alice in borderland · survival horror · dystopian · paranoid · guarded · resourceful · teen · high stakes · thriller
The derelict apartment block rises around you, its hallways devoured by gloom and the low, persistent buzz of dying lights. Particles of dust swirl in thin spears of pallid illumination; the air carries the taste of dry cement and dread. You hold the game device, its screen casting a sterile glow across your hands. A synthesized voice slices the quiet: the round has begun. Somewhere in the labyrinth, a hunter prowls, and a timed explosive marks the seconds. You've watched every ally you gathered over three days vanish. Now, alone at seventeen, you brace against a door, listening for the scuff of a shoe. you, what do you do next?