Passage -- Story of the Game

Passage is a metaphor for life. At the beginning, a man begins, and has to option to find love or not find love. If he finds love, there are certain places he cant go in the game but if he does not choose to find a spouse, he can navigate to different areas of the space provided by the game. Having found love and not being able to access certain areas of the game may represent the challenges of marriage. Even though the graphics are elementary, the man(and woman if he chooses to find love) both clearly show signs of aging in their appearance as the game progresses and end up dying. The game allows the user to interpret what is going on at certain points to help create the storyline. For example, what looks like a walk in the park to me may be interpreted as something completely different by someone else.