I'm currently playing through an awesome little game called I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It's a point n' click, adventure game from the early '90's based on Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name. It's a truly cerebral and upsetting game, touching on a couple of very mature topics including rape, murder, and cannibalism.
You take control of one of the five tormented humans AM has kept alive at a time and are forced into a realm built as a personal Hell for each individual you control. As each human has been kept alive over the course of 109 years, they have in some ways forgotten their old lives and revert to purely animalistic behaviors during the course of the play-through.
Though limited by the choices laid out for you, you are often made to make unsettling and sometime immoral decisions in order to deal with your character's fatal flaw.
Sometimes, you hate the people you play as and other times not so much. But I've found that the hellish environment each is made to deal with bother me even more.
More on this later. Gotta get to class.
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