Fictional universes are oft defined by what their positive affect feels like and what their negative affect feels like. This is the palette that the story is written using. In the videogame Silksong, the negative affect is a hollow, pointless, loneliness. Every character is a bug, crawling through the dirt, creeping out to see you briefly before they continue attempting to do something with their pointless lives.

Oh... you've come to hide down here too, then? 'Tis a fearful world out there. If you can keep quiet, I don't mind you joining me.

They spend the game in religious devotion, attempting to climb to the citadel where they can meet their God. But most die along the way, or go mad and just start to kill anything nearby.