Among the Sleep, a free game that makes players both scared and moved to tears

The free game Among the Sleep is available on the Epic Games Store.

In the game Among The Sleep, you will play as a toddler boy celebrating his 2nd birthday with his mother. Meanwhile, there was a knock outside, so the mother went to open the door. The boy will hear arguing, noisy soon after. Moments later, the mother returns with the gift box in her arms and carries him upstairs so you can play with it. The gift – a bear named Teddy, known to be a toy that his father – divorced from his mother not long before – gave him for his 2nd birthday.

Throughout the game, the boy – along with Teddy – must go collect his memories, through mysterious shadows, gloomy parks, large scary buildings, while being chased by monsters. object. When he had found enough memories, the toddler escaped from that fuzzy world, when the shadow monster caught him, tore Teddy, letting him fall straight into the abyss. The boy picked up Teddy’s remaining hand and followed the dim light, he heard the loud voices of his parents arguing and the image of his drunken mother turning into a shadow monster. Returning home, the boy found his mother crying over bottles of wine and a teddy bear.

Since then, the mystery of the bottles of wine rolling around in the areas that the boy had explored before is partly revealed: The mother is a alcoholic, her madness is, in the eyes of the child, the child. Shadow monsters always torment him from the beginning of the game.

When the boy approached his sobbing mother to get Teddy, she pushed him away, then apologized profusely because she didn’t want to and continued to cry. The boy took Teddy and wandered outside, at the same time, the door was wide open with a deep male voice – believed to be the voice of his father.

The father promises to fix Teddy for him and take him home because he won custody in court.

With horror material but still keeping the content meaning in the plot, Among the Sleep has conveyed to the player an extremely human message. After completing this game, gamers will definitely have to reflect and ponder a lot about the meaningful content that the publisher sends.

This week, Among the Sleep will be free to play on the Epic Games Store starting at 10pm on October 21. Those interested can download the game here.

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