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Reddit post · Sep 30, 2026

I made a free browser game where you can change your past through your childhood diaries, and every fix breaks something else

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comrade_pogacaReddit · Sep 30, 2026

You find your childhood journals. Some pages are blacked out, and you don't remember those days.

Click an underlined moment and you're back there, age 7, 13 or 17. Do one thing differently, come back, and watch your present rewrite itself word by word. Your sister is fine now. Your best friend isn't.

Five people matter to you, and the game is built so >!you can't keep all five!<. There are 21,880 possible timelines and none of them saves everyone. Every jump also costs you memory: words in your journal go black, and some moments are lost for good.

Around halfway, the journal starts acting strangely. >!Lines appear that you didn't write, and there are notes in your mom's handwriting.!< There are five different explanations for what's going on, and each one leads to its own ending.

It's all text, with no build and no install. One run takes 1.5–2 hours, and seeing every ending takes 3+. It's in 12 languages.

Content note: death (including a child's), addiction and families coming apart, told quietly.

Would love to hear some feedback!

Edit: https://games.panikka.studio/the-journal/

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