I'm scared and confused

This is art, because it provoked strong emotions in me, and the dev is an artist, because they made this thing which I hate.

Complete lack of introspection or reflection. Comes across as the sort of person who uses therapy-speak as a cover to be callous and evil. Multiple times in this interactive experience are cries for help, cries for other people to stop their own lives to help this person, who has admittedly gone through serious trauma. It's a subtle and insidious form of narcissism, to completely miss the fact that literally everyone else in the world is going through similar things as you, if not worse. When you whine about how people telling you to move on, to not overshare, to hold it in, it's because they're doing those things as well. They're angry at YOU for breaking the code, for being so oblivious as to think that you're the only one going through ♥♥♥♥.

The anti-capitalist woe-is-me screed falls flat when the game's riddled with typos and general errors. No industry is ever 100% fair, but art, and games in particular, are the fairest there is currently. You fail in this industry if you make a ♥♥♥♥ game, or make a game that's unoriginal, and the raw truth of it is that this genre of trauma-art-psychological interactive visual novel media is the easiest of all game genres to make. You are plain delusional if you think that you're doing the same level of hard work as some other dev that was successful.

The world does NOT owe you anything, actually. To be all bleeding-heart about how we need more compassion and kindness and honesty and then invoke the concept of "emotional labor" and cry for everyone else to help you is the height of hypocrisy. If you're not willing to help other people, and if you're not already helping them, why do you expect them to help you? Sorry, but you must participate in your own survival.

But I got my money's worth in that it made me do some reflection.

I'm definitely going to be returning to this game just to read the poems and do the funny little interactive games. Unfortunately, I took a buncha screenshots which steam did not register properly- so I just advise that anyone who play this game use a different screen capture program than the one steam offers.

Anyways, my review is in the form of a poem because why not:

"Your words have pierced my heart
like the winds of a deathly winter.

With wounds now exposed,
I breathe differently now.

The cold air fills my lungs,
giving me the clarity to see
pieces I've left behind,
pieces of what's left of me.

To be honest, I'm usually pessimistic,
hopeless,
and lost.

But now I see I'm not alone, and
you alone have given me a cause.
I have no choice but to
glue myself back up together

So,
I too, will join this fight.
As a stubborn one
who refuses to die.

Thank you for making such an amazing game,
and for filling the void with a little light.

You deserve better too. You've made it, right?"

amazing!

This ♥♥♥♥ goes deep.

If you have EPILEPSY, never look at this.


This is pretty insane? In a good way.

Essentially an art game, containing weird minigames and commentary on various heavy topics. A fair bit of the content is hidden, so pays to pay attention to small details to click.

Can be funny at times, but also depressing.

This kind of thing isn't "played" for gameplay but for the experience. If you're into that idea and you can handle heavy topics, then this is a must-play, I'd say. It'll be subjective whether you get into it.

It's not exactly subtle, but now that I've thought about it, I suppose art necessarily isn't, or has to be.


Also, this "game" is apparently is in the Museum of Modern Art.

i played this years ago

needed it then

This Game Fills a Childhood void.

thank you for being here.
each day is a testament to your strength. to all of our strength.
keep going.

I've wanted to write about this game for a while in an elaborate review but I've never found the time to do it.

This game has a lot number of reviews so I'm just going to do a short one.

This is the best game about trauma I have ever played. If this were the greatest RPG or FPS it would have millions of sales but people aren't interested in playing games about trauma.

Alienmelon is one of the greatest currently living game developers. Unfortunately greatness does not equal widespread fame or sales.

Please don't get me wrong, their works have been shown in the museum of modern art but that doesn't translate into steam reviews.

If you are reading this then you are lucky you discovered a hidden masterpiece on steam.

Even if you aren't in the mood to play it now, please consider at least wishlisting it or looking it up on itch.io.

Your life will be a little bit fuller for having played this.