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The game started in the middle of a street. No main menu, no settings. The graphics weren't just high-definition; they had a tactile quality. He could almost smell the ozone and cut grass through the monitor. He moved his character—a nameless avatar in a grey hoodie—toward a house with a familiar cracked mailbox. "Wait," Leo whispered.

He didn't want to look back. He looked at the monitor instead. The 0.7beta version of Sunville was no longer a simulation of the past; it was a live feed of his own living room. And on the screen, his avatar was no longer a character he controlled. It was a doorway. File: Sunville-0.7beta1-pc.zip ...

Leo had found the link on a forum thread that had been deleted minutes after he refreshed the page. The "0.7beta" tag suggested something unpolished, but the rumors claimed it was a hyper-realistic simulation of a town that didn't exist—or perhaps one that had existed too well. The game started in the middle of a street