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Undertale, the Prey reboot, a bunch of other games: the story is built around the PC learning a lesson. They can accept it, or they can refuse and become a murderous monster.

Harvester, Elsinore: the story is built around the PC learning a lesson that will make them into a murderous monster. They can accept it, or they can refuse to sink that low.

Edna and Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes: the story is built in such a way that it would be equally valid for the PC to learn two opposite lessons, one of which would make her into (even more of) a murderous monster. She can accept either, or refuse both and reject every aspect of the story.

(This does not mean Harvey’s New Eyes is good. It’s interesting. There’s a difference.)

This just beat Majora's Mask, Oxenfree, AND The Sexy Brutale for best time-loop game I've ever played. (I've yet to play Outer Wilds.)



In four days, almost everyone in Elsinore will die, and you're the only one who remembers. They don't respect you, but they also don't notice you, skulking around in the shadows and overhearing their secrets. Can you make them listen, or will they dismiss you--for your race, your sex, your status, or their certainty that they know what they're doing? Which lives can you save? Which horrors can you prevent? And where do you want this story to end?

(I told my mother this is a game about having all the information and none of the power to get people to act on it. She said that sounded like her life.)
( SPOILERS )