Fearside Stories
a night at Wintermouth Lodge
Eight former college friends are lured back to an abandoned ski lodge in the Colorado Rockies by letters signed by Danny — the ninth friend, who vanished there two years ago. When a blizzard cuts them off and Danny's voice starts calling from the dark, they learn the flooded silver mine beneath the lodge hides something that speaks with the voices of the dead. Every choice decides who survives until dawn.
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The Premise
Wintermouth Lodge was built above the flooded galleries of the Argent Silver Mine — closed in 1931 after fourteen miners drowned in a cave-in and were never recovered. Something down there has been listening ever since.
The Echo
The creature in the dark hunts by sound, and it lures prey by replaying human voices it recorded — perfectly, like a tape. There is no spooky font, no colour shift, no warning tag. If you want to know whether the voice at the door is your friend or the thing wearing their voice, you have to read for three tells.
The Echo can only repeat words it has already heard. Its sentences are recycled, word-for-word, from lines you read hours ago. Pay attention and you can recognise the sentence.
People type with rhythm — pauses at commas, stalls on "…", the occasional stumble. The Echo renders metronomically: flawless, even, never hesitating, never interrupted.
It doesn't understand elapsed time. It speaks from the moment it recorded — "come down, the party's still going" — as if nothing has passed at all.
What it is
Eight friends, one night, and real forks — deaths, saves and doors that stay shut once you pass them. Anyone can die. Four different endings wait at the bottom of the mine.
Every line types out in real time. Human rhythm against a dead-flat metronome is how you tell your friend from the thing wearing their voice.
Sweep a flashlight through the storm. Hold still to listen at a door. Don't touch the screen while it whispers. Tune a dead radio, scrub old footage, work a brick loose — the scenes are things you do, not just read.
Wind against the lodge, a boiler breathing, a flooded mine. Heartbeats under every timed choice — and scares that land when you least expect them. Best with headphones.
Hundreds of hand-directed stills carry each scene, Until Dawn–style, with the clock ticking from 8 PM to dawn.
The tells reward attention. Screenshot a line now; recognise it when the dark says it back to you hours later.
Start free
The prologue and Chapters 1–3 are free to play. If you want to see the night through, one purchase unlocks the rest of it — Chapters 4–10, all four endings and the epilogue.
8 PM to 11 PM. The letters, the storm, the first voice in the dark. Play it in your browser or in the app.
Chapters 4–10, four endings and the epilogue. Bought once in the Fearside Stories app — no ads, no subscription, restorable on your other devices.
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