CITY OF ONE

In City of One, the object is to avoid being seen.

• You begin at a random point in the city. If you are seen, you die.
• You cannot leave the city. If you try, you die.
• Your wellbeing starts at 1 out of 100. At 0, you die.
• To maintain your well-being, steal food, water, and shelter. If caught, you die.
• Remaining unseen does not increase your well-being.
• Sleep does not increase your well-being or decrease your exhaustion.

Remember: You are surrounded.

You will be seen if you are:

• Heard by someone.
• Too close to someone.

• Recorded by a camera.
• Captured by a microphone.

Traces you leave may make others curious. If discovered, you die.

Remember: Covering your tracks also leaves tracks.

Side quests include:

• The Government Is Concerned: The authorities hunt you.
• There Is Work to Be Done: Teachers and employers hunt you.
• What Is Wrong with You: Doctors and therapists hunt you.
• Your Disappearance Was Noted: Strangers and neighbors hunt you.
• But We Love You: Friends and family hunt you.

Remember: The city is not your ally.

Challenges include:

• Only You Can Help: Your conscience hunts you.
• No One Cares: You cannot help checking whether others are hunting you.
• Someone Should Care: You cause someone to hunt you.

Remember: You are not your ally either.

At the start of the game, you possess:

• One power: Mind Shield.
• One item: Invisibility Cloak.
• One skill: Hide in Plain Sight.

Remember: None of them work for long. Nothing does.

Strategies:

• You cannot be seen until after your initial movement, so never move.
• Reveal yourself immediately.

Remember: There is no winning move.

City of One is a single-player game. If you click on the multi-player option, you die.

It is also a single-play game. If you die, you may not replay it. If you try to play it again, you die.

Remember: You will be seen.

CITY OF ONE 2

City of One 2 is a hidden game at the end of City of One. The object is to be seen.

• You begin at a random point in the city. If you remain unseen, you die.
• You should not leave the city. If you do, you die.
• Your well-being starts at 1 out of 100. At 0, you die.
• The more you are seen, the higher your well-being. At 100 you become Overexposed, and you die.
• Sleep does not increase your well-being or decrease your exhaustion.

Remember: No one really wants to see you.

You can be seen by:

• Getting into a great school.
• Getting a great job.
• Getting a great spouse.
• Getting a spouse who is seen.
• Having kids who repeat this cycle.
• Displaying fashionable food, clothes, and shelter.
• Getting surgery to look like everyone else.

You can be unseen by:

• Getting into the wrong school.
• Getting fired.
• Getting divorced.
• Remaining single after 30.
• Having kids who repeat this cycle.
• Being unfashionable in unfashionable ways.
• Looking like yourself.

Remember: When others see you, they want to see who they themselves want to be.

The lower your well-being:

• The more rapidly it decreases.
• The harder it is to increase.

The higher your well-being:

• The more precipitously it can decrease.
• The harder it is to maintain.

Your well-being decreases:

• If you remain unseen for a certain amount of time.
• If it is not increased after a certain amount of time.

The higher your well-being, the shorter this time is.

You cannot be certain how much time this is.

Remember: A high well-being does not mean you are winning. Or well. Or being.

You can also be seen by Performing Spectacles. These include:

• Quitting your job in protest.
• Committing adultery.
• Committing a crime.
• Getting dramatically injured.
• Dramatically injuring others.
• Taking an unfashionable stance that soon becomes fashionable.
• Becoming a meme.

Subsequent spectacles will decrease your well-being unless you have installed either the “Hot Mess” or the “Table Flipper” expansion pack.

Remember: Spectacles define the real you for anyone watching, whomever you imagine you really are.

Side quests include:

1. Who Am I: Touch up your profiles.
2. Is This Who I Want to Be: Touch up your photos.
3. How Did I Get This Way: Touch up your resume.
4. Look, I Got a New Follower: Touch yourself.

Remember: You are not real. You are seen.

Challenges include:

1. Nobody Knows the Real Me: Create a whole new you.
2. Haters Gonna Hate: Force others to see you in a whole new way.
3. I Hate Myself: Try harder.
4. Aging Out: Everything gets harder.

Remember: You are your own reward. And your own worst enemy.

At the start of the game, you possess:

• One power: Passionate Drive.
• One item: Exclusive Accessory.
• One skill: Relentless Positivity.

Remember: None of them work for long. Nothing does.

Strategies:

• Keep your head down.
• Keep your chin up.
• Do something about those lips and that forehead. And your chin. And belly. And ass.

Remember: Twisting yourself into knots is a great way to get seen.

City of One 2 is a single-player game. You are on your own.

It is also a single-play game. If you die, you may not replay it.

Remember: You will stop being seen.

CITY OF ONE

City of One is a hidden game at the end of City of One 2. The object is to avoid being seen . . .