This article touches on topics of suicide and sexual assault, so please find a series of free discussion and mental health-related hotlines and websites listed below.
- Samaritans: 116 123 / Text SHOUT to 85258
- Support Line: 01708 765200 / Email info@supportline.org.uk
- W.H.O Suicide Information page.
Also, I find images like this personally heart-warming, so take that how you will:
DETAILS! They are important: The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a first-person investigative game that just came to Nintendo Switch. The story sees you play as Nicole, a teenager who discovers her father had an affair with the titular Rachel Foster, who committed suicide shortly after discovering he was pregnant. After Nicole’s parents’ deaths, she/you go out to attempt to sell the hotel they owned while trying to make amends with Rachel Foster’s family. The powers that be result in you being temporarily stranded in the hotel and having to communicate with a FEMA Agent through the phone while waiting for everything to blow over and exploring the lay of the land available to you, uncovering deeper mysteries.
Click here for the Suicide of Rachel Foster trailer. Other features of the game include immersive binaural audio as well as adjustable language options in English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Chinese and Spanish.
Overall, Rachel Foster seems very intriguing and I like the aesthetic, the developers definitely took some inspiration from The Shining visually speaking. I mean, troubled familial relations and an abandoned hotel is a pretty oddly specific bread and butter. I myself have a particular penchant for video games that mix up a good story with the gameplay, so good on the devs at One O One Games, Reddoll Games and 101% for playing a part in adding to the fact that video games can explore serious topics with nuance.
Speaking of nuanced stories in games, if you can’t get either of them yourself, I recommend checking out the letsplays of Valiant Hearts and Papers Please by Irish Shoutyman Extraordinaire Jacksepticeye: Valiant Hearts follows various character perspectives struggling during WWI based on real-life letters from a German soldier, a French prisoner, a Belgian nurse, a failed English pilot and more. Papers Please sees you play as a border security guard in charge of checking passports for discrepancies, loosely inspired by events relating to the fall of the Berlin wall. Various choices have different impacts on characters and endings you can get, so choose wisely.
As for the bi-weekly YouTuber non-sponsored shillfest extravaganza, if you want an unlikely crossover of epic proportions, Jacob Geller’s ‘Dark Souls 3 is Thinking of Ending Things’ is a suitably peculiar piece that explores parallels between Dark Souls 3 by FromSoftware and the hit psychological drama Netflix film ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’, so hopefully the vendiagram of fans between both of those things stumble on this video. We also got a two-for-one bundle at our store for Dark Souls 3 and The Witcher 3–
The Suicide of Rachel Foster is available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.
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