My New Computer

you are a teenager setting up a brand-new computer- perfect timing too, since you just nuked your phone's screen after dropping it while hiking. meanwhile, your father and mother are out in the city enjoying a sorely needed date night. it should’ve been a chill night home alone, but slowly you notice something is... off? before long, you’re stuck trying to figure out what’s going on instead of enjoying your shiny new machine.

get your bearings

my new computer is a short mystery that plays out entirely on your desktop. get set up on your new computer first, then poke around the apps, saved files, and leftover bits of family life that the machine managed to import from whats left of your phone.

dig through your computer

by flipping through chats, photos, and whatever else you find, you are arming yourself with information. you’ll build your own sense of what matters and what doesn’t, because the game doesn’t tell you what counts as a clue. and if you need a break, well there's always Gambit Lite. why not get a game of chess in?

talk your way forward

say whatever you want in conversations. there aren’t dialogue options or locked-in paths. if you want to:

• get angry and swear at your parents

• ramble about how society will never be able to seriously consider pineapple as a pizza topping
• sneakily question someone
• tell your deepest darkest secret

you can do it! your parents and your best friend cosmo are there for you.

connect the dots, then choose

this game was made entirely by one person in their spare time with hard work, sweat, and all those other bodily fluids that they told me to put into games. it’s a short story experience, usually under an hour. the night culminates with one final decision you have to make. do what you can to figure out whats going on, because that moment will arrive whether you're ready or not.