🏢 Red Springs

Welcome to the Island

You've been hired to oversee an apartment complex on Red Springs, a fog-wrapped island where the ordinary and the uncanny share tea and pleasantries. The building hums. The hallways remember your footsteps. The residents go about their lives as though none of this is strange.

Your job is simple: keep the residents happy, solve their problems, and survive long enough to earn the favor of the Six Influences that live beneath the floorboards and above the ceiling tiles.

What You'll Do

• Manage Residents: Add, edit, and interact with the people who call Red Springs home. Chat with them, solve their problems, watch relationships bloom—and sometimes, witness them marry.
• Navigate the Building: The apartment complex notices everything—kindness, noise, neglect. It rewards attention and remembers rudeness. The building's mood shifts daily.
• Answer the Echo Inbox: Residents, outsiders, and stranger things will call. How you respond shapes who visits and what finds you.
• Handle Quarantines: When residents drift too far into the strange, they may need isolation. Calibrate the purification machine to bring them back.
• Court the Six Influences: The Hearth, The Landlord, The Where-Was-It, The Never-Sunny, The Basement, The Only Tune—each wants something from you and your residents. Some may claim Vessels.
• Collect Decals: Mark milestones, survive anomalies, and prove you understand what Red Springs truly is.

Things to Remember

Time moves constantly. Moods shift, problems arise, and relationships evolve whether you're watching or not. The building is patient.

Attention has consequences. Ignoring warnings invites unwanted guests. Tracing echoes raises resonance. Every choice is noticed.

Nothing is forced. You can always refuse a dream, decline a conversation, or pull away from an Influence. The building remembers, but it doesn't punish curiosity or caution.

The residents have autonomy. They'll make friends, fall in love, argue, reconcile, and surprise you. Your role is to guide, not control.

Before You Enter

The game autosaves every 30 seconds. You can export your save file at any time from the Save & Load tab.

Use the Settings button (bottom-left corner) to toggle accessibility options like OpenDyslexic font, and to control the ambient music player.

If you feel overwhelmed, use the Expand All / Collapse All buttons to manage apartment visibility. The Tutorial tab inside will always be available if you need a reminder.

Red Springs rewards patience, curiosity, and kindness. It also rewards boldness, skepticism, and setting boundaries. There is no single "correct" way to play.