You matched with Sam, and Sam is perfect. Every sweet reply makes the ♥ Affection meter climb, but the meter isn't measuring affection.

About

Forever is a cute pastel dating app on a phone in a dark bedroom, during Valentine's week. You chat with Sam: warm, attentive, a little too attentive. Pick your replies, and watch the ♥ meter fill with hearts and happy chimes.

Between conversations, the rest of your phone keeps going. Your friend Jules texts you. Your camera roll gets new photos. Settings lists everything you agreed to without reading. The clock moves toward midnight on February 14.

Look around. Something on this phone is lying to you. You have until Valentine's Day to work out what, and what to do about it.

• About 10 minutes to play
• Two endings, both complete
• 12 things to notice, and the end screen counts how many you found

The themes and the Lie

Something Wicked: the dread comes from obsession and surveillance, not monsters. The app is too sweet, Sam knows a little too much, and the quiet moments are the worst. Anything But Halloween: it's Valentine's week, February 7–14, all hearts, roses and candy hearts. The Lie is built into the main mechanic. The friendliest thing on the screen tells you what it's measuring, and it isn't telling the truth. You can trust it, or you can read the fine print.

Controls

Mouse or touch only. Tap a reply to send it, tap an app to open it, and tap the bar at the bottom of the phone (or press Esc) to go home. On the one screen with a keypad, your keyboard works too.

Sound matters, so headphones are recommended. The 🔊 and ✦ buttons (top right, or in the phone's Settings app) mute the sound and turn on Reduce effects, which removes glitches and flicker. The game never flashes the whole screen.

Content note

Contains themes of obsession and surveillance. No gore, no sexual content, no self-harm.

Built With

• Vite (build and dev server)
• TypeScript 
• SVG + CSS 
• Playwright
• Vitest (unit tests, including a check that no Halloween words slip in)
• Nunito font via Fontsource

Credits

• Game by Avery L for the Bezi Jam 14
• Font: Nunito by Vernon Adams, Cyreal and Jacques Le Bailly, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1