Fans of "The Twilight Zone" will remember the feeling that came with the start of every new episode. I'm not old enough to have seen the black & white TV show fresh when it aired, but I have wonderful memories watching it with my father during my middle school summers when he would come home from work during lunch time, trying to riddle out what was actually happening in each episode's strange realities while simultaneously feeling horrified at the answer.
More modern classics like "Severance" use similar tactics, setting up an environment that looks and feels normal at first, only to turn something on its head in a sinister way you didn't expect. I recently played Hotel Infinity on Meta Quest, and it evokes the same feelings I get from watching "Severance" or "The Twilight Zone," but this time, the twist is that I'm the one walking the liminal spaces of a warped, twisted universe.
