DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

You play as Price, a young man seeking a partnership at a prestigious company by repossessing property. After he takes the home of an elderly woman, the work begins to weigh on him, and the story follows his struggle with its consequences.

Explore side-scrolling locations, talk with characters, inspect objects, and collect items to use in environmental puzzles. Movement and interaction are simple, and these activities guide you through the story.

The short, single-player adventure uses pixel graphics, lighting, music, and sound to create a psychological horror atmosphere, with touches of dark humor. The Deluxe Edition adds color, environmental lighting, enhanced animation and graphics, refined audio, and an updated interface.

Players often praise the story’s focus on ambition, conscience, and the consequences of Price’s work, with many describing it as emotionally affecting or thought-provoking. The unsettling atmosphere, music, sound design, and pixel-art presentation also recur as highlights. Some enjoy the straightforward puzzles as a fit for the story, while others find the gameplay too simple, the walking slow, or the brief runtime unsatisfying; reactions to the horror and story are not uniform.