SLAVE ALIVE

Thea sits in a cold cell waiting for the Growlocks to interrogate her about her brother's whereabouts, and the leader of the rival Rapiers gang isn't sending soldiers, just a promise whispered through a window: hold on for five days.

The setup is a countdown. Thea belongs to the enemy faction now, and whatever happens to her body in that cell is the story, not a subplot to it. Hanne's promise hangs over every scene as the thing that may or may not arrive in time.

There's no fighting your way out here. You watch Thea endure the days as her captors use her however they like, with the game tracking how much she breaks and steering toward one of several endings depending on it. It's a waiting game dressed as a survival one, and it never pretends otherwise.