Sometimes games are the only way to tell a deep and dramatic story to a large audience. Lithuania-based company Hidden Layer Games invites you to go on an amazing and very stylish journey, saturated with pain and despair. You control three characters that at first glance are not related to each other. They are part of the same storyline, with a dramatic ending towards the end of the journey.
Made in pixel art with horror elements Inmost allows you to play as a wanderer who travels through the ruins of a ruined castle filled with gloomy creatures and giant spiders. Lacking weapons, you are forced to use platforms and mechanisms to solve your problems, gradually finding special tools, such as a knife, a crystal that destroys darkness, or a pickaxe, which will help open new passages in the labyrinths of the expanding mysterious structure. The second character is a little girl who is even more helpless than a wanderer. She knows how to rearrange the chair and stool, trying to reach for the hidden candy or key in the walls of the creepy house, where the corpses of lost children can be hidden. And only after discovering a plush toy, the child has the opportunity to talk about his problems with a fictitious friend and maybe find a way out of a very gloomy house. The third hero is a dark knight destroying everything in his path, harvesting particles of light and bringing bloody gifts to the dark ruler. And there is no end in sight to this pain and violence.
Different mechanics and heroes slowly lead you to the plot denouement, where, through metaphors and references, the authors reveal the true purpose and history of each of the characters. And it is then that the theme of pain, self-sacrifice and suffering can become a real motive for love. At the same time, the game is really very difficult from a psychological point of view – some users may find it too dark and depressing.
