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Nightmare Fuel / ALTER EGO (2018)

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As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. As the game is also well-known for its sudden and rapid descent into madness, many of the spoilers appear early on. You Have Been Warned.


  • The way Ego Rex suddenly slides in can be unnerving.
  • Two endings of the game provides this. In both cases, Es had a realization that You Can't Fight Fate.
    • Giving Over to Instinct: Es gives in to her impulse and lets loose of her misgivings about Facade. She decides that she could do whatever she wants, to hate what she wants to hate and to love what she wants to love. She begins drop being The Stoic and swears at the facade for always criticizing her and for urging her to conform, "for the sake of conformity". Not contented, she goes on to break the world, while begging the player for forgiveness.
    • Choosing Conformity: Es realizes that the Facade, Ego Rex, created the world for the player. She went on to hate herself calling herself a harlequin and a stringed puppet. Es congratulates the player for reaching this ending, choosing the "right thing", and the player not allowing themselves to be mislead by her echoing the facade's sentiments earlier. Es denies herself and disappears, but not before pleading with the player for help. The endless isle's black walls eerily change to the Facade's faces.
  • When greeting Es after clearing all three endings, there's a chance she will appear with the same expression from the "Giving Over to Instinct" ending. There's no warning, and the change is quite jarring. Even worse, it's completely random. There's no way to predict when this greeting will happen.

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