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Content Warnings: bloody violence, unsettling themes, mild language, and implied scene of suicide for one bad ending.
Insanity is a psychological thriller game made by Uri.
Release Date[]
Insanity's original version is Uri's first game ever and was released in 2012[1], but has never been translated. A remade version was released in 2020.
Plot[]
A group of high school students are told of an old mansion that is supposedly haunted. One day, they decide to go investigate it. They look around and stumble upon a corpse in the dining room. They attempt to leave, but they quickly discover the front door is locked. Now they have to find a way out while avoiding the dangers that the mansion holds.
The original and untranslated version of the game.
Characters[]
Keisuke[]
The leader of the group and one of the main playable characters. He's very compassionate about his friends. He's the one who discovers the hidden lab.
Kyouko[]
The main female character and Keisuke's best friend and one of the main playable characters. When she meets the scientist, he initially mistakes her for his dead daughter. She's the only one who, for a while, is not in danger. She briefly spends some time with Murai, but it ends when she sees Riho strapped to a medical bed. She can choose to either save her friend or let her die.
Yuuki Yamada[]
The grandson of Toshiki Yamada and minor character. For a majority of the game, he's unimportant and rarely seen outside of his group of friends. He, along with Ryouji and Keisuke, manages to find himself in the underground lab and unintentionally discovers Murai. He ducks into a locker, but is freed by Keisuke later.
Riho[]
The secondary female character and Ryouji's love interest. Early in the game, she finds Ryouji stabbed (bashed in the head with the crowbar in the remade version) and, for a while, stays with him. In a fit of rage, she decides to go looking for his attacker, but is captured by Murai. The player can choose to either let Murai kill her or they can save her. Either choice will alter the game's outcome.
Ryouji[]
The secondary male character and Riho's love interest and one of the main playable characters. After he and his friends discover the corpse in the dining room, he's attacked by Murai. Later, he's taken to his underground lab and locked up in a cell (in the remade version, if Riho dies, he commits suicide).
Kenta[]
The smart guy of the group and one of the main playable characters. He manages to learn about the mansion's history and the inhabitants. After an encounter with Murai, he goes into his underground lab where he finds Ryouji conscious. He attempts to break him out, but Murai discovers him and promptly knocks him out (in the remade version, if you have both the thick book and the blood pack, Kenta will survive; if you don't have both, he will die)
Shigeki Murai[]
A former scientist and the primary antagonist of the game. He, for the most part, is off screen and spends his on-screen time chasing the main characters. As we discover later, he's afraid they came for his reasearch for a potion able to bring people back from the death. When he encounters Kyouko, he assumes that she is his daughter and that his potion's finally worked.
Takahiro Yanase[]
Murai's butler who was murdered by his own master, Shigeki Murai, shortly after the beginning of the game.
Emiko Murai[]
The only daughter of Shigeki and Miwako Murai. She only appears in a flashback in second playthrough, right before dying in a car accident.
Miwako Murai[]
Emiko's mother and the wife of Shigeki Murai, who murdered her after a fight concerning Takahashi's death. She only appears in some flashbacks in second playthrough.
Kana Takahashi[]
A Murai's family servant who was murdered by Shigeki Murai. She only appears in some flashbacks in second playthrough.
Toshiki Yamada[]
The grandmother of Yuuki Yamada and a Murai's former family servant. She only appears in some flashbacks in second playthrough.
Endings for Remake[]
Good End 1: Beyond The Doors[]
Talk to Yuuki, then Ryouji, then check the phone on the wall in Laboratory 1.
Good End 2: Crawl out of Insanity[]
Same as Good End 1 (Second playthrough only).
Bad End 1: Undermined by Insanity[]
If Kenta dies (and Riho survives or dies), go to Lab 3, Keisuke got stabbed with the box cutter and Shigeki commit suicide, although there's no way to get the passcode and trapped forever (if Riho dies, Ryouji commit suicide in the bad end).
Bad End 2: The Dead are Arrogant[]
If Kenta and Riho survives, Talk to Yuuki, if Ryouji wasn't put in position, same as Bad End 1.
Remake[]
The 2020 remade version showed lots of improvements such as system graphics and puzzle solving changes, while lap play elements and clearing benefits have been added. It's been released on January 8, 2020 for Japanese Version, and the English Version's been developed and released the same year.
Trivia[]
- Riho's scream upon discovering Ryouji is similar to Aya Drevis and Yonaka Murai.
- The whole game and the main characters themselves remind a lot of Ao Oni.
- Insanity is one of the few RPG Maker games to have no supernatural content at all.