
SHUT IN
Cael O'Sullivan · Hidden Track · 2020-10-30
Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view
Releases: Oct 30, 2020 (Mac), Oct 30, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))
SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.
Your task is simple: Get out of bed, go outside, and get some Fresh Air. Think you can handle that? Oh, but it might not be quite that simple. Your house isn't looking quite like it used to. You don't recognise any of these photos, everything's gotten dirty and disgusting, cracks seem to be opening up everywhere, and you're SURE everything didn't used to be so... constantly trying to kill you. Maybe it's not worth it. Maybe go back to bed. Try again tomorrow. If you do decide to keep going, you'll have to face strange puzzles, bizarre and uncomfortable obstacles, and a narrator who is unrel(Storyline via IGDB)
Health check
- · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
- · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Top 44% of 22,243 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.
All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-10-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal
12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)
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1 supported languages: English
Player tags
2DFunnyHorrorPuzzleSurrealAdventureEmotionalNarrationControllerDark Humor
Census log
- 2020-10-01First review activity on record (week of 2020-10-01).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
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