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Who Left It On?

Key art. At night in the rain, a person in a blue coat and red scarf and their travelling companion reach the barrier of a lit water plant, under the game’s title in glitching pixel letters.

The world is in a water crisis. Many treatment plants were abandoned because the water coming out of them was contaminated, and you reach one of them to find out what is happening. Something’s in the water.

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The game

A narrative mystery adventure, in pixel art.

A serious, cinematic story about a world running out of water, its most valuable resource, and falling into crisis because of it.

Many treatment plants were abandoned because the water coming out of them was contaminated. You arrive at night at one of them, and your mission is to find out what happened and bring it back to life. It’s played in chapters, like a series, in the browser on your computer or phone.

Trailer and screenshots

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Screenshots from chapter 1

  • An overview of the plant in the rain, with a supply tent, the big tanks, the pond with water lilies and the treatment tanks.

    The plant

  • The plant’s entrance at night, with the parked car, the gate and the blue street lamps, and fog covering what you haven’t explored yet.

    The entrance

  • A note open on screen, the warehouse inventory, with your character inside the lit warehouse at night.

    Read the notes

  • The round water treatment tanks, with their walkway and a ladder.

    Treatment

  • The charging station with solar panels, where a beam of light links a battery to the equipment while your character connects it.

    Charge the batteries

  • An access puzzle with four coloured symbols to light up in the right order.

    An access puzzle

  • A wrecked car on fire on the wet asphalt, with debris scattered around and the glow of the flames on the ground.

    When things go wrong

What you’ll do

A whole plant to uncover

  • Your character walks at night next to the car, at the edge of the area you’ve already explored, with fog covering what you haven’t seen yet.

    Explore the plant

    Stores, workshops, a pond, tanks. Every corner hides something.

  • A supply tent with notes, a key and barrels, and a bottle of water on the ground in the background.

    Gather what’s left

    Water bottles, keys, fuses and tools. Almost all of it will come in handy later.

  • A lit workshop with tools and a note on the bench, and your character walking past in the rain.

    Read what they left

    Notes, notices and logs from the people who worked here.

  • The main generator puzzle, with pieces of wire to turn until three lamps light up.

    Get it running again

    Light puzzles with wires, sequences and valves to bring the power back.

The world

Transmission · Link Network

  1. 01 The silence

    For years, the Link Network kept the world’s treatment plants connected. Then, one by one, they fell silent.

  2. 02 A world in the dark

    Plants out of service. Systems abandoned. Signals that stopped answering. Nobody knows yet what happened.

  3. 03 A signal

    But some stations are still there. One has just answered.

  4. 04 Your station

    It is damaged and waiting for someone to start it again. Restore it. Recover the signal.

Link Network · Notice

Signal received: PLANT 7. No response for 1,142 days.

Recommendation: do not enter unresponsive facilities.

(These notices exist to be ignored. This is the tutorial.)

This is how chapter 1 begins, with the first notice on your car’s terminal.

In chapters

The story arrives in chapters

The first one is out now. The next is in development, and more will follow.

  1. The animated cover of chapter 1. Your character next to the car, at night in the rain, facing the plant’s lit gate.

    Chapter 1Out now

    The Abandoned Plant

    What on earth happened here? Explore Plant 7, bring its power back and start to uncover what happened.

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  2. Chapter 2In development

    The story continues

    No date yet. It will be announced on Discord, on X and on the blog.

    Hear when it’s out

  3. Then

    More chapters

The author’s plan is to release a new chapter about once a month. It’s an intention and not a promise, because the game is made by one person.

Who makes it

Made by one person

I had wanted to tell this story for a long time, and I wanted to tell it through play, in chapters, like a series. Water connects all of us, which is why it is at the heart of Who Left It On? Everything in the game is fiction.

I write the story, design the mechanics and build every chapter on my own, with Tale Rocket, an editor I made so I wouldn’t have to program each scene. For part of the art I rely on AI tools. The story, the design and the decisions are mine.

I publish it for free so anyone can play it in their browser.

Keidegger Silva Experience designer and author of the game

Community

Stay close

New chapters are announced here first. It’s also the place to talk about the game and see how it’s coming along.

Discord Where everyone meets. Talk to other players and to the author. Join the server
Other ways to support the game

Questions

Quick questions

All frequently asked questions
Is it free?

Yes. It’s a personal project and it’s free to play in the browser. If you like, you can support the project.

Do I need to download anything?

No. It plays in the browser on your computer or phone, upright or on its side. If you like it, you can install it as an app from the browser itself.

Do I need an account?

Not to try chapter 1, although that game isn’t saved. With a free account (email or Google) the game saves by itself and you can carry on on another device.

How long is a chapter?

It depends on how much you explore. You play at your own pace and, with an account, you can stop whenever you like and carry on later.

Who Left It On?

Somebody left it on. Go and find out who.

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Credits

A game by
After Signal · Game Studio
Idea, design and direction
Keidegger Silva
Art
Keidegger Silva, with the help of AI tools
Made with
Tale Rocket, the author’s own editor
Typefaces
Grifo Pixel, made for the game · DM Sans (OFL licence)

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