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The Dark Gift drops you into a chilling holiday scenario: you awaken in your own basement with no memory of how you got there. As you stumble back upstairs, festive lights and decorations remind you it’s Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Your wife and son have gone shopping, and the house is eerily quiet-until a doorbell chime interrupts the silence. On your doorstep lies a mysterious gift box. What lurks inside may turn your holiday cheer into pure terror.

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Visually, The Dark Gift embraces an old-school, VHS-inspired aesthetic. Grainy filters, washed-out colors and retro camera glitches evoke the feel of a vintage camcorder recording. This unconventional graphic style instantly sets a tense atmosphere, as if you’re watching real home-video footage of something going horribly wrong.

Sound is equally important here. Footsteps creaking on wooden floors, distant muffled whispers, and sudden audio distortions work together to raise the hairs on your neck. No jump-scare soundtrack clichés-just realistic ambient design that keeps you on edge, listening for what might be lurking just out of sight.

The narrative is compact but effective. In roughly 30-40 minutes, you’ll explore the house, search for clues and confront a dark secret hidden inside that gift box. The story builds steadily, and by the final moments you’ll be leaning forward, heart pounding, desperate to know how it ends. There’s no pause menu or settings screen to break immersion-your only options are language selection at the start, or quitting via Alt+F4 (or clicking the portrait in the entryway).

If you’re looking for a short, atmospheric horror experience that blends retro visuals with modern sound design, The Dark Gift delivers a tense holiday thrill. It may be brief, but its unsettling vibe is likely to linger long after the credits roll.

Key Features:
- VHS-style graphics with retro camera effects
- Dark, suspenseful story set during Christmas and New Year
- Compact playtime of 30-40 minutes-perfect for a quick scare
- Immersive, realistic sound design that heightens tension
- Minimal interface for uninterrupted horror (no in-game menu except language)