So I was trying to figure out what was going on in this game multiple times and I have some possibly far fetched idea what this is all about. I struggled a lot because the game seems to keep jumping between mundane everyday "normal" game story elements and some weird meta story that permeated almost everthing you do and everyone you encounter. At times I wasn't sure I was still playing an actual game or a psychology expermiment gone wild. So here is my probably weird conclusion:
The whole game is about the life story of one (or more) of the developers for the numenera setting in his search for his identity. As there's a ton of transgender stuff going on in this world and in the game I was thinking along the lines that each castoff is more or less one stage of that (those) people who were trying to find (and define) themselves. I'm thinking about a father (or mother) - aka The Changing God - with one daughter who is (re-)discovering late in life that he is actually not idenfiying as a male at all. The various non castoff npcs represent different family members and friends and their reaction that transformation. The father/mother is plunged into his identity crisis and destroys his family in the process and then tries to fix the unfixable while gaining new insights about himself. The Sorrow is some kind of looming threat (maybe a probable suicide due to anxienty and stress) and he's constantly fighting with himself and his former identities who all somehow try to get the better of him in one way or another.
I was wondering if others have similar thoughts?
Please help.
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
jennermack replied
388 weeks ago