In 2015, I attended the gi-Cluster GameJam in Athens, Greece,

along with the early members of Floating Island Studios.
The theme of that GameJam was "Enigma".

Our interpretation of that theme came into being with Remedy Lane, a short 20-minute narrative-driven FPS Horror game.

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In the game, the player takes control of a man who's been captured and locked into a series of half-lit old rooms  which where designed to show him the errors of his ways in the past. His mysterious captor addresses him throughout the game, through the loudspeakers in each room and by the end of the game, the player comes to learn more about the captive man's past and future.

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Quick Overview:

>spoilers below<

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The ideal aesthetic of the game is inspired by recent Horror games like Amnesia the Dark Descent and P.T.

At the edge of a cliff above the sea, lies a series of rooms, In each room, a series of photographs from the protagonist's past are shown to the player as his captor slowly guides him through the rooms and his past. The main character's life eventually constitutes  a series of misguided actions that escalate due to nothing more than selfishness and egoism.

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As a kid, he hurt his friends for fun and stole from them; as a teenager he betrayed people close to him; as an employee he stole from customers; as a husband he abused his wife until one night, after a particularly ugly fight, he gets drunk and drives. Veering, he crashes his car into an oncoming vehicle, putting a woman into a coma.

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At the end of the game, as the protagonist dives headfirst off the cliff into the ocean, he slowly wakes up from a coma, realizing the series of rooms was no more than a subconscious dream.

He overhears nurses discussing his car crash and the other woman he hurt.
His vision slowly drifts away and his mysterious captor, revealed to be in fact the protagonists, asks the player if he should keep going or stop fighting for his life.