Left Alone is a psychological horror video game released on April 29, 2016.
Joel Dent is an ex-military officer, recent divorcee and still recovering from physical trauma. Joel and his best friends arrange a meeting point in the forests of Wisconsin, for a fun and adventurous weekend away camping, but strange goings-on lead Joel to an abandoned school with a horrific past. The search for his friends uncovers horrors beyond his worst nightmares and Joel may wish he was "Left Alone".
Left Alone provides examples of:
- Ability Required to Proceed: There will be several occasions where you need to collect a certain item in order to get into the next area.
- Adults Are Useless: Your child could be going to a boarding school with a child-murderer on the loose. What's worse is that the school isn't trying to resolve it; they're trying to cover up the murders.
- Anti-Climax: Instead of Joel finding his friends and escaping the school, it turns out that the whole thing was a setup.
- Gainax Ending: Choosing to save your friends will lead to a... rather confusing ending.
- Government Conspiracy: It turns out that there's a company called Leoware, who has apparently been running tests on Joel as well as other people as part of a study. It's never established why they're doing this or how long they've been at this. It makes you wonder if the whole murder story was real or if it was fabricated just to mess with Joel.
- Horrible Camping Trip: The game starts with Joel and his friends trying to relax and have fun.
- Kids Are Cruel: The kids that the janitor killed had picked on him.
- Mind Screw: This is the greatest Understatement of what happens in this game, especially when you reach the end.
- Multiple Endings: Subverted. If you follow the X's to the door, you'll just find a brick wall with "You thought it would be that easy?" written on it.
- Scare Chord: Played occasionally to build up the suspense.
- Stalker without a Crush: The murderer. He sets up multiple easels around Joel, letting him know that he's watching him.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The murderer makes it clear that he knows Joel is in the school and he knows his movements pretty well. However, for some reason, he keeps toying with him and following him around. It's implied that he did this to the reporter who was killed by him.
