![]() ![]() ![]() Just as depression might play tricks on the mind, so does Neverending Nightmares. The wallpaper is patterned with subtle skulls, that picture of a cooked chicken seems suddenly grotesque, and the light is slowly going out. They suddenly take on aspects of the deranged and horrible. The game takes those familiar things - the wallpaper of your home, pictures on the wall, the quality of light in your bedroom - and transmutes them. Neverending Nightmares simulates a state of depression with its Gorey-esque visuals, dreamlike narrative, and perpetual unease. ![]() Despite multiple endings and branching paths, I didn’t play the game more than once, a testament to its ability to induce anxiety and unease. I didn’t play the game so much as to beat it as I did to escape from it. I had nightmares the night after playing Neverending Nightmares. When one looks back, days of depression may seem like dim dreams in which everything one did and said wasn’t quite real. In more serious cases, ordinary objects one might normally find quite familiar and comforting are shadowed with menace. Everything loses its luster, and the depressed one loses his or her lust for life. Someone once said that depression is a dream in which everything that was once beautiful is ugly and gray. ![]()
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