Inside Velvet Tuesday: a lit dance floor under a gilded ring of pendant lamps and a crystal chandelier, with a balcony above.

A first-person night in Midtown Manhattan, November 12, 1954. You came through the DJ booth from 2026, and the last train home leaves at 12:04.

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Uptown local, 47th Street

Tonight's stops

The night runs from doors at ten to the last uptown local. Follow the story, or ignore it and live in 1954 for a while.

  1. Velvet Tuesday

    The club on 47th Street: a lit glass dance floor, a mirrored onyx bar and REXA at the booth. Bruno decides who gets past the rope.

    The queue outside Velvet Tuesday at night: a red carpet, a velvet rope and a bouncer by the porthole doors.

  2. Upstairs in the lounge

    Crystal chandeliers, white tablecloths and Velma singing under a gilt sunburst. Somebody in this room has seen your visor before.

    The supper-club lounge: round tables in white cloths, velvet tub chairs and crystal chandeliers.

  3. Dottie's and 47th Street

    Pie and coffee under a pressed-tin ceiling, a paid shift if your wallet's light, and a row of shops across the street to wander into.

    Dottie's diner: a checkered floor, a long counter and a pressed-tin ceiling.

  4. Times Square

    Tail a man in a grey hat crosstown through the lights. Stay close enough to follow and far enough that he never looks twice.

    Times Square at night, with lit signs on the towers and a subway entrance on the plaza.

  5. Pier 47

    Slip past the watchmen into the Meridian warehouse, where somebody has been working out the Seam on a blackboard.

    Inside the Meridian warehouse: whitewashed brick, roof trusses, hanging lamps and benches of radio equipment.

  6. The uptown local

    The last train. Be on the platform, or stay in 1954 for good. There are two endings.

    The 47th Street subway platform: white tile, mosaic name tablets, period advertisements and the tracks.

The whole city is open

Walk from the club to Broadway, Belmont Park, the Garment District under the El and the North River piers: about a kilometre of 1954 Manhattan, with traffic on every avenue and people on every pavement.

The in-game street map: named streets, parks, the El and five subway stops.
Press M for a street map. Click anywhere to mark a route; the arrow at the top of the screen leads you there.
A 1950s sedan on a wet street at night.
Drive any parked car. Checker cabs, '54 sedans, a finned limousine and a police cruiser. Press F at the door.
A subway stair head with green globe lamps on Times Square.
Take the subway. Five stops on the IRT and the Third Avenue El. Press E at the green globes and pick a stop.

How to play

WASD
Walk. Hold Shift to hurry.
Mouse
Look around. Click the screen to grab the mouse.
E
Talk, use, buy, sit, board the train.
F
Get in or out of a parked car.
M
Open the street map.
L
Your wallet, job and home.
V
Hold to see echoes, once the visor is tuned.
Esc
Pause, settings and saves.

On a phone or tablet, use the stick on the left to walk, drag to look, and tap Use to talk.

Your progress saves itself in this browser as you play. To move it to another computer, open the menu, choose Save & backup, and download a backup file.

If the game feels slow, choose a lower graphics setting in Settings. It reloads with the new setting and keeps your place.

What's new

  1. A living city

    Version 34, October 2026

    Traffic on every street with signals at every junction, stone-dressed windows on 47th Street, and pavements full of people.

  2. Velvet Tuesday

    Version 33, October 2026

    The club rebuilt as a 1954 ballroom, doors that open on every building, a line with a bouncer, a real IRT platform, and far more lifelike people.

  3. The map and the subway

    Version 32, October 2026

    A street map of the whole city, a minimap, subway rides between five stops, and new interiors from pressed-tin ceilings to the Meridian warehouse.

Read the full changelog

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