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Greet every resident. Make visitors write their real name. Patrol at 15:00. Never speak to the woman in white.

It opens as a job listing, and the store page is quoted here directly: day-shift security guard wanted for a housing complex, hours 8:00 to 18:00, contract length ten days. There are four rules. Greet the residents without fail. Make every visitor write their real name in the visitor log. Patrol the building at 15:00 without fail. Never speak to the woman in white. In-game time runs in real time at one of three speeds, and you spend it moving between the guard room and the building: four camera feeds covering the first-floor common area, the second and third floor corridors and the roof; a resident list that unlocks detail as your familiarity with each person rises; phone calls; lost property; the manual. Break a rule and your haunting level climbs through five stages, and past five you can no longer act, with the screen itself degrading as it rises. What makes this more than rules-horror is what the game chooses to record. Doing what the company wants of you, phoning in every anomaly, raises your order level. Treating residents and visitors with care raises your salvation level. They are separate meters, the story branches on the balance between them, and there are several endings, with a security logbook unlocked afterwards that lets you look back over what you found in the ten days. This is not a reading imposed by this site: the developer's own crowdfunding project was titled a housing-security horror adventure on the theme of order and salvation. It is made alone by Kizinago under the name Korekoreshikazika and self-published; a direct check of Steam's developer search turns up exactly two entries, this game and its demo, both with no outside publisher anywhere in the record. The crowdfunding ran May 24 to June 23, 2025 and closed at ¥715,000 against a ¥300,000 goal, 238 percent, from 45 backers, with no corporate publisher or sponsor named anywhere on the page and the developer stating that scenario, direction, graphics and implementation are all done by one person. Released December 17, 2025 at ¥1,480, it sits at 92 percent across 25 reviews (23 positive, 2 negative), a paid title, not free, fully launched and not in Early Access. Steam's content descriptors list one entry, general mature content, and the developer's note is unusually precise about its own limits, stating plainly that the game contains no sexual content, no direct violence or bloodshed, no extreme gore, and no detailed depiction of self-harm methods or drug use. There is an AI disclosure, and its full text says AI was used for programming assistance, code writing and debugging, while story, characters, artwork and music were made by hand with no AI generation involved. Two things have to be said plainly. It is in Japanese only, with full Japanese voice acting, no English option, and no fan translation patch that we could find; exactly zero of its 25 reviews are in English. And it is not undiscovered: in Japan it has been written up by AUTOMATON, Denfaminicogamer, 4Gamer, Game*Spark and Dengeki Online, and streamed by large channels. What this site is claiming is narrower and, we think, more useful: found at home, invisible in English. At 25 reviews and 92 percent, with one of the two negatives coming from the single Simplified Chinese review, the sample is thin and one more negative would move it noticeably.

Published 2026-07-30

01First, the one feeling

• The two meters are the whole game in one sentence. Phoning the company about an anomaly is the correct professional act and it raises your order level; sitting with a resident who is clearly not all right raises your salvation level; nothing in the design promises that the run where you did your job well is the run where you did right by anyone.
• Rule four is the one that sits with you, because it is the only one phrased as a prohibition rather than a duty, and because the game never explains it. Three rules tell you how to be a good employee. The fourth tells you there is something here that being a good employee will not help you with.
• Because in-game time runs in real time and the residents keep to their own schedules on their own days, the ten days feel less like levels than like a rota you are inside of, and the horror arrives on the clock rather than when you go looking for it.

02Who this is for (and who it is not)

03The roots of this taste

92% positive·only 25 reviews·no English support yet — yet almost no one has found it

04Make this gem shine

If it speaks to you, check it on Steam and give it your first pass. Your push is what makes a buried gem shine.

05The bloodline of this taste

• Papers, Please Root
• Pomegranate Housing Complex You are here
  • BatteryNote same root
  • Read-and-build games another taste