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Gamers may have recently noticed Playdead’s Inside on sale on Steam for less than a dollar, which might not immediately raise expectations. Some players may also tend to enjoy multiplayer games more than single-player experiences, but that alone is not a reason to overlook this one.

It’s a fairly simple game. Players control a small boy running through dark forests, abandoned farms, and strange facilities while solving puzzles. There’re no dialogue or instructions. The game simply expects players to keep moving and figure things out on their own.

Strangely enough, that is one of the game’s most appealing qualities.

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Spoiler Warning: Major spoilers ahead for The Great Flood.

Disaster movies usually follow a familiar formula. Something catastrophic happens, people run for their lives, the protagonist tries to stay alive, they encounter a major problem, and the story builds toward a final moment of survival… or sacrifice. That is how The Great Flood initially appears. The film may initially appear while browsing on a streaming platform, and it may not initially raise many expectations because it follows a familiar premise.

Okay, so at first, The Great Flood seems to follow that exact pattern. This Korean disaster movie, directed by Kim Byung-woo, throws the audience straight into disaster. The waters are rising quickly, the buildings are slowly collapsing, people are in chaos, and the main characters are desperately trying to stay alive.

But then the movie pulls something unexpected in the final stretch. The entire plot turned into something much more complex, and the ending introduces a twist that reframes almost everything that came before it.

That may explain why the ending confused some viewers. However, when viewed more carefully, the movie is actually doing something far more interesting than it first appears.

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Post-apocalyptic shows have long fascinated audiences. The 100 stands out within the genre for its survival story, morally gray choices, and the difficult decisions people face when the world falls apart.

The entire series goes beyond survival in the usual sense. It’s not about surviving zombies or radiation. It’s literally about humans, how people act when everything has fallen apart, how far they are willing to go for survival, and how messy morality really is. The series also invites reflection on the modern world.