The Hat Man - Trip Reports

A browser-based narrative-puzzle game about a supernatural entity known as 'the man in the hat,' who preys on people experiencing drug-induced overdoses and hallucinations. You play as someone who survived such an overdose and can now see this creature; each night, you monitor forum threads where victims post in real time, decode their location from contextual clues in their messages, and race to find the correct house before the entity reaches them. Once you locate them, you must keep the creature in your peripheral vision to prevent it from advancing, then guide the victims through protective rituals and remedies—drawn from folk superstition—to bring them back to consciousness. The game features five acts with escalating stakes and procedurally generated content, so each playthrough presents new victims, new threads, new locations, and new ways the entity infiltrates their space. All visuals, music, and sound are synthesized in real time; nothing is pre-recorded or stock.