I read the entire game as a way of working through past trauma, mastering the world and working back to the source of this pain. You’re ill-equipped to cope with what’s going on around you. You’re only two years old and haven’t yet mastered language (in fact, one of Among the Sleep’s nice touches is that all in-game text is written in an alien script). It’s part psychological horror, but more interestingly it’s also part therapy – a walking cure, of sorts. It manipulates perspective in clever ways and transforms everyday locations into hellish mindscapes that, in some way, reflect the terrible events that once took place there. At first I thought it was just a night terror, but it’s really a psychological landscape. Wardrobes become never-ending labyrinths in which to hide playgrounds stretch into vast wildernesses with a gnarled playground. The journey ahead winds through an increasingly surreal and sinister environments, which is actually a big part of what Among The Sleep is trying to achieve.
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