If one more of these motherfucking games turns out to be an extended ham-fisted metaphor for death, I swear to god, I am going to crowdfund them a second theme to play with myself. Why can't we have more indie games set on a mysterious island where a nameless traveler just... discovers a bunch of wonderful things and has a poignant encounter with something supernatural that doesn't stand for anything Very Profound at all, it just is?

Still rolling this idea around.

You know what'd be neat? Grounds of a 1930s carnival that just closed. A *comedy*, for fuck's sake. Maybe kind of a Music Man/Marge Vs. The Monorail story, a big farce, where you discover all the foibles and dirty laundry of the townspeople by rooting in the shambles, and find out what comical series of misunderstandings and little personal follies wrecked the place.

Anything but death metaphors. FFS. >_<

@zebratron2084 This is why I do rather like Gone Home. In terms of a walking simulator it's basically "Getting to know a kinda dysfunctional family via the crap they left around in an abandoned house." No metaphors for death. Just riotgrrl mixtapes and cases of unsold hardbacks of a novel your dad wrote.

@mmsword AAAAARGH NO SPOILERS!

(I'm just kidding! One I've never cared about spoilers, and two, I feel that particular spoiler is so notorious that it's up there with Rosebud and Snape.)

@zebratron2084 @mmsword Rosebud and Snape??? AAAARRRRHG

@green @zebratron2084 @mmsword Rosebud was the name of Snape's first potion