When I started playing this, I was talking to a friend of mine, and I told him about this fantasy I used to have, back when I was a lot less satisfied with myself.
In the fantasy, I would be driving home from work one day, and when I reached the turn to go to my apartment, I would just...not turn. I'd keep driving, and driving, and driving, in a straight line, as far as I could before I had to stop for something. And then when I was done with whatever that need was, I'd get right back on the road, and keep going, for as long as I could, as far as I could.
This game feels immensely weighted with the sort of emotions I was feeling when that sort of thing appealed to me. I felt like I was stuck in a dead end, that nothing around me was ever going to improve, and I would dream about taking one stupid step to just ruin everything and not look back.
And then somehow the game wound up encapsulating the exact same feelings that fantasy had been cradling all those years ago. It was astonishing how accurately it tapped into them; I think I have to go take a break now because of the intensity of them that it brought back up in me, actually.
Incredible work