10 Video Games We All Played WAY Too Young

3. Still Life

By 2005 a lot of parents had cottoned on to the cheeky Postals and Resident Evils of the gaming sphere.

The shooters, horror games, and crime-simulators that had made their way onto home consoles through some Christmas shopping error or grandparents birthday gift debacle were beginning to become a thing of the past. Enter Still Life, a point-and-click adventure game from Microids who were at this point known in part for the dreamy, charming Syberia point-and-click adventures. Innocent parents who watched their children lapping up the game about the mammoths with the cool automatons in it might have decided to grab this one the very next year and that, my friends, would be where the error began.

Still Life tells the story of cop Vic McPherson and her grandfather in parallel as they both pursue two copycat killers in their respective time periods who are characterised by maiming and killing sex workers. Yeah.

While there’s no combat in this game, the themes are beyond mature, there are graphic crime scene photographs, many of which you’ll be taking yourself, and plenty of scenes that I promise will never, ever leave your brain. Especially if you played this as a kid. Locations in said game include but are not limited to; a high end BDSM brothel, an abandoned crack house, and more fresh bloody murder scenes than you can shake a stick at.

On the upside for us now the pre-rendered cutscenes mean the game still looks beautiful, though that was certainly not a bonus when you were a kid seeing this stuff in even higher definition.