‘BlueSuburbia’ Stirs Up a Deep, Solitary Worry

BlueSuburbia takes you to a spot that’s full of a lonely sort of menace – an oppressive concern that crushes you because it tells you that nobody will come prevent.

CONTENT WARNING: Self hatred. However perhaps I’m studying this mistaken?

It felt just like the eyes had been throughout me as I walked by this place. They peered from all corners. They peeked from the earth beneath my toes. One thing was all the time staring regardless of the place I walked. In a spot so loaded with an awesome sense of imminent destruction – a world that might consistently collapse and reshape, full of uncertainty – they might simply watch me. Gawk away as I attempted to search out someplace protected, however couldn’t. Not certainly one of them appeared occupied with serving to me, although. They’d simply stare as I ran, searching for a way out of right here. It was like I used to be some type of leisure to them. That they only wished to see me endure.

This sense made the remainder of the sport’s horrifying environment reduce all of the deeper. I attempted to flee from a spider that known as for me to return nearer, however the roads all appeared to steer again to it. I discover myself in infinite halls full of photographs of self-loathing, and an inside thought course of that wishes me to hate myself. It guarantees some form of freedom in accepting that I deserve this hatred. That it ought to be my mantle or legacy, and that accepting it and being consumed by it’s the proper strategy to work by it. Combating it feels exhausting, All roads lead again to the spider, like I mentioned a second in the past. So why stroll? The place do I count on to go?

I really feel like I’ve to strive. I really feel like I have to proceed this stroll to grasp, even because it breaks my coronary heart and calls for to interrupt my soul together with it. BlueSuburbia is a crushing imaginative and prescient of despair, the bottomless value you pay for being harm and daring to talk about it, your agonies being became ‘content material’, and extra. Saying I wish to spend extra time right here could be unfaithful. I’m afraid of this place. It hurts to face right here and pay attention. However I really feel that I’ve to see this by.

And there’s a spiteful hope by the tip of the demo that I’m greedy onto. A hope that I wish to roar so loud it shakes the Earth.

I’ve to see it by.



BlueSuburbia is presently in improvement, however within the meantime, you possibly can seize a demo from itch.io.

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is consistently looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games may be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.