Unquiet Grey

I had my first playthrough and I was wondering why there were so many loops. You could almost say it's a psychological horror genre. Terrors beyond what most people would say is "Normal" because it just shreds what humanity someone has left. Good god, My heart just wants to wrap both of them up in a full embrace and kiss them deeply. It's beautiful. It hurts so bad. The last song had my head on the table for 20 minutes while I cried. It's not fair you know, being human is one of the hardest things to be and this game represents it perfectly.

This story reminded me of "what if" in my romantic relationship, how I would choose him every time, every loop. It's a beautiful and gut-wrenching story. True magic.

It's a heartbreaking game. I recommend it if you're ready to cry your eyes out for two hours.

I'm glad there's only positive reviews so far because while it's very mid, it doesn't deserve a big red "negative" either. That being said. It's flat. The writing is poor (very tell don't show, every conversation and every moment is summarized rather than lived, and not even very poetically - often it's basically "You take the phone. You look at it. It makes you sad.") and repetitive (I don't mean the story, that's a feature not a bug, but I don't need to hear about his perfume every time). I didn't feel anything at any point, and by the end I was just bored. Oddly enough the only thing it succeeded at was making everything look bleak ([i]not[/i] sad), so the "end the cycle and be happy" ending is not believable at all... Also, the fade-out fade-in transitions are so slow, it forces a slow pace which is SO annoying. I don't want my choices to be "every other line takes 5 seconds to appear" and "every other line takes 5 clicks to appear at a decent speed". It's a cheap trick and it doesn't even work. (I did like how the ending of the first life looped into the first loop though. It was only two lines, but I liked them) So yeah. Not horrible, but not interesting. The narrator checks out decades before the main character.

"How can I miss someone who was never here?" Beautiful. Cried. My emotions were so wild. For a short experience it sure feels like I'll carry this with me for a long time. Beautiful artwork as well. Did not need the commentary about being American when I was inputting the date, though (it's okay it does make sense, giggled)

I cannot believe this game is free to play. Lovely, well written, accomplished what it set out to do. Excellent work.

I don't know if this had such an emotional impact because I have direct experience in the subject matter (minus the timeloops, though it felt like my head was going through multiple timeloops at the time), but they have captured the essence of grief and loss and all the emotions that come alongside it perfectly. I'm still sitting here in tears as I write this, but the story was beautiful in it's own tragic way and exceptionally poignant. 10/10