SUNSHINE BACKWARDS

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don't you feel that sometimes, you just need to run away?

i get the feeling this is gonna be the most emotionally resonant and devastating entry of the jam so far for me. every reference and invocation helped push the exact mood and feeling of the piece. it's like it was made exactly for me.

i don't know what else to write outside of being extremely big on the cate wurtz type vibe the game has. 

As an adult, you might have forgotten how damn scary internet creepypastas used to be. Reading them on the family computer while awake well past your bedtime. Do you want to remember? 

Thanks for sharing. 

Love your painting style. Jumpscares got me good. Great work

owwwwwww v_v

bone chilling and bone crushing

loved it all the way through. every sentence and bit of information felt so important and resonated a chord within the little nostalgia girl inside me who was way too young using the internet

"the real and the unreal meet in the magic circle..." looking for catharsis where there is nothing but more teeth. haunting, sickening, completely real, and completely inspired. reminded me of too many things. my stomach hurts. fun for the whole family!

Beautiful work, speaks to me even as a very passive netizen who did not directly interact with fandom and internet culture much. Computers provided us with the means to broadcast our broken brains and brokenness in the least productive way possible and seeing this phenomenon splayed out like this hurts (in a very good way).

i have a hard time being objective when reviewing things, because, i mean, who doesn't, but i always feel there's a level of subjectivity that ends up being a little too personal and too revealing.  i don't know what i could say about Sunshine Backwards or how to put it into words that would really feel fair or do it justice, from an objective standpoint, and that wouldn't come across like i'm almost contemptuous of it, from the subjective.  i think i managed to avoid the latter, at least.

it's good, but it's the kind of thing you can have a bad time with, and that can be Good in its own way, but that can also be Bad.  beer, cigarettes, weed, junk food, too many energy drinks.  late night binges and staring at the pair of scissors on your desk and just, thinking.  it's the high you get from knowing you're hurting yourself and wanting a stronger hit.  it's looking into a mirror so hard you hope it explodes and the broken glass rips you to shreds.  sometimes you watch it happen to someone else;  sometimes you get to witness someone reaching into their own chest and pulling out their heart, and you wonder why it looks so much like your own, and what the fuck do you even do about it.  nothing, really.

my advice for best enjoying Sunshine Backwards is to drink a lot of water and go to bed immediately after.  as others have said and will say, it's an incredibly haunting piece of art.  it's the kind of thing you might need to cry/scream/manic laugh about, and definitely the kind of thing you need to sleep on to really think about and appreciate properly.  it's hard not to try and stay up, and ruminate on it, and rue its vulnerability, the way it cuts into itself and in its way, cuts into you, and the fact that if it cuts deep enough, you're going to have to acknowledge that there really are teeth all the way down.

thanks

The horrible intersection where fact and fiction meet, merging into one until you can't tell where it ends and where it begins.

The painted portions in this game were lovely, beautiful art that helps add to the disturbed feeling everything else in this game gives me. JPG artifacting is a type of horror in of itself in my eyes, but that likely makes no sense to anyone besides myself.

Let's play again some time.

this was such a haunting experience. sonia and rosy have such a beautifully appalling dynamic. this made me feel so uneasy is all the best ways. the further and further i read the less willing i was to advance the text, everything is paced so well i felt. thank you for making this, absolutely all of it. 

YOU'RE MISSING THE GREATEST PART, A WORK OF ART!

IT'S MISSING A LITTLE BIT OF YOU!

i think people are often drawn to demonic entities and transformations because it manifests the pain as real. it's the same logic most have for doing self-harm amongst other things, at least in my eyes. if people can just believe that you are being possessed, you'd be absolved of blame.

and yet our bodies are still ours. i'm not quite sure how to "fight off" these "demonic entities" but what i do know is that we are constantly vulnerable and capable of harm. in our efforts to never lose ourselves, we may change in ways we don't want to accept.

if we keep cutting off more of ourselves, there won't be any left. you have to live. identify the demon and eventually you can come to terms with it.

The single most raw, unhinged, and utterly engrossing release by Chambersoft yet. Sunshine Backwards truly feels like an experience that doesn't just show vulnerability from the author's end, but instills that exact same feeling of vulnerability onto the reader themselves if you've happened to also spend a lot of time growing up in a deeply unstable, unforgiving corner of the internet where everyone tries to be the better person at the expense of one another. Playing this game felt like tearing open old wounds that I almost completely forgot ever existed. It was as painful as it was impressive. I can't recommend it enough.

pain. pain all the way down. visceral. raw. a cycle. consumption. eating and being eaten. cat's game. pretending to be the bigger person. two cowboys laying dead at 12:01. i dont think im ok. give it a read.

that shit hurted