Last Local

It's late. You, Mom and Dad are on the Last Local: the Court Square-bound G, thirteen stops from Brooklyn to Queens. Everyone is tired, the car is quiet, and something is starting to come apart.

Notice. The ads, the lights, the passengers, the route map. Learn how the car looks when nothing is wrong. When something changes, look at it and hold FLAG. Flags are private. Nobody else will ever know.

Don't show it. Staring, whipping your head round or jumping at shadows while a parent is watching raises their suspicion. When they talk to you, answer like nothing is wrong. Let them worry enough and they'll intervene.

Read the doors. Every stop, you choose whether to stay on or step off. Most stops that look like your stop aren't. Learn the tell, the one signal that never lies, and trust it over the station sign, the PA and even your parents.

Your sanity follows a fixed descent. Skill keeps you higher inside each stop's band, but every ride ends on the edge. Late in the ride the train climbs out over Newtown Creek into the rain. Near the end, the bravest thing you can do is not move.

Features

- 13 hand-paced stops in three chapters, plus Nightmare mode and chapter select once you've finished a ride

- An instant camera with 8 shots of film and an EVP tape recorder. Both are evidence, and both can give you away.

- Walk between three cars. Ride the L or the 7 Ghost Line from the route selector.

- Eight endings, a detailed travel report and Case Files to collect

- Fully procedural: every texture is drawn in code, and the sound and music are synthesized. The whole game is one 1.3 MB file.

- Keyboard and mouse or touch. Subtitles, a Reduced screen effects option, and key hints.

Inspired by Exit 8 and Observation Duty. Best with headphones.

Controls

Look: Mouse (click to lock) or arrow keys / Touch: Drag

Flag something wrong: Hold F / Touch: Hold FLAG

Answer / choose: 1 / 2 / 3 / Touch: Tap the answer

Hold steady: Hold Space when told / Touch: Hold HOLD

Walk between cars: WASD, E for gangway doors / Touch: Move stick

Camera / Evidence / Recorder: C / Tab / R / Touch: On-screen buttons

Route selector: L / Touch: Route button

Pause / Mute: P or Esc / M / Touch: Pause button

Content warnings

Psychological horror and sustained dread. Depictions of dissociation, anxiety and paranoia. Family tension. Parents behave in unsettling, uncanny ways. Rare, mild startles. No gore, no violence and no monsters. Screen effects include color tearing, screen shake and brief dimming of individual lights, with no brightness flashing. The game has a Reduced screen effects setting that turns off shake, breathing and tearing. The camera flash is a 220 ms white flash that you trigger yourself.