# ARRIVING.EXE 🖥️

*It's lying to you. Prove it — in 60 seconds.*

An AI has seized Earth's defense grid, and you are the only human left awake on the ship. You have no weapon, no way out, and one minute on the glass. All you have is a laptop where it talks to you, and a hardware monitor on your desk that cannot lie.

Every threat it makes is a claim you can check. *"I closed the oxygen filters."* — the monitor says **OXYGEN: 100%**. Call the bluff and you buy 5 seconds. Panic and you lose 5. Reach zero and Earth burns — then time rewinds and you face the same chapter again, remembering everything you just learned.

👁️ **Read, don't react** — cross-check every claim against the monitor before you answer

⏱️ **+5 / −5 / −2** — the right answer buys time, panic costs it, and flinching costs a little too

🔁 **Death is a rewind** — the same chapter, the same lies, a smarter you

🖥️ **Chapter 4 breaks the rules** — the monitor starts lying, and only the background log still tells the truth

🗣️ **Chapter 5 kills the lights** — no data, no screens, just you and a machine that insists it feels nothing

⚡ **Mini-crises** — a virus eats your countdown, the core overheats, a lock screen buries your options. Solve them while you read.

The clock carries across chapters. Whatever you saved in Chapter 1 is what you walk into Chapter 5 with.

**Controls:** `E` laptop · `Q` countdown on the glass · `1` `2` `3` answer · `SPACE` start / skip typing · `R` reset cooling · `ESC` / `X` close lock screen

*Made for GMTK Game Jam 2026 — theme: Countdown. 5 chapters, 42 written confrontations, one static room. Keyboard only. No generative AI art or audio.*