DO NOT PLAY News

It’s me. Employee A.

While cleaning my room, I found an old photo from my school days.
Feeling nostalgic, I turned it over—and noticed a small line of text written on the back:

“—There’s one person here whose face I don’t recognize.”

The handwriting looked like my own, yet I had absolutely no memory of writing it.
Sure, there are classmates whose names or faces I’ve forgotten over the years…
but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t recall this particular boy’s face at all.

Speaking of photos, I recently rechecked the group photo data we had restored earlier, and something felt off.
I’m certain the woman in the center used to have her face obscured—blurred out, almost like it was being “smudged.”
But when I checked the file again, after that strange “distortion” disappeared,
her face looked perfectly normal, as if nothing had been wrong in the first place.

Does this group photo… change over time?

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It’s me. Employee A.

The other day, I went to an eye doctor just to be safe.
In the middle of the vision test, the doctor suddenly stopped.
“…Your visual response isn’t normal,” he murmured.
He didn’t explain anything further, nor did he turn the monitor toward me.
He only handed me a slip of paper and said, “Let’s schedule some additional tests, just in case.”
When I tried asking what was wrong, he simply shook his head and said, “We can talk about it later.”
As I left the room, I could have sworn I heard him whisper to someone behind me:
“Another shadow appeared.”

Speaking of which, I found a piece of data I wanted to look away from.
A truly disturbing game.
Throwing darts directly at an eyeball—
it’s hard to imagine a human being coming up with something like that.
The hit detection is bizarrely precise, too.
I don’t want to think about what level of “accuracy” the developer was trying to achieve…
It has definitely become one of the files I least want to touch in the restoration folder.

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It’s me. Employee A.

You often hear people say, “This world is just a simulation.”
After staring at a debug screen for hours, I sometimes look back at reality and… it feels the same.
There are numbers, coordinates, and a button marked “×” to close the view.
Does this screen, too, have its own termination process?

Anyway, onto the main topic.
When I came to the office, the mailbox was full of letters.
All of them addressed to “SCRAP Inc.”
I opened just one — it said only: “Stop the restoration.”
The rest were all written in the same handwriting, no return address.

Even if they were sent to the company, I know what they’re referring to.
They’re about DO NOT PLAY.
Which means they’re warnings directed at me.
But I can’t stop.
The restoration project is a necessary process — to confront this fear, face to face.

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It’s me. Employee A.

Lately, I’ve started seeing something like noise moving in my field of vision.
It’s similar to what’s called “floaters.”
When I move my eyes, the noise drifts to another spot.
I thought it was just fatigue.
But today, that “noise” didn’t disappear even when I blinked.

Now, onto the main topic.
You might remember the drawing shown in the PV — the one that looks like it was made by a child.
It says “Mom,” “Me,” and “Dad.”
The mother’s legs are cut off… something isn’t right.
And the figure labeled “Me” is completely blacked out — no shape, no details.
I tried pressing on the mistake for now, but… I couldn’t bring myself to press it any further.

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It’s me. Employee A.

The elevator in my apartment building was under inspection today, so I took the stairs instead.
By the time I reached what should have been the third floor, the doorplate in front of me read “205.”
Thinking I’d stopped too early, I climbed another flight of stairs—only to find myself once again facing Room 205.
Just as I began to wonder what was going on, a maintenance worker called out,
“Inspection’s done, you can use it now!”
I took the elevator up to the third floor, and this time, I actually arrived where I was supposed to.

This time, DO NOT PLAY will be featured at the indie game exhibition Tokyo Game Dungeon 10, held in Tokyo.
We’ll be distributing both flyers and postcards for the game.

We previously participated in Tokyo Game Dungeon 8 back in May,
and we’re grateful to have another opportunity this November.
If you’re attending, please feel free to drop by!

Event name: Tokyo Game Dungeon 10
URL: https://tokyogamedungeon.com/

Date & Time: November 9, 2025 (Sun) – 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Venue: Tokyo Port City Takeshiba
Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Hamamatsuchō Building
2nd & 3rd Exhibition Halls [Booth 2G-12]


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