Tending Grave

An is 23, out of work, and takes a job looking after the Vĩnh An village cemetery for one reason: the ad showed a green lawn, a fish pond and a flock of swans. The first day of work is the 1st of the 7th lunar month, the day the gates of the underworld open. Thirty days of probation. The cemetery looks nothing like the photo. The pay comes in an envelope that smells of incense. The manager only ever calls after dark. And the rules pinned up in the watch hut sometimes gain a new line, written in red ink… TENDING GRAVE is a cozy-creepy narrative horror game, hand-drawn like a storybook, played with one hand on your phone. BY DAY, TEND THE GRAVES • Clean headstones, pull weeds, burn incense, sweep leaves, feed the fish, cut paths into forgotten rows. Every job is its own small game. • Time never stops. A duty sheet slides under the door each morning. Scroll your phone too long and you miss the incense. • The cemetery remembers: cleaned graves grow moss again, fresh flowers wilt. BY NIGHT, WALK THE ROUNDS • Take your flashlight down every row. If something is wrong, write it in the duty book. Do not touch it. • Keep the hut lamp burning all night. If someone calls your name from behind, do not turn around. • There are seven rules. Which ones are real is for you to work out. THE ONES WHO STAYED An old sticky-rice seller who sits by the incense urn every afternoon. A soaking-wet little boy who plays by the banyan and asks strange riddles. A soldier who has forgotten his own name. And a girl in red at the end of the path, a little closer to the hut every night. Help them, and learn why no one else will keep this cemetery. • The 30 days of Ghost Month: 6 chapters, about 5 hours. • More than 15 mini-games and 8 puzzles woven into the story. • Several endings, plus a hidden one for those who dare to draw talismans. • An's phone: texts from Mom, a social feed, music, calls at midnight. • Sound that tells the story: the insects fall silent before something happens. Headphones recommended. • Vietnamese, English, Simplified Chinese. HOW TO PLAY Tap to walk. Double-tap an object to use it. Press and hold to write in the duty book. CHAPTER 1 IS FREE Play all of Chapter 1 (day 1 to the Double Seventh) for free. One purchase unlocks Chapters 2 to 6 and every ending. No ads, nothing else to buy. Content note: horror, jump scares and themes of death, including the death of a child.

Tend graves. Keep the rules.