9 Terrible Things Recent Video Games Made Us Do
4. Desecrating Your Sister's Corpse - Martha Is Dead (2022)
Set in the picturesque Italian countryside during World War II, unflinching psychological horror Martha Is Dead sees Giulia discover the bloated corpse of her titular twin sister in the lake near her family’s home. But when their grief-stricken mother arrives at the scene and mistakes Giulia for her sister, the surviving sibling inadvertently takes on Martha’s identity.
What follows is a twisted exploration of Giulia’s unravelling mental stability as she becomes haunted by her inescapable trauma and grief over what’s happened as she’s forced to live with the aftermath of her decision.
This game pulls absolutely no punches when it comes to depicting its hard-hitting themes (the title even begins with a severe content warning). Those familiar with this game will already be aware of a sickening dream sequence in which Giulia cuts off her dead sister’s face, but things get much worse.
Late in the game when Giulia suspects that Martha may have been pregnant when she died, she takes it upon herself to discover the truth. She breaks into the family crypt and, using a pair of scissors, cuts open Martha's womb to find a small foetus inside.
If you're playing on PlayStation, however, this sequence (alongside others) is not interactive.