Make new nightmares with recently resurfaced 1999 horror game Garage: Bad Dream Adventure

An obscure Japanese horror game from 1999 has been translated into English and made available to play online, just in time to introduce some new images to your nightmare Rolodex this Halloween. It’s called Garage: Bad Dream Adventure and, true to its name, seems to have sprung from the tortured mindscape of a mechanic working 90-hour workweeks.

The player character looks like the Eraserhead baby fell into an industrial landfill covered in glue and the setting is a grimy, labyrinthine garage constructed of wood and rusting metal. Everything looks uncomfortable, and it sounds even worse—the background music mostly consists of a synth accordion playing endless funeral dirges. Text displayed in the opening cinematic tells us, “it will be alright, please trust Garage” before showing off the game’s cast of fleshy robot characters and introducing us to the protagonist, which is searching for its “shadow” in order to avoid being “forced to live in my own past.”