You wake up in a dark warehouse, tasked with packing orders while something lurks in the shadows. You’re all alone working at a remote fulfillment centre. Your only companion is your cat, a comforting presence in the vast, dark warehouse you are stationed in. Start each shift by reviewing incoming orders, as the demands increase, unlock deeper sections of the warehouse and uncover its unsettling secrets. But it’s not just your survival, your cat depends on you. Work fast, stay safe, and protect your cat. He’s all you’ve got...

Something dark hides in the shadowy corners of the warehouse

Order 13's tag line, "work fast, stay safe and protect your cat" pretty much encompasses the whole gameplay of this title.

You are stuck in a room packaging orders for delivery from goods requests which are sent via a ticket. The game gives you your first item which you need to box up, fill with packaging material and then you close and label the box for delivery. For each successfully sent you’ll get paid.

There is also another goal orientated task for you to continually complete. With the money you make you must keep your cat happy, keep him happy and he won’t wander off into the warehouse to be eaten. The little bugger also has a happiness meter which goes down for the time you spend away from it and up for all the unearned treats you’re going to have to give it, pretty much like real cats.

At the beginning this all sounds a bit like a boring simulation game, which is until you venture into the warehouse to get more items. Here the game enters the realm of horror survival, for something dark hides in the shadowy corners of the warehouse, along with a fair amount of dismembered viscera.

The game is a little on the repetitive side, but the game's makers make good use of a darken environment along with suitably creepy sound to create a horror experience.

You’re all alone working at a remote fulfillment centre

Unfortunately, there is less variety than one would like and the continued packing and the repetition in threat make the creeping through the warehouse less impactful as time goes on. On top of that there is little in the way of narrative or character development. You don’t really know why there is a creature in the warehouse where it came from or why it appears to kill anything it comes across.

The game does deliver with its tension as you need to go deeper into the warehouse to gather packages before your feline friend gets bored, enters the warehouse only to get killed.

The game is relatively short and the ending abrupt, but for fans looking for a creepily tense experience, for quite a small price, this may be one to look at.

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Charles Packer