Bootham

Your head throbs as you sit up on the cold floor. Bits of plaster hang from the ceiling, and broken desks crowd the corners. In the game Bootham, you find yourself alone inside a ruined school. Light flickers from your weak flashlight, showing scribbled notes and splintered furniture. The quiet is heavy. Nothing works right, and every step crunches on debris.

How to play?

In Bootham, you move through empty classrooms and hallways, searching for anything to help you leave. Your flashlight battery fades fast, so you must dig for spare batteries tucked behind books or under chairs. When you hit a locked door, you'll need to hunt down scraps of paper with numbers written on them. Those codes open doors and let you explore more of the school. Some rooms are packed with toppled lockers or broken glass, which you'll need to edge around to keep moving. If your flashlight goes out, it's pitch black until you find another battery. Every time you unlock a new door, the school opens up a bit more, and you get closer to the exit.