Blue Rider announces Apartment Story release for September 26

Blue Rider Interactive today announced a release date for its upcoming narrative thriller-adventure game, Apartment Story. The game releases on PC via Steam on September 26. The developers have also released a trailer showing more of what the game entails — a third-person title that features life sim aspects intertwined with a mystery.

The player character is Arthur, a video game journalist who is visited in his apartment by two other characters and at some point a gun is revealed to be hidden somewhere in the apartment. Players have to navigate an increasingly tenuous social situation while also tending to Arthur’s daily needs: They have to eat, shave, use the bathroom, sleep, shower and tidy up the apartment while the game uses a real-time day-night cycle. There’s also the option to not engage with the story and outside characters at all, though they won’t engage with the outside world at all if they do.