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When a mysterious outbreak sweeps through the peaceful Sierra Nevada town, the locals are forced to confront an unimaginable horror—zombies. But the undead are not the only threat. Something more sinister stalks the woods, something faster, stronger, and far more dangerous than anyone expected.

The beings—the mysterious entities that warp time and space—are growing stronger. What began in the isolated woods of Arnold has now spilled into the world at large. Time loops trap people in endless cycles, familiar places warp into nightmarish versions of themselves, and strange disappearances plague the town. Reality itself is unraveling, and the Dunn family is caught at the center.

The Last Game at the Sanitorium follows five friends—Eric, Ethan, Chris, Patrick, and Bobby—who embark on an adventurous paintball game inside the abandoned Sanitorium in the 1990s. Once a tuberculosis hospital, the sanitorium was abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths, and rumors of a haunting caretaker spirit linger. The group, intrigued by the legends, enters the decaying building unaware that their lives are about to spiral into a terrifying nightmare.

The journey began with an escape—one that was supposed to set us free. After breaking through the layers of illusion that bound us in “The Experiment”, I thought we were finally done with the beings, that my family and I could return to the safety of the real world. But safety, I’ve learned, is as fragile as the walls of the realities they create. In those first few moments of freedom, I dared to believe that the nightmare was over. The relentless chase, the manipulation of our minds, the distorted visions of people and places we once knew—it all seemed behind us.

A new world of high-technology, robotic and lucrative healthcare, the X3CR program, instigated by a ruthless company, RemedSys, vying for the position of number one robotics producer in a crowded market.