TRUST EXERCISE

Inpro is starting the first day of his new job at Common Umbrella. A very odd company with a unique and strange history (and a very mysterious celebrity/CEO running it).

As he meets his coworkers and goes through his last part of the 'interview' process, mysterious things occur and go wrong, causing various deaths. This forces him into an office room where he must play a life-threatening exercise by said CEO with several of his coworkers and must discuss amongst each other.

 Traverse through various conversations and topics as the cast tries to put any form of pieces together before it's too late. 

Can Inpro trust these people? Or will it all descend into dysfunctional chaos and even betray them at the very last minute? 

Regardless, you have 1 hour.

Good luck.

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This game was originally made for the 2024 Mystery Game Jam, and has been revamped for the 2025 Cold Case Jam!

This is a short death game/mystery visual novel "demo" where you can make some small choices that may slightly change the flow of your conversations and try to figure out the mysteries relating to your situation.

New Demo Features:

• Completed Prologue
  • 3 discussions in total
  • Introduction to the dysfunctional and constantly arguing cast
    • 2 new characters to go along with the original cast!
  • 30 minutes - 1 hour of gameplay
  • 1 ending and 1 bad ending depending on the choices you make.

Trigger Warnings:

-Blood/Implied Gore

-Screen Shakes

-profanity/swearing 

-Intense/Flashing lights

Credits:

UI/Images by: Horrorbox

This game couldn't have been made without the help of these wonderful people! 

VN Sprites by:  Amalgam

Music by Bellkalengar: Twitter | Itchio

• Additional Music: 
  • Rpg Maker MV
  • Chris Logsdon: Ambient puzzle music
  • MakotoHiramatsu
    • Twisted Reality Pack
    • Soundscape and Ambient Music Pack: LOST
• SFX:
  • Nicole Marie T: office sfx
    
  • Pixabay
• More  credits can be found on the in-game title screen.

Original 2024 Game content (OUTDATED):

This is a short death game/mystery visual novel "demo" where you can make some small choices that may slightly change the flow of your conversations and try to figure out the mysteries relating to your situation within the time limit.

-4 discussions in total

-Dysfunctional and constantly arguing cast

-30 minutes - 1 hour of gameplay

-1 main ending and 2 bad endings.