Name: Game Theory: The TWISTED Lore of Reanimal
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Since its release, fans have been speculating about what the true lore of this cryptic game actually is.

But by putting all the clues together, from the animals to the endings, and

by diving into all of the symbolism, the dark truth is revealed.

Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's flocked to this new game as soon as it found out it existed.

Because this game is made by the same studio behind the first two Little Nightmares games.

And when this game released a few weeks ago, people were not disappointed by this thriller co op game.

It's essentially the spiritual successor everyone wanted, rather than what Little Nightmares 3 ended up being.

But just like the Little Nightmares games, there is danger, suspense, and, of course, lore.

With barely any lines of dialogue and a lot of clues hidden from plain sight, the game's story is a mystery from beginning to end.

And why, oh, why am I being chased by a giant demon pelican?

The DLC is said to reveal more of the story, but the first chapter isn't releasing until July.

But fear not, friends, because the game we currently have actually gives us everything we need to figure out the true story behind Reanimal and the dark secret these children are hiding.

So put on your creepy, collectible masks, theorists, as we travel through the hellish nightmare of Reanimal.

The game starts out looking up from a well with four silhouettes looking in.

As the fifth appears, the screen turns red, and

it cuts to one of our playable characters in a boat.

He's wearing a bag on his head with a rope tied around his neck.

As he moves through the vast space of the water, the boy stops and finds a body in the water.

He pulls the body in, and as she comes to, she attacks the boy, trying to strangle him.

Sounds like we have our objective for the game.

And so we do just that, slowly finding our friends.

Bet you could guess where they got those names from.

I mean, our main characters are literally called the Boy and the Girl, so maybe those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

As we go about finding them, we explore more and more of this weird and mysterious world.

We witness suits of human flesh come to life.

A man who wears said skin suits and can apparently teleport through dead bodies.

But as we escape from this horrifying man, we fall off a cliff.

And suddenly, we're looking inside the well once again, with a dead lamb at the bottom.

That Begins to contort and the screen once again goes red.

Turns out this appears to be a vision from the girl.

And so our journey continues now across a flooded city full of sea mines, a demon pelican and a giant pig.

After finding our friend amongst all of this, we sit at a bus stop and have another conversation.

Suddenly, the girl begins convuls, turns red, and

we once again see the lamb at the bottom of the well, which grows into a fully grown sheep.

But no time to worry about that because the school bus is here.

Maybe the next part will be more friendly.

According to the website, these guys are orphans.

So what we're looking at is the orphanage where they met.

Here we find a bunch of candles and statues lying around, some strange dust, children and a giant human spider.

Because spiders weren't creepy enough already.

Gang climb into a military truck and we have another conversation.

Except it's got humanoid limbs now and it's quite big and it's trying to climb out of the well.

More strange creatures await us on the other side, like this giant horse skeleton and a giant whale missing an eye.

We solve the puzzles, reap the rewards of our actions, and the girl has yet another vision.

But this time, as the screen turns red, the girl becomes unable to stand.

We see that climbing out of the well, and

as it does, a sheep climbs out of the girl's mouth.

The sheep violently chases down the children through the trenches and worn, torn buildings, picking them off one by one, growing larger each time it does.

Once we are inside, we see four orphans cut their hands onto an object.

The girl hears her friends call to her as they enter a shed.

The girl finds a circle of rabbits drawn on the floor with a dead rabbit to the side.

Then the shed door is shut and she is knocked unconscious.

We then see the four orphans dragging the girl in a body bag towards the well.

Sheep standing on their hind legs, approach the children and cry out as everything turns red.

The four look down the well like they did at the start of the game, now with the girl at the bottom.

Suddenly she is lifted up and is reanimated.

Before cutting to credits, the game ends on an image of the well, as water rises up to the surface, bringing the girl's body with it.

Okay, so what the actual heck is going on?

We've got sheep with human arms eating children, a world covered in water, and

the worst case of orphan bullying I've ever seen.

You just have to stop and think about it for a moment to figure it out.

One thing we see all over this game is rabbits.

There are images of rabbits running in circles.

There are rabbit altars and a literal dead rabbit at the end.

The game is literally called there's gonna be Some Animals In It.

But for it to be showing up this much, it has to mean something important.

Especially given Tarsier's focus on nightmares in previous games, as well as the Steam page for Reanimal, talking about how the design of the characters in the world are based on or symbolic of these children's troubled pasts.

So what does the rabbit mean symbolically?

Well, of course you have classic examples of fertility or it being a symbol of good luck.

But as I dug through the many, many websites talking about the different meanings, one of them caught my eye.