Length: 7 daily email letters

Have you ever wondered what happens to the players you leave behind?

The Glitched Player is a seven-day digital horror story delivered straight to your inbox. It begins with something small: a strange in-game message inside a role-playing game you once loved. The words look like corrupted code at first—until they start addressing you directly.

Each day, another message arrives, even when the game is closed. The sender insists they’re a real player, trapped inside the corrupted world, desperate for your help. At first, it feels like a glitch, a prank. But soon, their words grow frantic… and personal. They know your old save files. Your choices. Your secrets. Things they could never know.

The letters escalate until the seventh day, when the trapped player finally finds their escape. Only then do you realize: they were never writing as themselves. They were writing as you.

Seven days. Seven corrupted messages. One haunting question: what happens when the game doesn’t end?