HOUSE-SIT
A HAUNTING · IN REAL TIME
The owners went to Canada. The photos say otherwise.
Your oldest mate Rory has landed the easiest job going: a month minding a cottage near Applecross while the owners are in Canada. He keeps sending you photos of the place. Every one of them has something wrong in it.
HOW IT PLAYS
House-sit runs on your clock. When Rory is out walking, asleep or fixing the place up, he stops texting, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. Your phone buzzes when he's back. Answer straight away, or pick it up when you're free.
If he says he'll be an hour, it's an hour.
Rorysent you another pic. tell me you see it too
Rorythere's two mugs on the draining board. i only used one
Rorygive me an hour. unpacking
THE STORY
Every choice you make follows you. Something you tell Rory early on can save him much later, or cost someone else everything. Choose badly and he dies. You can rewind to your last choice.
CHAPTERS
Your choices carry from one chapter to the next.
Mountains, sea, no neighbours, and photos that don't quite add up.
The Frasers are home early. They never really left.
There's a vacancy in November.
QUESTIONS
Yes. If Rory says he'll be an hour, it's an hour, and you get a notification when he's back. After your first ending, Fast mode lets you replay without the waits.
Rory can die. When that happens, you can rewind to your last choice and try again, or start the whole story over.
£1.99 for the app, which includes Chapter One. Chapter Two is a £1.99 in-app purchase. There are no ads and nothing to buy to skip the waiting.
House-sit is interactive fiction told through text messages: a choose-your-own-adventure haunted house story where Rory texts you and you decide what they do next. If you enjoyed real-time text games like Lifeline, it works the same way: the story unfolds on your clock, with notifications when Rory gets back to you.
No. The whole story is on your phone and plays offline. Your progress stays on your device.
House-sit is on Android first. An iPhone version may follow.
YOUR PHONE IS BUZZING