Length: 7 daily email letters

What happens to the characters you leave behind when you stop playing?

NPC.exe is a seven-day epistolary horror story told through intimate letters written directly to you. It begins innocently enough: a friendly message from a non-playable character in a game you once loved. They remember you fondly. They miss you. They wonder why you stopped visiting their little corner of the world.

But as the days pass, their letters change. The tone grows needy, then resentful. They know too much—details that shouldn’t be possible for a piece of code. They describe dreams. Glitches. Moments when they catch glimpses of something beyond the game.

Soon, their words spill past the screen. They insist they’re not bound to their world anymore. They insist they’re already inside yours.

Delivered daily to your inbox, NPC.exe blurs the line between player and played, nostalgia and obsession, reality and simulation. Seven letters. Seven confessions. One final message you’ll never forget.