A new indie title is trying to prove that video games can tackle serious subjects, with a daring insight into mental illness and childhood abuse.
Video game storytelling has improved in leaps and bounds over the last decade, but few games try to tackle any subject more serious than ordinary soap opera style melodrama. But The Town Of Light is about institutionalised child abuse and the treatment of mental health patients, a subject even the most daring TV and movie makers would be wary of.
The Town Of Light is described by Italian developer LKA.it as a psychological thriller, one that on the face of it looks similar… Read the full story