8 Recent Video Games That Utterly Messed With Your Mind

8. Disco Elysium

When it comes to games that mess with your mind, I would be remiss not to speak about a title that posits you in charge of an already broken one.

Disco Elysium is basically like playing through a mental breakdown in slow motion, showcasing detective Harry Dubois as he tries to solve a murder but finding that everyone and everything, including his own mind, is completely against him.

In a rather unique fashion, Disco Elysium has different parts of your brain feed you responses, information, and stimuli in order to help or hinder your responses, and while listening to your gut instinct might help occasionally, other times it will completely ruin relationships.

It's a game about trying to balance a chaotic mind, and as a result, will often see you make mistakes, trip over your words or even make things worse by trying to do the right thing.

It's a game that teaches you everyone makes mistakes, and that's completely ok, something which other video games effectively try to stamp out, and as such, it's a title that will take up residence in your brain for a long time to come.