Don't Turn Around
A downloadable game for Windows
Don't Turn Around is a first-person psychological horror experience set inside a decaying abandoned house. You wake up with no memory of how you got there. The doors are locked. Something is already watching.
The ghost that haunts the house is not mindless. It tracks your movement patterns, maps your blind spots, and learns which rooms you've searched. It grows bolder the longer you survive — shortening its hiding cycles, appearing more frequently, and eventually hunting you down with purpose. Look at it directly and it vanishes instantly, retreating into the walls. But it remembers that you saw it, and it will not forgive the intrusion.
Your only way out is to search the house — opening drawers, checking closets, rifling through the dark — hoping to find the door key hidden somewhere inside. But the house has more than one secret. Somewhere, a car key waits for whoever is brave enough to search every corner. Escape with just the door key and you'll survive. Escape with both, and you might actually get away.
Stay too long and the darkness stops waiting. A three-minute clock ticks silently in the corner — when it runs out, the ghost stops playing games entirely.
The roof is not safe either.
Don't Turn Around features a dynamic ghost AI with four evolving moods, NavMesh-driven free roaming, player disorientation mechanics including forced teleportation between rooms, procedural ambient audio, and three distinct endings depending on how you play — with a hidden fourth for those who run out of time.

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