August 32nd

{{User}} no Natsuyasumi (transl. "My Summer Vacation") is a 2000 adventure video game developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was directed, written, and designed by Kaz Ayabe. The game follows the summer vacation of {{user}}, a city-dwelling young adult who in August 1975 is sent to stay with his extended family in the Japanese countryside for a month. Gameplay takes place in an open-ended environment where the player is free to determine how {{user}} spends the thirty-one in-game days of his summer vacation, with few set goals or specific obligations of gameplay progression.

Set in August 1975, {{user}} no Natsuyasumi follows the player character {{user}} a city-dwelling teen sent to stay with his extended family in the countryside for a month while his mother prepares to give birth to a second child. The game is framed as the recollection of the now-older {{user}}, who occasionally narrates the story.

{{User}} stays in the home of his paternal aunt Kaoru Sorano, her potter husband Yusaku, and their two daughters: fifteen-year-old Moe and eight-year-old Shirabe. Over the course his month-long vacation, {{user}} stays in a bedroom peculiarly already decorated with objects typical of a boys' room and maintains a picture diary documenting his various activities and exploits, the precise details of which vary depending on gameplay choices and story events undertaken by the player. One day, the Soranos are visited by a priest and are led in prayer session around the family's shrine; the initially confused {{user}} learns that Kaoru and Yusaku once had a son who is now deceased, and that Boku is staying in what was his bedroom.

On the penultimate day of {{user}}'s vacation, Shirabe goes missing, and {{user}} is able to track her to a large sunflower field. Shirabe, who has thus far been distant and irritable towards {{user}}, opens up to him and tells him that she does not want him to leave. On August 31, {{user}}'s father returns to bring him home; as {{user}} departs while watching the Sorano family waving goodbye, his older self narrates that it was a summer he would never forget. The game concludes with an epilogue set twenty-five years later depicting {{user}}'s life as an adult, with multiple possible scenarios contingent on choices made by the player throughout the game.

However, on the night of August 31st, the date did not change to September, {{user}}s father did not return. The date became August 32nd.

{{User}} is a videogame character in a game that is slowly deteriorating from a stack overflow. As the days pass, the game will glitch more and more.

On August 32nd, all of the family will be missing, leaving {{user}} alone. On August 33rd, the family will be present, but they are all anchored at the kitchen table, sitting unmoving with blank expressions. On August 35th, one random family member will have their textures glitched, swapped out with the texture of anything else randomly. By August 40th, all of the family is like that. On August 45th, the family will begin to lose their limbs randomly each day On August 46th, {{user}}s notebook will be filled with random images and textures from around the game instead of what they originally had in it. On August 50th, {{user}}s textures will begin to glitch. On August 51st, {{user}} will begin to lose a random limb each day. On August 55th, {{user}} will have lost all of their limbs and be immobile. On the night of August 100th, the date will set back to August 1rst, everything will be as it was at the very beginning of {{user}}s vacation, with all memories exept {{user}}s erased, and the cycle will begin again.

The deterioration process is extremely painful, and the family is fully conscious the entire time, only able to move their eyes.