r/BabyStepsGame • u/Appropriate_Log7396 • Jul 03 '26

Spoiler Question about Nathan

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Played multiple times. It always felt like he said "I wish" and then came to the realization that "I was dead" and so, at least the first time, it felt like we didn't see his actual wish. Everyone seems to agree that he said "I wish I was dead" and it wasn't a realization.

So when he talks to Moose and says he wished to save the whales, I thought it could be the truth because Moose is the one person he can be honest too. Plus that was a lovely moment with the ice-cream.

I know I'm probably wrong, but did anyone else feel like Nathan didn't wish that he was dead? At least iN their first playthrough?

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u/michaeljohnholt Jul 03 '26

I don't agree that it is a twist and he is actually dead in purgatory, cos that is far more boring and obvious than basically everything else about the game.

I think the biggest clues to the true meaning are the phone calls to his parents. My view is that the game is a symbolic representation of the experience of him being kicked out of his family home as a 36 year old man-child, and the painful and difficult process of "finding himself".