Stories Untold is an episodic horror adventure-puzzle video game developed by No Code and published by Devolver Digital.
Written and directed by Jon McKellan, the game was released on 27 February 2017 for macOS and Microsoft Windows, for the Nintendo Switch in January 2020 and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in October 2020.
It's revealed in the concluding fourth episode that the games are actually all connected in a single story revolving around one player character, James Aition.
The player enters and explores the building, finding his old (and fictional) "Futuro 128k +2" computer, with the same copy of The House Abandon.
When The House Abandon restarts, the environment is different; The eyes are scratched out in photos on the desk, and the digital clock is reset.
They come upstairs, full of anger, disturbed thoughts, and suggestions of vague but horrible past events.
Dr. Daniel Alexander is remotely directing a series of experiments on "artifact 23", recovered at a crash site and now sitting in a chamber among the laboratory machines.
The artifact appears to be an animal heart, which Aition exposes to lasers to restart its beating, before causing it to explode through sound waves.
While he is walking back, miscellaneous objects appear in the environment, as the other stations command James to "wake up", and "tell them what happened".
This episode begins with the game's opening sequence, thereafter paused as the camera pulls back to reveal it is playing on a television.
The microfilm now displays the police report: James was in a car crash with his sister, Jennifer, trapped and critically injured.
The other driver, Charles Hennings, a retired police officer, was killed, smelling of alcohol with an empty bottle found in the passenger seat.
After completing a puzzle, a friend of Hennings, through a message, claims he never talked about alcohol and accuses Aition of irresponsibility.
The game switches then to the laboratory, where the interactions with the machine mirror a life-saving operation on himself in the emergency room, where he arrived with no pulse.
At the house, full of people due to a New Years' party, James, who is set to leave on a long trip, finds a gift bottle of whiskey from his father, and gets drunk on it.
On the road, Jennifer realizes that James is drunk, but can't convince him to pull over, and they crash into oncoming traffic.
The sphere then transports him back to the hospital, with the voice of Jen berating him on his behavior and actions, saying that he has to admit his guilt.