Knock Twice

Someone is knocking. Count carefully.
Garland Court, 1974. The rent on apartment 4B is impossibly cheap, and on your first night Rosa Hale from 4C, across the hall, slides the house rules under your door:
if someone knocks TWICE — only twice — do not answer. do not speak.
they are not asking to come in. they are asking you to come out.
Rosa Hale has been dead for six years.

Four apartments. Four ways to be afraid.
Knock Twice is an anthology of doors. Each unit of the building hands you a different instrument of dread — and then takes the last one away.
4B · fourth floor — the door, the peephole, the chain, the telephone. On the fourth night the power dies. On the fifth, the phone learns your number.

1B · the basement — no peephole down here. A barred window at street level shows only the shoes of whatever is approaching. Curtains closed after midnight. Shoes tell the truth. Knocks lie.

1A · the super's office — the intercom board, one light per tenant. You decide who gets buzzed into the building. Guess wrong and it isn't you who pays; it's a light going out upstairs, and a name you'd learned.

4C · across the hall — the other side of the peephole. Someone new lives in your old rooms, making your old mistakes. The only thing you can say through a door is a knock — and you know exactly what two of them means.



Listen at the door
The knock comes exactly twice, perfectly even, every time. Look through the peephole, check the feet in the gap under the door, then decide. Headphones recommended.

Features
14 nights across 4 unlockable apartments, roughly an hour

12 endings, including one that closes the loop on the very first note you were ever handed

Death restarts the night, never the run. Every note you're given can be re-read at any time

Full mouse or keyboard. Adjustable text speed and volume

Contains flashing images and sudden loud sounds.