Inside

2025-05-30

With knotty limbs intertwined, we roll down the hill to our demise. Remember us not for who we were but what we were: a writhing mess of horrible bodies. Oh god. Can you imagine the smell?

2022-05??
Wonderful little game. Incredible how there's no dialogue and the entire thing is just 2D platforming with some puzzles and yet it tells a pretty engrossing story.

The story as far as I can tell is a child who escapes from some sort of dystopian society. You begin by just creeping through the woods and then you see trucks hauling off people and realize you're hiding from men with guns and dogs and searchlights. You eventually end up in some sort of giant facility that collects people who seem to be some sort of zombies. It's unclear if they're slaves or being experimented on but whatever is going on doesn't seem right. The continues to escalate until you realize you have the power, via some device, to control the minds of the zombie people. Then you find a giant blob of these people kind of fused together underwater. They're contained in some sort of giant observation chamber watched by scientists or employees of the facility and while you're trying to free them you get sucked into the ball. You then become "one" with the ball and wildly the rest of the game sees you controlling this giant mess of limbs trying to escape the facility. While it seems like many people want to hinder your progress, at each section there are dissenters who try and help you by holding doors open and so forth. You eventually get out but fall down a hill and seemingly die.

It's a wild story. And it's wonderfully designed such that while no one says anything you are able to pick up on the fact that these people are helping you.

It's also oddly a horror game. The subject matter and setting are very creepy but you're also chased by mutant pigs and dogs and robots and so forth.

All in all it's definitely worth the 3 hours or so it took to play. I'm not a huge fan of puzzles and the platforming was mostly just alright but I give it big points for its storytelling and inventive world and plot.