<P> A young boy is playing in the street when he hears a scream from his neighbor's house . The boy goes to investigate and witnesses the neighbor apparently locking somebody in his basement . The boy then sneaks into the neighbor's house, finds the key to the basement, and enters . He finds that the neighbor has converted his basement into a makeshift underground dungeon, but finds no sign of any prisoner . The boy then runs into the neighbor and is captured . </P> <P> The boy wakes up, finding himself locked in the neighbor's basement dungeon . He manages to escape his cell and reach the surface, only to find that the neighbor has erected a massive fence around his property to prevent escape . The boy is forced to solve a number of puzzles in order to find a way to escape the neighbor's property . Once he crosses the fence, the boy flees back to his home, though the neighbor does not give chase . </P> <P> Throughout both Acts 1 and 2, if the boy is caught by the neighbor before he can finish his objectives, he will have vivid nightmares about the neighbor's past . In these nightmares, it is revealed that the neighbor used to have a family consisting of a wife, son, and daughter . However, the wife was apparently killed in a car crash while the son killed the daughter . The neighbor then hid the son to prevent him from getting hurt . </P> <P> The boy, now a grown adult, wakes up in his apartment . He is evicted from his apartment, so he decides to return to his old family home . He finds his old home in disrepair while the neighbor's home is also nothing but a pile of ruins . While inspecting the ruins, the man is haunted by a dark shadow - like creature and he returns to his home where he falls asleep . The man is quickly awoken by a child's scream, and he discovers the neighbor's house is back, but now larger, more complex, and more surreal than before . The man navigates the house and has surreal experiences, such as battling a giant version of the neighbor and protecting his younger self from a giant shadow . Eventually, the man finds the exit and wakes up to find that the neighbor's house is still a ruin . </P>

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