the sledge man

the sledge man

Seven girls have gone missing on the same stretch of road. You are the officer who finally drove out to look.

It begins the way these things always begin. A night drive with nothing on the radio worth listening to. A call that gives you a name and a direction and not much else. Headlights, trees, and a road that keeps going.

The station you stop at is open, lit, and empty. Somebody was behind that counter recently. Nobody is now.

Past it, the road narrows into a trail your car can't follow, so you leave it at the treeline and walk. It doesn't take long to find her car. It's still sitting on the trail with the driver's door hanging open, and her phone is face up in the dirt beside it, screen still lit. Whatever happened, she didn't get to take it with her.

At the end of the trail there's a fence, a yard, and a house nobody has lived in for years.

Except the truck parked outside still has its headlights burning. And the engine is warm.

You knock. Nobody answers.

But the window beside the door is open a crack — just wide enough to put your eyes to — and when you look through it, there is someone sitting perfectly still in the dark on the other side, facing you.

What you'll be doing

• Get inside. The front door isn't going to open for you. You'll find another way.
• Follow the blood. It starts at the foot of the stairs and it goes up, and the door it leads to is held shut by an electric lock with no power behind it.
• Go down to the basement. The breaker panel has three holders and only one fuse. The other two are somewhere in this house.
• Then get back to your car. That's the part that doesn't go the way you planned.

What's in it

• A short first-person horror game in the PSX style — low poly, heavy grain, colour crushed down, the 3D rendered at 270 lines the way the hardware actually did it
• A house you explore on your own terms, with real stairs, real rooms, and lights you have to earn
• Hiding that listens to your actual microphone — stay quiet and he walks past (fully optional, and switchable off in Audio settings)
• One hit from him and you're dead. You get a checkpoint, not a health bar
• Playable start to finish in English or Arabic — dialogue, menus, everything
• Roughly 30 to 45 minutes

Made by hlemrawash. This is my first horror game, and honestly the thing I want most from putting it up here is to hear what you thought of it — what landed, what didn't, where you got stuck, whether it actually scared you. Leave a comment. I read all of them.

Thanks for playing ❤️´◡` .