I'm strapped to a rolling office chair with a ticking timer in a huge scary building

The bureau seems to beryllium bare prevention for a grinning small miss who yells "hey mister, aftermath up!" successful what sounds similar amateur Simmish, past instantly vanishes astir the corner. The gathering consists of grainy, glass-walled compartments lined with illuminated facades displaying kanji letters, arranged on a cardinal corridor. I deliberation I'm connected the ninth floor.

It is all, situation I say, a spot liminal. The walls and desks person the texture of ash. The fluorescent ceiling tubes taper disconnected and vanish into the achromatic interiors of mirrored alcoves astatine either extremity of the corridor. There are piercing reddish bulbs present and determination that could bespeak the champion way to the exit, and what I deliberation are deactivated elevators with parted doors.

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It would astir apt consciousness little eerie if I were much mobile. As I whitethorn person mentioned, I'm taped to a chair. To move, I person to wiggle my assemblage wide frantically with the WASD keys, portion peering astir with the rodent controls. I've ne'er been taped to an bureau seat IRL, somewhat to my surprise, but Chairbound feels similar a beauteous authentic and hi-fi recreation of the experience, successful that getting anyplace is maddening. Oh and yes, there's that LED timer strapped to my chest, its 10-minute countdown considerately angled upward. This creates a definite urgency.

I person attempted to bushed Chairbound 4 times truthful far. Each effort began with my squirming and writhing my mode retired into the cardinal corridor, successful pursuit of the weird small girl. There is ever a squeaky rubber duck connected a table nearby. If I don't caput sacrificing a fewer seconds, I tin trundle up adjacent and prehend the duck successful my near oregon close hand. Then I tin compression it, bringing a enactment of drama to my tragic plight. It whitethorn beryllium the duck has immoderate other, grander relation to play successful this epic drama, oregon it whitethorn beryllium that the developers/my captors person placed it determination to fuck with me. I powerfully fishy the duck to beryllium a trial of my character.

Once the question of whether to instrumentality the duck is resolved, I person to interest astir getting down the stairs astatine the extremity of the hall. There whitethorn beryllium different worldly to find successful the different rooms, possibly adjacent a strategically hidden brace of scissors, but erstwhile you person a timer strapped to your chest, it's hard to deliberation astir collectibles.

Each staircase has an entree ramp that looks convenient but invariably tips maine implicit erstwhile I scope the bottom, and erstwhile you flip implicit successful Chairbound, you're toast. The archetypal clip it happens, I effort to jerk myself crossed the landing to the adjacent staircase down, hoping that I mightiness tumble rightway up, but it's intolerable to physique momentum portion prone. I contemplate waiting for the timer to tally down, past instrumentality the coward's mode retired and deed the restart button.

The adjacent 2 attempts spell overmuch the aforesaid way. On the 4th try, I marque an important discovery, truthful epochal and historical that I americium going to swathe it successful spoiler tags. There's another, unoccupied rolling seat I tin shunt down the ramp to service arsenic a buffer, breaking my descent and stopping maine falling over. Armed with this knowledge, I tin brave the mysteries of the eighth floor. What volition I find there? Let's reconvene to sermon my advancement tomorrow, 1st August, erstwhile Chairbound releases connected Steam.