Read, compare, decide
Petitions, ID cards, official orders and the day's regulations. Approve, reject, or report. Cite the exact rule your decision rests on.
Trailer coming soon
Contains themes of political violence, detention, death, suicide (referenced) and strong language.
Try the window ↓
Personnel file
File holder: PERSON #····-··
You are a junior clerk at City Hall. Every day, citizens bring you their petitions: a sick child's medicine, a dead son's body, one signature for a pension. Check the papers, follow the rules, stamp. The rules get worse. You climb higher. Somewhere along the way, you stop asking why.
- City
- Grishehir (fictional)
- Year
- 1987
- Position
- Intern clerk, City Hall
- Building
- 6 floors, 6 ranks
- Term
- 29 days, two chapters
- Modes
- Normal and Hard
- Made by
- Aykut DÜŞOVA, in Godot
Your conscience has a gauge. You won't see it. It darkens the screen.
Window 1 · 26.10.87
Your first day.
Two real cases from the game. The papers are on the counter, the rules are on the wall, the stamp is in your hand.
26.10.87
GRISHEHIR MORNING
State approvedA narrative bureaucracy game about complicity
In the fictional city of Grishehir, the regime tightens a little more every morning, and you are the hand that makes it real.
Every stamp has a face
Mothers, miners, teachers, students: many come back, and what happened to them depends on you. Your lawyer knocks every evening to read your decisions back to you.
The city is watching
A live social media feed reacts to every decision. Praise the government and get lynched online; reply and it gets worse.
Weekends are abolished
29 days, two chapters, many endings, and a final chapter you may not want to reach.
Fully voiced
Fully voiced in English and Turkish. Text in eight languages.
City Hall
Climb six floors.
From intern to Mayor: a new office, a new home, new luxuries to buy. Each promotion takes an interview, and a little more of you.
Personnel and citizens
The people who know your name.
Haluk
Records clerk, across the hall
He never leaves you alone.
“Expired. Rules are rules, intern. Let's see if you can do it.”
Nuri Bey
Head of personnel
Calm, fatherly, and threatening.
Att. Korkut Sancar
Your lawyer
Knocks every evening to read your decisions back to you.
Fatma Aydın
Citizen, ID No. 0491-22
A child with a fever of forty. An ID that expired last week.
“Please, just for this medicine…”
After hours
Then you go home.
The report, the bills, the lawyer, the feed, and whoever comes to your door.
Haluk leans over your desk.
Y-101. Rejected.
The morning paper brings the day's regulations.
End of shift: your decisions, your balance, your file.
The back street is empty as always. Not tonight.
What the painter leaves on your door.
A note through the window.
Mayor. Nuri Bey is still inspecting.
The boiler room.
Before you sign
Platforms
In development for Windows. Mac and Linux later.
Content warning
Contains themes of political violence, detention, death, suicide (referenced) and strong language.
No sexual content and no gore.
Fiction
Every country, city, institution and person in this game is fictional.
Languages
| Language | Interface | Voice | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turkish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese | ✓ | — | ✓ |
System requirements
Provisional. May change before release.
Minimum: Windows 10 64-bit · dual-core 2 GHz processor · 4 GB RAM · graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 or DirectX 11 (integrated Intel HD 4000 or better) · 2 GB free space · sound card
Recommended: Windows 10/11 64-bit · quad-core processor · 8 GB RAM · dedicated or recent integrated graphics · 2 GB free space
AI disclosure
Character portraits, backgrounds and props were created with AI image generation tools under the developer's art direction and edited by hand. Character voices were produced with AI voice synthesis (ElevenLabs). Translations into languages other than Turkish and English are AI-assisted. All writing, story, characters and game design are by the developer. No AI content is generated live during play.