10 Video Games Hiding Sinister Secrets

Like Final Fantasy IX, Psychonauts has a bright, 'cartoony' aesthetic that hides some very dark themes and concepts. Very dark indeed.

This 2005 platformer revolves around Raz, a trainee Psychonaut (an elite group of espionage agents with special powers such as telekinesis) who barely begins his work as a 'Psycadet' when he uncovers a mystery at the Psychonauts' training centre that he must get to the bottom of.

To do so, Raz must flit in and out of the minds of various characters, discovering and resolving their inner issues to allow him to continue progressing through the training centre. One beloved character, Milla Vodello, has a past that you really probably won't want to dive too far into.

Head into a secret room in her mind and you'll learn a horrifying tidbit about the so-called Mental Minx. She once worked in an orphanage, and returned to it one day to find it engulfed in flames.

All of the children she had cared for perished, we learn, and with her keen mental abilities she felt their last terrifying moments herself and heard their fruitless screams (so does the player in this horrible room).

Utterly traumatised by this event, Milla began suffering from nightmares as a Psychonaut. With her positive outlook and the game's overall zany vibes, it's incredible that her mind holds such a tragic secret.