
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Protect yourself as long as you must in Box of Broken Nails - a surreal horror experience.
Use your hammer and nails to board up an unknown door with something breaking out. Find resources around your house and nail down planks in time. Don't let it open. No matter what.

There is only this one note, it reads:
"Since I started living here alone, the nights felt endless. I barely remember if my halls have been this way before. Lately I hear the sounds of my work from behind the walls. The plates are shattering over and over again. I’m just making things up again, am I not? There was never anything wrong with...
And even if, it changes nothing — what matters is that I simply must continue and make, make…
...Make it go away."
No text notes, no audio logs. The story unfolds through the gameplay itself and what it evokes in you.
A stressful game loop that changes over time.
An unexpected turn of events.
Only one outcome.
Box of Broken Nails contains flashing lights, strong camera shaking, and intentional visual distortion effects. Please use caution if you are affected by flashing or rapidly moving visuals.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Indonesian +15 more
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There's a life lesson in this video game.
Very tense, good horror game!
Box of broken nails is a great little horror experience. Took me about 35 minutes but it was packed with tension. It does a lot in such a short time frame, employing pretty clever game design for a genuinely tense and scary experience that also manages to meaningfully convey it's thematic elements. And the best horror games always are the ones with something say, aren't they? Best experienced personally with as little prior knowledge as possible, well worth the minimal investment the game asks of you.
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Hours played at review time, across 195 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Genius. Just brilliant. Short, but clean.
テキストや会話などが一切ないので開始して数分は何をすればいいのかと戸惑うかもしれません。 ですがそれこそがこのゲームの没入感を高めてくれる要素です。 ゲーム自体は非常に単純で、複雑なプレイなどはありません。 ただ、起こる出来事に対処をするだけです。
A short experience, but a delightful one. Deeply unnerving, and yet strangely inviting at times. Definitely worth the price.
For whatever mystery exists, the normal 30 minutes of playtime are an extremely well paced climb in horror that leaves with a satisfying ending. Secrets be damned, you do not need to complete a game to finish it.
Felt like I somehow dodged something a LOT bigger than I realized when I played it. I did.
Don't... Don't let it in Don't... Its going to get in... don't let it... Whatever it is... it should NOT be in... Keep it out... You NEED to keep it out. More nails... more wood... Always need more, From wherever you can find it... ANYWHERE Just don't let it in. And whatever you do... Don't enter the door...
Fun little scary game.
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