‘BlueSuburbia’ Stirs Up a Deep, Solitary Worry

BlueSuburbia takes you to a spot that’s crammed with 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 incorrect?

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 ft. One thing was at all times staring irrespective of the place I walked. In a spot so loaded with an amazing sense of imminent destruction – a world that will continually collapse and reshape, crammed with uncertainty – they might simply watch me. Gawk away as I attempted to seek out someplace secure, however couldn’t. Not certainly one of them appeared curious about serving to me, although. They’d simply stare as I ran, in search of a way out of right here. It was like I used to be some type of leisure to them. That they only needed to see me undergo.

This sense made the remainder of the sport’s horrifying environment minimize all of the deeper. I attempted to flee from a spider that referred to as for me to come back nearer, however the roads all appeared to steer again to it. I discover myself in infinite halls crammed with pictures of self-loathing, and an inside thought course of that desires me to hate myself. It guarantees some kind of freedom in accepting that I deserve this hatred. That it must be my mantle or legacy, and that accepting it and being consumed by it’s the proper option to work by it. Combating it feels exhausting, All roads lead again to the spider, like I stated a second in the past. So why stroll? The place do I anticipate to go?

I really feel like I’ve to attempt. I really feel like I must proceed this stroll to know, 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 was ‘content material’, and extra. Saying I need to spend extra time right here can be unfaithful. I’m afraid of this place. It hurts to face right here and hear. However I really feel that I’ve to see this by.

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

I’ve to see it by.



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

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking 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 continually 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.