Expiration

Meet EXPIRATION — a first-person psychological horror strategy game where diabetes management becomes a deadly table duel of numbers, limited resources and hidden information. Measure your blood glucose. Set your insulin dose. Eat when you must. Watch the numbers. Read your opponent. Beat the Doctor Dealer — and take the cure. Or give up before you even try.WELCOME TO THE TABLEYou wake up in a quiet hospital with no clear way out.

Across the table sits the Doctor Dealer. Between you: insulin pens, glucose strips, food, medicine, a medical bag, monitors, papers and a clock. At first, the rules sound almost reassuring. Keep your blood glucose under control. Use what you have. Survive. React before it is too late. Then the Doctor Dealer takes his turn.DIABETES BECOMES STRATEGYYour condition is not a conventional health bar. You have to measure it, interpret it and manage it.

Rapid and basal insulin behave differently over time. Food pushes glucose upward. Previous doses continue affecting future turns. Too much insulin can send you toward dangerous hypoglycemia; too little can leave you climbing toward severe hyperglycemia, ketones and ketoacidosis.A decision that looks safe now may become the problem you have to solve several turns later.…