10 Video Games That Deal With Difficult Themes

1. That Dragon, Cancer

Disco Elysium Harrier Du Bois
Numinous Games

Few of us can fathom the grief that comes with losing a child. That's why I don't feel right spending quite as much time on this entry.

Amy and Ryan Green hoped to not only portray the grief felt to an audience but also have the audience shoulder that grief to a degree as well.

You see from first and third person. Almost all in abstract blocks of colour. Reflecting the far-from-real and sterile nature of hospital halls and waiting rooms. Whilst also exploring the beauty behind the time Amy and Ryan spent with Joel.

This will always be their story, of course, but countless people have appreciated the story they have told, of Joel's story.

"You can create this world and ask the player to live in it and love what you have created." - Ryan Green

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Johnny sat by the fire, idly swirling his brandy, flicking through the pages of War and Peace, wondering whether it was pretentious to write his bio in the third person.