Gross Games about Flesh and Stuff

Summary by Krater

An analytical video essay exploring the indie horror games Perfect Vermin and How Fish is Made, drawing parallels with the art of Cao Hui and David Cronenberg's Videodrome, and concluding that both games use grotesque body horror to examine the inevitability of suffering and mortality.

From the video

Answers: What are the themes and artistic inspirations behind the indie horror games Perfect Vermin and How Fish is Made?

• Perfect Vermin game analysis
• How Fish is Made game analysis
• Body horror in indie games
• Cao Hui hyperrealistic meat art
• David Cronenberg Videodrome analysis

What it concludes

• Perfect Vermin and How Fish is Made use the unsettling deconstruction of everyday objects and bodies to reflect on the inevitability of suffering.
• Both games parallel the hyperrealistic meat art of Cao Hui and David Cronenberg's Videodrome in exploring the grotesque ways humanity confronts mortality.
• The newsman and the fish characters serve as unreliable narrators offering false certainty about inescapable systemic realities.