Granny (video game)

The game is centered on using a variety of items in a period of five (or six, if a picture puzzle is completed) days to escape the house while avoiding Granny, who is on the lookout for the player.[4] The player can escape by removing the locks on the front door, by repairing the car in the garage,[5] or by removing the locks from the vault door at the sewer tunnel. These all require a different set of items.

Granny roams around the house searching for the player, she uses any sound they make to her advantage and sets bear traps to hinder the player's progress. If caught, Granny will knock the player unconscious, which ends the current day and sends them back to the bedroom they started in. The player can also get knocked out by several other environmental hazards such as Granny's spider or falling down from the attic. If the player is caught on the last day, a "game over" cutscene plays and the player is shown a scene of Granny killing them in first-person view and sent back to the title screen. The player can defend themselves from Granny in a few ways such as making her unconscious or blinding her temporarily by using a variety of different traps and weapons that can be found in the house such as the shotgun or pepper spray.

The player has the option to choose between five difficulties: Practice, in which Granny does not appear, Easy, Normal, Hard, and Extreme. There are also other options to turn on: Nightmare, which alters the graphics and audio and adds spectral mice as an additional hazard, Extra Locks, and Darker, which limits the player's field of vision. The higher the difficulty, starting from Easy, the more locks on the front door, the faster Granny is, and the more floors creak. Both Extra Locks and Darker are enabled and cannot be disabled in Extreme.

In the Windows port, the environment is completely dark and the player must equip a flashlight in order to see.

The game became a viral hit on various social media platforms, becoming the second-most-viewed mobile video game in May 2018.[6]

William Lewinsky of Indie Game Critic gave the game 10 out of 10 stars, praising its controls as "very well implemented" and its sound effects as "stellar", while also stating that it was effective at scaring the player.[7] Neilie Johnson of Common Sense Media gave the game a negative review, giving it 2 out of 5 stars, declaring that it "feels like a prototype for a more finished app", and criticizing its graphics as "bland", while nevertheless finding that it was frightening.[8]

• Official website