If you’re considering playing this game, know that the warning isn’t there for show. This game goes to some dark places and it can very easily take you there with it. I started playing Echo five months ago; I’ve thought about it every day since. I can’t remember a time when a piece of media, much less a video game, has occupied my thoughts and feelings the way Echo has, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve cried playing or even thinking about it. Despite the fact that it’s so concerned with its own darkness, or maybe because of it, what I associate most with Echo is Love. This is a passion project in the truest sense of the phrase; every scene, line of dialogue, sprite, and piece of music, and every instance of symbolism, foreshadowing, and humor only ever gave me the sense that the developers put their hearts into it; that they put so much of their time and effort and pain into this game that their love bleeds through it and into you. Misery loves company, and there’s no love stronger than that born out of shared suffering. I am a gay man involved in the furry community who is in his early twenties; this game feels like it was tailor-made to break my heart. There are very few people I know who I can recommend this game to, despite wanting to scream from the rooftops about how it has made me feel and how dear it is to me. This is a title that was only ever going to be niche, but for the people this game was made for, it's unforgettable. Play this game if you want a little piece of the dark, terrible love that lives inside of it to live inside of you too.