Deep Pixel Melancholy is a very interesting visual novel for PC that is coming quite soon, and if you are interested you can play a demo of it right now. The trailer show us some gameplay and choices that we can make, and its actually done in such a way as to show us what the game is going to be about. The rise of psychological games is quite obvious for those who have been inspecting the current panorama of things, and they make total sense too. With our current landscape of life, it is clear why there’s so many games about these topics, people try to express this apathy through art.
Deep Pixel Melancholy is sad
We live in the shoes of a regular person, only that their life repeats again and again. It is clear there’s some inspiration taken from Groundhog Day, a classic movie from the 90s that deals with similar ideas about time looping again and again. The whole concept of loops, and the psychological implication behind them is something very interesting to discuss, and tons of media have different perspectives on this. The endless everyday is something that chases us in all aspects of life and we can’t avoid it, we are immersed in it.
Deep Pixel Melancholy seems to explore this, but we still don’t know what will come out of it, or if any revelation will make sense at all. Most of these games are often open ended, and it makes sense why they are, they want the readers to think for themselves and reach their own conclusion. This type of story writing is quintessential in the space of psychological horror, and I genuinely wonder what could they possibly pull with a visual novel like this. If you are interested, check out Deep Pixel Melancholy and download the demo on Steam.
