Pumpkin Eater was the original name of the game, which was translated on Steam as Pumpkin Eater
It was originally based on an English nursery rhyme, The Man Who Ate The Pumpkin. Pumpkin Eater also has the meaning of people who can't afford to raise wives, because people who eat pumpkin in the original nursery rhyme can't keep their wives. At the same time, there are also related novels and film literature adapted, and those who are interested can go to see it.
Nursery rhyme: Peter, Peter the Pumpkin Eater. There is a wife who can't stay. Wrap your wife in pumpkin skin. The wife hides in peace and security. (Steam translation, originally in English).
The Pumpkin Eater is a psychological horror visual novel about a family taking care of their pumpkin head son.
Let's start talking about this game. The plot of this game also bears great resemblance to nursery rhymes. First of all, it is an unfortunate tragedy.
A family of four, there was an accident, the father accidentally reversed the car and killed his son. The mother fell into madness, insisting that her son was still alive, and put a pumpkin head on her son, covering the blurred face of flesh and blood. Every day as usual, eating with his son, chatting, and joking from time to time, the son responds to himself, and in the morning, he wakes up his son and tells the neighbors how happy the family is.
All of this is as perfect and happy as before the son died, or even more so. But this is only the mother's perspective. Gradually, the father could not stand his mad wife and began to resist. But the cowardice of the heart, and the fear of legal responsibility and stand by. The most pitiful thing is their little daughter, because the mother's "good" is given to the son, then the vent of "evil" naturally becomes the daughter, under the main perspective of the daughter, we feel this oppressive atmosphere all the time, and even walk carefully, pay attention not to make a little noise, thus causing the mother's dissatisfaction, but even this is not to avoid the fate of being locked in the cellar.
However, false happiness is like a colorful bubble flying into the sky, flashy and unrealistic. With the passage of time, the son's body also slowly changed, decaying, and finally the whole house was filled with the smell of corpses, and countless bugs also arrived as scheduled. The mother felt that it was time to change her son's body, and the neighbor sensed that something was wrong, so they stared at the neighbor's son's body, so in the cellar, the pumpkin head had a new body. The daughter finally broke out and chose to escape, coupled with the timely arrival of the police, ending the tragedy.
This tragedy is at fault for everyone, but understandable. The first is the father's cheating, despite dissuasion, but no one has not made mistakes in his life, and the last thing he should do is not to take responsibility, and he has also become an accomplice of his mother. It is understandable that mothers go crazy because they have lost their sons, and there are many examples of this in reality. The most tragic part of the whole text is the daughter.
The game is very good, and the depiction of the change of the son's body can be called a picture of the change of the body. The description of the mental changes of several people is impressive, and from time to time, it is interspersed with the good memories of a family of four as a flavoring agent to give players a psychological buffer.
Finally, it is not recommended for players with poor psychological quality to play.