Originally posted by Pedja:

So, someone recommended this game to me, I played it, was finding the eversion points and as I was going from layer to layer it was getting more and more creepy and I thought the pixel art was very nice. Cool and all.
Then you have the 2 endings: the princess is a monster or both of them are monsters, which isn't very original tbh.
And that`s it.
I mean, nice platform-puzzle game I guess.
But I see this game recommended with games like DDLC, Undertale, Pony Island, One-shot and the like and it has the psychological horror tag... I can't find any. it barely has any story.
I see this game praised by a lot of people, so I'm sure I'm missing something here right? What am I missing?

Tags are user-generated and may not mean what you expect them to mean. :P

Eversion also predates all those games (at least all except One-shot which I don't know). The version of Eversion sold here is actually the HD version of a freeware indie game of the same name.

It is a relatively short thing that just explores the idea of flipping to different worlds at these eversion points. There is definitely horror flavoring to the worlds, as they progressively decay from world to world, going from a charmingly saccharine setting to a "reveal" that it's just a set to further decaying that into horror, eventually replacing even things like the ready screen scary messages.

I might not call this "psychological horror", though it certainly heads in that direction somewhat. It doesn't have the depth (and sheer number of event flags) of Undertale, though (that's the only game in the others you mentioned that I'm actually reasonably familiar with in terms of understanding its design, despite not having played any of them). So if you were looking for that then this isn't it.

Ah I see, just wrong expectations

yeah it's more of an inspiration point other newer games have jumped up from. Great classic, back in the days of old flash games