Player Comments on Repression

General Recommendation: I definitely recommend this game, in addition to the usual elements of humor in EndMaster’s works, this one has an additional layer of depth.
Preview: Can you break out of the cycle of emotional repression you’re stuck in in a way that improves your life?

=SPOILERS BELOW=

General notes:
I think this work is best read after one has already read a number of EndMaster’s other games and has a sense of what to expect from them. The way this game subverts player expectations means more when you fully understand how different this game could easily have been.
In a lot of ways, I see this game as a companioin piece to “A very special choose your story” (hereafter called AVSCYS). Both focus on the misadventures of a high school loser, and both are incredibly clever in their own ways. However, while AVSCYS focuses on the powerlessness of the narrator to change things, this game does the opposite: It focuses on the incredible power and agency the narrator has to affect the world around him.
Whereas in AVSCYS, no matter what you do you wind up dead or otherwise humiliated, in this game all of your actions are charged with consequence and meaning. Every action you take has an effect on your mental health and the lives of others. The wide variety of endings is where this game really shines. This, more than anything shows the power the narrator has to turn his life in a multitude of different directions.
This game also deserves praise for the complexity and nuance of its moral lessons. Too many similar stories seem to be trying to deliver a message that can be boiled down to a neat pithy phrase (as done humorously in AVSCYS). However, these pithy phrases can never be applied in all cases in real life. By instead showing how different actions have different outcomes in different situations, this game potrays a much more powerful statement about the complexity and difficulty of navigating of the real world.

Specific notes:
-The repeated refrain of “you feel nothing”, echoed across many of the bad endings really hammers in the bleakness of the narrator’s life. He has no hopes, no connections, nothing to live for, and can’t see any way to change his situation. The fact that this refrain is repeated multiple times helps to make this sense much more powerful. The wide variety of nothing endings makes the endings where you do succeed more powerful.
-Most of the “you feel nothing” endings do this, but the catatonia ending in particular shows just how detached and hopeless the protagonist of this story is.
-The sequence where you kill your mom and go on a shooting/try to cover it up with your sister is somewhat disconnected from the rest of the story, but nevertheless plays an important role. Covering up the murder shows the sense of panic and disorientation that prevades the narrator’s life; after having killed his mother, he’s more shocked and surprised than anything else.
-This game really gives the player two kinds of choices: You decide what to do, and then you decide how to feel about it. After killing your mom, you can panic, or you can keep your head. After deciding to go on a killing spree, you can decide if you care about revenge, or just causing chaos. This game is more than just events happening one after another, it’s an exploration of the ways the narrator’s emotional reactions affect himself and the world around him.
-I like that characters appear across multiple branches, and that events remain consistent. Henry is bullying Aaron when you arrive at school no matter what, but depending on your earlier choices, your reaction to this event can be very different. At the same time, the player is allowed to get different information about the characters depending on which path they encounter them on. On the shooting path, you don’t learn much about Jessica, but what you do learn adds depth and groundwork to her appearances in other pathes.
-Again, I’d like to draw a contrast between the shooting in this game and the one in AVSCYS. While that game focuses (very effectively) on the dark humor of the situation, this one takes a much more introspective look at the narrator’s decisions. EndMaster is capable of approaching the subject from a variety of different angles, each of which have their own value.
-If you do choose to follow the school shooting path, it’s fitting that you can’t get any endings where you feel something. You can die and find a kind of peace, but no outcome leads to any kind of emotional resolution. This isn’t the way for the narrator to find answers.
-The narrator finds relief in some of the “you feel nothing” endings, which is fitting. Many people in depressive states like this one are reluctant to leave them because of the emotional vulnerability they’ll be opening themselves up to.
-It’s interesting the wide range of interaction the narrator can have with the mother. There’s the incest, obviously, but there’s also murder, alleigance, hate, compassion, and disgust. It can be tough to have such a wide range of character interactions while keeping all personalities consistent, but neither the narrator nor the mother ever seem to deviate from their base personalities. The wide variety of interactions sheds light on the complex relationship the characters have, rather than feeling like disparate stories.
-You can get positive endings by choosing to side with your mother or sister, as doing this is at least expressing some kind of emotion. However, dividing your family means you can’t get the best ending of making peace in your family, you can only improve your own personal situation.
-After siding with your sister, the game has a nice progression where you can choose whether to interfere or not in a variety or disputes. In some cases your help is appreciated, in others, it’s obnoxious or unwelcome. The game does a good job of showing how the context of the situation matters, and that good ideas and principles can’t be applied unanimously to every situation. Trying to get too big too fast is just as depressing as doing nothing, and ultimately drags the narrator back down into his depression.
-The game also shows well that choosing to change and rebel isn’t enough, you have to do so thoughtfully and effectively, otherwise you’re just trading one bad situation for another. You can end up becoming just like your sister, or just like your mom, who are each dysfunctional in their own ways. Or, you can get a lifestyle that seems superficially satisfying, but doesn’t resolve any of your internal doubts.
-I like that the game allows some endings to be mediocre, like the one where “you feel normal”. There’s no real victory here, but things have changed a little, in a way that is mostly positive. This reflects real life, most of the time outcomes aren’t clear cut.
-All of the arcs in this game are about power, but the arc where you side with your sister is about aggressive power. You are not a peacemaker, but you can be a victor, a bully, a rebel, a defender, or any number of active roles. This is a good contrast to the arc where you side with your mom and never get access to the same kind of power, and to the arc where you side with neither, and develop the power to affect positive change in more subtle ways.
-Again, reaching out to your mom works, reaching out to Henry doesn’t. Different approaches are needed for different people.

Grammar
There are a few grammatical errors in the game.
Mastery of Language
Sentence structure is mostly good, though there are issues in places.

Branching
Quite good, there’s a lot of different ways this game can go. The wide variety of different possibilities adds to the game’s theme.

Player Options/fair choice
Not great, certain actions lead to choices the player doesn’t really have control over. But that’s not really the point of this game, so it doesn’t create any problems.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: Playing this game a few years ago, the very first ending I reached was group hug.

CONCLUSION: An entertaining, well written, and surprisingly thoughtful look at the life of a repressed teenager.

Ahh, finally the random storygame button was good to me.

Repression might be Endmaster's simplest and most straightforward game. It's a very quick read and while the story has these big moments of dark and absurdist humor, I think many can relate to the loner high school loser who just feels dead inside. (Especially on this site.)

Emotions as the tagline suggests are a key thing here, the better endings all require you to break the cycle of numb repetition the character's life has become. Although doing that of course is easier said than done, because you're weird fucking loser and much of what you awkwardly attempt will backfire. But approached this way, even ending up catatonic in a mental ward can be seen as a small success.

Then there's the points where the game is clearly just having fun with you as you begin your day, getting ready to deal with your overbearing mom and then going to school, as kids will do. Hugging your family after a heart to heart talk, that kind of thing. (While trying to shove the body in the closet was so messed up and hilarious that I remember it clearly from when I first read the game years ago, it's a wtf moment that outshines the more infamous hug scene in my opinion.)

The "hug" by the way, even though it's a meme by this point, it doesn't read as all that shocking? The events are unexpected, but Endmaster has a tasteful way of handling phrasing so that it's clearly just going for laughs and the surprise factor, not actually mind scarring or anything as people sometimes build it up to be.

Once all the mayhem and fun is had on the opposite path, the 'true' winning endings of the game are actually quite wholesome and healthy, with good moral lessons all around in how to be a normal person, more confident and emotionally connected to people without going overboard. The sister also gets a surprising amount of characterization once you actually start to talk to her, and I liked Jessica too despite her not having a huge role in things.

If this had only been featured in the old School-Based section all along, it might've inspired copycats and then we wouldn't have had to nuke that category.

This game is actually kind of artistic in an unexpected way. It’s got the gross-out comedy and the over-the-top sexual and violent situations from Basement Dwellers, but this is way more sophisticated.

The constant refrain in the endgames of “You feel…” followed by the emotion you’ve found was great. That was artistic and interesting and tied the whole game together, making it feel like one unified entity.

I think the game sort of folds into three part, and I discovered the three parts in exactly the right order. First you experience stumbling through the horror and the bleakness, and the no-way-out of dead-end emotions.

You can’t help anyone, and you can’t impress anyone, and everything is horrible.

Then, you figure out, wait, I can do stuff with these emotions. I can shoot people and defeat them physically, and degrade the bodies of the people who humiliated me. It’s a kind of hollow victory, and the game clearly shows that that sort of victory kind of sucks. Or do nothing at all and end up a catatonic shell. This part shows what happens when the repression of the main character is ripped suddenly away.

Then you figure out that you can create more real victories by taking a stand and supporting your mother or sister and not escaping or keeping your head down. And this way, yes, you get the incestuous stories, which is another kind of repression lifted, but aside from the shock value there’s surprisingly hopeful and happy endings with no shock at all. Now I’m dating Jessica, and things seem brighter. Or now I’ve allied with my sister, and I have a friend in her and the air is getting cleared. I would *never* have expected those ending to be here, and I actually found them better written than any other endings. (aside from the shooting at school, barricaded with Jessica. That was pretty brutal and really well written too.)

So I went into this thinking I know what I was going to be reading, and about 1/3 of the way through, I realized that there was more depth here than I thought. I’m authentically impressed.

Ok

Always hate when theres only one correct answer to choose and the rest end the story, whats the point in having opinions then???

That was interesting.

Well articulated story. Would love to read more.

...i'm just gonna say that so far, each and every single ending is f*cked up. its interesting tho.

ended up in jail, nice

Repression isn't so simple as one would believe when first playing through this dark but hilarious tale.

Like onions and ogres, it has layers.

<<<SPOILERS BELOW>>>

You play as a very mentally-flawed teenage boy with a cunt for a mother and a whore for a sister. In other words, the gods dealt you a shitty hand. The point of the game seems to be the message that, just like in real life, you can either focus on playing that hand as best you can or intentionally throw the game and face the consequences.

You can try and get through everything as normal a person as possible, well-meaning in intent and thought, or you can go absolutely batshit insane and check out the darker paths and endings. Some are even heavily mixed in bad and good, such as the incest ending. Endmaster seeks to have a bit of commentary many people should hear, but he doesn't take it too seriously, and people who don't need to hear this message can still get a kick out of it.

No matter what you're going through, you can still choose to change and live the life you truly are able to. Maybe even have the reputation you seek and the relationships you dream of. The point is to try, but not try too hard. This all shines through in how the game is written; chase after Jessica and it turns out she actually likes you, but don't be too pushy with helping her, and be patient and not a fucking monster on your first date. Repair your relationship with your sister, but don't pick fights you can't win and white knight a relative, but also don't obsess over her approval and join her in her irresponsible habits.

Its a humorous yet darkly-real take on mental health and being "normal." Some concepts such as these have real roots to them, and those should be discussed over letting people revel in true faggotry.

On my first day on this site, I dare say I had a "Repression" moment, where I tried too hard to earn approval from people I liked on an internet level and ended up being a huge retard. I had to step back and realize what I was doing, and, like the character in this game if you make the right choices, I chose redemption, or at least an attempt at it, rather than dying a massive asshole.

Whether intentional or not, EndMaster crafted a cautionary tale, here, and a fun one at that.

Wow! I shot my mom from under covers! Lol!!! That was a fun ride.

What the fuck is that..."Get ready for her" = kill your mom? The fucking hell

pretty garbage

Short and simple story about Author thinks that dysfunctional family problems can be solved with threesome incest. Had no fun, owuld not recommend. 2/8.

super weird and random

WTF... I got the mom-sis fuc ker ending on first try.

So on my quest to review a ton of games, I thought, “Hey, why not read another EndMaster story?” So I’m going through his stories, looking for something short and sweet, then I stumble across a story I can’t believe I missed. At long last, I have found the emotional teen story my heart has longed for since I was a young lad, and written by EndMaster no less! Now even with my expectations being as high as they were, this game still manages to blow them out of the water. This is my 5th EndMaster story, and pardoning Necromancer and Death Song, this is my favorite. It may just be the fact that I’m a teenager myself, though I feel like it is something deeper than that. So I will be attempting to analyze this story not just from an enjoyment standpoint, though also from a critical one, though that will be hard seeing how much I love it.

I’ll start off with something that is very apparent. This story is fucking comedic gold. I know I say that for a lot of things, though this ranks very highly on my list. It is just another example for EndMaster’s talent to turn the most outlandish into an amazing story. This has the benefit of making whatever it is being some of the funniest shit ever transcribed onto paper. I mean look at some of these paths and tell me they aren’t just masterpieces. You have the low hanging fruit, though executed well path, in the forum of the school shooter path. Also I would like to point out that the path where you kill the mother, and listen to the sister reminded me of a situation similar to Love SICK. I just don’t even know what to say here, because this whole story is just so fucking funny. Also in typical EndMaster fashion, you can fuck your sister, and your mom. Just wanted to add that.

I guess I will also point out the branching. It is as amazing as always. Cave of Time style, and that is great because it makes my job easier by making it easy to read every page of this masterpiece. All the paths are very thought out as well. The main paths are the sister path, the mom path, the regular path, and the school shooter path. All of these are very well thought out and if you stay neutral and help the family get back together, you can get the best ending in the game. GROUP HUG!

In conclusion, I want to ramble on about this story for so much longer. There is so much I could cover though I’m afraid this review is long enough already. This is how you make an emotional teen story right people! Though it’s not like I tried and fell flat on my face with that before. In any case, I love this story, and critically I would most likely give this a score a point lower, or even 2. Though I love it too much for that

8 out of 8

This is an incredibly well thought out game. A lot of time clearly went into this.

This is a good book. please read it

Putting this off was a mistake. Repression is so simple and refreshing. I've explored several paths, with many more yet to see, but so far "Group Hug" was certainly the most unexpected ending. I would call it suspension breaking. I think every other outcome felt believable and grounded in the characters as influenced by your choices.

Unironically there is a lesson or two in this story, and I'm not talking about the tidbit with incest. These are the findings of human observation. Many people are oblivious to the way they feel, and the way others feel. Our thoughts become patterns of behavior, they become a part of our reactionary character. Who we are is largely how we respond to what happens to us.

This story is chiefly about character development. That's the whole plot. The characters are practically cardboard stand ins. We know very few details about the main character. Very little about his sister, really even less about his mother. As for the whole cast, readers must color inside the lines for themselves, and we will. We knew someone. Their face and story is pasted over the cutouts.

When all knew Aron and Butch and so on. Lets not forget Henry. I knew the main character too. I knew his sister. Our brains make a shorthand decision to fill in the information we don't have. There are no events or unique characteristics that lock out these options so our memory is able to quickly serve up an instant character. Sometimes this is bad. It would be if the story wasn't short and seemingly quite under our control as the player.

I'll never forget punching Henry. I did. Right under the one tree by the Soccer Fields. Almost every event was one the majority of us can relate to. While not all of us can relate to "group hug" most of us can relate to being the unwilling third wheel of an argument. All of us think back on these universal choices and consider the alternative.

This was an excellent use of interactive fiction.

Apparently standing up to a bully and helping my friend doesn't help!

It's Noice.

Please make more!

I see a dark mind!

Incestuous to a whole new level.However you can’t be the shining white knight in silvery armour to save the day.Not bad for a passive read.But not enough leeway with the choices to make it feel like a CYOA or an overall choice based game.What I guess I’m trying to covey is that the story is too linear.



Welsh strikes again.

This was enjoyable.

This was interestingly written, but so super short!

All right. So I got three different incest endings, and I liked the first one best. You know, the one that repaired the family structure? Yeah that one. Quick question, though: where is the father in all of this? I mean, it never says what happened to him, even in the more violent endings.

Pretty good, its nice to kill the time trying to get all the endings.

wow just wow

Yikes! that was an emotional ride! the story was simple and short and to the point! I tried over and over to only result in one possible outcome that I could feel was a win! Ironically, it was by doing what I probably would do in real life. So... well done. but wow.

I personally liked the incest ending.

Leaving a rating to check my score

Endmaster makes the best games in my opinoin this game was the first of his that i played in fact it was the first game I played when i joined the site. His games inspire me to want to make some but I am not good at writing a good story. but atleast i'm better than kinglozer

As soon as he shot himself, my erection died. Thanks

I love the group hug ending as well as the Jessica ending

I like the story. Great plot but a little too short.

I can't believe the most reasonable path(at least in my opinion) leads to group incest orgy! Really made me laugh!

Amazing.

A lot of fun and very interesting.

I feel warped.

why the fuck does it end so quickly

Hmm... if this is the true ending, then the game should be called 'regression.' ;)
Nice game play and story though.

"Later you're found by the janitor who manages to get you to a hospital just in time for you to live. Not in time for you to have not suffered brain damage though.

Oddly this has an interesting effect on your previous emotional condition. You revert back to a childlike state. Your Mom actually is nicer to you and in general, and sis seems to stop partying as much. Your unfortunate event has inadvertantly brought them closer to each other and to you. Of course you're unaware of such things, you just know that two pretty ladies take care of you.

Another day arrives and you feel playful..."

excellent work

Great game

The group hug ending was just wrong. Seriously a red line has been crossed.

Good game! Keep up the good work!

Well. THAT ending caught me off guard lol...

Ah, Mass-murder, not quite something I would do myself, but it's something that was written well in this story.

Really enjoyed this. I love that you had different story ending paths. I would love to have seen more small detail like what they ate or what they wore that day, but other than that I liked it. Keep up the good work! ^_^

Yay! I'm normal again!

This game is short and disgusting.

I explored every single ending and it gets kind of weird
SPOILERS: For some reason you can end up being "passionate" for your mom, sister or both. There is going to be some pretty bad down syndrome in this family

The threesome ending is quite awesome! Unexpected haha

Interesting. Good read, not so much social, but not everything is supposed to be.

How do you play the game an are you allowed to have sex

Sometimes JUSTICEEE is appropriate.

Funny ending, and quite disturbing? Not the sort of ending I was expecting.

The Story was good but wish it could of been longer. I played it quite a few times and all the endings i found were satisfying.

This game was of moderate length, but made up for it in gameplay. As usual, great work.

Good game!

The outlandish variety of possible endings has me reeling.

8/8 good story.

Apparently being beaten to death is just another ordinary day at school. 10/10 for realism.

I love that argueably, one of the "best" endings is gotten to by doing absoulety nothing, and just staying in bed.

I like this book. It was an interesting read. Why is it, that all the kids in your books have guns? Why not throwing knives? Guns are so loud.

Absolute contentment.

I chose group hug. Didn't fail me. 8/8 wouldn't do this in real life.

Wow. I also read Love SICK.

Uh...are you sure you're okay man?

That "Group Hug" sure escalated quickly, huh?

HOORAY FOR INCEST! Am i a sick person?

Good as usual.

Beware the hugs!!

Do. Not. Group. Hug.

So, group hugs...

What's weird about this is, unlike the old "Choose Your Own Adventures," where the morally-upright option usually yielded positive results, here, the morally-upright option seems to yield negative results. Probably because "you" the protagonist are so emotionally maladjusted and amoral. At first I was really pissed off, but I think I get it now. I still prefer more traditional storylines and protagonists, though.
(Besides, where I'm from, if you're 17 or 18 years old and you get into a fight at school, you don't get sent to the principal's office, you get sent to county lock-up!)

I am going to assume that euphoria is the greatest of all of the endings in which case I question the sanity of the family. Who does that?! Over the course of the game I became a vegetable, a whore-monger, a school shooter, a person who kills to be happy, had sex with my mother, sister, separately and apart, killed mom, got killed, took control of the family, got mom to back down and allow my sister and I freedom, and got a date.

Haha, that's hilarious. 7/8

I don't know why everyone thinks this is such a bad ending. Everyone's happy, after all.
Kind of reminded me of Visitor Q.

Endmaster, you seem to have an unhealthy fascination with incest, the question is: why?

The group hug option: really endmaster? Really?

In my opinion, this is one your best games. Something I've noticed is that you tend to use one of two types of protagonist in your stories; the badass (Eternal, Ground Zero, Alpha Wolf, Necromancer...) and the lame...ass (Geek, Tales from The Basement, AVSCYS). Then I guess there's the normal guy just trying to survive in Death Song, the vagina-wearing lunatic in Love SICK and the kid in Imagination who have both badass and lameass characteristics.
But anyhow, what I'm trying to say is that although Eternal is arguably your most epic and impressive story (and probably my favourite overall), I could relate a lot more to the protagonist in this story. I read Eternal as if from a distance, in awe, as the almost god-like protagonist went through his various tribulations. But I read Repression as if I were there. Your other 'lame-ass' protagonists, like in TFTB and Geek, were a bit extreme (not a criticism; I get they're meant to be satirical characters/butt monkeys for your own twisted amusement), but this repressed lame-ass reminds me of people I know IRL. Not to mention myself lol. And it was great that the lame-ass could have a happy ending for once (that is actually realistic-not, 'you're suddenly a completely normal person and you live happily ever after', but 'you did some good today. Things are starting to look up'. And it was scary how easily things could go wrong as well, like IRL. I'd also agree with 31TeV and Loon about the merits of your writing style here and the variety of endings. And yeah, this is probably your most tasteful game.
My one criticism would be about the 'group hug' option. It was kinda cool in a 'wtf!? Oh, forgot I was reading an Endmaster story lol...' kinda way, but I felt like it was just thrown in there to fuck with us, and therefore the story lost some of it's realism (and therefore, it's relatability and poignancy and whatnot) for me. Otherwise, I think I might have given this an 8/8 like Eternal.
But anyhow, great job! 7/8

I wonder if all teenagers are secretly this fucked up. ^_^

11/10 It was okay -IGN

Ok story

So I read the previous comments and was intrigued about that group hug. After 3 tries, I got it. Well...

That escalated quickly but it is quite realistic. I got the "manipulative nastiness" (or something) ending.

There aren't a lot of logical aspects to these stories. It's more like reading a story than a choose tour own adventure.

This is actually pretty sweet. Well done, EndMaster!

I got the "Joy" and "Trumph" endings. :D

That plot twist d:

This is a great storygame, and arguably the best example of Endmaster's writing that's got dark and disturbing themes but still tasteful and interesting at the same time. Love SICK is probably more explicit and disgusting but that's more for the sake of humour, unlike in this story. There are quite a few separate paths that will lead to incest in this one.

The most impressive part of Repression is the number of paths and endings. Due to the lack of a 'true ending', most of the endings are satisfying in their own way. This makes for a very replayable game. It surprises you by giving you choices where you expect a dead end. It's also cleverly done so that going through the same events is given a little twist due to prior events and gives you a fresh perspective and different outcomes. That said, some of the endings on occasion do feel a little too similar to one another.

As Loon says, the brevity and conciseness of the writing is a major strength of this story. It fits very well with the protagonist and the theme of feeling nothing. There's also something very compelling about the way repetition is used for the endings. It's a blast to go through and find all the different words used when your character feels something.

The odd typo aside, this game is near perfect (for the kind of storygame it is) and very enjoyable. I don't think there's much you could do to build upon or improve this concept, but due to lack of epicness (which, again, couldn't really be included in this story) I give Repression 7/8.

Another day breaks, and I find myself rating this story an 8.

While very peculiar, it provided a good distraction nonetheless.

P.S. You have a few spelling mistakes and a common misconception in your story,e.g. cars don't blow up if you hit the gas tank.

Well, that was a very enjoyable read. I have nothing bad to say about it really.

I felt free, safe, angry and what-not, but another day passes and the guy still feels nothing. He can die, get arrested or just dispense things, and still feels nothing. This was both interesting, short, and why not also enlightening on some levels. Just dont take it too seriously I guess.

So messed up but really, really good. So many different options and yes I was sad enough to find each and every one. This said, I don't regret a thing. Amazing!

Did anyone else get the killing your mother ending? Where you experience total power? If yes, I feel so, so, so, sorry. WHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYY???????

The Euphoria ending... Wow. That was really unexpected.

Oh god... why did I choose the group hug?

8/8 DO NOT HUG DO NOT HUG DO NOT HUG DO NOT FIANSUDUBD HUG

That was a great story.The group hug was unexpected, though.

Insightful and meaningful...until the group hug.

Good story. Made me think about my own life for a bit, but not too much. But still, keep up the good work.

for the love of baby jebus, do not hug at the end. do not hug!

Wow, I think this could be put into the educational section. The stories just make you think about yourself and some of the deepest human emotions.

Finally I Can Feel!
Oh, so in this game I'm an Emotionless teenage inept boy, interesting...

You know what they say... incest is best...

necrophillia, gross, but decent story

Well, that escalated quickly...

It's my favorite of your games. I love love love love love it!

I feel apathetic and detached, as one does while viewing one of those commercials about the starving children in Africa. This story does an incredible job of drawing the reader into the story. Excellent.

Huh. MUCH shorter than a lot of Endmasters work, still really meaningful...

Im going to keep this all in mind the next time my mom calls me out of bed.

Saw all the endings... or most. It is incredible, all the possible endings, the emotions... Everything very well thought.

Not that equally good compared to Death Song, as what you have also stated anyway.

Such a fantastic game. The Freudian love, the slow shedding of one's shell, the brutality of repression--all the different threads combine to form a deep story.

Very good story on emotions althrough many people may not like killing side, but other than that a well thought out story

Had two rounds of this. Just a question, but do you Americans live in some extra violent world, or is it just Sweden who happens to have some saints? Or is this how the entire dirty world looks? Anyway, I tried the two main branches, and I liked the violent part a lot more. But that's probably because you write such things very good. Nah, you're a good writer in general. I've played imagination, and that's really good too. You should take up writing comertial books!

wow, playing it right you get some pretty messed up endings but definetly a intresting game.

Interesting piece of work, as usual. You've created so many dark worlds to play around in...

Well, no more group hugs

The writing itself isn't great, but the story is fantastic. When you put yourself in the head of a sociopath, the reactions to all the choices make sense. If he fights, then his repressed emotions rip through and he becomes frantically brutal.

After spending nearly an hour finding the true ending, there's no other way to put it: "Repression" is amazing.

And the moral is: Emotions are for weaklings. Rules are made to be followed. Obey. OBEY!


Well kids, i think we all learned something today. But hey; at least the moral isn't- If you have any feelings for your family, it'll turn into a big orgy. ...oh wait...

Yay, best game ever!!! On my first try I beat the crap out of all the tyrants.

with the amount of seriousness in this, i was taken aback (spoiler alert) that in one of the ending's climax, the options were "group hug" and "saying how happy you are". at first glance I luaghed thinking "whats the difference?!" i chose both and yes. There is. A whole lot. Of difference...

Seth says YES!!!! Probably the best one i have played so far.

just i i don't understand why i liked this so much

There's two "true" paths for the rebellious side and the peacemaking side. Both are well-written, and the emotionless kid that we play as can be the most heroic hero or even the most villainous villain. Nice story overall.

Nice story, based on a compelling drive to hell!

very hard! ;)

This is definitely your most underrated game (even though it has a pretty good rating.) Frankly, I think it kicks ass. The fact that it's "less verbose" than most of your stories is not a liability. Rather, it gives the reader the opportunity to think whilst enjoying the story, rather than distracting the reader with a multitude of events and details. It invites one to look closely at the protagonist, who he is, and where he comes from, (since there's not so much else to it) and ultimately, to appreciate how his story may relate to oneself and to other human beings in general. This makes it really fucking scary.

Necrophilia, murder, incest, whats not to love.

Amazing.

Am I weird for getting turned on on the three way?

Some might think I'm messed up for saying this but I thought the ending were you make Jessica kill you pretty romantic! :P

I liked this story.

Not your best story, in the same way Cujo isn't Stephen King's best story. In its own right, very impressive.

I got the rating where you f***** your sister!

a bit dull not disturbing at all

WTF?!

Someone's been reading some Sigmund Freud

Bo approves

Kinda hard to understand at first, but I did at the end. Really good.

Ah, this one was enjoyable. So many outcomes, and laughs on every page. Whether or not the previous commenters get it, I think you have a hilarious and twisted sense of humor.

Lmao wtf? Apparently a family that stays together...sleeps together.

great game but why so focused on incest

Disturbing....just disturbing, I'm sorry.

That guy is seriously messed up; great story, though.

sweet! thanks for the idea!

Very very good game. I like how you get realistic choices. It's very cool.

It's very good, I like how you showed changes to the protagonists state of mind, though it did feel a bit abrupt.

Good job! :)

Heh, Dictator parents turning people into androids. Oh yeah, been down that road before, fought for freedom of myself and siblings... Nice to see a storygame on this topic.

Yeah for feeling nothing!

lol this is sick and twisted in so many ways, yet...i like it. i got all the endings, all the one where nothing happened, the one where you take your sister "home", and same for mom (for some reason there are 2 like that, are you hinting something about yourself? nah just kiddin)but it was twisted yet delightfull at the same time.

Uuh, is something supposed to happen? I have to be honest; your other work is way better. Anyway, I've seen way worse [grammar], so I realize, it's not too bad.

Not nearly as strong as your other stories, but a joy to read still.

Hmm. Not bad, but you're writing has been much better in the past.

I liked this one.

6/8. Pretty entertaining, messed up teen story.