After trading space babies and running people over with a truck, Strange Scaffold want you to organise a haunted library in Something is Wrong with the Library

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After trading space babies and running people over with a truck, Strange Scaffold want you to organise a haunted library in Something is Wrong with the Library

Rock Paper Shotgun · 1 hour ago

Strange Scaffold has announced *Something is Wrong with the Library*, a horror game about organising a haunted small-town library. Its story links the haunting to gentrification: a billionaire’s redevelopment of the town included killing unhoused people and hiding their bodies in the library walls, making the game’s supernatural premise a critique of complicity and urban change.

Players will have one tense night to clean and arrange the library with help from its former administrator, Phillip Shed. Books are organised using the Dewey Decimal System, while a modular system changes the books to shelve each playthrough; the game also features a mysterious area called The Drowning Room. The article raises the question of whether the game will address the system’s creator Melvil Dewey’s documented prejudices and misconduct, and says the game is due by the end of the year.

  • Strange Scaffold announced a horror game about a haunted, gentrified town library.
  • Players organise changing book collections during one tense night.
  • The game is due by year’s end and may explore the Dewey system’s history.

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