You might even be hearing voice's in your head.

If you're asking all these questions, you're trying too hard to "get" the game.

It's kind of a humor game, kind of a satirical take on how games in general just kind of expect you to follow along but in SP you can do all kind of "not what we're here for" shit like sitting in a closet for twenty minutes. Is it riveting gameplay? Not usually, but it was worth the $5 I paid for it. I certainly have gotten more than $5 of entertainment out of it.

Totally understand if that kind of game isn't everyone's cup of tea. I certainly wouldn't have played it in highschool. Or at least I'd be bored with it very quickly.

And with all the different paths in the game, replay is okay because you probably don't remember all of them.

It's a fourth-wall breaking game, a game whose characters are aware that they're in a game. Their personalities, knowledge, and awareness change throughout the game and the consistency is limited to "pathes" that you take. The devs are playing with and making fun of the rules.

The game explores the idea of choice and structure in modern video game narratives.

It's presented to you in such a way that you feel like you can't break away from the established narrative, everything you do has actually been planned and accounted for, and even intended by the developer.

i think the point of it is that theres no point

Idk it was mostly just funny because of the narrator imo. You do have a bunch of valid questions, but I guess this is more of a piece of art that leaves this up to interpretation. I remember the avhievement you get for not playing the game for 5 years, so I feel like the game was maybe trying to say something about our increasingly digital life and how that narrates our reality or something. There are mamy different endings though, so I'm sure there are plenty of interpretations

Also I think the game was an exercise in what you can do when you choose a video game as the medium for your art. Its the first time where it was possible to let the main character defy the narrator. That would't really work in a book.

I haven't played it, but as I understand it, it should be a meta comedy narrative of modern gaming

If you want a vaguely similar game with a more concrete narrative, try Superliminal.

And never leave 🤣

The yellow line that leads to adventure? Let's call it the Adventure Line.

but I'm not playing it again.

For five years, so you get the achievement right?

Oh no @omega_x3@lemmy.world where did you put your bucket?

I'd rather smoke in the broom closet.

It's from the game Stanley's Parable.

It’s a game. Stanley Parable

"Wait, why did the lights go off? Stanley... did you touch anything? This isn't how the story work!"

There is an ending in which you go home?