KinitoPET belongs to a subgenre of indie horror that I'm not all that familiar with and those are games that mimic the appearance of your desktop.
In KinitoPET, you find yourself being forced into downloading a mysterious companion program onto your computer named KinitoPET, who appears as a round axolotl head with white gloved hands and lanky legs. Kinito speaks in a robotic text to speech voice, further emphasising that the beast your dealing with is cold and calculating.
Throughout the game, weird things happen on your PC, from watching a body being dragged on screen in a flash game, to faces appearing on second monitors (if you have one). One of the wildest things this game can do is actually pull up your real life home address as well as a few other personal details, so if you're a streamer, make sure to turn streamer mode on. If streamer mode is on, Kinito will simply type a message into your search bar letting you know how easily he could get your personal information. This is a moment that genuinely freaked me out while playing.
Another moment that freaked me out was the final segment of the flash game section where Kinito initiates the hide and seek minigame where all of a sudden, you go from the point and click desktop simulator to a first person horror game where you have to hide and stay away from some entity searching for you in some dark place.
As someone who was unfamiliar with these types of games beforehand, I can definitely say I wholeheartedly welcome them now and hope to see more in the future.
In KinitoPET, you find yourself being forced into downloading a mysterious companion program onto your computer named KinitoPET, who appears as a round axolotl head with white gloved hands and lanky legs. Kinito speaks in a robotic text to speech voice, further emphasising that the beast your dealing with is cold and calculating.
Throughout the game, weird things happen on your PC, from watching a body being dragged on screen in a flash game, to faces appearing on second monitors (if you have one). One of the wildest things this game can do is actually pull up your real life home address as well as a few other personal details, so if you're a streamer, make sure to turn streamer mode on. If streamer mode is on, Kinito will simply type a message into your search bar letting you know how easily he could get your personal information. This is a moment that genuinely freaked me out while playing.
Another moment that freaked me out was the final segment of the flash game section where Kinito initiates the hide and seek minigame where all of a sudden, you go from the point and click desktop simulator to a first person horror game where you have to hide and stay away from some entity searching for you in some dark place.
As someone who was unfamiliar with these types of games beforehand, I can definitely say I wholeheartedly welcome them now and hope to see more in the future.