Cursed Countdown: Hollow Watch

An old pocket watch, still warm, in a case of letters. Its hands run the wrong way.

Wind it, and the watch begins to count down: forty-eight hours until the night "the Visitor" comes for it. The letters of its last keeper tell you how to stop him. Three seals. Three rites, hours apart. Then the hands.

A HORROR STORY THAT PLAYS OUT IN REAL TIME
• Wind the crown with your finger, click by click, and watch the hands spin and turn backwards.
• The seal of salt: pour a closed ring of salt around the watch without lifting your finger.
• The seal of silence: lay the phone down and keep perfectly still while the whispers come. If you move, it hears you.
• The seal of the name: hold a candle under the watchmaker's name until the paper burns to ash.
• The hands: hold both hands with two fingers while the watch shakes, ticks faster and fights you. Do not let go.
• Every seal you break gives back six hours. Let the numbers run out and he comes: three knocks, the seals are whole again, and the watch winds itself.
• Stop the watch, and the curse is broken for good. A real ending you can reach in a day or two.

THE ATMOSPHERE
• A rendered antique watch with an aged enamel dial, Roman numerals and blued Breguet hands that run backwards.
• Candlelight, a wooden desk, red wax seals that crack when broken.
• Synthesized sound: ticks played backwards, wind, whispers on both sides, knocking. Play with headphones, in the dark.
• Letters from the last keeper, found one by one, telling the story of the watch and its maker.

ALSO
• Works offline. No account, no server.
• Optional notices when a seal warms and when the numbers grow small.
• Nine languages. Sound, vibration and notices in Settings.
• Ads only on the home screen, in the letters and when you begin a rite. Videos are optional and always say what they give you.

This is a work of fiction. The countdown belongs to the watch in the story and says nothing about you. For entertainment purposes.