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Earn Your Happy Ending: Elizabeth and Adam suffer immensely and lose two of the few important people in their lives, but they ultimately manage to find solace together and aim to live happily despite the suffering they may endure.

Driven to Suicide: Adam's granddaughter, his son and daughter-in-law's first child, ended her life thanks to the unbearable bullying she suffered in school.

Central Theme: The suffering and hardships inherent to life and love, how they affect us, and how we handle them.

Book Ends: The first spoken words in the game (the page quote) and the last, which show Elizabeth finally coming to terms with who her foster parents were and letting go of her misery.

But Elizabeth has come to terms with who her foster parents were, Adam seems to finally be at peace with himself in his old age, and the two are living out their lives happily together, striving to face and accept life's hardships.

Bittersweet Ending: Elizabeth's foster parents - Adam's son and daughter-in-law - have died tragically and cruelly, their lives destroyed by the grief of losing their first daughter.One can find happiness and bring it to others by simply being there: sharing hardships, easing loneliness, and making stories together - both happy and sad. It is possible to bring happiness to others at the expense of your own, but doing so isn't necessary, and may not even be wanted.Even in the face of the darkest of hardships, it can still be possible to live a good life. Pain is an inherent part of life, but that does not mean life is pain.The white fox in Adam's story seems to be a stand-in for his late wife.The snake that the Keeper conjures to kill the Knight also represents Elizabeth's foster mom, specifically after crossing the Despair Event Horizon and aiming to kill both her husband and herself. The witch represents Elizabeth's foster mother, lost in madness and grief over the death of her daughter and spiteful toward her foster child.The Castle represents despair: the despair of Adam, his son, and his daughter-in-law at losing their first child, and the despair of Elizabeth over her tragic and horrid history with her foster family.The Knight represents Elizabeth's distorted view of her foster father: a greedy man who stole her away, toiling thanklessly and fruitlessly to earn her affection.The Keeper of the Spark seems to be an Anthropomorphic Personification of the pain of living.Allegorical Character: A number of them.It turns out that Elizabeth was a Replacement Goldfish and her mother couldn't handle it.

Abusive Parents: Elizabeth's mother, who makes an effort to ignore her and lashes out at her when she can't.INMOST features examples of the following: As the story progresses, the three stories slowly but surely weave together to create a deeply emotional tale about loss, love, and hope.Ī trailer for the game can be viewed here. The story follows three different playable characters, with the narrative switching from one viewpoint to the next at various intervals: Adam, an old man navigating the towering castle of a great and terrible witch The Knight, a mysterious man clad in armor gathering the suffering of his quarries in exchange for great power from dark forces and Elizabeth, an adventurous and imaginative young girl trying to make the best of an uneasy relationship with her parents. It was released on Steam, the Nintendo Switch, and iOS on August 21st, 2020. INMOST is an indie adventure game developed by Hidden Layer Games and published by Chucklefish.