A one-button horror game that dares you to sit through its own settings menu
Playmoth's microgame promises one press, one scare and an end-credits sequence that takes itself far too seriously.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The pitch is almost insultingly simple: one button, one bad decision, over before you have finished adjusting your headphones. The screenshots for The World's Shortest Horror Game do not undersell that promise so much as build a small, deadpan monument to it. The title screen sets the tone before anything happens. Scratched red text warns you to check your volume, the subtitle under the logo reads "Estimated playtime: however long you spend looking at this button," and the START prompt itself sits in a scuffed metal frame that looks lifted from a bomb disposal kit rather than a horror menu....