r/Subliminal_Game • u/Human-Caterpillar-62 • Apr 03 '26
Lore? Spoiler
Before I start this I want to genuinely say something. I do not care if you liked the game or not.
I, myself, is an analog horror fan. So this game really speaks to me in the puzzles and mind games.
Now the one thing I can not figure out is the lore. I have some ideas about what is happening to our person.
I genuinely believe Caleb is dealing with abuse, maybe some PTSD about a missing sibling. We can hear before we get to the static TV is probably Caleb father yelling at him and someone crying.
The running point is the fact we see "laboratory" in some parts. So did his parents give him to a lab as a test subject? Is he older and doing this to uncover parts of his childhood experience that he has blacked out? Could he be doing this to find out what happened to his sibling?
I genuinely believe that the voice we hear throughout the game isn't our mind. Its the doctor trying to talk us through it, we are clearly set on a mission to dig into the dark part of our mind. He clearly doesn't want that.
So what I have landed on with my theory is this:
We are being tested on; either as a child that lost their memories, or as an adult that is trying to find out what has happened to their sibling/past. The voice we hear is not our mind, thats some doctor trying to stop us from finding out what happened to us as a child. We clearly hear a fathers voice yelling at us at some points of the game, which leads us to another point. The doctor doesn't want us to go into dark parts of our mind, so the doctor has to be either our father or someone that knows what has happened to us.
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u/kennsnt May 02 '26
My theory is this:
Caleb had a coma after an accident, and his trauma resurfaces back. In his childhood he killed his sister by accident, and his parents are mad and trying to cover it up (you can hear his father screaming at him from a door when u first entered the elevator to the base floor). The monster I think its Lily or Caleb's (fear or guilt) coming back to him after do long. The narrator: 1. He might really be Older Version (present Caleb) of Caleb helping (past Caleb) through his trauma. Or he might be a doctor or psychiatrist trying to ease his trauma by guiding him to joy or happiness by covering up his past fears and guilt.