The Sixth Sorrow is a 2025 mystery-packed and atmospheric first-person horror game where you play a girl who is visiting her parent’s house after a long time, only to find out that something about the house and her parents’ behavior seems off. There are no cheers or giggles in the house, and your mother hasn’t been acting like herself lately. By trusting your instincts, you will find out the sinister reason behind your father’s unusually silent demeanor and your mother’s restless and paranoid attitude. You are going to be shocked to your core after you find out what lies below your beautiful house.
We played the game and found it to be a curiosity-inducing experience that one feels while watching mystery or psychological thriller movies. Here’s our review of The Sixth Sorrow.
A house that’s hiding a lot
After a tiresome day of traveling to your hometown, you would expect a glass of water and some words of fondness from your parents, but instead very strange things happen, i.e., your mother begins to assign you work and begins complaining about your father’s laziness. Your father isn’t talking to you and maintaining a scary and deafening silence wherever he goes. You are given a hint by your father about a key that’s hidden downstairs, but he’s keeping mum about where or what it leads to, and it’s making you more paranoid with each passing second, so much so that you can’t properly sleep. You wake up in your sleep after you hear someone crying.
You eventually figure out where the key leads and begin exploring the dungeons located straight below your house. It feels like a psycho killer’s lair when you start exploring – it’s haunting but extremely cinematic.
Interaction with the inexplicable
While roaming the dreadful, despair-inducing, and claustrophobic dungeons, you’re going to come across a plethora of things, like a pentagram that is ready to connect to the other worlds, a massive statue that looks like it’s made up of wax but feels like flesh upon touch and sensation, and last but not the least, there’s a trapped prisoner who you can’t fully trust. Cheese-hungry mice, spilled blood, unnerving and full-of-tension atmosphere, materials required for performing a satanic resurrection ritual, and a grieving mother who isn’t ready to give up on her son – you are going to find all these things and then some more in the dungeons.
There are multiple endings. Without giving away much, I would recommend you keep playing after the “Leave” ending, as the real fun and horror begin after that. It might not be scary or claustrophobic like “Amnesia: The Bunker,” but it’s a riveting and emotionally charged horror game that you won’t mind giving an hour of your life to.
A relieving end that haunts you
The mysterious trapped prisoner turns out to be your brother, Ben. You get edified about this disturbing truth from your mother, who is the master planner behind the resurrection ritual of your late brother. The Sixth Sorrow is a masterclass in creepy but also a tear-jerking love letter to all those grieving mothers who have lost their children. A mother’s sacrifice for her son is what this game is all about. The level of selfless care and devotion that Lily Potter showed for Harry during her last moments before the deathly flash of green struck her – you are going to see the very same happening in front of your eyes during the game.
Overall, it’s an emotionally charged game that brings you emotional relief upon its ending.
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