The Garbage Chute

Your wife won’t let you go to bed until the rubbish is out.

It’s only a walk down the hall.

The Garbage Chute is a seven-night first-person horror game set inside an old Japanese apartment block. Take out the rubbish, come home, and try to sleep. Each night, the familiar route becomes harder to trust.

High-quality desktop downloads are available for Windows 64-bit and Mac (Intel + Apple Silicon).

HOW TO PLAY

Choose the ZIP for your computer and extract it. On Windows, run The Garbage Chute.exe and keep its supporting folders together. On Mac, open The Garbage Chute.app.

WASD: move / crawl

Mouse: look

E: interact

F: flashlight

Shift: hurry

Escape: pause / options

Fullscreen: use the button in Options. On Windows, F11 or Alt+Enter also toggles fullscreen.

Adjust mouse sensitivity in Options. Headphones recommended.

If you are caught on night seven, Retry Night 07 or R restarts that night.

MAC RELEASE

Requires macOS 12 Monterey or newer and Metal graphics. Native Intel and Apple Silicon support. This independent prototype is not Apple Developer ID signed or notarized; first-launch instructions are included. Gameplay testing on a physical Mac is still pending.

CONTENT NOTE

Sudden scares, flashing lights, blood and disturbing imagery.

A playable horror prototype. Asset credits and licenses are included in the download. AI-assisted code, imagery, dialogue, voices and sound are used in this project.