receiver (itch) (chloe spears)

A recorded voice interrupts the silence.
"Excuse me. Please deposit 10 cents for the next 3 minutes. If 10 cents is not deposited within 25 seconds, your call will be automatically terminated.”

receiver is an interactive fiction game where you have only one decision. Not “one turn” or “one option”, one binary decision. Every situation you find yourself in presents you with the same choices: do you HANG UP? or PAY?

(cw: parental abuse, implied casual transphobia)

Technical note: The game can be played only one time, which, while in theme, was not intentional. My mistake. After the jam I'll add a restart button to the endings. If you'd like to see other endings, please clear your cache or download the HTML directly and reopen the file to play again.

a game by chloe spears.
created for the gmtk game jam 2019.
heavily inspired by aisle by sam barlow, and other one-turn interactive fiction.
also inspired by adam cadre’s photopia.
special thanks to dana lubow.