Venture 04 · Autumn 2026
An episodic audio thriller delivered as incoming phone calls. The number is withheld, the voice on the other end is a real-time AI character, and the story only happens when your phone rings. Answer, listen, speak back.
Withheld takes the same real-time speech-to-speech stack that runs Arc and puts it inside a mobile game: a thriller told through phone calls, with characters that remember you, sound like they mean it, and ring at moments you did not choose. The full story is on its own site; this page is the short version.
It is being built solo, in the open, as an entry to a shipping competition with a hard deadline. The previous entry from the same desk finished fourth of nearly fifty-two thousand. The bar is set.
Autumn 2026, on iOS and Android. playwithheld.co.uk has the trailer and the sign-up; this page will grow when it lands.