Visage (video game)

Lucy was an innocent young girl who loved birds, and she had a pet bird, Peaco. However her behavior became abnormal, and she claimed she has imaginary friends, which was, in reality, a demon influencing her. The demon appeared to Lucy for the first time, emerging from a TV.

One day Lucy, under possession of the demon, murdered Peaco and blamed it on the demon. Her father suggested to her mother to take her to therapy. When a therapist was hired, her mother disliked his treatment method, as it involved syringing medicine to Lucy. Her father thought otherwise.

A blood-pooled tub with bloody writings is seen. On an unknown date, Lucy is possessed by the demon, committing suicide by ejecting her own jaw before her parents could enter the bathroom she locked herself in.

In a nutshell: Dolores' mental illness (metaphorical "inner house" in the left) ultimately causes her spouse George to die (depiction in the right).

Whilst roaming around, Dwayne sees a photograph of the past two adult inhabitants of the house: spouse Dolores and George. A long-reaching hook tears George's right eye. Dwayne uses it to open the attic ladder, and reaches a Victorian-style bedroom, in which each corner of the left wall has a peephole. In an audiocassette, George says that Dolores is reported to have symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar, psychosis, dementia, and more, however the exact disorder is hard to be determined. Dolores told George she had been hearing her own voices whispering five numbers via their baby's monitor, which is "the key to her inner house." George thinks the treatments given are not helping. In another cassette, George rants that he is overwhelmed with this family burden.

Back in the regular part of the house, he learns that oval mirrors in the house have an unsettling nature. Dwyane finds a sledgehammer, using it to shatter all oval mirrors in the house. These mirrors act as shortcuts to various parts of the house. One of the mirrors lead to the dining room. In the fashion of a flashback, Dolores sits at the table, where George has just arrived for tea time. George grabs the tea box, but amidst in her moments of paranoia, Dolores thinks it is rodenticide, and blinds his eye. Dwayne later learns that George was addicted to drugs and is an alcoholic. Dolores murdered George with seven knives at his ribs, placing his corpse at his study desk. A finding of George's corpse features an IV bag at his hand.

Dwayne grabs a baby monitor. He reaches at a corridor junction with clocks hung in every corner, not ticking. Via the monitor, Dolores says the five numbers she reportedly hears through the monitor: 50373. Dwayne follows the clock pattern, and finds a vinyl disk at the attic bedroom, places it at a phonograph cylinder in the living room, automatically playing "Frühlingsstimmen" in another room: a convoluted maze with various trails and littered with doors, her "inner house." If Dwayne goes on the wrong path, the music turns somber; otherwise, the music remains. At a window, Dolores is seen dancing with thin air, presumably George, hinting a once-existed harmony in the household. Opening the right door, features a twisted hallway, getting redder and smokier as he travels further. He opens a door, leading to the room visible from the bedroom's peephole earlier. Through each peepholes a history is puzzled: in the aftermath of George's murder, Dolores puts the baby in the bassinet and goes to the room's corner, where she hangs herself.

28-year-old Rakan Al-Mutawa is in a corner desk, stressed that "it" is back. At a room, he throws all books from a shelf, and then finds "it" at the corner, yelling. "It", a shadow, later approaches and strangles him. Although he used a firearm to defend himself, the attempt fails miserably. As police arrive, Rakan is interrogated; he says that "it" broke into his house, and that everyone in the world is responsible for the incident. In an interview with a therapist, Rakan claimed that the incident is an attempt by an evil corporation to brainwash him into subjugation. Police found no signs of break-in. Minor bruises are seen, however, it is concluded that they are self-inflicted. His medical background has scopophobia, fear of being stared, recorded in it. Later gameplays feature scopophobic hallucinations to drown Dwayne into the perspective of Rakan's.

He is brought to a psychiatric hospital. He repeatedly opposes having treatments. A frequent harasser of the staff members, he caused code white alarms to skyrocket. Aside from a failed attempt to jump from a window, Rakan kills a staff member with a crowbar. Doctors treat the havoc by syringing him with a tranquilizer, although it did not cure it: he sabotages the building panel, temporarily bringing it under lockdown.

In response, he is placed in a room isolated from all patients and staff. A few months later, doctors conclude that Rakan's psychology is recovering, and that he is officially discharged. Later, Rakan, now a disabled person, declares a revenge to the evil corporation. The room is locked by a tall figure, and the lights go out as Rakan screams in agony.

Riversdale, acted as a water treatment plant Dwayne worked at in the game

At a weirdly-placed lounge with an alcoholic drink on the table (referred to as "the wonderful poison"), a TV plays a live video of a masked man talking to Dwayne, saying that all the bedlams he has been through is the first time he is in reality. The man angrily seeks to get an answer as to who Dwayne truly is.

At the living room, Dwayne is flashed back to when his family, wife Claire and daughter Sarah, is still alive. Dwayne, an alcoholic, distances himself from Sarah. Sarah requests a bedtime story, but Dwayne, like he is recently, does not even talk. Claire shouting at Dwayne also gives no response. As he drinks a beer, he chokes on an object and vomits blood.

Dwayne discovers a chained door, and he unchains it. At another door, where a humanoid is painting the crucifixion of Jesus. Going in the unchained door, Dwayne enters Hell: a tall and wide cave, where people make sufferings by themselves. The masked man claims that thanks to Dwayne, everyone in Hell "enjoys their newfound home."

In a flashback, Claire discovers that Dwayne has been abusively consuming Chlorpromazine to relieve stress. Claire begs him for an answer as to why all the drugging and drinking, so that the household and go back to harmony. Claire asks if he is thinking of leaving her and Sarah, as well as whether he is slowly killing himself. However through Dwayne's senses, it is revealed that Claire marries Dwayne simply for money. Claire throws suggestions of suicide methods, all of which are the causes of death of the previous inhabitants in the house. She then belittles and wishes death upon him.

Dwayne is revealed as a former scientist who started working at a water treatment plant in Riversdale, Maryland in April 1952. At the plantation, Dwayne drops an apple to a well, which causes dead bodies to float. He faints and wakes up at the house.

The game has multiple endings. In the default ending, Dwayne wears a mask and it is day. He later enters a room bordered by a haphazardly-painted wall, and teleports to a white screen with his family from the distance. The credits' background feature a heavenly rainforest.

In the alternate ending, nicknamed "The Void", Dwayne goes to the basement, where he breaks through the wall. Opening a secret door and going down a stair, he reaches the room in the game's opening, with the revolver there. Dwayne shoots himself like he did in the opening. In a flash, he sees the location of one of the seven VHS tapes needed to collect to achieve the default ending. After collecting one, time repeats itself six times— in the last time, the revolver is already empty. Dwayne wakes up in the well in Chapter 4, endless in all directions. Soon, the credits roll. If the player plays via Steam or console, they will receive the Void Trophy.