Arches is a game about suffering. Deep, horrible trauma that sinks its claws into you and threatens to tear you at the seams. It expands on what Hell is for people. For Chase, it was Echo itself, and the tragedy that broke his already jagged friend group. For Sam, it was the betrayal of his trust, the seed he unwittingly and unwillingly planted in the mine.

For Cameron and Devon, two lovers visiting the almost-deserted town, Hell is being unable to let go of the past. Hell is change. Hell is drugs, a dead family member, a fear that one of them will leave the other.

Hell is a town named Echo, and it breaks people.

But you don't have to be another victim. If you fight, if you trust, if you hope that something can pull you out into the light... that's something to hold onto. God dammit, hold onto that hope like it's the last thing you can do, because it very well could be.