the game I am most hesitant to recommend to others that I deeply enjoyed and kind of made me fall in love with IF as a teen: slouching toward bedlam.
it is…wow. even aside from the whole deeply rooted thematic ableism which I talked about a while back, the content warnings in the game including half the endings are major trigger warnings for most of my friends (even assuming they’d give parser IF a shot at all). That and the interface screw AND the thematic message of (spoiler AND tw: severe ableism, suicide) “once you know you have schizophrenia you should kill yourself immediately” means I will probably never recommend it to anyone ever again. I still think the Yeats references and aesthetics rip though.