10 Video Games That Deal With Difficult Themes

Upon arriving home, you find the town is very much the same and somehow beyond recognition simultaneously. The storefronts are empty, the streets dilapidated, and yet the same people are milling around doing what they always have.

You walk up the steps of your childhood home, as though you're sixteen and drunk, sneaking past your parents hoping they wouldn't hear you returning despite knowing the time the train would arrive to the minute. You exchange awkward platitudes, trudge up the stairs to your childhood bedroom - somehow different - and fling yourself upon the freshly made bed. You lie there. And you think about failure.

That's the crux of Night in the Woods. It's a rumination on failure. Not simply the personal failure many of us feel if we have to return home with no job post-uni or post-dropout, but also about the failure of previous generations to ensure that many of us could turn out just as special as we were promised we always would be.

But (lighten up, Johnny!) it's also about putting your pretense and assumptions behind you and reconnecting with those you maybe thought you were 'too cool' for at one point. There's so much more but...