Developer Strange Scaffold is back again with another strange title, announcing its haunted book sorting simulator Something is Wrong With the Library, which will launch on PC via Steam later this fall.
Set in the small mountain town of Sweet Elm, the game takes place inside the Alex Dieter Public Library and Center for Reflection, named for the billionaire who has transformed the town into a curated hub of technological innovation and small-town comfort.
He also happens to have been killing unhoused people and stuffing them in the walls of the library. And as a result, the library is extremely haunted.
With the help of the library’s former administrator, Phillip Shed, players must clean and organize the library over the course of one tense night, shelving hundreds of real books while unraveling a story of complicity, supernatural violence, and what it takes to bring a haunted place peace.
“If you’ve ever been in a library at night, you’ll know that it feels unexpectedly warm and full of possibility–until you hear a single sound you don’t recognize, and realize you’re surrounded by towering shadows.” says studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. “As a former librarian, I truly hope that, despite the objectively messed up things they’re going to witness, everyone who plays the game falls in love with their local library a little more.”
Featuring a fully-voiced story with an entire library of eerie manifestations to unlock, Something is Wrong With the Library features an authentic modern library filled with thousands of real book titles. You’ll be organizing fallen and missing books by Dewey Decimal System classification, author, and title. For more variety, the game features what’s referred to as a Modular Chaos System, where every playthrough gives you a different set of books to shelve.