Paranoia Activity
You're safe. Probably. Complete your nightly routine perfectly, or start the night all over again.
Paranoia Activity is a top-down puzzle game about a deeply paranoid person barricaded in their own home. Every night, before you're allowed to sleep, you have to complete the same simple routine — close the curtains, check the door, turn off the lights, go to bed.
Simple, except your character has rules. Rules that never go away. Rules that stack, night after night, and are never shown on screen again once you've seen them. Forget one, break one, and you don't get to sleep — you start the whole routine over.
The house never changes. The objectives never change. But by the final night, just remembering what NOT to do might be the hardest part of the game.
How to Play
- WASD / Arrow Keys — move
- E — interact
- F — alternate interaction (e.g. knock on the door)
Features
- Grid-based movement, fully deterministic — no luck, no guessing
- New paranoid rules every night, and old ones never disappear
- One mistake and you redo the whole routine — no lives, no permanent game over
- A clock is running. It always is.
A Word of Warning
Nothing here is complicated. Closing curtains isn't hard. Checking a lock isn't hard.
Remembering all of it, all at once, while it keeps growing — that's the game.
| Published | 2 days ago |
| Status | Prototype |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | Félix Bernier |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Tags | 2D, Horror, Pixel Art, Short, Top-Down |
| Content | No generative AI was used |


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Super fun idea, also cool sound effects. I can feel the love you put in this little project. Good job!