The Most Heart-Breaking Game Ever Made 

Quest reward: *_Depression_*

I love how in the game there’s a slow realization that the grandma had a small part in every single death because of her paranoia over the family curse. It was quite insidious

The real curse is the generational trauma we suffered and perpetuated along the way

God Walters story always makes me cry it’s not that sad compared to the rest of the game but it sticks with me he lived his whole life in fear and the one time he decides he wants to live and not just exist he dies and his quotes are so hopeful “I’m glad with just one new day”

I have always believed that the curse was mostly bad parenting habits passed down. But no one wanted to admit it because that's how they were raised. It's super common with the older generation. The addition of some bad luck and grief made it all look like a curse

I fully believe Rick, being Barbara's biggest fan, genuinely wanted to hear her scream or just tried to scare her because it was Halloween. Walter probably saw Rick in the costume and thought it was a real monster (since Walter was a little kid) and ran to hide. Rick probably did scare Barbara, and she accidentally fell off of the railing, killing her. Rick ran away because he didnt want people to think he purposefully killed her, and Walter became convinced that a real monster killed his sister. A simple, unfortunate Halloween accident that was dramatised for a comic.

One of the horrifying things about these deaths is thinking about the aftermath; a little boy who flew off a cliff, a little girl who died to poisoning, a teenager probably killed by her boyfriend during an argument; imagine the people who found them.

Something I noticed while watching this video was how even with all the death surrounding the Finches. One of each generation is left alive to continue the bloodline. Basically, no matter how many family members die, the Finch bloodline will continue. Meaning that even though Edith only had one child before her death, the future is looking hopeful for that kid.

Something that wasn't mentioned is the fact that Barbara's mother collaborated in writting the story of the comic. She wanted to push the narrative of the curse to everyone that will read the comic, the same way she did on every child in the family. She glamorizes their deaths and presents them as stories rather than the tragedies they actually are. Another thing that showsthis is the fact when Sven died in the paper,by her request, the headline was "Sven Finch killed by a dragon" rather than specifying it was a slide that collapsed in him.

"Oh no me family is cursed. Let's live on a cliff, build our continuously growing house near the edge of it, close to live train tracks and also furnish the outside with equipment our daredevilish children can play on."

I understand Sam's desire to ease Kay of the blame for Gregory's death, but he was no way he could've known his wife would be so careless with a baby. All she had to do was not pick up the phone if she didn't want to talk to Sam in the first place

the ear in the music box imagery might be a hint towards walter not being involved at all in her death, but still hearing everything go down, and how that trauma and survivor's guilt sticks with him. just like he was hiding under his bed, the ear was hiding in the music box, which is an auditory toy, so i think its meant to parallel their relationship. he's used to hearing her scream as a performance, like a music box's tune, so he might not think anything bad really happened when he hears her screaming for real, but little did he know his sister is dead. like the comic, he has no way of knowing if someone pushed her or if she fell, but if he had done something he might have at least been able to stop it.

52:32 Sam's death is kinda interesting because it fits in both of the themes of the Finches being bad parents and being reckless. Generally when hunting, the very first thing a person is supposed to do with their kill is make sure the thing is actually dead. You do not start dressing it, you do not take pictures with it, you do not pass go, you do not collect $200, you do not handle that thing in any way until you're certain that it no longer has the faculties to kick you, bite you, or gore you on its antlers. Sam not only failed to do so, he took his kill to the edge of a cliff. What happened was just one of several ways his actions could've killed him and/or Dawn.

The kid at the end is clearly as "cursed" as the rest of the family. This curse appears to be a mix between intense creativity and daring that often leads to disaster, alongside the typical bad luck. At the end, the kid has a broken arm, which almost certainly comes from him doing something risky.

The finches: "Family curse!!" Me: "family neglect yall. Go to therapy"

What always struck me was that Edith was still a child. The face slap at the end where we see her grave and she passed just a month before her 18th birthday is still such a shock to me. And from the looks, her child is probably around the same age or younger. This is still one of my favorite games to hear about and I love hearing other people's interpretations of everything. It still makes me cry. I can't wait for the next game the developers create. So far they've been fantastic stories.

What Remains of Edith Finch is one of my favorite games of all time! The artistic way they tell each person's story makes this game such a unique experience

There is a theory that Molly didn't hallucinate at all, she eat what she did and went to bed, dying in her sleep. It was her mother who wrote all the extra stuff on her diary, to make it all fantastical and her saying " I'll be gone soon" is VERY convenient. It's as if Edie wanted to hide away her child neglect that was the true reason for Molly's death

I love that the right side of the controller is used for work and the left for imagination. A subtle nod to the left and right side of the brain and how they work.

Lewis story had always stuck to me, ever since I first saw it when the game came out. I was only a teenager and something about the daydreaming and mundane tasks stuck with me. I related to lewis so much. I have maladaptive daydreaming disorder along with some others that don't really make me have a good grip on reality. I actually didn't even know it wasn't normal until i saw this game. To this day i still think about it often, Whenever i see a new doctor or therapist i show them or tell them about the story of lewis finch so they can understand what i feel like

1:30:25 And a middle ground was exactly the point that needed to be reached. That was the problem with Edie and Dawn - they were on two extreme sides on a spectrum, just Calvin and Walter were. Edie was obsessed with death and the dead. She made every moment of her life about it, and about fantastical stories and reminiscing. There was no room for reality, or for the present there at all. And Dawn wanted to lock it all away. She wanted it to be unseen, unheard, unspoken of. She never told her children about their grandfather. She didn't leave room for imagination or the past in her life. Neither of those extremes were good for them or their families, and they both added to the "family curse" in some way, even though neither of them had malicious intent. They were just two people trying to cope with an unimaginable level of loss and grief, and they didn't get it right, because people rarely do. That's the real tragedy of the Finch family - that none of them ever learned to truly accept and overcome their grief, and that grief kept leading to more grief. An endless cycle that Christopher can only break by coming to terms with his mother's death, and not letting it haunt him.

i have been calling this channel water dave for too long , i need glasses

I love your guess on the true story of Milton as it feels so right. I like the idea of him running away because we can assume he's the one who drew the flipbook. He saw his leaving of the Finch family as a new beginning. He wasn't scared. He accepted the past with a bow and closed the door to bright things ahead. It makes a lot of sense. And then Edie can take the flipbook he made and the drawings in the passages and simply say he's still here, he's still connected. Just lost in the walls. Ugh I love this game and your breakthrough of it is incredible.

It's been 6 years since Edith Finch came out. It's been 5 years since the day that I first realized that didn't want to die any more. That cannery scene was terrifying. I hate jump scares and almost didn't play this game for fear of it. The tension in that cannery scene kept building and building and instead of a loud noise or scary image it was just the lockers at the cannery. That was more terrifying than anything I could have seen because that was the moment I realized this story was very similar to my own. He began to despise [Lewis the cannery worker] with a royal contempt. I recognized that cruelty in myself. That line stuck with me. After that I realized that none of my daydreams were about me. I didn't daydream about how my life could be better because I didn't want to be me. So I made a conscious decision to spend some time imagining how my life might get better. I guess it made a difference.

A factoid for you. A lot of medications especially related to blood pressure, do not react well with alcohol at all. Ideally if you're fast the person can be rescued, but Edie was left alone and...well you get it.

The whole "self fulfilling prophecy" hits real hard, stories about bringing on your own demise because you expect it so much you don't try to prevent it, or try to prevent it to crazy degrees.. idk it just hits me. Calvin hit me especially, how he made up his mind to fly just stuck

I can definitely see where the Mom was coming from, it's not exactly a good idea to always talk about dead relatives and how you're going to die.

Quick correction about Milton: It was Dawn who insisted on his memorial in the graveyard to not have a death date on it, and insisted on it being a memorial, not a grave like Eddie intended on it being

To me, the curse of the finch family is a mix of vivid imaginations, reckless behaviors and a bit of bad luck. The way they died just all seems to boil down to tragedy and bad life decisions. Molly- Dies via ingesting food she wasn't supposed to. She was hungry enough to eat toothpaste, a contaminated carrot and holly berries (which potentially weren't even organic but were plastic) and I theorize she didn't die on the same day she ate all that stuff, empty stomach plus poisonous foods are bound to cause rapid deterioration of health, she says she ate a bunch of stuff "that night" implying she ate it some time before and could have died from illness and lack of nutrients to combat the potential poisoning she gave herself a day or so later. Calvin- Dies from swinging around a rickety branch. He was lucky the branch his swing was on could hold his weight to begin with but we can see he's a reckless child even before his death due to the cast and black eye. He had no business even being by that cliff but due to his parent's horrible planning, he flew right over the equally crudely made fence and plummeted to his death. Barbara- One who wasn't offed by her own bad decisions but her ending still came from her parent's poor choices, turning their daughter into a child star and then just leaving her and her brother alone in their house with Barbara's boyfriend (who already sounds like he was only dating her for her status). Like Wave said, odds are the bf killed her. I think they got into a spat, he pushed her through the railing and she died, her ear was severed in the fall onto the glass and in a panic the bf got some of his friends (the monsters) to help him dump her body somewhere, not realizing they left the ear. Walter- Dies by walking on train tracks...pretty self explanatory how horrible of an idea that was. He may not have realized that the sound was a train going over his head, but when he disappeared surely he had to know what a train was? Did he not think being on tracks was dangerous? Or perhaps the train wasn't there when he went into hiding and only showed up soon after. Even so, tracks plus loud train rumbling should mean a working train system and that in turn should mean, DON'T STAND ON THE TRACKS. Sam- A skilled hunter who...didn't check to make sure the animal his daughter shot was dead? I get he was excited for Dawn's first kill (so much so he just ignores his daughter's distress...way to pull a Edie there Sam) but what if Dawn had been up there by herself after it came to? She could have been killed instead, showing even more reckless parents potentially effecting their kids. Thankfully Dawn wasn't directly hurt by Sam's awful choices (unlike her brother Gus and ya know...Sam himself) but even putting her in that situation shows he's very similar to his mother in lack of awareness and hindsight to keep their kids safe. Gregory- Literally a baby, he didn't know any better when he accidentally drowned himself. But you know who should of known better? His mother, Kay. She, just like her ex-husband, was incompetent and reckless with the life of her barely year old son. Everyone knows you NEVER leave an infant in a tub of water alone. Worst of all when we first saw through Gregory's eyes, she had the tub's door closed with him in there BY HIMSELF. Sam may try to ease her guilt and say she wasn't to blame but she absolutely was for what happened to that baby. She not only left him in the tub once, but three damn times. Idc if a hurricane is about to hit the house, you never leave a baby in a tub with any amount of water, they can and will drown. She could have and should have let that phone ring, period. Gus- A death that was actually the consequences of Sam's awful parenting. Simply, Gus should have been inside with the others...when the storm hit, Sam left his child outside in high winds with objects that can easily be swept away in a storm. Sam cared so little about his son that he let him stay outside in that weather, drowned the sounds out with music and didn't even notice he was gone until they no doubt found his body either in the ocean or crushed under the totem pole. Sam's neglect killed Gus and Gus' poor decision to stay out in the storm killed himself. Milton- Managed to seemingly escape with his life, unsure if he ran away or did just get sent to another realm but I hope he's doing okay. Lewis- Took himself out, perhaps he did it on purpose to escape or perhaps he was so far deep in his imagination he truly didn't know where he was or what he was doing when he put his head into the guillotine. It's hard to say if being forced to be sober is was set him off, or he was just extremely suicidal since the start and used snoops smoke stick to get through it all, realized it wasn't healthy and got therapy but I think Dawn was the one who made him get sober and go to therapy. Despite her best efforts to break the cycle, she couldn't save Lewis even though she, unlike the parents before her, tried to see her son's pain and help him heal from it. Dawn- Another of the finches who was taken via circumstances and not so much bad parenting or luck or recklessness. Dawn just died of sickness, nothing could be done about it. Edie Sr.- Reckless mixing of her meds and alcohol or just old age taking her, yet I do find it strange she died literally the night her daughter and granddaughter left. It's hard to say what killed Edie for all we knew it could have been heartbreak after realizing she chased away the last of her family but who is to really say. Edith- Let's see, besides her just reckless behavior all throughout the game, climbing on branches that may not support her weight, going into an old house that may or may not have mold due to most of the food and drinks being out for years after her great-grandmother died, oh and of course getting pregnant at 17...Edith, while not nearly as bad as some on the finches on this list, truly continued to cycle of bad choice after bad choice. It's safe to assume the death of Dawn is what caused Edith to look for comfort in another, unfortunately that lead to her falling pregnant at too young of an age which caused her untimely death in child birth. Legit showing that even after everything the finches main problem is horrible decision making that leads to someone's death, either their own or one of their loved ones. And we see with Christopher, he's also showing the Finch signature, he's already got a cast on his hand, implying he's already hurt himself doing god knows what. What reminds of Edith Finch, is a game I adore so much and keep replaying over and over it's so good. I just can't help but to feel the curse is just a bunch of really dumb choices that killed off this family, knowing some of them may have lived to have kids of their own had the others around them (mainly their parents) not dropped the ball and allowed for half of the things that happened to happen. Had they not built a swing literally kissing the edge of a cliff, Calvin would still be around, had Edie not starved Molly, she'd never have been poisoned, had Sam not been so careless he would have been there to see his son and daughter grow up. All these deaths and more could have been avoided had they just been more careful, more self aware, less callous with the lives of their loved ones. Truly a heartbreaking game.

The title had me wondering what new game I'd discover today, but as soon as he said "Edith Finch" I was already in tears

Just for more clarification, the Washington they land in is Washington state, not DC. Orcas Island is a small community in the pacific that's only really accessible by ferry.

This game is the epitomy of gothic ambience and themes. The fears of death and the fearlessness of living, the coping, the grief... Gosh, i love it so much. It's such a cautionary tale about how we deal with our grief and how we view death and loved ones passing

Milton’s story gave me chills for some weird reason. His story just sticks out more to me & the daughter who was starved to death (Molly).

I can't help but relate to Dawn and the circumstances that led to her leaving. Already she's had to deal with the death of her husband and child and the disappearance of another, but both her little brothers -one being a baby mind you- died premature and watched her own father fall to his death, so I can see why she fears Edith ending up the same. I would do the exact same in her place, even if it did mean being a little cruel.

the actual most heartbreaking thing for me is the realization that granny saw all of the family members die. Literally she was the oldest of them all and saw all of the young peers dying while she was old and "healthy"

This game is the first one that ever made me cry. It holds such a special place in my heart and Edie definitely needed a good ass slap in the face back to reality. This poor family had to deal with so much trauma that could have been avoided all because of her.

One detail about Barbara's story is that if you look in Edie's room, you'll drafts for her story. Meaning it was Edie who helped with the comic book in order to get her daughter remembered. A very twisted form of love.

I think Walter’s story made me the most sad, because he was talking about everything he hoped to do now that he was free, and then he dies right as he’s about to start living again

There is so much attention to detal: Lewis' portrait is the only unfinished one, because Edie (which was the one that made them) died before she could finish it Like it's so morbid when you think about it but so cool at the same time

Finally someone sees Lewis' death the same as I do, a suicide. I've been fighting on this hill since I discovered the game, everyone around me would tell me "Uh no he didn't mean to die, he just bent down because he couldn't tell the difference between dream and reality" FAM. It LITERALLY said he thought the real Lewis was the prince. He wanted rid of the cannery worker. His story has always been my favourite cause I can relate to him, and hearing people telling me I'M the one who misunderstood that story was so frustrating

Lewis has always been my favorite, as someone who struggles w maladaptive daydreaming disorder. That feeling of slipping from reality and being engulfed into your mind, into your own imagination, it’s debilitating, but it’s oh so satisfying. You want to stay there forever. The real world is so mundane but at the same time so unpredictable. You just want out.

There are a lot of impactful deaths, but oddly enough, the one that stuck with me was Gus'. Just imagine your teenage son dying on your wedding day. Especially when it could have been EASILY avoided.

Did anyone notice that the main character said her cat's name was Molly and then Molly dressed as a cat as well?

My wife and I had our son six months before I had played this game. I had just made it to the Gregory portion of the game. She walked in on me playing, and I was sobbing. Uncontrollable tears. Crying in a way that she had never seen me cry before. She just held me as I sobbed and sobbed, grieving the death of a fictional character, one that I didn’t even know all that well, because it just hit me so incredibly hard. I love this game. It’s poetic, and beautiful, and does amazing things with the video game genre that I have never seen before, and I never want to play it again.

I am so happy you mentioned The Unfinished Swan for Milton’s story. That game is so good, just as good as Edith Finch imho, and it kinda makes Milton’s story my favorite as well.

There could be 2 things that happened to Barbra that were realistic and taken from the story: #1 fan turned boyfriend became violent and pushed he over the railing, killing her, like was said OR, more similar to the comic (which is why that one was kept) the bf did try to scare her to get tge scream back, got kicked out, and an obesessed fan in a costume broke in, traumatized her brother, she thought it was her bf again, they got into a struggle, she pushed him through the railing, went to finish him off (or kick him out again), but then she got kidnapped (and murdered after) by a gang of obsessed fans in constumes that came with the guy who broke into the house. It isn't exactly unheard of for people to kidnap and murder former child stars they have a twisted obsession with. The ear in the music box could be a sign that it was done for randsome money too, and the bf being blamed could be due to both the bf and the intruder being in costumes interacting with Barbra before she went missing.

Bird at the end looks like a crane to me. Or a stork, which does feature heavily in old cartoons, like Disney's Dumbo, and is associated with family, a recurring theme in giant sparrow's games

walter's death always hit hardest for me because he didn't even have a chance to see what he'd been missing. he was so close to living the life he wanted to live after overcoming his fears and it was violently ripped away from him.

Personally one of my favourite little headcanons is that the family "curse" was always characterized by there being only one child of each generation to carry on the bloodline. But if you choose to believe the unfinished swan is, at least to a point, Milton's story, then that means Christopher and Monroe Finch are cousins, not siblings, both alive, symbolizing the break of the curse (That and Edie's, the last person from Sweden, death)

I think I like Dawn's view on death a lot more than Edie's. She recognizes that it's unnecessary and even harmful to be so obsessive with family members' death by creating shrines in their rooms and never repurposing them even when its necessary. But Dawn does still honor the dead. We see this in the poem she wrote for Gus, how she considered naming Edith Gus if she were a boy, and that she named her cat Molly. She does think its important to remember and honor the dead, but just not to the obsessive extent that Edie does.

I will honestly never forget playing for the first time. Id been relaxed and sort of confused up until the swing.. The feeling in my gut the higher up we got... The dread and realization of what this game was becoming and what was about to happen.. It always stuck with me.

Something that strikes me about this game is the avoidance of moving on. Building so many memorials and continuing to live there is not moving on. Conversely, burying the past completely is not moving on. The Finches take two different stances on the past, but there needs to be a middle ground. I think Edith is doing the right thing by telling the stories, and not having her child grow up in that house. They're going to visit, yes, but the important thing is they can leave. They can move on. I think that's important. Facing the past while still walking toward the future, and accepting that there was nothing to be done.

8:30 I don’t know if anyone else has brought this up, but I wonder if Odin’s role in the story is a reference to the mythological Odin’s role in Ragnarok, where he gets a prophecy that leads him to try and stop it in any way possible, but only leading him to create the powerful beings that would lead to destruction

It took me a few play throughs for it to really click for me, that the reason the comic book has so many accurate details like what the house looks like and the music box, is because Edie probably gave an interview or even a press tour

A funny detail about Odin's story is that his destination of Orcas Island is on the pacific coast of america, almost the exact opposite end of the world from sweden. He would've needed to cross several oceans over potentially years, all just for his vessel to sink right at the finish line.

Holy crap. Lewis’s story is absolutely brilliant. This whole story and game is really well done but that is definitely my favorite story. That something I think a lot of people can relate to.

Sam's saying his son isnt dead, just went to play actually made me cry

I think it's interesting that Milton was the only Finch to run away not out of fear, but curiosity. Because fear and recklessness didn't follow him, Milton is quite possibly alive and escaped the family curse of paranoia.

Honestly I think one theory about Lewis but more prominently Milton would make sense, the schizophrenia theory, its pretty self explanatory but the theory goes like this: Milton always struggled with undiagnosed schizophrenia, but one day he had a particularly bad episode, and wandered into the forest, never to be seen again, there is evidence in this in Lewis's story, and i feel like it would just make sense, aside from the aspects of "wouldn't someone find him?"

When I first got this game I sat down and played the whole thing in one sitting with no breaks or stops because I was so captivated by it

It's been so long I was waiting for someone to actually take a deep dive and appreciate all the secrets and intricacies of this wonderfully written game I literally jumped of excitement out of this, and adding as a bonus that it was made by you makes me even happier because I know I won't be disappointed, thank you 💖

Just realized the parallel between The Finches and the Galapagos finches. Very clever...

Looking back you can see that a lot of these deaths were preventable. Also that the grandma had a part to play in all of them. It seems the mum knew what was going on and that’s why she left because of how the grandma made these deaths seem whimsical when some of these were due to neglect and were preventable

I remember seeing a video about this game a long time ago that went over each of the stories and proposed the idea that edie was the villain of the finchs stories since it seems like alot of the deaths were caused by these stories being told and almost glorified

Yeah, this game is a really interesting experience despite its fundamentally sad and depressing premise. The fishery sequence actually hit me surprisingly hard considering I've daydreamed that hard too, ADHD and depression being a hell of a combination when it comes to escapism, and I'm always afraid of something like that happening because I'm not paying attention. If you haven't played it, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture might be something you'd enjoy exploring. Only downside is it has a pretty slow walking speed but that can be fixed via mods on PC I'm sure. Also, just because I was impressed with the performance of it, the game has a really good Nintendo Switch port. There's a few blurry moments but it runs pretty well and is almost native resolution for the majority of the time.

So I played this game for the first time while I was really high and it was truly life changing. I remember getting really genuinely scared going through Molly's story. And with Lewis it was just so deeply immersive and I felt like I was really in his headspace playing it. I still stand by when I said that Lewis's segment was the most interesting gameplay mechanic I've ever seen. It's truly an amazing game.

I honestly find Lewis' passing as exceptionally relatable. I have smaller signs of maladaptive daydreams (I call them hallucinatory daydreams personally). And it also lends itself into sleep addiction and a lot of other issues, including the severe dissociative episode we see from Lewis. But it does feel a lot like that - ahh, small daydream. Monotony. "Okay well I can autopilot this stuff, so let go into the daydream" And it does become an overwhelming situation. Luckily I can usually catch it, or have almost hypnogogic jerks (I'll respond to the daydream physically, say I daydream a fight, I'll wake up because my arm jerked to reel for a punch) It's... honestly a bit scary, because with how it ties in to a dissociative disorder, I often find I've blanked out a lot of stuff. (Say, I'll have walked a mile past my destination and have 0 recollection of what happened during the walk) But it's the one that *REALLY* stuck out to me. Including Molly, who was absolutely being neglected, and on a regular basis, it feels.

It always struck me as eerie how all these rooms that hadn’t been touched in decades were perfect and free of dust/cobwebs/disrepair. But then, when you realize Edith is writing the details down for her son, it adds another layer of removal from the truth.

I loved this game and I'm so glad you covered it. I've always had a fear of death so when I watched a lets play of this game idk it made me kinda accept it. It's a beautifully structured story that is so bittersweet but hopeful. Also LOVE your commentary vids~

I do NOT regret buying WROEF; it’s a sad yet enlightening story, which makes you grieve for the lost finches and learning their stories as a way to carry their memory

You know what always made me super sad and ended up being really morbid when I ended up thinking about it about Gregory‘s death babies I don’t know for how long maybe it’s a case by a case but babies when they’re put in water and they go under they instinctively hold their breath until a certain age, where they kinda unlearn it, and they have to relearn it when they’re older so we’ll never know but you can only imagine with that context how long was Kay in the other room arguing with Sam, how long did it take for the poor baby to drown because they can only hold their breath for so long but how long did it actually take and it just the long you think about it this Saturday Isbecause he didn’t know any better and it’s just sad

I think that Edie is the main cause of the family deaths. because she let things let those things happen it first started with her sending molly to her room without dinner. Plus don't you think it's weird that she was the only one who made it to their 90s? Because Odin died in his 50s at 57, Molly died at 10, Barbra at 16, Calvin at 11, Sam at 33, Walter at 53, Gus at 12, Gregory at 1, Lewis at 22, Edith died at 17 about to be 18 and we don't know about Milton. did anyone else notice this?

And Edith’s dad died too, it was mentioned that just marrying into the family can be a death sentence. I don’t know about Dawns step mom but Kay left the family so it seems denouncing the family name might be a solution of sorts

The scariest part of this story is Gregory, like if that baby grew up he'd be a horror movie acotr, smile just too wide, death just too random.

What Remains of Edith Finch is one of the few examples of a walking simulator done right.

Oh Lewis… I have ADHD and get lost in my mind far too often. Living with anxiety and depression makes it hard to tolerate reality so isolation and daydreaming is preferred. I have a character in my mind that’s always been with me that I wish so much to be but reality has it’s limitations. I can’t be her but I am her to an extent. If I were stuck in a factory like that I’d probably be in the same shoes. The boredom would drive me insane alone.

You know the Finch's came from Norway, theres a Norwegian flag in grandma's room, and in Odin's story the camera says "famous throughout *Norway* "

This game was so beautiful and melancholic, and it astounds me that I would've missed out on this if it weren't for this video. Thank you for this! And I hope the next game by Sparrow will be a hit since they really do deserve it. Can't wait for their next game. ❤

Dude, I love the idea that Milton has a son and just lived a somewhat normal life

seeing people still talk about this game makes me incredibly happy, it’s really one of my all time favorite games-the storytelling is both devastating and interesting all at once.

i seriously did not expect this story to have the effect on me that it did, i am 20 minutes in with tears in my eyes. the pure shock i felt hearing this little girl read out the line “i will be delicious” was truly inexplicably chilling. what an interestingly heartbreaking story this is. truly amazing..

I feel so bad for child Dawn. I cant imagine putting a child through the action of killing another creature. My grandfather, a veteran, only went hunting once and he hated it.

I feel like Walter was responsible for Barbara’s death. She tried to scare Barbara which made her slipped through the rails, and that made Walter hide under his bed. Maybe that explains the ear part on the music box plus finding the key in it to Walter’s place. Maybe it symbolizes “Who Barbara heard last and the key to Barbara’s death” is Walter. When he said, “Whatever killed Barabara” is just like him dis social himself because he believes that it was an accident. I feel like Walter is the biggest fan of Barbara, and while it was well intentioned jump scare, it led somewhere he didn’t wish to happen at all. I think the guilt ate him up that’s why he couldn’t go out at all.

What Remains of Edith Finch is one of my favorite games of all time. This is story telling on such a grade A level imo - making you basically participate in the deaths of all of your family members in these unique, fantastical ways, symbolically explaining what actually happened to all of these poor people. The grandmother being slowly revealed as such a toxic person is also a good touch

The first time I played Lewis’s story I had to take a break before I could continue. You really know this game is art when it makes people stop so they can think about things. I love this game, probably in my top 5 video games I’ve played.

While watching Lewis’ story I was always concerned about his hand hitting the chopping board

Lewis’ story hit me hard. I maladaptive daydream a lot to escape reality ESPECIALLY when I don’t have video games to escape reality. Sometimes I even run into walls and hurt myself. But I don’t want to stop because reality is boring and sometimes terrifying and I hate it so much. Especially when I’m alone. Being with my own thoughts drive me crazy. So thanks man I’m genuinely shook now 💀👍🏾

Not many games have managed to hold such a lasting impact on me like What Remains of Edith Finch. For years I have found myself going through the story again and again. It’s a game unlike any other I’d seen before. I have always been one to get lost in stories, of far away places, full of magic and wonder. That has continued with me to adulthood and I resonate with it in this game, learning about my own family history, the sadness and joy of my relatives’ lives, all of the stories that have been passed down and of trying to think of the best way of passing those stories down to my children if I ever have any. Life is hard, the mundane things can eat away at you, the stress and the fear of the unknown that lies ahead can feel like a black hole that’s come to swallow you whole but I try to live life, quite similarly to how Edith said with wonder and the amazing fact of knowing that I’ve gotten to have this life even with all of its up and downs.

this game was so perfect. I still think about it all the time. It definitely made me cry more than once.

I replayed the game yesterday, and it occurred to me just how little we know about certain characters. Gus for instance is NEVER mentioned until his death. What were his hobbies, his interests? Did he have any fears? We don't know. There's a few hints, but that's it. He's just "the kid that died by flying his kite". Or how the pet cemetery has graves for several pets, including DOGS. Dogs lived in that house at one point? When? We never even see a food bowl or a water dish! The only time we hear about a character is when they've died, and that's just so GRIM. We don't even know much Edith and what she was like. Apparently she really liked writing, drawing and crafting, but we only piece that together from context clues. Like... damn.

Ive been avoiding this video because i couldnt handle seeing Lewis's story again. Playing through the game, i got to that point and it was like seeing myself, it was surreal. Same age, same kind of job (repetitive blue collar), the marijuana addiction, the maladaptive daydreaming, and the suicidal ideation. It kind of woke me up, and it kind of killed me. I saw what i would end up like, i saw my future and it destroyed me, i was afraid. Ive recently been working to be sober. Im not entirely there yet and i still struggle sometimes, i still fall into the daydreams that hurt me once i wake up. But im moving on amd i can feel it. Im moving out next week and it feels like a huge step towards my future. This game is a beautiful work of art, and Lewis's story i can say has helped me immensely. I am thankful for this story, and thank you for this video.

id have to say, Calvins story really hit me hard to home. it reminded me of the time when i was 8 i tried to take a long term solution for a short term problem. however, i was terrifed and scared. I wasnt daring, i was just miserable and wanted an escape. so seeing how brave Calvin was as a child to even commit to something like this. i cant help but feel a little part of my younger self in calvin. A part of me wished i couldve done it, not because i wanted to go. but because i wanted to be brave. but at the same time, im glad i was scared. fear is meant to protect you after all :) and maybe, fear simply couldnt protect the finches.

What Remains of Edith Finch was one of my favorite games for such a long time and I still love it even now. It’s gorgeous; it’s tragic and melancholy. The slow realization both Edith and the player come to over time is heartbreaking. The writers of this game did such an amazing job.

The thing that does it for me is por Dawn being left to share a room with both of her brother’s memorials

The first time I played this I missed Gus' story, and I was going through it and was like "I wonder when we will see Gus?" And when I was done, I had thought "oh they must have not made it and just wanted to show another family member. I was so shocked when I found it.

I reckon Barbara was caught off guard by multiple assailant's, who tortured her for who knows how long (ive never played the game so idk how long the parents were out of the house), leaving only an ear behind to show that what happened to her happened inside the house, maybe to torture barbara, and her parents, by proving to her how unsafe she was in her own house and how far she was from freedom in that moment Edit: sidenote, love the way you edit and talk in your videos

OH MY GOD I DID NOT EXPECT YOU TO BRING UO THE UNFINISHED SWAN, UT IS SO NOSTALGIC FOR ME AND THE MILTON PART DID KINDA REMIND ME OF IT

As someone who has dealt with maladaptive daydreaming as far as i can remember myself…. Lewis’ story TRULY caught me unprepared. Im not used to seeing this experience portrayed, ESPECIALLY this well done. I think his part is genius. And it really does hit hard

This story/game has a lot of classic tropes of gothic literature- the houses design and the way it represents a mental map of the psychology behind the family, the way it's personalised (Edith describing it making her feel uncomfortable and likenimg it to having teeth etc) and as an English Lit nerd I was obsessed when I first played through

I think MatPat's theory is more supported, mainly because of the crutch hanging above Walter's makeshift window in his bunker. So the part about Barbra's boyfriend being on crutches was true, and he wouldn't have left without it, or likely couldn't have even killed Barbara, if he really needed help just to walk If you don't know, here's the theory: Barbra and her mother Edith (great grandma Edie) got into an argument about her boyfriend coming over, and during the altercation, Edith pushed Barbra. She wouldn't have fallen, except that there was a loose roller skate on the floor