10 Video Games That Deal With Difficult Themes

So, Lisa: The First is, uh, it's very strange. On its surface is a Yume-Nikki...look it up. It's a Yume-Nikki style game for the most part. But the further you venture into this strange nightmarish land of a game you realise something. This is, despite all of its seemingly random structures, in fact the story of a young girl trying desperately to escape the abuse afflicted on her by her father, Marty.

Following this, we were given Lisa: The Painful, which followed Brad as he attempted to find his ward, Buddy. Becoming maimed and mutilated along the way. I'm try not to give away too many spoilers here, but the core of both games' narratives are the destruction that parenthood can hold over a child. One being violence. The latter being protection to a fault.

The saddest thing that can be gleaned from the final game, however, is that by holding an unwavering need to protect someone you inevitably end up smothering them and becoming a monster yourself.

Which...perhaps that same child you raised and/or smothered might too...in the future...look there's another game, okay? Go play all of them.