Diminish: A Game that Isn’t

In the world of creepypasta, we have scenes such as Slenderman and haunted cartridges. With the dawn of the internet, we have newer ways to access content, YouTube being the newest iteration of indie creators and their stories. I have been following the creepypasta community and its various iterations, like the SCP community and the innumerous “haunted cartridge but it’s actually targeting Me, Personally.”

Petscop defied this trope. The Game was, in fact, made for Paul. Like other Unfiction, Diminish plays with this trope.

Diminish was made for the Original Poster. Tragically.

The tale of Diminish works almost too well. It tells the tale of a promise. But before you get into that, you need to get into the game mechanics.

Now, the game setting requires you to have a slight knowledge of rage games. This genre was actually the genre that set off the Let’s Play phenomenon, which further set off Twitch streaming in general. Watching someone suffer, try and try and try, over and over and over again, was highly entertaining content in the early days of short but sweet edits. Games like Kaizo Mario, a Super Mario World mod, and I Wanna Be The Guy would litter any gaming search on YouTube. Diminish subverts this drastically as well, having the audience suffer alongside the protagonist with minimal cuts and edits.

In fact, the very beginning of the Diminish directly references the former, with an innocuous tree giving a surprise to anyone not familiar with the genre.