I was thinking Witchcraft.
You go camping out with your wife who you just barely married two years ago, deep into the woods. You see a few odd things like runes and such on the trees. Decide to camp because it gets unusually dark and cold. You have a vicious nightmare and wake up screaming...
Only... your wife is suddenly gone. You run back to your car, and it's been destroyed. The tires are slashed and the car is burning. So deep in the woods, you have no cell reception. You don't want to leave because you need to find (and rescue?) your wife.
So now you're going through the forest, looking at runes, which provide clues. Begin seeing signs of rituals - dead animals, pentagrams, the like.
Eventually you make your way and find a cave, where it appears some witches are about to sacrifice a woman - but it's not your wife - but you still act to save the innocent woman!
Only you're captured, and the head witch removes her mask, and it's your wife. She explains that in order to extend her life, the victim has to come willingly.
Then she kills you.
So it's a game where you die at the end. Betrayed by your wife, who set you up from the start.
If you've ever seen the movie
Spellbinder, you will know where I draw my inspiration from.
) - to work on the next game.
