u/BarryStarfish

The games that hit the most for me on this are Outlast Trials + Prenumbra: Overtune & Black Plague

The characterization is what I love most about the trials, even with these outlandish over the top villians. You get enough lore and breadcrumbs fed to you to understand what made them like that. They got depth! Layers! I say, pointing to the mobster who frequently browses and mods on r/mommys

I've already played Amnesia the dark descent. Deadspace. Outlast 1 & 2, tried Resident Evil 7, didn't find the characters very interesting, RES8 is better in that sense but not as good as the other two I mentioned at the beginning.

I have a shitty lowend PC that I can't play unreal 5 engine games on.

No bullshit, no romantizating, no "ohh but he popped a smile so now MC likes and censents to everything!" Crap pulled by the author.

I specifically want books that touch on the complexity of how male victims are treated differently in society. With the victim having traditionally "male" values "Boys don't cry, we eat nails and stones for breakfast and never ask for help" sort of thing. The confusion the MC may have of knowing what happened to him was bad but at the same time not feeling sad or angry about it.

I DON'T WANT the book's ending to be "and MC walked into the distance with his abuser and they lived happily ever after!" Or pure torture porn "nothing never gets better...100 more dead puppies for everyone"