Easter Egg: If you tap Es enough times, you can unlock 'Es Worshipper' as a result on your final mirror piece.

Despair Event Horizon: Es falls into this in both bad endings, although with wildly differing results in the SUPER EGO ending, Es falls into a deep depression and either fades away or commits suicide, while in the ID ending, she spirals into madness and destroys the world she inhabits, believing that only she and her impulses matter.

Deliberately Monochrome: the game is completely in black and white except for the butterflies.

Cute and Psycho: Es during the ID ending.Cessation of Existence: Es does this to herself in the SUPER EGO ending.But Thou Must!: At the final picture book, the game will force you into choosing one specific option of the three possible if you are in either of the bad ending routes.Most unsettling mobile game moment lol.)Īnyway, if you’re into mind-boggling stuff, do check this game out. try not logging into the game for 2+ weeks and log in again. I may be reading too deep into this, but that’s how I feel. And being lost in trying to understand herself.

What I’m trying to get at is that, despite being a game, she felt like she’s… real. (fourth wall breaking incoming) She might guess that she is just a fictional character, but because you’ve been through so much with her to reach the true ending… Well, you just can’t break it to her. What makes this game special is how real Es is despite being a fictional character. I’ve been trying to hunt for Moon over the Mountains and Thousand Year Beach, but it’s only available in Japanese. Now I want to read everything Es is recommending. The only books I’ve read before playing this game are Osamu’s Ningen Shikkaku, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Carroll’s Alice Adventures in Wonderland.

What I love most about this game is that it introduced me to great books (some of which I’ll probably not get to read until I master a certain level of Japanese or some publisher localized it into English/Thai). I could almost share Es’s struggles to understand herself (although I haven’t developed an existential crisis. I played this game while going through a rough patch, and I felt it helped me somewhat make sense of what I’m feeling. The game-play involves tapping on book quotes, advancing your book progress, unlocking new books (kind of like cookie clicker), interacting with Es, and doing personality tests. I’ve never played a non-horror game that is as unsettling as Alter Ego.Īlter Ego tells the tale of you and Es, as… you navigate through tons of book quotes and discover your true self.

Alter ego game guide