This game is my answer as well. I held it together through big big brother’s burial. When I lost it was in the epilogue when I realized I needed to press big brother’s action button for little brother to pull the big lever. I literally wept as I pressed that button.
If you zoom in you can see that the siding doesn’t look so uneven because it’s peeling, but because that’s the natural edge of the log from when the planks were cut from what I assume were random trees logged around the property, on what I assume is a small sawmill kept in the work-yard by a shed.