The dark, the bleak, and the tragic - an IFDB Poll

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Send me your downers, your bummers, your wretched games that leave the player feeling like they've been kicked in the teeth.

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Solkatt_ (english version), by BenyDanette
2 votes
"bleak vibes throughout" [+]"bleak vibes throughout" () --Tabitha / alyshkalia... "Dead-end life" [+]"Dead-end life: Play as a depressed shut-in with no hope of improving their situation. Very eerie." ( - Full review) --Cerfeuil...

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Taghairm, by Chandler Groover
2 votes
"Super edgy concept" [+]"Super edgy concept: It's the whole point of the game!" () --Cerfeuil... "Dark, bummer game..." [+]"Dark, bummer game " ( - Full review) --MathBrush...

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Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth
2 votes
"dark game about captured children" [+]"dark game about captured children" ( - Full review) --MathBrush... "Very depressing" [+]"Very depressing: No happy endings here, far as I can remember." () --Cerfeuil...

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Savor, by Ed Nobody
1 vote
"Extended pain and suffering" [+]"Extended pain and suffering: Partly from the timed text, and partly from the extended descriptions of pain and suffering." ( - Full review) --BitterlyIndifferent...

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EROSTASIS, by DOMINO CLUB and candle and Beck Michalak
1 vote
"Incredibly bleak setting" [+]"Incredibly bleak setting: One of the more horrific scifi dystopias I've seen. Note the game contains adult content." () --Cerfeuil...

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Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
1 vote
"Bleak from beginning to end. " [+]"Bleak from beginning to end. " --dogdennings...

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LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best
1 vote
"quite bleak once you get into it" [+]"quite bleak once you get into it" ( - Full review) --Tabitha / alyshkalia...

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A Thing of Wretchedness, by AKheon
1 vote
"quite dark/bleak" [+]"quite dark/bleak" ( - Full review) --Tabitha / alyshkalia...

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Everything you swallow will one day come up like a stone, by Porpentine
1 vote
"A game about suicide" [+]"A game about suicide: A lot of Porpentine's games are some degree of bleak. This is one of the lesser-known ones. I personally liked it." () --Cerfeuil...

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