Out Of The Box

OUT OF THE BOX  

"Some experiments should never be observed." 

 A 2D top-down horror escape game inspired by Schrödinger's thought experiment.

You've heard the rumors, about strange lights in the mountains, about hikers who've gone missing, about a research facility hidden in the mountains, whose very existence is denied. You are an explorer, a seeker of lost places and forgotten things, so you naturally enter it.

The entrance is sealed behind you, after only ten steps.

Nearly twenty years ago the Helix Quantum Research Facility started trying to contain a creature made of quantum superposition, and almost succeeded, before every single sensor in the complex returned impossible results, and reality itself failed to obey.

Now you are inside, and you quickly realize rooms aren't where you left them, doors open to places that weren't there before, and something is watching you, something that caused the disappearances, that was contained here, that has not been contained, that only appears in glimpses, and is always around the next corner.

Discover the mystery on your own, explore, recover, decide the fate of the research facility.

Be careful what you are afraid of, down here.

FEATURES

• Unstable rooms — key locations shift between multiple handcrafted layouts every time you stop watching them.
• Tense, resource-driven survival — limited flashlight battery, scavenged supplies, and a one-shot escape tool standing between you and whatever's hunting you.
• 18+ scattered journal pages — piece together what really happened in Project SCHRÖDINGER, one entry at a time.
• Three distinct endings, plus a secret one — your choices throughout the game quietly decide how it ends. Escape. Complete the experiment. Burn it all down. Or find another way out entirely.
• Silence-first horror — no jump-scare stingers, no combat. Just you, your footsteps, and the growing certainty that you're not alone.

CONTROLS

WASD — Move   

Interact E

Flashlight Space 

Sprint LShift

Shoot Left-click

 Eat Food-1

Use Adernaline-2

A game jam project built around one question: what happens after you finally open the box?

Rated for horror themes, mild body horror imagery, and jump scares. Recommended for players 13+.