Today I finally gave Mouthwashing a try, a game about a disaster happening on board a cargo freighter spaceship and how the handful of crew members are dealing with that (badly!) and what led up to that, in non-linear jumping between different points in time.

It’s very much a horror game, as the things that are happening are, um, not great, and the specifics of the plot are probably best left unspoiled. It does a great job of setting up an extremely unsettling atmosphere and delivering the story in that. The one thing I found odd was that towards the end it starts getting very abstract and…metaphorical?…when it had previously been fairly grounded, and I’m not sure I ‘got’ those parts. Still, highly recommended overall.