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It’s been a while since the last time I talked about Other Things I Like, so I thought I’d tell you guys about this adventure horror game I recently watched a Let’s Play of: Gylt. It’s basically if Silent Hill was a children’s horror game and starred two cousins, the 11-year-old Sally and 7-year-old Emily. Emily ran away from home due to severe bullying, and Sally is looking for her, only to end up trapped in a nightmare dimension that’s holding her cousin captive.

This game does a thorough job of tackling its main theme, hinted at in the title: guilt. The game has three different endings, two bad ones and one golden one, all which showcase a different way of dealing with guilt. The ending is determined by the tickets Sally will be able to get on the multidimensional tram that can take her home. Depending on how thoroughly you’ve played the game, Sally will either have only one ticket or two. Spoilers from here on out.

The game's title also sounds like "gild", as in "gilded". There's a point in the game where we are shown that Sally's recollection of her relationship with Emily isn't wholly accurate. A big twist moment in the game is the revelation that Emily didn’t solely run away because of the bullying, but that the final straw was that Sally kept being friends with the kids who constantly bullied her. Sally knew her friends were bullying her cousin, but merely made excuses for them like “they’re just playing”, not taking the situation seriously and, in the end, Emily saw Sally no different from her bullies for standing by and letting it happen.

The worst ending is probably the one where Sally uses the ticket herself to escape the nightmare dimension. In this ending, she says it’s “too much” to expect her to stay in the other world just because she feels bad for Emily, and she’s not a bad person, but she also admits that she mostly wanted to find Emily so that people would stop blaming her for Emily’s disappearance. The final shot of this ending is Sally putting up missing person posters for Emily, a gesture she now knows is pointless, merely an outward appearance of penance to earn approval from others. The first ending is denying guilt.

The second ending is also a bad ending, where Sally shoves the ticket into Emily’s pocket and pushes her onto the tram, sacrificing herself for her cousin. Here Sally says she’s sorry for being “such a terrible cousin”. The final shot of this ending is Emily now putting up missing person posters for Sally, implying she will end up back in the other world sooner than later due to her survivor’s guilt. Sally harmed herself to make up for Emily’s hurt, and this ended up helping no one. The second ending is self-flagellation.

PRINCESS - CONTROL

Primitive Man - Observance

Ragana, Drowse - Ash Souvenir

Blackwater Holylight - If Only You Knew

Sisters In The Velvet - Mother's Octave

Bell Witch, Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bow Volume II

Gylt - I Will Commit A Holy Crime: Tandem

Traumatizer - Nuclear War Machine

chokecherry - Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls

Blackxwash - Only Dust Remains

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Gylt

Horror was once a rare gaming genre, with little variety, typified by the gameplay styles of Resident Evil and Silent Hill. With the rise of the indie scene, we suddenly saw a massive increase in horror games, such as Five Nights at Freddy’s, Choo Choo Charles, and Poppy Playtime, which took the gameplay and themes in different directions. While horror was seen primarily as an adult-oriented genre, some of these indie horror games became popular with kids. In 2019, Tequila Works, the Spanish developer of such games as Deadlight and Rime, released a horror game that was not only more accessible to families but actually stars a kid, has a Pixar-esque art style and is focused on psychological horror more along the lines of Silent Hill, rather than focusing on jump scares. And they released it… as an exclusive on Google Stadia, Google’s failed experiment of a game-streaming service. (Google even had a deal where people who paid for Stadia Pro could get Gylt as a pack-in game.) In 2023, after the fall of Stadia, Gylt managed to break out and make its way to PlayStation, Xbox and the PC, followed by a Switch release in 2024.

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