Gris is a beautiful, emotional, and captivating journey through loss and pain. The stunning art, the gorgeous music, the game mechanics... are all there to take you through that journey. To transmit the emotions at every stage. It's a paradigm of what videogames can do. Not a single word, not a single line of text. If a game like The Last Of Us is narrative, a game like Gris is poetry.

(Maybe some story spoilers ahead, not sure, I prefer to warn)

Going through the stages of grief is a difficult introspective journey. Every stage you go through makes you stronger to face the rest. No stage is ever completely over, and any progress you have made can disappear at any moment as you are haunted by the ghosts inside you. You need to hit rock bottom in order to really start to move on. Even when you start seeing the light, everything can fall apart in a blink of an eye. The depiction of this through the game abilities, gameplay, and colors (recommended watching this video about the importance of colors) is just brilliant.

There is a quote from Dumbledore (Harry Potter) which says that "happiness can be found even in the darkest of places, if one just remembers to turn on the light". But turning the light on is never easy, and that's what Gris is all about.