User:SalmanObaid/Mariam Game

Mariam is a horror video game developed and published by Salman Al-Harbi, released on July 25, 2017, and works on Android and iOS devices. The idea of the game revolves around helping a girl named Mariam reach her home with a series of questions asked by the girl that vary in quality according to the player's progress in the game.

Playing Style
The events of the game revolve around a little girl named “Mariam” who is lost from her house. The player must help her and guide her to reach him. During the play, the girl begins to ask a series of questions such as (What is your name? Where do you live? Do you see me beautiful? Do you want to know my father? Do you want Can we be friends? Is your real name appearing? … etc.) It may include a set of personal data and to answer the player has options to click and Mariam answers according to the player's choice. After his success in delivering Mariam home, she asks him to meet her father, after which the questions are completed, and the player may reach a stage that asks the player to wait until the next day, that is, 24 hours to complete the questions again. It all takes place in an atmosphere with terrifying music and images that give a better horror experience.

Controversy
Despite the popularity of the game in the Arab world, specifically in the Middle East, it has become a great controversy. One of the most important of these issues is the type of questions directed to the player regarding his personal information, and some said that it is very similar to the Blue Whale game, which is also concerned with personal data, They also called on users on social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook....) to stay away from the game.

But the developer of Mariam game has denied that the game saves the data it collects through the questions it asks the players, pointing out that each stage ends with its questions and answers and does not save them in the next stage.

Awards
Mariam game was nominated among the best mobile games in the International Mobile Game Awards.

Personalities
There are characters that appeared in the game besides Mariam character, including:

The Witch: The Witch of the Palace behind the Cemetery is light, moves using the wind, and has a bodyguard named Alexander.

Hazbouna: She lives in a cemetery for the dead, she is more than a thousand years old, and she has a bodyguard named Socrates (a young man who was injected with bat genes).

Scheherazade: A very beautiful character who lives in the Valley of Ghosts next to the King's Palace and all the jinn armies are under her command and bodyguard named Kennedy (the character of the horror rabbit).

Darius: a king, a wise and a brave leader in alliance with Scheherazade, whose palace lies beside the Valley of Ghosts.

Developed studio
In 2021, large companies tried to acquire Mariam game, and the acquisitions were unsuccessful.