[Bober Bros] The Hole Review: You Are Not Going to Recover from This

[Bober Bros] The Hole is a psychological horror game that shines a light on the disgusting but true societal issues of sexual harassment and physical abuse that happen in families. You play as a person who hears and sees all sorts of indescribably despicable activities through a peephole on your wall. The game uses clever and indirect ways to showcase human brutality without crossing the limits of modesty. To all those living in their ivory towers, [Bober Bros] The Hole is going to educate you about the scum, lowlives, and absolute vermins that go unnoticed by society due to their families’ sealed mouths.

We played the game and found it worthy of being called a great awareness campaign about abuse that is presented in a retro-game-like artistic style. Here’s our review of [Bober Bros] The Hole.

[Bober Bros] The Hole Review

1. Extremely clever use of symbolic representation

You are going to peek through a hole into your neighbor’s house, but it turns out that you’re peeking into another dimension of humanity altogether, one that consists of misogyny, forced fulfillment of physical needs through incest, and a deranged human psyche that can’t differentiate sexual pleasure from sadistic abuse of your family members. The TV in the game shows visuals of a plug aggressively going in and out of the socket, which symbolizes the incestuous act of coitus being performed by the neighbor on his offspring. You can literally hear the bed squeaking noises coming from your neighbor’s house, and it’s soul-crushing when you understand what is happening on the other side of the wall.

The TV in your room shows violent acts of misogyny performed, which represent the sexual acts of abuse happening in the neighbor’s house. While talking to the neighbor’s girl, you can witness the sadness in her soulless, haunting eyes.

2. The ever impressive 70s aesthetic

The only calming aspect about [Bober Bros] The Hole is its heartwarming, easy-on-the-eyes, and grain-filled old 70s visual aesthetic. The sandpaperish visuals of the game give you a warm feeling of belonging and coziness, and they don’t intimidate you like the modern AAA games’ graphics, which make you feel like you aren’t worthy of them unless you can own an RTX 4090. The lack of sharpness and somewhat blurriness in the textures gives the game an underdog appeal and makes you want to root for it. The visuals of [Bober Bros] The Hole are like the tantrums of your loved ones, i.e., you tolerate them in the beginning, get used to them in the middle, and end up loving them.

3. An obnoxious neighbor

Your neighbor in the game is an obnoxious person who constantly enrages and insults you and tests your patience level. It almost seems like he wants to get into a fight with you each time you complain about the noises coming from his house. His face has no human glow whatsoever, and he looks like a homeless man who has a place to live. He doesn’t even deny that he is troubling his daughter. He talks in cryptic messages to communicate the current state of his daughter to you. He’s the kind of creepy neighbor you wouldn’t want making eye contact with while walking through the floor hallway.

This neighbor is someone you wouldn’t want to introduce to the ladies in your life. You get the point, i.e., he’s not a groomed, civil, likable, pleasant, and well-mannered man. He is an absolute failure as a human being.

4. A dark and grim atmosphere that keeps the horror intact

The dark, gloomy, lifeless, disintegrating, corroding, and depressing atmosphere of the game is the only thing that adds visual scariness to this tragic psychological horror game. You can feel a dread and claustrophobic sense of hopelessness while walking through the hallways of your floor. The shouting noises, mumbled screams and distorted cries for help diffuse in the game’s atmosphere, making it an unforgettable, scarily ambient, and heart-rending experience. You are going to feel your heart getting heavier with desperation, helplessness, and guilt with each passing second in the game.

Overall, the game feels like a sharp arrow laced with disgust, fear, guilt, and crippling sadness that speared through your heart. We would rate the game 5 out of 5 for its viscerally terrifying nature.

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