
First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.
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Protect yourself as long as you must in Box of Broken Nails - a surreal horror experience.
Use your hammer and nails to board up an unknown door with something breaking out. Find resources around your house and nail down planks in time. Don't let it open. No matter what.

There is only this one note, it reads:
"Since I started living here alone, the nights felt endless. I barely remember if my halls have been this way before. Lately I hear the sounds of my work from behind the walls. The plates are shattering over and over again. I’m just making things up again, am I not? There was never anything wrong with...
And even if, it changes nothing — what matters is that I simply must continue and make, make…
...Make it go away."
No text notes, no audio logs. The story unfolds through the gameplay itself and what it evokes in you.
A stressful game loop that changes over time.
An unexpected turn of events.
Only one outcome.
Box of Broken Nails contains flashing lights, strong camera shaking, and intentional visual distortion effects. Please use caution if you are affected by flashing or rapidly moving visuals.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish, Indonesian +15 more
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NAILTACULAR
great game with a lot of clever symbolism, the imagery does a great job setting up the right atmosphere and telling a narrative that can be read into a lot of different ways
el mejor juego de terror
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Hours played at review time, across 197 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
yeah its a spooky box of nails
Dont ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ play this this is the scariest thing i have ever had the misfortune of playing :(
No jumpscares in my horror game? wowie Also I feel like this gameplay loop would go well as an endless game with, I don't know, roguelike elements? Some randomness is what I wanna say. It's a great game and a really great idea, outside and in-between the words too.
It's a bit over half an hour long, incredibly scary, and very well written (without having a single line of dialogue). I think I understood what the devs wanted to tell me and it's a message I appreciate. Thanks for this game!
Very good short horror experience, if you dont get sucked in to the backrooms. Picked up to play before i watched the PowerPak video and was not disappointed!!
Neat little horror experience which has a secret roblox obby attached to it. Very frustrating but it's not required. If you're playing on Steam Deck I highly recommend forcing steam compatibility and using your favorite Proton version. By default the game uses Proton Hotfix (I think) and it runs pretty bad. I used GE-Proton11.5 and it ran like a champ.
30 minute horror game, trust.
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