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 possibly I’m studying this fallacious?

It felt just like the eyes have been throughout me as I walked by means of this place. They peered from all corners. They peeked from the earth below my ft. One thing was all the time staring regardless of the place I walked. In a spot so loaded with an amazing sense of imminent destruction – a world that may continually collapse and reshape, full of uncertainty – they’d simply watch me. Gawk away as I attempted to seek out someplace secure, however couldn’t. Not one among them appeared considering serving to me, although. They might 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 scary environment lower all of the deeper. I attempted to flee from a spider that referred to as for me to return nearer, however the roads all appeared to steer again to it. I discover myself in limitless halls full of pictures of self-loathing, and an inside thought course of that desires 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 technique to work by means of it. Preventing 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 anticipate to go?

I really feel like I’ve to strive. I really feel like I have to 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 become ‘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 means of.

And there’s a spiteful hope by the top 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 means of.



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

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied 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 could be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.