Inspired by escort mission games, Escort Yourself Out asks you to help your childhood self navigate triggering environments. While moving through everyday spaces fraught with triggers, you must take action to care for yourself in order to navigate the situation. It is an autobiographical representation of some of my experiences being mentally ill.

This game discusses some of my experiences being mentally ill and dealing with trauma. Everybody experiences mental illness and deals with trauma differently. This game is meant to be representative of some parts of my experiences, and no one else's. I am not claiming or attempting to represent a universal experience of mental illness and trauma (because there isn't one), but, rather, just one manifestation of these things - my manifestation. Maybe our experiences look totally different, and that's fine. Both our experiences are valid, even if they look nothing alike. This game is also not an attempt to represent the whole of my experiences. It's just showing little parts.

Content warnings: discussion of trauma and triggers, eating disorders, OCD, depression, misophonia, victim-blame and self-blame. Vague mention of a specific childhood trauma (though no details are given, there are several common interpretations, most of which involve abuse of some kind). Representation of eating disorder-, OCD-, misophonia-, and trauma-related triggers.

Please play the game at an aspect ratio of 16x9.

UPDATE 5/21/2023: having issues with the mac build that i cannot currently figure out and have no way to address at the moment! until i'm able to figure it out, i'm going to keep the mac build down entirely - so sorry about that! if you'd like to be notified when the mac build is eventually back up, please dm me on twitter or leave a comment here telling me so and i'll be sure to update you!