Dead Plate

About Dead Plate

Dead Plate is a short psychological horror RPG with retro pixel art styling, originally created in RPG Maker. You play as Rody, a young man invited to dinner by a charming — and eventually deeply unsettling — stranger named Vince. The game's horror unfolds through a series of revelations that begin as unease and escalate to genuine dread across a playtime of roughly 1-2 hours.

The writing is the game's primary strength. The dialogue between Rody and Vince in the early scenes establishes character chemistry convincingly before the horror elements arrive, which makes the escalation far more effective than if the unease were present from the opening scene. The pixel art direction is deliberately restrained — the most disturbing content is implied rather than explicitly depicted, which gives the imagination room to amplify the horror.

Playing Dead Plate

Dead Plate has multiple endings depending on choices made during the dinner conversations and later exploration sequences. A first blind playthrough without guide assistance is strongly recommended — the game is short enough that the investment is modest, and the revelations are significantly more effective without foreknowledge. Content warning: the game contains themes of violence and psychological horror that may be distressing; it's one of the more affecting short RPG horror games produced in the RPG Maker community.