History Recap / TheKindaichiCaseFilesGameHouseMurderCase

* ContinuityNod: Among the teenagers Hajime invites for the amusement park rides, Souta was a participant in the [[Recap/TheKindaichiCaseFilesJailGateCramSchoolMurderCase Jail Gate Cram School Murder Case]] and the other boy was involved in the [[Recap/TheKindaichiCaseFilesGraveyardIslandMurderCase Graveyard Island Murder Case]] (with a note being pointed to the respective boy for clarifying reminder, at that).

* DeathByRecognition: Averted/Subverted. As Kindaichi reveals in TheSummation, he and Miyuki were "enlisted" into the culprit's DeadlyGame series because the DramaticThunder flashed right as the bus stopped, which made the culprit posing as the bus driver realize that they might have seen the culprit's face, but they were ultimately spared because they showed no signs of recognition toward the culprit, who was always among the participants. This is also implied to account for everyone else who got on the ride, as all who weren't forced to play the "[[DeadlyGame games]]" were all then abandoned but unharmed and alive along with the bus, to be discovered by the police the next day, as Kenmochi discloses, while the other DeadlyGame participants that the culprit never intended to kill showed no recognition to the culprit and were spared after the games had run their course.

** While Hajime and Miyuki watch a not-scary performance, Hajime decides to try stealthily to hold Miyuki's hand in the hope of fostering some romantic advancement with her. Unfortunately for Hajime, the keyword is "try", because he, in his attempt to be stealthy about the attempt, ends up holding onto the hand of a female ''stranger'', who has a boyfriend of her own, with said boyfriend expressing angry outrage at him for his stunt, which prompts Hajime to grab hold of Miyuki's hand and flee the scene in panic. Though he DOES get to hold Miyuki's hand, the result is not as romantic as he had hoped it would be.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Early in the case arc, one of Kindaichi and Miyuki's peers suggests to the other three the idea of leaving Hajime and Miyuki on their own in order for them to develop romantic feeling towards each other, with the others agreeing, though Sota is more hesitant about the proposal. While the separation does achieve the intended purpose, it also results in Kindaichi and Miyuki becoming unintentionally involved in a serial murder case.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: As Kindaichi reveals during SummationGathering, the culprit did a comprehensive investigation on Shiho's son with the intent of finding out as many of his behavioral pattern, preferences, and flaws as possible. Afterwards, the culprit set up each DeadlyGame, starting from the second, that would kill him -- the only reason he managed to last as long as he did was due to external factors (he survived the second one because Hajime helped him out, which almost got Hajime himself killed in the process; his survival through the third one was because he passed the [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink ramen -- which turned out to be poisonous --]] on to someone else, who then tested it out and discovered the poison within before consuming it).

* DeathByRecognition: Averted/Subverted. As Kindaichi reveals in TheSummation, he and Miyuki were "enlisted" into the culprit's DeadlyGame series because the DramaticThunder flashed right as the bus stopped, which made the culprit posing as the bus driver realize that they might have seen the culprit's face, but they were ultimately spared because they showed no signs of recognition toward the culprit, who was always among the participants. This is also implied to account for everyone else who got on the ride but weren't forced to play the "[[DeadlyGame games]]", for they were all then abandoned but unharmed and alive along with the bus, to be discovered by the police the next day, as Kenmochi discloses.

* CampingACrapper: Shiho's son is killed by the trap the culprit had set up in the washroom.

* DramaticThunder: Right as Hajime waves down a bus, a lightning flashes down from the sky, with a roaring thunder following along. Kindaichi reveals during SummationGathering that the bus driver at the moment was actually the "Game Master" in disguise, making the thunderous introduction something that turns out to be sinister, even though he and Miyuki didn't realize at the time.

* TemptingFate: Played for [[PlayedForDrama drama]] and [[PlayedForHorror horror]] alike. Just as the first DeadlyGame is set to start, the "Game Master" appears on the TV screen in the room where everyone is trapped and warns that the game in question has the time limit of five minutes and whoever fails to escape the room when the time runs out will die, with a pirate doll on top of the TV exploding as demonstration for good measure. After all but one manage to escape the room, one of the survivors bangs on the locked door to the room, especially since the person being still trapped within it is Shiho, his mother, and the time is only five seconds away from running out. One of the other survivors tells him nonchalantly that the woman won't explode for real... and then a loud booming voice erupts, followed by the door opening up to show ''a bloodied woman's foot'' wearing the shoe that her son recognizes as hers at once.

** The case arc ends with Kindaichi and Miyuki rejoining their peers, one of whom asks Hajime ''again'' if he really ''IS'' cursed, which he doesn't appreciate.

* AlliterativeName: Several names in this case arc have their first and last names both starting with the same letter: "'''K'''" for Kozue Kikukawa, "'''M'''" for Mika Mugibayashi, and "'''Shi'''" for Shiho Shimomura.

* PosthumousCharacter: Shiho's husband died sometime before the case arc began.