Escaped Chasm

Escaped Chasm is a short point & click game where you play as a young girl struggling to deal with loneliness and a crippling fear of social interaction, all while having to deal with the strange dreams she started having recently. While the game may seem a bit short at first, it does features 4 different endings, allowing for some degree of replayability.

Before all else, a separate review would be necessary just to talk about how wonderfully the hand-drawn cut-scene's are designed, as they make everything seem so vivid, surreal and unsettling at the same time. Of course, a great deal of attention seems to have been spend on the in-game graphics as well, as the 8 bit anime-inspired art style looks just as good.

The fact that the entire game is designed with a predominantly blue color palette only further emphasizes the angst and loneliness that the character is experiencing, as she too is also feeling “blue”. It would be understandable if you were to finish the game, stare at the screen looking all lost and just wish you could go there and hug her tight and tell her everything will be alright.

The entire story of the game revolves around you playing as a young girl struggling to deal with loneliness and a crippling fear of social interaction, all while having to deal with the strange dreams she started having recently. You deal with social problems such as the lack of friends, the death of your pet, the lack of contact with your parents and having to deal with supernatural apparitions spawning in and out of your house.

Escaped Chasm can be finished in about 20 minutes, but the 4 different endings will allow players enamored by the story to try all of them, resulting in almost two hours where you can experience this psychological journey in all of its variations. It is a great title with an extremely relatable story.