Good evening, and welcome. I am Doctor
Blockhead, curator to the Museum of Curiosities; a home for the
freakish, disturbing, and grotesque.
You may think you have found your way
here by accident, though I assure you, it was not. You might think
you were looking for something else, but I am certain you weren’t.
A morbid fascination, deep within your being, an obsession with the
macabre, the strange, the unknown has compelled you here.
Now that you’ve arrived, please, take
your time, peruse the dusty shelves, find something that scares and
excites you. It won’t take long.
And let me warn you: Today’s the
first actual horror review of this event. Enter at your own risk.
A Mother’s Inferno
A Mother’s Inferno is a free,
single-player game available for play through a download or web
browser. It is possible to complete the game in about 30 minutes,
making it perfect to play in the dark hours before bed.
In A Mother’s Inferno, a mother and
her young son ride an empty train to an unknown destination. Without
warning, the boy is ripped from her side by demonic forces, and she
falls unconscious. After she wakes, she sets out to face the
psychedelic inferno the train has become, her only defense a shard of
glass, to save her son from the darkness.
A Mother’s Inferno is a truly unique
game. A modern, horror-oriented interpretation of Dante’s Inferno,
it distills the deepest fear of all parents: losing their child. This
fear is palpable and constant, conveyed through the often frenetic
first-person view, perverse and hallucinatory landscapes, and the
mother’s persistent gasps for air as she claws her way through five
train cars, each one more hellish than the next.
As the game progresses, the
environments become less like train cars, and more like ancient
cathedrals to the dark and unholy. At points, it’s easy to forget
the terror unfolds within the belly of a moving train; however, the
subtle, almost subconscious clatter of steel wheels on iron rails
rings constantly beneath all things.
The mother’s journey is an exhausting
tribulation, but she bears it with the ferocity of an animal with
nothing to lose. It is easy to feel her struggle, to become her, to
seek not her son, but yours. You will cross the River Styx on the
back of a corpse; you will cut your own eyes out with broken glass;
you will gut monstrous beasts like fish.
Your struggle will guide you through
the five stages of grief, each train car representing a stage, until
you arrive at the terminus of loss: acceptance.
But what do you accept? The return of
your son, or his permanent disappearance?
That answer is yours alone to discover
in A Mother’s Inferno. Fight for it.
- Doctor
Blockhead
External Download Link: http://amothersinferno.dadiugames.dk/
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