The art gallery itself was attributed to one man, Guertena Weiss, who believed that artists could put spirits into their creations. The memorable atmosphere of the horror game is deeply connected to its monsters, music, and background lore elements.

Ib's other sidekick is girl around her age named Mary who is playful and innocent despite the horrors of the world around her. Ib creator kouri has mentioned that Garry likes to cross gender barriers, more or less confirmin this theory. In Japanese he also uses feminine-coded linguistics, which has made many fans believe is an LGBT+ character. While he can be protective of Ib, nurturing, and kind, he is also scared of everything. To note is the game was updated last year, the final update of the game, which added a few new endings, new content, and the like.Most players grow attached to Garry, the one adult who gets spirited away to the haunted gallery. There is a fairly large number of different endings, and a few unlockables including a new 'dungeon' you can access once you've beaten the game once. It's not very complicated, and beating the game for the first time should take you anywhere from 2-6 hours. Gameplay-wise, you mainly walk around and solve puzzles, and avoid traps and strange creatures.

However, before long the museum becomes dark, and she finds herself all alone. Ib is about a girl who visits a museum with her parents. Its the title that almost solely made RPG Maker horror a stronger niche audience in the west, and has produced an almost stupid amount of fan art and media (some of which you can find below). Ib is a freeware RPG Maker horror-puzzle game that released in 2012, available for PC and Mac, which was translated to English by a fluent Japanese & English speaker who goes by VGPerson (she has gone on to translate quite a few other small games and has made a name for herself as such).

It's been mentioned a few times, but alas. I just realized when talking about this game in another thread here on GAF that there has never been a topic on Ib.

Please make sure if you've played or seen it to mark spoilers, as there are plenty of people who haven't and may be interested in playing it themselves. Ib is a freeware game, you can download it here.

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