Submissions by LawlerW tagged paranoia

A modern day 3D survival/slight horror game in the vein of LSD: Dream Emulator where you fell asleep and when you wake up, everybody has the head of a goldfish and is acting and talking strange, so you can't tell who's who and they always have the same facial expression no matter what they're thinking or doing. When you wake up into this, you somehow seem to catch the attention of just about everybody regardless of where they are and they will most likely have a plan for reacting to you if you talk to them. Some will hunt you down. Do they mean you harm or help? No way of telling. You could try reading their facial expression, but it never changes...

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The aim is to survive for as long as possible in this strange world with your human face intact. Many might have plans of killing you in one way or another, whether that be through murder or something more horrific such as sedating you into an illegal fight pit or blackmailing you into assassinating someone else with nothing but a fishing knife. The means will tend to be as surreal as the premise, with situations straight out of a thriller. Some will not do this and will actually mean to save you from the others who are hunting you, but they nonetheless seem shifty because they have a goldfish for a head and that makes it hard to tell if they're trying to trick you like the others. Some will be genuinely indifferent to you, although still warrant paranoia since they might be trying to avoid being noticed, and still others may be on a mission to remove your human face and put a normal-sized goldfish there instead as the next best thing, of course ending your life.

The game is in first person and you can walk around, run distances, interact with everyday objects like keys or pay phones, talk to people, elbow strike as a way to break things open or defend yourself, and sleep, which you have to do every now and then with the drawback that so many people know where you are and being alone and asleep is a fantastic way to end up captured. The game has a lot in common with titles such as DayZ when it comes to choosing who to trust - going with nobody will leave you wide open, but going with the wrong person or people will leave you dead, and it seems everybody is lining up to do something with/to you.

Who do you trust when everyone has a goldfish for a head?

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