Hoshirube Sho Plays Free Doll-Romance Horror Game Silent Wounds - The Doll to Its Ending

NIJISANJI — Hoshirube Sho played through Silent Wounds - The Doll, a horror game about falling in love with a mannequin, to its ending on Monday in a stream of about 39 minutes.

The game follows Victor, who brings home a mannequin from a shipping crate and unpacks it with a kitchen knife. Hoshirube, who speaks of himself as “ore” on stream, noted at the start that the premise had him on the unusual side of a horror story. In the game’s early scenes he placed the doll in the house, put on a record, shelved books and cooked spaghetti for it. A woman named Clara, who phoned and later knocked at the door, grew more worried as two weeks passed with no word from Victor.

“Isn’t it me who’s on the horror side? Is this going to be okay? Isn’t that unusual, being on the horror side myself?” — Hoshirube Sho, as the game began

The middle of the game turned to puzzles. Hoshirube set four clocks to the times given in a riddle, six o’clock, nine o’clock and half past eleven, then matched colors to four empty frames and tracked down a brush and charcoal. A cardboard maze followed, and the stream ended with the confrontation at Victor’s door and the game’s closing scene. “The ending was a classic one,” he said.

He closed by telling viewers the game is free, that its quality, atmosphere and storytelling are strong and frightening, and that anyone curious should try it. His one reservation was that the subtitles are written in an oddly flamboyant, feminine manner of speech, which he said he would forgive as part of the charm.

Chat reacted to that speech style throughout, and the stream drew 15 Super Chats and Stickers.