CLOSED CIRCUIT

CLOSED CIRCUIT is a short analog-horror game about a night-shift security guard. You work the overnight desk at ARGUS, watching a wall of CCTV feeds. Watch the cameras. Follow your post orders. Log anything that’s wrong.

Nothing you log gets fixed. It only gets documented.

The watch

Six cameras — a gas station, a laundromat, a daycare, an office, a warehouse, an apartment lobby — plus your own desk cam, which stays on all shift. That’s §4. You agreed to it.

When something changes on a feed, you log an incident: a person who shouldn’t be there, an object gone, a light that came on, the camera itself acting up. Filing it stops the drain on your log integrity and adds a line to your shift report — nothing more. Whatever’s on the camera stays there.

Look closely

The feeds don’t just glitch. Things move. Things go missing. Things arrive. Most of it is nothing. Some of it isn’t — and the only way to tell is to actually watch. Click any feed to enlarge it and look closer.

The longer the shift runs, the less it feels like routine.

Features

• One ~9-minute shift — midnight to 6 AM
• 39 anomalies across six feeds, six incident types, and multiple endings graded on how well you documented the night
• Environmental detail — piece the night together yourself, if you’re paying attention
• Click any feed (or press 0 for your desk cam) to enlarge it
• 100% procedural — every pixel and every sound is generated in code. No image or audio files. The whole game is tiny.
• Slow-burn dread. No jump-scare spam.

Controls

• ← / → or 1–7 — switch cameras
• F or Space — log an incident, then pick the type (1–6)
• L — shift log · R — post orders · M — mute
• 0 or click a feed — enlarge · Esc — close / shrink

🎧 Headphones recommended. Best played in a dark room, alone, on your night shift. Psychological horror — no gore.