Stayback Devlog — The School That Turns On You

About the game

The safety of the campus is a certainty. You are familiar with every shadow, every shortcut and every lazy corner of the building but only until the final bell rings and the gates bang shut. Your school has become a distortion. The very familiar place that you know has turned into your worst nightmare. Welcome to Stayback.

Overnight you are trapped and the only way to go is up. This is a story-driven, first-person horror where each floor you go up tightens the psychological noose. You are not merely ascending; you are getting deeper into a terrifying high intensity. What starts as an escape outdone in desperation soon becomes an investigation of urgency as you realize that the school is after you and each level brings forward a different, monstrous presence that corrupts the area around it.

The surface panic conceals a profound and disturbing truth that demands excavation. The building has been concealing its guilt for years. You have to assemble the scattered pieces of memory and past events, understanding the horror's root cause before the night takes its claim on you.

We made it specifically for your pocket, but the horror did not get any smaller. Stayback offers the real, unyielding atmosphere tuned for the mobile experience—heavy, surrounding soundscapes, light design that makes you feel like you are being smothered, and controls that make sure you are concentrated on the fear and not on the screen. The shivering grasp of real horror is never more than a touch away.