The Blue Hours
Night shift at a suicide-prevention line, told across one year of calls.
- ~19 min (estimated)
- 4319 words
- 11 scenes
- 2 branch points (script estimate)
- 1 endings (script estimate)
2 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
Cover art · generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game · licensed music, credited in the build · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
Ines, 33, is good at this and bad at asking for help herself. Her supervisor is the only person who sees both. A caller she cannot forget returns four times. Careful, non-instructional writing throughout, with resources on the title screen.
Content notice
- Suicide, suicidal ideation, and crisis-line work (non-instructional; no methods detail)
- Grief, isolation, and professional secondary trauma
- Burnout, self-neglect, and reluctance to seek help
- Boundary violations between helper and helped
- Coercion pressure within care systems / performance metrics
- Alcohol as coping
- Sex cuts away at the door
- Resources listed on title screen (local emergency services, IASP, etc.)
If this is close to home: findahelpline.com lists free crisis lines by country.
Cast
- I Ines Calderón no portrait yet
- M Marcus Webb no portrait yet
- J Jonah no portrait yet
- P Priya Nassar no portrait yet
- L Leo Hart no portrait yet
- R Renee Okonkwo no portrait yet
- S Sam no portrait yet