Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 11/05/2026A lot of people thought NITW took place with teens in the 90s bc our cultural landscape at the time was unaware of young working class adults in the 2010s that lived in their home towns and were goofy sometimes. 231082109
Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 11/05/2026Mae mapped to my lived experience so closely it was a little creepy! 030
shan🎷🐛 @shanhoran.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This makes me feel so old lol……. I was living in my northeast hometown working a record store job in 2014-2017 so this was THEE game for me hahaha 090
Corvine Winterblood @corvine-wintrblood.bsky.social · 11/05/2026...She literally came back from college??? 0150
Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 12/05/2026I guess it hit me at the right time, because I clocked that vibe from a mile away. I was supremely jealous of how you all wrote and developed that story. 😅 000
Turaiel @turaiel.me · 11/05/2026I've been replaying it recently (and god what a gorgeous game it is). I have gotten that vibe from it, but given the laptop is XP-like I thought maybe it was set in the mid-noughts. 000
Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 11/05/2026If it really had taken place in the 90s, Mae and Bea would have hit the mall and that place would have been completely popping off. 0210
Carn @carnanya.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I played it as a kid in middle or highschool and it's been weird continually finding parralels to my life now living with my partner's white parents in small town Washington. What felt like any other fantastical video game world to me at the time turned out to be something so real. 000
Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Enh the fact that Mae had a laptop and that they were constantly bitching about lack of cellphone coverage made it clear to me Laptops and especially cellphones were not common among lower-middle class teenagers and 20somethings in the 90s 3400
Khoja 🇵🇷 @khoja-dawg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026It’s why I struggled to play it even though I really enjoyed it, I was a working class young adult who was goofy sometimes who had failed out of college and wound up back in my shitty home town and it was just way too real for me I should give it another go now that I’m more removed from that time 0230
🐦⬛N☰V☰RM0R☰🏴☠️🌌 @rvnwings.bsky.social · 11/05/2026at the time I don't think enough people actually caught on that the Supernatural Things, and really the whole narrative metaphor was allegories for how capitalism treats people. It's not like you were subtle either. 040
SleepaKaye Camp @kaye.zone · 11/05/2026Low key if it ever felt like the nineties to someone it’s because they probably lived in a small town back then, moved, and don’t realize that growing up in those places feels mostly the same now. 0160
Devilpants @devilpants.bsky.social · 11/05/2026what they didn't realize was that going to a small enough town was like traveling back in time in a very real sense 0811
Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 11/05/2026culture was unready for the real shit 13323
starboundwolf.bsky.social @starboundwolf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I vibed with NITW so much, as someone who grew up in, left(for college), and then came back to a small, middle of nowhere dying town in the bible belt that 'probably' doesn't have a secret cult. Especially because of when it released it just hit a lot of very heart-spun chords with me. 000
big_throwaway (仮) @secondthrowaway.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This was a thing I didn't know people thought 000
miles peery @drearypeery.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I enjoy that it is now a snapshot of the generation prior to me, I see my millennial forbearers and offer a friendly nod. 020
🔞SnowBnnuy @untitledgoat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026If you were like me living anywhere semi-rural in the north east or Midwest US, it seemed like it could be set in your hometown no matter where it is. And still could be even today! 010
🏳️🌈Nightmare Eyes🏳️🌈 @nightmareeyes12.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I just assumed it took place around 2017 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 010
Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 11/05/2026We all had baseball bats back then. But it's just an app now 0300
The white thing that screams @nixe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I'm probably an outlier but as someone who was 21 in 2017 I immediately clocked Mae as being in the same age range. The funny-but-awkward 'I was a teen once, you know' feeling of her first interaction with the tunnel teens was spot on. 0160
Lusca (Landshark if you shred) @lusca-maki.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Quintessential story of that weird time between dropping out of university and entering the real world, where the subprime mortgage crisis was richly rewarded. 010
