Peek-a-Boo (Who are you?)

What is Peek-a-Boo (Who are you)?

The game opens on a family reunion, and the youngest person in the house is not at the party. Instead, the child has been sequestered in a bedroom while relatives take turns checking in through a game of Peek-a-Boo. What sounds like a harmless way to pass the day becomes the central task: committing each visitor's belongings to memory, along with the exact length of their nails. A faithful Teddy Bear stays close and helps with the work. The reunion drags on, and the promise that Mom will come and take the child home is framed as something that happens eventually rather than soon.

Dimensional Rift builds this as a 2D pixel-art horror piece with a spooky rather than gory visual tone. The game offers multiple endings, so the reunion is not one fixed track. It is free, runs in an HTML5 browser frame, and arrived on 31 October 2026. The question mark in the title carries weight: identity, not combat, is the subject.

How to play

Each relative who appears brings two pieces of information worth keeping: what they carry and how long their nails are. The memorization loop is the game. Items are attached to people through sound as much as sight — a purse announces itself with the clink of a dropped coin bag, a backpack with a soft landing, a briefcase with a thump on the floor. Footwear does similar work: sneakers give a rubber squeak, boots land heavily on concrete, and heels click as someone walks.

Smaller accessories fill out the rest of the set. A scarf carries a fabric rustle, a pocket watch ticks, and a gold necklace is marked by coins. Teddy Bear is a companion who supports the memory work rather than a separate system to manage, so the practical job is to link a face to a sound and a nail length and hold that link together.

Because multiple endings are in play, the visits build toward one of several outcomes rather than a single fixed finish. Progress can be saved and loaded, but only for as long as the page stays open.

Controls

Interface interaction happens on screen, and the buttons answer with a short click. The rest of the play is auditory. Every clue is announced by a distinct recorded sound, and those sounds function as the real reading surface: a coin bag for a purse, a soft drop for a backpack, a briefcase hitting the floor, a rubber shoe squeak for sneakers, footsteps on concrete for boots, heels on a hard floor, fabric movement for a scarf, a ticking pocket watch, and coins for a gold necklace.

Playing with the volume up, and ideally on headphones, keeps those cues separated, since several of them are percussive and easy to confuse when the audio is quiet. A death sound built from a bone-and-blood crunch sits at the other end of the session, a reminder that the reunion is not a gentle one.

Tips for your first run

Treat the first visit as calibration. Belongings are announced rather than labeled, so the earliest rounds are the place to fix each sound to a relative before the house gets busier. Nail length is a second, quieter variable, and it is easy to forget once a familiar purse or briefcase has been placed. Teddy Bear exists to help, so the companion belongs in the routine rather than at the edge of it.

• Match every sound to a face early: purse, backpack, briefcase, sneakers, boots, heels, scarf, pocket watch and gold necklace each carry a separate cue.
• Track nail length alongside belongings, because both are named as the memory task.
• Stay in one sitting if progress matters, since the save lives only while the page is open.
• Expect the reunion to branch: with several endings, a single run shows one version of the story.

Content and replayability

The game is built on one repeated act — study a visitor, hold the details, get through the visit — and the multiple endings are what turn that repetition into replay value. A finished run resolves one path, and the remaining outcomes sit behind another pass through the same reunion. Memorization is central rather than decorative: belongings and nail lengths are the content, and there is no AI-generated filler in the mix.

The current build is essentially complete, but not fully. Voice lines are still being recorded, several sound effects are still to be added, and a screen narrator did not arrive in time for the Halloween release; all of that is scheduled to land in the weeks after launch. A save and load feature exists, but the save lasts only while the page stays open. The game was designed for download and is staying in the browser until the feature set is finished, so anyone playing now should plan around one continuous session.

Presentation and performance

Visually, the game is 2D pixel art with a spooky palette, the kind of look that suits a bedroom-bound horror story about relatives at the door. Audio does most of the atmospheric work. The music is a pre-edited Twinkle Twinkle Little Star lullaby, sitting deliberately against the material, and the clue sounds are everyday objects recorded as small, dry events: a dropped coin bag, a soft bag landing, a briefcase on the floor, a squeaking sneaker, boots on concrete, heels on a hard surface, fabric, a ticking watch and coins.

Those sounds were drawn from free online resources, and the death effect is a gore sound built from a blood-and-bone crunch. Everything runs in an HTML5 browser frame, so there is no install step and no download in the current build. The game was originally designed for download and is being kept in the browser until the remaining features are finished.

Who should play it

This one is for players who like horror built from small details rather than chases. The loop rewards attention and memory: identifying a relative by the sound of what they carry, tracking nail length, and keeping it all straight while the reunion goes on. Anyone drawn to the idea of a childhood game twisted into something unpleasant will recognize the tone immediately, and the pixel-art style keeps the visuals readable at browser size.

It also suits players comfortable with a work in progress. Voice lines and some effects are still coming, and the screen narrator is not in yet, so the current build leans on sound cues and reading. Players who need progress to persist between sessions should know that saving is tied to the open page. Anyone who wants horror made without AI generation, or who likes chasing several endings after a first run, is the intended audience.