ADVENTURE · BIG GAME / MARATHON

Book of Awakened Nightmares

An old book opens. The nightmares walk

90 min (Big Game) or 25-45 min play time across 1-5 days (Marathon) · 5-10,000 players (5-8 per team)

No payment upfront · Confirmed in 2 hours

Book of Awakened Nightmares

GETTING IN

Easy to join, no setup needed

Three things to know before your team plays.

Web-based

Runs entirely in browser. No installs, no plugins, no admin permissions.

Any device

Laptop, desktop, tablet, or phone — same experience across screens.

Recommended browsers

Chrome or Safari for stable performance. Disable VPN if you experience connectivity issues.

THE STORY

What awaits your team

Your team headed up to the cabin for a quiet weekend. You found a researcher's diary, an old leather-bound book missing several pages, and the obvious idea — collect the pages, see what the book says. Wrong move. Reading the assembled book woke up something inside it, and now your team is being pulled chapter by chapter into the worlds the book contains.

Three worlds, three tests. The World of Despair has a tree devouring everything alive — the only way out is the antidote a hidden botanist knows the formula for. The World of Rage has lost death itself, and the trapped god Thanatos needs help breaking free. The World of Madness is reality coming apart at the seams, with the Book itself as the final boss.

Defeat the book. Or stay inside its pages forever.

GAME STAGES

Inside the experience — 4 stages

Stage 1 visual — placeholder

Stage 1

The Cabin

A weekend retreat goes wrong. Your team finds the researcher's diary and a leather-bound Necronomicon with pages torn out. Collect the pages, assemble them in the right order, and try not to read the wrong passage out loud.

Stage 2 visual — placeholder

Stage 2

World of Despair

First world inside the book. A monstrous tree is draining life from the landscape. Find the hidden botanist who knows the antidote formula, then dive into the dungeon at the tree's roots to destroy it before its grip spreads.

Stage 3 visual — placeholder

Stage 3

World of Rage

Death has gone missing in this world and nothing can die — including the things hunting you. The trapped god Thanatos needs your team's help with an ancient ritual to break free. Solve the ritual right and balance returns; get it wrong and the rage grows.

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Stage 4

World of Madness

Final battle. Reality is coming apart — monsters chase, geometry warps, the rules stop applying. Combine everything the team learned across the previous three worlds to defeat the book itself. Win and you wake up at the cabin. Lose and the book stays open.

Two ways to play Book of Awakened Nightmares

Pick how your team experiences the activity. Each format has its own flow.

LIVE FORMAT

Big Game

Pick this if your team has a single moment to gather.

Length
70–90 minutes
Players
Up to 10,000 in one live session
Setup
Single Zoom + live host + in-game chat
Best for
Quarterly all-hands · Holiday parties · Kickoffs

How it unfolds

  1. Connection

    Schedule + custom landing page with join button.

  2. Intro & teams

    Host welcomes, divides into teams. ~5 min.

  3. Gameplay

    Players solve puzzles in the 2D world via in-game chat.

  4. Wrap-up & analytics

    Top teams celebrated. HR receives detailed analytics on team performance.

ASYNC FORMAT

Game Marathon

Pick this if your team is distributed across time zones.

Length
1–5 days window
Players
Up to 10,000 — team or solo play
Setup
Self-onboarded via platform + in-game chat
Best for
Distributed teams · Onboarding cohorts · Multi-region offices

How it unfolds

  1. Setup

    Schedule window + custom landing page with join link.

  2. Self-onboarding

    Pick avatar, play solo or create a team room.

  3. Async play

    Progress at own pace. 20-40 min play time per player.

  4. Final scoreboard & analytics

    Scoreboard publishes rankings. HR receives detailed analytics.

MAKE IT YOURS

Customize Book of Awakened Nightmares for your team

Three layers of customization. Make the game distinctly yours.

  • TYPE 1

    Your team as the readers

    The cabin photo album shows your real team as the cabin's previous visitors. The CEO becomes the elder folklore-keeper. The newest hire becomes the one who first read the wrong passage out loud.

  • TYPE 2

    Your office as the cabin

    The opening scene is set inside your real office break room rebuilt as the cabin. Familiar surroundings make the moment the book opens land harder.

  • TYPE 3

    Your team legends as the cursed worlds

    Internal team stories — the famous all-nighter, the project nobody mentions — get woven into the World of Despair, World of Rage, and World of Madness as the trauma each world is built on.

Most popular for: company anniversaries · Christmas corporate · major team celebrations

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FORMAT
players

Min 15 · Max 10,000 · Priced by next tier up

Customization (optional · $500 each)

ESTIMATED PRICE

$1,100

For 50 players · Big Game · 50-tier base $1,100 · base price · customization adds 25-50%

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