$8.99DISTRAINT 2 A dark story about finding hope
Walk strange, hand-drawn worlds, talk to personified feelings, solve simple puzzles and follow a dark, emotional story to its end. Short, sincere and unsettling in equal measure.
Is DISTRAINT 2 worth it?
DISTRAINT 2 is worth it if…
- you want a short, story-first game you can finish in one evening
- you like psychological horror that unsettles rather than shocks
- you prefer atmosphere, music and writing over challenge and systems
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A man alone with what he has done
What follows is a journey inward, through memories and strange places, where he meets parts of himself given a face. Hope, Fear, Reason and the rest are characters you actually talk to, some wise, some funny, some genuinely unnerving. The story is the point here, and it carries you from start to finish with twists and quiet moments that stick.
Simple to play, heavy to feel
The gameplay stays out of the story's way. You move left and right, pick up items, use them where they belong and solve light puzzles to open the next scene. There is no way to die and no fail state: everything happens in its own time, like a film you walk through. The tension comes from elsewhere. Sometimes something hunts you down a corridor and you hide until it passes. The hand-drawn pixel art, music composed for each situation and sound design that knows when to go silent do the rest. A minimalist interface keeps your eyes on the screen and off the menus.
