My Only is a first-person pixel horror game starring an unnamed man who's lover tragically drowned. Ever since then, he has visited her grave every night. One rainy night, he decides he will visit one last time to purge himself of the past. But he finds he is not alone… for the spirit of a woman haunts the graveyard.
Gameplay is a Slender-like search for items- there are 12 note pages scattered around the graveyard, and other objects to uncover.
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This game contains examples of:
- Big Bad: The spirit woman who haunts the graveyard where the protagonist is visiting and chases him around. She is actually his lover- who was murdered by him, and now seeks revenge, making the protagonist the true villain.
- The Ending Changes Everything: The backstory is that the protagonist and his lover were a happy couple, until she drowned one tragic day. Ever since then, he has visited her grave, and wants to move on, but a ghost woman is following him. The story is thus set up as a tale of a man trying to move on from a tragedy in his life, with the spirit of his lover trying to reunite with him. But getting all the notes reveals that he killed her by pushing her down into the water because of some terrible secret she held, and his trips to her grave are actually about dealing with his guilt- her spirit wants revenge, not reconciliation.
- Multiple Endings: Depending on which items you pick up and lay at the lover's grave, certain paths will open:
- If you get the gate key, then get all flowers and lay them at her grave, the protagonist will walk on the same dock that his lover drowned in, see the lover's spirit, and realizes she will never leave until she is put to rest- it is implied that he throws himself in and drowns.
- If you get the knife, collect the flowers and lay them at her grave, the protagonist will walk to the dock, but this time the blood turns red and the ghost drags the protagonist down as revenge for pushing her off and murdering her.
- If you get the gate key, go into the tomb and collect the shovel, then dig at her grave, then the protagonist will enter a tunnel where his lover is at the end, and has the same realization that his torment will not end until her soul is set free, so he stabs himself.
- If you pick up the knife and collect the shovel, then dig the grave, the lover will attack the protagonist, who will instead stab the lover's corpse and banish her spirit.
- If you collect all 12 pages and take them to her grave without taking either a flower or the shovel, then the grave will turn into a fire and the lover's spirit will drag the protagonist inside as revenge for murdering her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: The protagonist, in each ending, realizes that the guilt of killing of lover will not leave until he kills himself or is killed by the spirit of his lover.
- The Reveal: Getting all the notes slowly reveals the circumstances of the lover's death. The protagonist's lover drowned because the protagonist pushed her off the dock when she confessed an unspecified terrible secret.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: Turns out the lover died because the protagonist pushed her off a dock because he learned a terrible secret she was keeping from him.
- Story Breadcrumbs: The relationship between the protagonist and his now-dead lover is told in the form of 12 notes scattered around the graveyard.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: The antagonist is a ghost woman who haunts the graveyard. She turns out to be the spirit of the protagonist's lover, seeking revenge for him murdering her.
- The Unreveal: It is revealed that the lover had some terrible secret that she was keeping from the protagonist and decided to finally come clean… which made the protagonist so mad that he murdered her. Exactly what secret was so bad that it would drive the protagonist to murder is never revealed, however.
- Villain Protagonist: The protagonist drowned his lover in the backstory for keeping some terrible secret from him, with the spirit now out for revenge.
- Wham Line: The note inside the shack in the second half of the game gives The Reveal as to what happened to the protagonist's lover:Protagonist: She's coming tonight. My dearly beloved. How I could ever call her that, I don't know. Damn it all, my heart pains me so. And yet, I know well of the relief her death is going to bring for me.
