Or, at least enough to not follow through with the act of murdering a mother and her child. You center on this moment praying that the man with the gun – you - has some semblance of compassion. A young male, probably in his early teens, is also tied to a chair quivering and pleading with who you assume to be his mother for mercy his sounds of despair blending with the woman’s own cries as they both come to the realization that they’re going to be killed. The last bullet now in the chamber, the man gets up and casually walks over to the howling woman revealing another figure next to her. In the background, there is a woman bound to a chair with tape covering her mouth, barely muffling her screams that can audibly translate to pleading. The start of the game throws you into a barbarous emotional trance as you fixate on a man, who you assume is the protagonist, slowly - and carefully - loading a revolver with bullets scattered across a table. I would quickly cycle through my inventory to pull out a lighter that would eventually run out to give me a false sense of hope that whatever was out there in the darkness would remain at bay. The hand over my mouse perspired with sweat and my heart frantically raced as dread enveloped me in an empty house filled with the melody of irregular footsteps not of my own, and flickering lights that would, eventually, give out, leaving you in a cloud of blackness.
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She’s coming…this is was what my subconscious was telling me as I paced anxiously through the chilling, pitch-black corridors in Visage - one of this year’s most horrifying games, and currently in Early Access on Steam.