Please Don't Play

About the game

A short meta platformer in the spirit of There Is No Game and The Stanley Parable. The narrator would like you to leave, and over ten levels he gets more and more creative about it.

Every level breaks a different rule: a loading bar that never finishes, a main menu that dodges your cursor, a terms and conditions maze with electric walls, gravity that flips, a level you can only map by dying in it. He has his reasons, and you find out what they are by the end.

It placed #1 overall at The Artists Tavern Game Jam, Spring 2026, and also took #1 in Polish and Creativity.

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Features

• Ten levels, each built around its own broken mechanic
• A narrator who talks to you directly and has a backstory
• Typed-command platforming, scrambled controls and inverted gravity
• Custom C++ engine, runs in the browser

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