10 Video Game Reveals That Make You Wish You’d Given Up Instead
5. Your Wife And Child Are Already Dead - Deadlight
Deadlight, if you haven't played it, is an atmospheric puzzle/platformer in the Limbo/Shadow Complex vein and well worth checking out.
Now, I'm aware that it seems like I've given away the biggest twist in the game with the title, but it's really not.
Our man Randall is looking for his wife and child in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. That's fairly standard, we've seen this plenty of times before. But the "twist" is that every memory he has of them is scarce, with no real established reason for them not being with you from the start.
It's also a bit odd that Randall pics up profiles on famous real-world serial killers along the way, almost as if he has something in common with them...?
Yeah, because he killed his wife and child and then repressed it. Any unreliable narrator that can't account for his actions is going to have a dodgy past, with this one being apparent as soon as the game started and he couldn't remember where they'd fled to.
James Sunderland convinced us he'd done nothing wrong, Randall Wayne was only trying to convince himself.