INSIDE

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We couldn't make this shit up.

People are sometimes interested in what it's like to play video games while high on psychedelic drugs. Some people are astounded by the possibilities of this endeavor. So they enjoy some fine pixelated concoctions while sitting in their underwear, smelling unkindly, and hooked up on brain medicine. What kind of concoction, you may wonder? INSIDE is a one-of-a-kind mind-altering cocktail. This game contains a wealth of mind-bending realities that go beyond the human psyche. It starts slowly and builds up to delight you with mind-fuckery. Do you indulge your curiosity? A straightforward explanation will suffice. This is not an exaggeration. It's the genuine article. A side scroller so finely tuned that it becomes a work of art in and of itself. It's worth the wait until the end, a universal promise is yelled through space. Of course, fags are old-fashioned, but you must play this while heavily medicated. But I'm digressing.

Plot

You are being chased through the woods, seemingly from nowhere. Masked men wielding flashlights are pursuing you. At one point, freaking guard dogs appear and decide to eat your ass. You eventually get away from these jerks and end up on a farm where some kind of parasitic worm buttraped pigs into submission. This drove the pigs insane. You learn to manipulate farm animals and equipment in order to escape to a seemingly abandoned city teeming with zombie-cretins who are controlled by mind control. Beyond the city is a massive factory of flooded rooms and naked-baby-girl-bitches with long hair who live in the water and want to hug and rape you to the depths. Later, you discover some scientists who conducted underwater experiments on said creatures.

While traversing these cesspools, you begin to use mind-control helmets to control grey zombies, who appear to be created by the organization that chased you at the start. The siren-monster-bitch creature eventually fondles you and forcesfeeds you a device that allows you to breathe underwater.

As you walk through the offices and laboratories, you notice that many of the scientists are ignoring you. They're fixated on something resembling a vault. When the boy enters the chamber, he finds a large blob-like creature that looks exactly like the retarded boss from Borderlands, but this time it's made of human limbs connected to four control rods. The boy is drawn into this thing and transcends reality after disconnecting the rods.

You now have command of the blob. You flee the facility by crashing through it like a blob, squashing everything in your path. The scientists attempt to lock you in another vault, but the blobinator escapes and breaches a wooden wall. It rolls down a forest hill before coming to a stop on a beach bathed in sunlight. THE END

Alternate ending

If the player deactivates the alien mumbo jumbo thingies scattered throughout the game, they gain access to a new area. You arrive in a sex dungeon filled with computers and one of the mind-control helmets, which is powered by a nearby socket. You remove the plug from the socket, at which point the character feints like a zombie and the game ends.

Theories

Everyone has their own theories about the plot of this game. The blob controls you for the majority of the game, and the entire ordeal is basically the blob learning how to navigate the world through the boy. At one point, the blob has control over scientists and wishes to flee. The world has survived a catastrophic event. That is why everything is submerged. The most popular theory, however, is that the boy is controlled by YOU in a subtle "fuck you" hint. The act of pulling the plug in the final area is analogous to leaving the simulation. The goal is to avoid becoming a blob, to avoid the scientists, and to simply unplug in order to "destroy" the world and everything in it with you.

Gameplay

If you haven't guessed it yet, this game is a puzzle platformer. The protagonist is an unnamed young man who explores a surreal, mostly minimalistic environment, overcoming challenges and progressing through the game. Color is used minimally in the game to illustrate both the player and certain aspects of the environment. With the exception of a few sound effects, the game is also mostly silent. If you find the collectibles, the game has an alternate ending.

The boy dies in hilariously gruesome ways, including being shot, gored by dogs, electrocuted, blown apart, drowning, choking, and so on. Because these deaths are graphic, the game has been rated mature.