Giving Curly painkillers in Mouthwashing

For a game that is light on the whole gameplay thing, Mouthwashing makes the most of its simplicity with some memorable moments. Giving painkillers to Curly, the captain of your crashed spaceship who was burnt beyond recognition when the freighter went down, is one such moment in Wrong Organ’s horror game. Mouthwashing has you painstakingly open his bandaged mouth as his one eye stares at you, then push the pills down his throat with all the awful sounds that come with it. The first time you do it, it’s incredibly unnerving, and with each subsequent time you do it, you start to become desensitized to it. It’s just a routine thing to do as you explore the ship and unwrap the mysteries of what happened here. But when those mysteries are exposed like the burns underneath Curly’s bandages, force-feeding him those pills takes on new meaning. There’s a lot of horrifying shit that happens in Mouthwashing, and the sounds Curly makes as you force him to swallow some pills aren’t even close to the worst of it, but they sure set the tone for how hard the rest of the game is to stomach.