Better been alone

It's three in the morning. You've been gaming all night, and the drinks have run out.

The shop is open 24/7 — just walk there and back.

The street only looks empty.

Better Been Alone is a first-person horror game in the style of the original PlayStation. A night walk through a post-Soviet neighbourhood, built after a real courtyard: dim entrance lamps, a parking lot, a bus stop, a dark yard and a lit shop on the other side.

Features

• PS1 look: 240 lines, colour dithering, wobbling vertices, affine textures
• Darkness you can barely see through — light is rare at 3 a.m.
• Sound does most of the work: wind, footsteps, voices in the dark
• No combat, no inventory — only you and the walk
• English and Ukrainian, three subtitle sizes

Controls

• WASD / arrow keys — walk
• Mouse — look around
• Shift — walk faster
• E — interact, read a note
• 1–3 or ↑↓ + Enter / E — choose a line in a conversation
• Tab (hold) — current objective
• Esc — pause and settings

Content warning: jump scares and flickering lights.

Early build — 0.2.0

This is an early version. If something breaks, please tell me where it happened and what you did — leave a comment below or write to @Manykywi on Telegram. The game's log file helps a lot:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Manykywi\Better Been Alone\Player.log

Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because the game isn't digitally signed: click More info → Run anyway. Extract the whole archive before running.

Credits

Made by Manykywi.
Main menu music: "Horror Soundscape - 02" by Headphaze (Freesound), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Font: IBM Plex Mono (SIL Open Font License).
Models, textures and sounds from Kenney, Quaternius, ambientCG, OpenGameArt, Freesound and other CC0 / free sources — the full list is in CREDITS.txt inside the download.