Have you ever had a nightmare in which you feel like you’re awake" You’ve been through this dream so many times, you’d think you’d know how to wake yourself up from this nightmare. And yet, there you are, fearful, powerless, thinking that your time has finally come.
Nightmares like these suck, but they usually don’t last that long, at least in my experience. But picture this: what if after you wake up, you realize you’re still in a nightmare. Your fears, whether it’s monsters, the loss of someone, or even giant spiders, still linger around you, waiting for you to put your guard down so they can finally get you. For real this time.
Was that spooky for you" If so, good. That’s what you can expect from Neversong, a game made by Serenity Forge and Thomas Brush where the nightmare starts as soon as you wake up. You play as Peet, a kid who, after his girlfriend Wren is kidnapped, falls into a coma. Because of such a tragic event, the grown-ups decide to go and find Wren for themselves. However, when Peet wakes up he realizes that not only is Wren still missing, but the grown-ups are gone too.
As you would expect, Peet takes matters into his own hands and goes on an adventure to find Wren, while finding something about himself in the process.

You know what you’re getting into right from the get-go. The scenery in the game is so beautifully disturbing, you’d want to look at it and look away at the same time. It&...