FILE 13

Your new PC has finally arrived.

You sign up on a freelance site as a data-recovery technician and take your first job. That profile is how Mariam finds you.

She says she is being held somewhere. The only way to find her is through the files she sends you.

Recover them. Read what the metadata says. Follow it.

A horror game that lives on your screen

FILE 13 is played entirely on a fake Egyptian desktop: messages, phone calls, a browser, a terminal and a set of forensic tools. There are no corridors to run down. The horror is in what you find, who is really talking to you, and what the machine starts doing once you dig too deep.

• An investigation that fights back. Recover deleted files, pull metadata, enhance photos and catch the lies in people's stories. The longer the case goes on, the more the operating system comes apart.

• People who text back. Mariam, her sister Nour, your friend Pat and others message you, call you and lie to you.

• Your choices matter. What you say, who you trust and what you send decide which of the endings you reach.

• Play in English or Egyptian Arabic. The full game in either language, with a right-to-left interface and voiced characters.

• Horror on your terms. Gore can be set to Off, Blurred, Minimal or Full, and is minimal by default. There are also options for reduced flashing, captions, text size and a Streamer Safe preset.

Content notice

Psychological horror with themes of abduction, murder and death. Optional graphic imagery, off or minimal by default. Contains flashing images and sudden loud sounds, both of which can be reduced in Settings.

Helping her is the mistake.