Alter Ego (video game)/YMMV

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• Complete Monster: The child molester in Childhood, the maniac driver in Adulthood and you.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In a good handful of scenarios, you can get yourself into trouble. Out of these, some of them allows you to get into even further trouble than you would've been otherwise, especially ones that either mentally scar people around you or nearly kill yourself.
• Good Bad Bugs: If you are killed in a scenario, it is possible to "revive" yourself and keep playing by pressing Esc either at that screen or on your review sheet immediately following afterward.
• Moral Event Horizon: You can be a real monster as early as infancy. You have several options to do things from crying non-stop to either nearly killing yourself or attacking others, many of which you're told outright would cause you to mentally screw over your parents (your mother especially) or your targets in the long run. That doesn't even begin to touch the surface of the other things you can do when you're older including capitalizing on a vital mistake someone else at work made that'll cause their life to be ruined...
• Non Sequitur Scene: A bizarre optional encounter in your Young Adult years involving having to deliver a package, and meeting up with a mysterious, seductive man/woman, which, while fun, essentially has nothing to do with the rest of the game itself.
• Rated "M" for Money: The game didn't sell well as most parents had raised eyebrows of the game's very visible warning that it has strong sexual themes. It's right, but the game immediately gives you a heads up if you try to trigger a scenario with said sexual themes (and won't penalize you if you skip them), and the content you see isn't anything worse or any more explicit than you can find in a sex-ed class (besides sexual encounters with your spouse or someone else, for instance, a lot of these events involved you just beginning to learn about sexuality as you're growing up).
• That One Level: The episode with the kidnapper during the Childhood phase has gained near memetic status due to how very easy it is to die during it, especially relative to how early in the game it appears.
• The Woobie: Besides you, can apply to a number of other characters you meet throughout life.