You came back to an empty family house to decide what could finally be thrown away.

There is a cassette in Anna's room.

SIDE B. DON'T LOAD.

DON'T LOAD SIDE B is a psychological horror investigation built around one very old problem: on a ZX Spectrum, colour and pixels are stored separately.

Every room exists as 6912 bytes of screen memory — a physical 1-bit bitmap underneath a separate layer of colour attributes.

And the colour layer can lie.

Hold SPACE and strip the colour away.

A face may disappear.

A stain may become a date.

Something that looked like part of the wallpaper may still be physically present in the bitmap underneath.

The house has been edited. Your job is to work out how, when, and why.

Explore 18 rooms, inspect photographs, tapes, locks, weather records and memory addresses, collect 50 clues, build evidence chains and test 10 deductions across five chapters.

Eventually, you will have to decide what should happen to an archive your family spent decades making impossible to prove.

FEATURES

5 chapters of psychological horror investigation
18 rooms built as authentic ZX Spectrum-style screens
50 clues to collect and connect
10 deductions gated by actual evidence
4 endings
A central ATTRIBUTE / BITMAP investigation mechanic
Journal and Case Board
Autosave + 3 manual save slots
Configurable HOLD / TOGGLE bitmap controls
FULL / REDUCED / OFF flashing options
Reduced Motion mode
Post-ending gallery, tape archive and additional extras

This is not a jumpscare-heavy horror game.

It is about looking at the same room twice and realizing that one of the versions has been lying to you.

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