WHERE TO? Puts Infection Checks in a Night Taxi at BIC 2026
WHERE TO? turns the pandemic-era dilemma of trusting others' self-reports into a gameplay loop where physical signs, not words, determine who lives, and it is being built by a student team targeting a Western market.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
At BIC 2026 in Busan, 4Gamer played the horror game WHERE TO?, where a taxi driver in a quarantined city must decide if each passenger is infected. Developer APES, a five-student team, aims for release before graduation. A Steam demo is live with Japanese support, and early access starts soon.
WHERE TO? puts the player behind the wheel of a taxi in a city sealed off by an unknown virus. The driver, a former researcher at the company AXIOM that created the outbreak, must judge each passenger by visible symptoms: black fingernails or multiple pupils mark an infected person. Every action builds stress, capping how much the player can investigate before deciding.
Reaching the destination with a guilty verdict means executing the passenger with a revolver and heading to an incinerator. Monsters also attack mid-route, forcing the driver to steer and deploy shields. One ride takes about five minutes, with roughly 13 passengers across five days, and multiple endings hinge on the driver's recovered memories.
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