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While at first they appear to be ordinary videos of a cute kids' game, all of the Lacey Games videos are horrifying.


  • Lacey's Wardrobe starts out innocent enough, but things soon go awry when a stalker calls Lacey, eventually resulting in him killing and eating the poor girl. The fact that you can hear her screaming in pain doesn't help at all.
    • At the end, we get a look at the stalker's face. Dear lord, those eyes. The text that appears on screen makes it even worse.
    i ate her remains
    so that we will be together
    forever
    i love you, lacey
  • Lacey's Diner also starts out fairly innocent outside of the visuals becoming creepy when time nearly runs out. However, should you let the timer keep running out, things get even worse, as Lacey goes insane from the impatience of her customers and later snaps, making a deliberately disgusting "meal" out of meth, cigarette butts, cockroaches and her Creepy Uncle, leading the restaurant getting closed and Lacey commiting suicide.
  • Lacey's Petshop takes it a step further, the concept being she has to sell what are basically custom pets to clients. The clients' demands slowly get more and more deranged, such as using a pair of pliers to 'elongate' a hamster's neck or cutting the ears, legs, and tail off of a bunny because they are "distracting".
    • It then goes into a creepy point and click where you visit Lacey's house and see such loving imagery as realistic looking pigmen eating flowers (which is implied to be how Lacey saw her uncle or family), the room where her uncle would put her in a cage, whatever the hell is going on on the bathroom, her room where some decaying thing (implied to be the corpse of her uncle) crawls from under her bed and approaches the player, until she immolates herself to escape from the nightmare. All of this accompanied by images of a dog both living and decayed.
    • The blink-and-you-miss-it walls of text tell of how Lacey in her abusive house found solace in a pet dog she had. Until one day her uncle, either intentionally or accidentally, killed it. This sent Lacey over the edge, leading to her killing her uncle and hiding his body underneath her bed. The interview clips of the game's co-creator also implies that all of this creepiness was done by the in-universe creator as some sort of outlet for their abusive upbringing.
  • "the disturbing rabbithole of laceygames.com," which features more interview clips with the co-creator Grace, has plenty of this as well.
    • "Jay's Skating Game" starts out as innocently as the other games, though weird glitches appear soon enough. Then, at the end of the game's last level, Jay falls into a large field of spikes, and the game cuts to a screen showing what appears to be a very blurry corpse, along with a large red box with some text saying "YOU KILLED JAY."
    c: Jesus, that's so fucked up!

    • "Lacey's Makeup Parlour" also starts out quite innocently, with each customer coming up and having the player apply makeup to their faces. Then one of the customer's face sags, and another one has her eyes open, which look creepily realistic. It's soon revealed that Lacey isn't actually working at a parlour, but at a morgue, where one of her "customers" ends up being Jay. We get a close up of Jay's decaying corpse while Lacey shakily applies makeup to her face.

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