The game starts with you standing in front of the gates to the ruins of an old mental asylum. You walk around trying to find out what happened to Renée, a girl who was sent to the asylum in the late 1930s. As you go you discover her memories and her diary and slowly start to piece together the puzzle of what happened to her while she was there.
The game starts with explaining that a lot has happened to mental institutions in the last 80 years and that this game shouldn't be interpreted as a representation of what it's like today.
The game is heartbreaking and while it's categorised as psychological horror on Steam, I don't agree with the horror part but it's definitely psychological. And terrifying.
Renée went through everything possibly imaginable in that asylum and when the doctors ran out of options they did what every doctor would've in the 40s - they gave her a lobotomy. She arrived at the asylum at the age of 16 and was lobotomised at 23 after she tried to kill herself after finding out about her mother's death.
The game takes place in Italy and the game ends by explaining that lobotomy really took off in Italy - more so than most other countries.
This game was amazing and heartbreaking and it made me so sad. Play it. It's a work of art.
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