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Welcome to a Grim Dystopian Future

A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and public life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead.

You are the State-installed manager of an apartment building. Your daily routine involves maintaining the building for tenants, but that is simply a facade hiding your real mission.

Your Mission

Your primary task is to covertly watch your tenants and eavesdrop on their conversations. You must bug their apartments while they're away, search their belongings for threats to the State, and profile them for your superiors. You must report anyone capable of violating laws or plotting subversive activities.

Moral Choices

You are a cog in a totalitarian machine with your own family who also has needs. Do you cling to your humanity and cover up your tenants' activities? Or do you survive by staying loyal to the regime?

Your choices carry real consequences. Report a father's illegal activities and orphan his children. Withhold details and give him a chance to make things right. Or blackmail him to earn something for your family.

As you play, you'll interact with many characters and complete dozens of quests. Your decisions affect how the story unfolds, leading to one of several earned endings.