I reviewed this further at http://briebeau.com/thoughty/33in28-week-1-reviews/
The premise alone is utterly fascinating, where you as the player character are imprisoned with nothing but some scraps of paper, the body of the previous inhabitant, and a bleak pit that beckons you to death. Through a crack in the wall, One White Eye glares through off and on, and the text asks, “Does it want you to write or leap?”
The mechanics are simple. You roll a d20 to consult the prompts and journal about it, and add 1 to a Dread tracker that starts at 0 based on particular prompts or if you roll the same prompts twice. If you roll the same prompt twice, you additionally roll a d6, and if you roll above your current Dread you live, if not, you throw yourself into the pit. A terrifying end, but potentially a relief from the haunting eye and isolation.
I find myself unnerved by the concept of suicide, but reading through the prompts I find myself fascinated by how terrifying it would be to be often silently, or not-so-silently, watched by a blank eye staring through a crack in the wall of my nightmarish isolation. Seeing things through walls particularly frightens me, so this struck right into my lizard brain and made me spooked! I think the well written prompts and queries also really help guide you to scare yourself more than the text will scare you itself.