I found out about Vile late at night, after around 2 hours of half looking for a book to read half doomscrolling twitter. When I'm in that mode I often ask myself sarcastically "What are you expecting to find?" Vile felt like the perfect answer to that, a finding out to my fucking around. I bought it instantly and jumped in, even if it was far too late for horror.
I expected to be scared, a tale about the horrors of the pornography industry and the perils of deep internet rabbit holes. Instead, I found a story of parasocial obsession that made me feel really fucking sad. Like a lot of good horror, Vile turns up a notch a situation that feels all to familiar.
Anyway, I guess the point of this ramble is that if like I was you are on the fence about playing this because of the gore I'll say do it, the game is great and the gore is rather tasteful and very much not the point. (For reference, I like written transgressive fiction a lot, but I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to audiovisual stuff).
PS: My dumb ass thought the Para password was a cipher for the actual password, and really overthought things (see attached sheet). Oh well, at least I got to see a variety of test endings, plus I drew a cute octopus-demon in the paint tool.
PS2: I cackled at Eleanor going on weekly walks in the park with a 6:1 alone/accompanied ratio. I do exactly the same and often joke about how easy it would be for a stalker to find me
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