#rot in paradise

[racheldrawsthis]

🎃🪦 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 👻🍬

[Art done by me & @ekrixart]

To celebrate the spooky month, STUDIO INVESTIGRAVE is planning to collaborate with Morethanthings (Korean merch manufacturer) for a SIG merch collection of the released games so far!

Please share what type of merch you would like on the survey below ⬇️

[gavinom123]

Congrats on the release!

[aauto-attack]

👻

[robozombii]

ryan will learn how to swim

i love these two! they should kiss

full canvas below

[most-sane-protag-fanboy]

It rots. It all rots.

[disappearenceofsomeone]

augejahsixnj rot….in paradise….. swap au…..

(fucking loved this game urghhhejdhdj the cast was so lovable and so enjoyable, pls play if u can)

anyways here’s who the sillies swapped with:

June —> Ryan,

Ryan —> June,

McCoy—> Vonnie,

Carmen —> Mccoy

Vonnie —> Carmen

[angst1clown]

They should be friends

[knataa]

someone please help me I cannot stop mAKING THESE

[rainpour-sys]

wait guys did we notice this... SPOILERS FOR ROT IN PARADISE!!!

OKAY we got the main cover for it right?

well fun fact, it's actually.. foreshadowing everything that happens to June's friends before they go into the ocean.

a closer look: Mccoy - drinking a water bottle / when he was chugging water from the water cooler jug

Vonnie - eating something (but what?) / June finding her in the buffet

Carmen - the most noticable.. she's soaked head to toe / when she was laying in the bathtub and outside in the rain.

Ryan - the only one looking directly at June / the last person to be seen by June before being plunged into the water.

we might just be yapping on a lack of sleep but shhh

[racheldrawsthis]

🏢 아~파트 아파트 💗

[m4xwell16]

SIG duos i thought would be really funny. i know they’re all like horror games and they all die or whatever but they are actually just all friends trust me

[professionalidi0t]

🎉

[creativitysloyalservant]

i have decided to break my lack of original posting on this blog to bring you my Thoughts on Rot in Paradise. because i played it as soon as i got up this morning and i have scoured for some opinions after finishing it, and now i have my own!!

(and also i posted this on twitter but twitter has such a Shit wordcount that i'm also posting my things here with More Detail)

so! spoilers under the cut, please go and play the game if you haven't. it takes literally an hour (it only took nearly 2 hours for me because i like voice acting by myself and exploring every nook and cranny) and it's also free. so maybe come back into the tag once you're done.

okay, so i noticed quite a number of people being confused and disappointed on the lack of an explanation for the monster. it's brought up in the story as the central thing driving the plot, but it's never explained on what "she" is, why she's compelling people to eat a ton of fish-related food or hell, metal, and why this doesn't impact June at all.

but you know what I think?

i think that that's the point. the focus of rot in paradise isn't supposed to be on the monster.

yeah, it's the thing that pushes the plot along besides June and the gang going on vacation in this island. it's what's causing that uneasiness from the moment that guy grabs June's arm at the drinks, to the sheer unnerving feeling of witnessing people going to the ocean to get Raptured basically. i know i personally felt a chill when i saw that one dude literally eating chains and the other hauling an anchor, as if they're trying to make themselves heavier so they get taken by whatever She is.

but that's not the main point! the main conflict is about June and her friends.

as people have pointed out, this game is about toxic friendships and relationships! it's foreshadowed in the conversation that June has with the gang about her cousin (which i will also get into), and it carries it through the way her friends are horribly warped by this ocean Creature. June goes on a silly little vacation trip with her friends only for them to become so so different from themselves that they lash out at her and even hit her in McCoy's case.

but she still sticks it out with them. through the whole game, even despite their verbal abuse, despite being slapped, despite them being people that she can hardly recognise. she stays with them for the whole game, up until the point where you are given the two options at the very end. and she could still stay with them.

because they're still her friends. she cares about them even if they still hurt her. from the way June still tells Carmen to tell June if she needs anything after Carmen literally tells her to shut up and leave, the way June worries about Vonnie eating seafood even though she continues to stuff herself despite being implied to either hate or make an active choice to not eat seafood, to the way June still trudges out to sea screaming for McCoy to come back to the shore as he wades further in even after he slapped her until her nose bled.

it mirrors the conversation about her cousin, the reason for why June was looking forward to the vacation. that while she did comfort her cousin through all of it, June clearly says that "they were dickheads, and she should have ditched them a long time ago".

but it's funny, isn't it? that June, an outsider to her cousin's friend group, easily sees the pain that her cousin's friends are causing her, and immediately calls it as it is. that her cousin should have left the second they hurt her.

and yet now, when her friends hurt her, even though this was a quick and sudden change that happened in a span of three days, June still sticks around. her friends are dickheads right now, and we can see that in the way they interact with June, but she still stays.

because they're her friends. and how could she just leave them like this if it's something that's causing them to be this way?

so no, i don't think the monster is supposed to be the main picture. we don't need to know what it looks like, or why it needs to do this to the islanders, or how it's even doing it in the first place. it adds to the scariness of the game, as per the Spooktober Game Jam, sure, but that's not the point. might be a bit disappointing to some, but that's not the point.

the point is about June, and the choice that she needs to make at the end of the game.

it's a choice on whether she chooses to be pulled deeper into the tides and be with the friends who hurt her and will continue to hurt her in this way,

or to leave them to their fates, whether deserved or not, and resurface to a world where she's alone without her friends.

and even though the first choice hurts much more in the long run, doesn't the second hurt even more in the moment? knowing that you're alone at the end of all of this?

even if it is the right choice, i'm sure the pain must be unbearable in the moment.

[sigverse-brainrot]

[hazelnootnut]

Just go with the flow!

I played the game as soon as I woke up (and got breakfast and etc, but who cares about that), and oh my god. Man. I have a lot of thoughts about this game. And also spoiler-related art to make, but I shotgun this out as soon as I finished the game, so please take it. I love them all so much, they are all so Great and Cute.