigates a strange death in a house on the outskirts of Chicago.
- An ultraviolet flashlight reveals hidden clues that challenge the initial suicide theory.
- The victim, Ashley, was found with signs of struggle and mysterious circumstances including a positive pregnancy test.
- The investigation uncovers potential infidelity, nervous breakdown, and a complex personal life.
- A supernatural dimension appears where ghosts try to lure the detective to their side.
- Ashley’s husband, Jason, works for the CIA and leads a double life involving secret operations and smuggling.
- Evidence suggests a possible cover-up involving a high-ranking government official and planted clues.
- The story reveals themes of betrayal, professional manipulation, and psychological pressure.
- The detective uses special tools like a magnifying glass with a mysterious lens to uncover hidden truths.
- The case blends classic detective work with horror and supernatural elements.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to the Investigation and Setting
- 01:03Initial Clues and Inventory Setup
- 02:12Chase Scene and First Mysteries
- 03:38Supernatural Encounter and Afterlife Dimension
- 05:01Reevaluating the Case and New Theories
- 05:56Ashley’s Husband and Secret Life
- 07:13Cover-up and Government Connections
- 08:44Double Life and Final Revelations
- 10:05Conclusion and Reflection on the Horror Experience
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At first glance, everything seems clear, but an ultraviolet flashlight reveals what shouldn't be there. The story of this game begins on a rainy edge of Chicago. We take on the role of detective Connor Grains. And as in a
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classic detective story, it all started with a call from worried neighbors. They complained about a strange, suffocating odor coming from the building. No one opened the door for the first patrol car, and they had no legal grounds to enter. But soon, the
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situation became critical. The police decided to force their way into the premises. And what they encountered inside defied any explanation. Inside the house, they found a victim with signs of a struggle. At first glance, everything points to her having taken
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her own life. However, by turning on an ultraviolet flashlight, hidden traces revealed an entirely different picture.
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What was it, a crime of passion or a fatal accident? We have yet to find out. But before diving into the investigation, we need to check our inventory. To reconstruct the crime scene, we have an interactive board
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where every clue brings us closer to the truth. Connor’s own inventory consists of a classic set: a notepad, camera, magnifying glass, and ultraviolet light. But most interestingly, our magnifying glass is not ordinary. A long time ago, Connor found a mysterious lens that allowed
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him to see what the naked eye cannot. A kind of camera obscura that reveals, let's say, another world. The first thing the ultraviolet light reveals are traces of the unknown leading to the second floor. And you know, as I walk
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up the stairs, it’s clear that this house is in a very bad state. It feels as if someone has been squatting here.
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And in abandoned places, as we know, such incidents often occur. The tracks end in a room that contains nothing but a single mirror. We take a picture.
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Connor voices a chilling guess. It looks like a real chase took place here. The girl was found wearing ordinary house slippers. She clearly wasn't trying to escape someone, but who was right on her heels? That remains the
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main mystery for now. The next find forces us to look at the case from a different angle. In the bathroom, we discover a positive pregnancy test. At this moment, we don't know how the girl reacted, but it's possible that,
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overwhelmed by strong emotions, she made that fatal decision. This theory has merit, but personally, it seems too simple to me. It feels as if we are being intentionally led away from the real answer. But we also cannot rule
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out that the girl might have been cheating on her husband. A classic story. A sudden pregnancy from a lover, panic, and fear. She understood perfectly well that her husband would sooner or later find out about her, shall we say, unauthorized activities.
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And this fear could have driven her to do many things. And no sooner do we finish our radio conversation than everything around us changes. All of our colleagues have vanished somewhere, including that very girl. And immediately we notice movement. Someone
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or something is trying with all its might to get out. The door opens, and behind it is absolute emptiness. But as soon as we turn around, a silhouette of a girl appears out of nowhere in the dark hallway. At this moment, the main
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mechanic is explained to us. We are on the other side. In this afterlife dimension, ghosts have complete control. Their main goal is to take the detective to their side. It turns out the main rule for survival in this
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godforsaken place is as follows. As soon as reality shifts, our task is to buy time. We must hold out until the ghostly woman calms down and returns us back to our world. But on the second floor, we stumble upon wilted flowers
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that have been lying here for at least a couple of weeks. They clearly serve as a reminder of some event the girl could not forget. And what if this bouquet wasn't from her husband, but from someone else, someone whose name
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she carefully hid? Next, in the bedroom, a new discovery awaits us. Strong sedative medications. They spoke for themselves. And the girl was clearly on the verge of a breakdown. Infidelity, sudden pregnancy, a severe nervous breakdown. It is as if the logical
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chain is closing, leading to that very fatal step. But let's change our perspective. What if what we see isn't a tragedy, but a precise, calculated plan by a professional? You have to admit, the clues are laid out as if we
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are being intentionally led through a scripted scenario to hide the truth. Especially if we recall one important detail. The girl's husband works for government agencies. On the nightstand, we find Ashley's personal diary, where we come across the number of her friend
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Betty. Betty's reaction to the call speaks for itself. Her first question is, "Was it the husband?" Her friend says that Ashley lived in constant stress.
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Her husband hid his work, disappeared at night, and returned with the scent of someone else's perfume. And to all accusations of infidelity, he would unemotionally state that Ashley’s hormones were just acting up due to the pregnancy. Betty also adds that
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Ashley's husband had recently joined the CIA, where he was involved in, let's say, deep reconnaissance.
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Moreover, Ashley accidentally discovered a wedding ring in his home office. The husband would take it off before leaving, arguing that he shouldn't be identified during secret operations. But the oddities don't end there. Betty recalls that Ashley's husband once invited a high-ranking
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guest to their home, shall we say, his superior. The husband wanted to impress his boss and quickly get a long-awaited promotion. And now the big picture is slowly starting to become clear. Her husband knew about the upcoming addition, but he was gone for days at
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work. Loneliness and the burden of daily life were literally breaking her from the inside. On top of everything, her spouse regularly gave her reasons for suspicion. Stuck in a dead end, the girl tried to drown out this nervous
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tension, but it seems that control over the situation was finally lost. A call to the floral company brings in additional information. The bouquet was ordered remotely. The customer was a man with a confident, articulate speech. All he asked to be written on the
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card was a short apology. So, two people are now under suspicion. The first is the husband, who was always away at work and left Ashley alone with her problems. And the second is that very mysterious government official whom the husband was so desperately
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trying to please. If we return to the theory of a professional's work, I strongly suspect that if this high-ranking guest had a hand in everything, a man with his connections and experience could well have organized such an ideal cover-up. We
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also find hair in the sink. Yet, there is no shaving cream or razor anywhere to be found. The absolute cleanliness around it literally screams that this evidence was planted here on purpose.
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And we cannot rule out the fact that someone is trying to frame the husband and make him the main culprit of this incident. And at that very moment, we end up in a parallel world again.
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Through a crack in the wall, we see Ashley's husband. No rush, no chaos. We are looking at an absolutely ordinary morning. He acts as if everything is perfectly fine. Ultimately, after fighting off a ghost—and god, it looks so bad that it’s just laughable—
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we return to the bathroom and find the husband's phone. And that phone, by the way, is a classic from my childhood. Nokia 3310. But in it, we find some very interesting messages. While poor Ashley was trying to find out where her
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husband was disappearing to for days, Jason was living a double life. In the correspondence, a certain Lily pops up, who regularly invited him over for tea.
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But it goes further. At some point, this secret mistress starts...
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wallet with a CIA badge is discovered in the kitchen. It belongs to a certain Victor Haynes. And it seems this intelligence agent was here with Ashley at that fateful moment, but before we can even process the discovery, we are
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abruptly transported into a vision. In the flashback, we come across a happy photo from Ashley and Jason's wedding, but the idyll is instantly shattered. A makeshift altar is discovered in the bedroom, and right in its center lies a
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photograph with a direct message: " Nothing will save you now." It turns out that Ashley knew perfectly well that Jason had someone else. And against the backdrop of all these events, she was so depressed that she resorted to rituals. Let's just say, to
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somehow influence Jason's state. On one hand, the motive to make, let's say, a fatal mistake is quite strong. But how could a girl, being in her condition, take such a step? And there are several clues that literally refute this theory
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. For example, in the laundry room. By the way, do you have a laundry room too ? Yes, we find a report on a criminal assault with precautionary measures, and we also find a treasure cache in the wall. In the end, looking at all
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these findings, I get a strong suspicion. It all looks as if Jason isn't connected to the CIA at all, but is part of some underground criminal gang. Eventually, we find the password to Jason's laptop. The code was left on
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the walls for some reason in the form of a crossword puzzle. Apparently, the developer just doesn't want me to return the game. But inside the laptop, we find some very interesting information. The reward will be waiting for Jason in the tunnels. Haines
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offered a large sum, clearly more than he should have. And Haines also believed he deserved this chance more than Jason, given the nature of his work. And the end of the letter sounds like a direct ultimatum. If Jason
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refuses, Victor will cause him serious consequences. Now the whole picture finally becomes clear. Jason's service in the CIA was just a convenient cover for smuggling. How else to explain the photos of underground passages right under this house? But at some point,
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the guy crossed the wrong people, specifically Haines. And the payback did not take long to arrive. Haines took revenge and staged everything as if Ashley had made that fatal decision herself. What the hell? Grabbing something that strongly resembles an
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alien, we head to the room and put the creature to sleep. But before we can take a few steps, just a couple of seconds later, the floor collapses beneath us. Coming to after the fall, we realize we ended up in those very
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underground tunnels that Haines warned about in his letter. Reloading our pistol, we head straight toward the sound coming from the darkness. Having dealt with the glitched enemy, we move deeper into the tunnels. And it was here that the key element of this
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puzzle was hidden. Jason, Ashley's husband, realizing he has nowhere left to run, decides to tell the whole truth right before his arrest. It turns out this house was a curse for them from the very beginning. Jason and Ashley
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invested every last cent into it. The husband promised to turn it into a cozy family nest, but the money was barely enough for bare walls. The hired contractors all claimed everything was defective, from the wiring to the foundation, and eventually, by quitting
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halfway, the family was rapidly falling into a financial pit. Amidst the ruin, Ashley was on the verge of a breakdown.
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Upon noticing her tranquilizers, Jason started a scene. He used this as an excuse to accuse his wife of mental instability and selfishness. casting her as the main culprit for all their family problems. But this was just a cynical pretext. Jason was simply
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looking for a reason to blame her to silence his own conscience. After all, he was cheating on her constantly.
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Leaving the house, he would take off his ring, and upon returning, he would shower her with bouquets. All for one goal: to ease his sense of guilt, at least a little. By that time, Jason was already working for the CIA. Obsessed
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with his career, he desperately craved high status. And he dreamed of finally proving to Ashley that all their troubles would soon end. But in the agency, promotions don't just fall into your lap. So Jason took a risky step
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and asked his influential boss for help , whom he sincerely considered a close friend. At least, at that time. They would sit late into the evenings in the home office, and soon Jason began to notice oddities in his boss's behavior.
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The way the boss looked at Ashley, how he would go quiet every time she entered the room, and how insistently he asked about her personal life. At first, Jason tried to turn a blind eye and pretend everything was fine, but
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one fateful night, he stopped pretending. Hans knew about Jason's secret affair with Lily, and the CIA chief issued a harsh ultimatum. He promised to keep the infidelity a secret and give Jason that promotion and a generous reward. But in return,
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he demanded a terrible price. The husband just had to close his eyes to what was happening and leave Ashley without his protection. Jason tried to argue, kicked back, and refused this madness. But his principles literally evaporated the second Hans threw a bag
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with a huge reward onto the table. Seeing the amount, the husband was stunned and ultimately agreed to this dirty deal. Ashley opened the door with a smile, as she knew and trusted Haynes . But she didn't understand the mistake
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Jason had made. But as soon as Jason crossed the threshold of the house, a terrifying scene unfolded before him.
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Haynes had already seen his plan through to the end. Using intelligence agency methods, he professionally destroyed any leads that could track him down and cynically framed everything as if Ashley had simply gone insane. Knowing full well about the
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existence of underground passages, Haynes used them as a perfect escape route. Jason rushed into the basement to take revenge on the traitor in person, but he failed to account for one thing. The experienced CIA agent had calculated this move in advance and
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was already waiting for him in the dark basement. All this time, Jason understood perfectly well that the entire fault lay with him alone. Hans committed the crime, but it was Jason who let him through the door for money,
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for a ghostly promotion, for his own selfishness. He crossed every line and betrayed Ashley. Betrayed the person who trusted him the most. You know, I’ve played a lot of indie horror games, and I’ve very rarely spoken negatively about them because I
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understand perfectly well that behind every such game could be a regular person doing the titanic work of creating it all alone. I don’t want to say this game is bad. I want to say that this isn't a game. It’s just
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some rough sketches that need to be pulled together and finished properly. The project had six, maybe even seven patches. I honestly gave it a chance. I replayed it four times hoping that something, anything, would change. But unfortunately, each time, only my
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opinion changed, and it became increasingly negative. The only good thing I can point out is the plot, but there’s literally no execution.
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