GamesRadar: It’s exceedingly rare for a five dollar downloadable game to engender real creepiness, but the intro sequence to The Binding of Isaac delivers plenty of disturbia. An update of the biblical parable (in which God demands the sacrifice of Abraham’s son Isaac), the game tells the story of a woman driven mad by Christian telecasts. Her fragmenting mind begins hearing the voice of God, who eventually demands she demonstrate her loyalty by carving up her only son.
The online multiplayer beta for The Binding of Isaac is offline until further notice after someone data-mined the latest build.
Nathan Lynch for SG: "On the 10th anniversary of The Binding of Isaac's release, I look back on what the game has meant to my life."
Happy 10th Birthday Isaac! The Binding of Isaac really is one heck of a rabbit hole of a game, and even more of a time sink.
At the end of Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, ABG's editors open up about their own experiences, and look back at the Video Game industry's sordid past, and the advances made in recent years in tackling this most sensitive of subjects
