Sara is Missing
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Android
You found a phone belonging to a missing person. What would you do?
Sara has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and your only lead is her mobile phone.
Search for clues by investigating Sara's personal messages, notes, emails, pictures and videos while trying to piece together her final days. Unlock password protected files, uncover hidden messages and decrypt lost data and figure out where she went, what she did, and how someone can disappear without a trace so suddenly.
About the game:
Experience first hand a found footage style mobile game. Sara is Missing (SIM) is all about the horrors of mobile technology and touches upon the voyeuristic pleasure that one gets from prying through another person's personal items. We store so much information about ourselves on our mobile devices that deducing what we really are like in real life becomes as simple as tapping on a screen.
Features:
- Multiple choices will lead to multiple outcomes and endings.
- Chat with different people at the same time.
- Receive phone calls from NPCs and other mysterious callers.
- Hidden sub plots and extra information to unlock.
- Receive videos and photos from other NPCs.
- Simulated mobile phone helper, providing hints.
- Utilizing a similar typing mechanic as popular messaging apps.
Build Notes:
v 1.7
- Minor content updates and dialog changes
- Fixed black screen issue on certain graphic cards
- Allow bug reporting for Mac and Windows
NOTICE: The game may not work on some Galaxy Tab devices. We are aware of this issue and are working on a fix soon.
Credits:
Idea created by: Tim W.
Game initiated by: Tim W. and GCM Incubator
Mentored by: The Futurist Foundation and GCM Incubator
Script by: Buddy Anwardi, Saqina Latif, Derek Mui
Game developer: Monsoon Lab
Cast: Tehmina Kaoosji (as Sara), David Lee Knighton (as Derek), Juliah Tan (as Faith), Thivian Sivananthen (as Red Mask), Dale Bashir (as Black Mask)
Crew: Dorothy Hogan Yap (Makeup), Erin Sam and Eira Sam (Extras)
With special appearance by: Jordan Suleiman (as Buddy) and Alaska the Cat (as herself)
Featured Band:
The End is Nigh
Video Extract: Marble Hornet Entry #19, Heaven's Gate Initiation, 11B-X-1371 - © 2015 Parker Warner Wright | www.pwwright.com
Image Extract: Tomino's Hell, The Red Room Curse, Creepy Wallpaper
Email: "You Cannot Touch Her" Curse/Binding by @PharWestNagle, The Relevance of Ghost In The Shell, Buddy's Text from Creepy Text Theatre with Sasha Grey
Inspired by: SOMI's Replica
Reviews:
"one of the best horror games of the year." - Rocky Bytes
"Highly recommended mobile horror." - Alpha Beta Gamer
"1,000 times more immersive than Electronic Art's Majestic ever was." - Gravis Ludus
"A FMV horror adventure told through a realistic phone interface" - Pocket Gamer
"Sara is Missing is worth playing any way you can." - PC Gamer
"The presentation reminded me a ton of Her Story" - Rock Paper Shotgun
"a cleverly crafted horror game" - The Bit Bag
"Sara Is Missing's interface is its resounding success." - Kritiqal
"This game is much better than my Replica. Awesome!!!" - @IndieSomi
" Sara Is Missing is most scary when it messes with its own interface or established rules" - Kotaku
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Whenever I open it I can't see my mouse anymore and why I stream and say open IRIS on stream it stays the home screen. Can anyone help?
Do not download this. One of the endings leads to a domain no longer owned the developers, it's now owned by scammers/hackers. You can get a virus or malware from this website. For me, it was the McAfee Total Security "You have 5 viruses! Scan now!" Scam. The game opened to a blank page in my browser and asked for me to allow notifications, I did so thinking it was a part of the game, it then went to a fake McAfee site.
Is this true?
Yep, had to get a new phone because of it
Damn. Hope they remake this game so it doesn’t lead to a site like that.
Same
Found this out the hard way. Luckily I was savvy enough to realize it was a scam since the url changed so suddenly to something unrecognizable (scam websites often redirect a lot to give you malware).
just happened to me i never was so grateful to know my stuff in my life
so just don't allow notifications, and close the tab?
BE CAREFUL WHEN PICKING BETWEEN FAITH AND SARA. IF YOU PICK WRONG YOU CAN GET A VIRUS (I THINK. TELL ME IF IM WRONG)
I LOVE THIS GAME SM
Is the ending when you choose who lives or is it more because my game always crash or end at that part
Does this game include jumpscares?
Yes, which was the reason i dropped the game
now idk if i should play lmao
Scary Scuffed Games #258
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Vorgeschlagen von: Maskedflow
Dieses Spiel ist quasi die Open Beta Version von Simulacra. Es ist der Geistige vorgänger nur weniger hochwertig aber dafür kostenlos.
Leider knallt das Ende heute nicht mehr, da die Koordinaten bei Google Streetview/maps nicht mehr relevant sind und zur Geschichte beitragen. Ansonsten ziemlich witzig, für die damalige Zeit wirklich innovariv, aus heutiger Sicht, aber wirklich trashig lustig und seeehr viel text.
Meiner Meinung nach reicht es einen der beiden Teile zu kennen, und wenn schon sollte man vielleicht das hochwertigere Produkt wählen wenn man das Studio unterstützen möchte.#
Für Sparfüchse: schaut mal rein! Ist mal was Neues. Aber vorsicht vor den Audio Attacken...
Rating:
Dito: 4/5
Chat: 3/5
Gesamt: 3.5/5
I like this game but sometimes crash or hacked?(While hacked)
I got a problem while starting, my cursor is missing and I don't know what to do.
heh, cursor is missing
I tought picking sara means saving sara. this is stupid
I loved this game when I was 14 and played it once in a while, and on every halloween xD
My girlfriend wanted to try this out for the longest time and she's happy she did.
I guess I did it wrong?
nice game
i really like it.
Why EXACTLY did 12 year old me nut over this game?
What...?
Sorry. Bad wording.
About 6 years ago I made an absolutely FOAMING post about how this game was a gripping masterclass in horror in suspense and proverbially coomed over the immense, horrifying plotline, complete with a timelapsed recreation of my exact, panicked, amazed reaction to the game's riveting plot twists.
After replaying it, it's kind of a mediocre plot with ideas that have definitely been done before. It was apparently just too much for my tweezer mind to handle.
damn alr i understand
excuse me..??
lmaoooo I love the out of context comment to this
it's a very basic plot lol but yeah I was also 12 when this dropped 7 years ago. The wording in your original comment is super.. something lol.
creepy
idk how to download this someone help me?
a very spooky and amazing game!
This game was amazing! though i did nearly piss my pants when i played the game but besides that, I love it :)
Why is this game not working with Xbox game bar
I remember playing this game back in 2018 ima be honest there really hasnt been an unique creepy game like this for a quite a long time. I like how they base this off you using someone else cellphone game. Well done.
Cannot WAIT to play Simulacra, Simulacra 2 and Pipe Dreams after this!
Also part 2:Had a blast playing this super unique horror!
Thanks for making such great games!
Pretty good, don't really see the hype but I think that's more of a matter of personal taste and not feeling sucked into it. Maybe there is something more there that I didn't see? What I can say though is that it is very well made. I can appreciate how much effort was put into it. Wouldn't recommend but wouldn't say it's a bad game in the slightest
These developers made SIMULACRA later. If you didn’t play - i highly recommend it.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll try it out
i loved playing this so much , the story and the visual is amazing. I hope there will be more games like this :) thank u for making this game .
This game kinda sus tbh
I finished the games!
i almost threw my computer on the first jumpscare. very good
I remember how i played this game first time in summer of 2017. I remember how i waited first SIMULACRA to be released. But i still memorizing this game, it was first. Best indie horror game.
My browser opens to this website upon exiting the game after every play through.
https://www.replacements.com/china-mikasa-strawberry-festival-dinner-plate/p/872...
Has this happened to anyone else?
Not sure why something like that would happen, just curious about what'd happen if you bought the plate, lol.
SIMULACRA
100000/10
I don't play horror games...
This game is amazing! Loved it!
ughhhh I love games with that kind of freedom, but i'm so scared to play...
I've downloaded it, wish me luck.
did you have fun
I like this game alot and I got some good scares out of it! But there is something about this game that made me confused. Whenever I finish a play through of this game, it sends me to a Microsoft support scam and I just don't like that. Again, this game is great and all but the fact that I almost get scammed when I finish makes me confused and kind of dissappointed :(
Incredible game with a couple of problems, 1 i experianced a few crashes secondly story wise i had a problem with paganism beind used as a evil creepy trope this game could of been amazing without that.
i can't figure out how to open the game??????? idk maybe i'm just dumb
I downloaded it on google play and I just tapped on it and I brought me there. You prob have some technical issues