Blue Rider Interactive today announced the release date for its upcoming thriller-adventure game, Apartment Story. The game will be released for PC via Steam on September 26th. The developer also released a trailer showing more details about the game, which is a third-person title that features life-simulation elements intertwined with mystery.
The player character is a video game journalist named Arthur, who is visited in his apartment by two characters, at one point revealing that a gun is hidden somewhere in the apartment. The player must navigate an increasingly precarious social situation while tending to Arthur’s daily needs. The game uses a real-time day-night cycle, but the player must eat, shave, use the toilet, sleep, shower, and tidy up the apartment. There is also an option to not interact with the story or external characters at all, in which case the player will be completely disconnected from the outside world.
Apartment Story is one of Blue Rider’s first titles, created with a PSX-style aesthetic. According to the developers, the game can be completed in one night (real life, not in-game). Game designer Sean Wenham describes the game on the Blue Rider website as: “It’s a video game about modern life: about the lack of money, valuing the space in your home, and craving the stories we grew up with to replace the monotony we face.”
