I guess I’ll call the genre a Nihilistic Psychological/Survival Horror game. My goal was to create the darkest, scariest, most depressing and psychologically disturbing game ever conceived. Also the game will monitor your heart rate so when it goes up to much…you die. I got the game story achieved on Microsoft word on but it’s on my PC. I’ll write from memory.
You wake up as a naked female (or male) in a dirty bed and room with your memory erased. There is notes in the first room giving you directions on what to do to escape. There is also pictures of you and your family. One of the notes also says that your child is locked away and you must find him or he will be killed and so will you. The character seems very empathetic and wants to get out not only to save yourself but your family.
The huge, seemingly endless mansion tour in is littered with traps and wild dogs and monsters who try to attack you. You cannot attack back but have to hid when they are near. The doors and hiding places often have unlocking mechanisms that force you to be harmed in order to unlock (an example being putting your finger into a hole with a blade that will slice your finger off but unlock the door at the same time).
During the journey, the damage to your body will become more severe and the monsters and notes more shockimg. There will be 30 “resting rooms” in all. There you must inject yourself with a substance to put you to sleep (equivalent to saving your place in the game). During sleep, you will have dream sequences of your family and you trying to save them before waking up to survive the next day. Jump scares will be frequent, in which you must control your startling rate.
The traps and unlock methods, including puzzles will get more cleaver and more urgent.
During the last level, or room, you enter a white white area were your strapped to a chair. By this point, you have no arms, genitals, face damaged beyond comparison etc. a mirror is placed in front of you. What you thought was a 30 year old, now looks like an old woman. An old man appears though the glass on the other side of the room. He sounds sinister (or she depending on which gender you choose as player). He presses a button and you remember everything. You was married to the richest most powerful person in the world.
In reality, you murdered your own son and is a psychopath who tried to blame it on your husband. You remember everything now. After the murder was over, your husband took you to his mansion were he placed a chip inside your head that controls your levels of empathy and makes you hallucinate. There never was monsters, but if your heart rate went up or the the monsters were close, you would die anyway because your ex husband also implanted a chip in your heart thst will make it stop once you get too frightened. This was his way of punishing you for what you did.
BIGGEST SHOCK OF ALL…..each time you slept, the drugs you were forced to inject in your arm put you into a drug induced coma for a year at a time. During this period, the mansion was remodeled so in reality you never progressed in the game, just woke up in a different modeled house. You wasn’t struggling for 30 days….you was struggling for 30 years! In the room there are many choices to end your life, which is the only option you have left, now you got the memories of what you did with the empathy.
If you can see it, there is a remote left out that the husband forgot to put back into his room. If you press it the entire thing will blow up, killing him as well.
What do you think?
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Let me explain there really never was monsters, just hallucinations brought on by the brain chip implant. I made a lot of typos but I typed it fast, oh well hope I got the story across. Also the man is a physicists and it’s in the near future when those technologies like the brain and heart implant may be possible
that is… wow. messed up as hell but would be a really interesting/creepy play, not a big fan of the nudity though… tbh those kinds of games freak me out, they’re not a good mix with my mind. Definitely depressing and disturbing… Are all of the videogame storylines this dark?
Oh no, I write fun storylines too. Comedic, innocent (like Mario were there is no blood), war games, stealth. Apocalyptic, emotional. Romantic. Pretty much every genre you can think of.
I love to be diverse.
But the most important part is that there should be a strong message behind these games. I want to explore all facets of reality from the brightest rainbow to the darkest pit.
I like the dark and gory story line. Keep writing these…
Thank you so much! I will!
I want to learn unity 3d one day if i ever do we should collab and make this game it would be awesome.
you got a deal! I don’t know crap about designing video games, just writing stories and concepts. We can make a great team
I dont know crap either im learning how to make 2d games.
@donsmith78 a 2D sidescrolling game collaboration would be perfect. I got this video game concept called Opposites Attack which will turn traditional gameplay on its head – a place were objects such as coins, places you would think are safe to walk on will actually kill you. In this game, if you hit a coin, walk on land, etc it will kill you. In this game you will have to walk on spikes, lava, jump though fireballs etc. I got so many more ideas on this archived on my PC. If an enemy approaches, you gotta run though them or you will die if they go off screen for example. Wild concept huh? As a gamer I never heard of a game designed like that.
Oh yeah, instead of the enemies trying to attack you, they will try to avoid you at all cost, making running towards the enemy that much harder.
This sounds like the type of game that I would want to buy SO much, but I know that I could never play it because I won’t be able to go to sleep after playing (then I’d have to inject myself with the substance lol). I love games with a good story and this one sounds so good. If you have more ‘short stories’ or ideas like this, I hope you’d like to share them with me! Awesome.
Thank you so much! You may have to take some xanex before playing lol. I’d love to see a game like that on the Oculas Rift VR headset
This is talent, you keep going with this and you’ll get somewhere. This is hopefully one of your more disturbing ones because the market is not ready for this. This is quality stuff and I’d play it the whole way. Worth every penny. Ever want somebody to help with more in depth story stuff I’m happy to help
Thank you so much. Good feedback like this really makes me wanna start writing video game storylines full time again