History VideoGame / Aisle

** In the "Remember suicide'' route, she slit her wrists in the bathtub after a vacation with the protagonist.

* In the ''Remember Clare's illness'' route, it's implied she passed away before the story of cancer.

** In the ''Sleep'' and ''Jump'' endings, it's implied that she died in an accident after getting hit by a motorized scooter, which the protagonist narrowly avoids by jumping out of the way, unable to grab Clare before doing so.

* GoldenEnding: Not that there can really be such a thing in this game, but one ending has your character much happier than most of them. The woman ''is'' Clare, and you're married, just taking a moment to reflect on your shared past.

** In the ''Jump'' ending, it's implied that she died in an accident after getting hit by a motorized scooter, which the protagonist narrowly avoids by jumping out of the way, unable to grab Clare before doing so.

* SchrodingersButterfly: Invoked in the ''Dream'' ending, wherein the protagonist contemplates what it means that he daydreams so often throughout his daily life.

%%* JigsawPuzzlePlot

%%* RedHerring: The woman isn't Clare. [[MultipleEndings Unless she is.]]
%%* SliceOfLife

* MultipleChoicePast: Many of the potential backstories contradict each other.

* PosthumousCharacter: In many endings, Clare is already dead, though not in ''every'' ending.

* MultipleEndings: Each action brings a different ending, and the vast majority of them are [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] or [[DownerEnding downers]].

'''NOTE: Due to the game's short lenght [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

* ClusterFBomb: ''Swear''.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot
* MultipleChoicePast: And how!
* MultipleEndings: And the vast majority of them are [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] or [[DownerEnding downers]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Clare, though not in ''every'' ending.
* RedHerring: The woman isn't Clare. [[MultipleEndings Unless she is.]]
* SliceOfLife

'''NOTE: Due to the game's short lenght [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers are unmarked]]. YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

* GoldenEnding: Not that there can really be such a thing in this game, but one ending has your character much happier than most of them. [[spoiler:The woman ''is'' Clare, and you're married, just taking a moment to reflect on your shared past.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Clare]], though not in ''every'' ending.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The woman isn't Clare. [[MultipleEndings Unless she is.]]]]

''Aisle'' is an InteractiveFiction game by Sam Barlow. The setting and concept are simple: you control a character standing in an aisle of the supermarket. In each play-through, you may type one and only one command; the game responds with a short snippet of story about the main character. But as the opening narration implies, many of the stories are mutually contradictory, which gives the sense of hopping between [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universes]] on each reload. Can be [[http://wurb.com/if/game/431 downloaded]] or played [[http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=40&game=232&mode=html in-browser]]. Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/PickUpThePhoneBoothAndAisle'', which parodies this game's one-move mechanic.

* GoldenEnding: Not that there can really be such a thing in this game, but one ending has your character much happier than most of them. [[spoiler:The woman ''is'' Clare, and you're married, just taking a moment to reflect on your shares past.]]

-->--Opening screen narration

* YouCantGetYeFlask: Semi-averted, in that the game has a wider range of parsable commands than most, but tends to come up after a few games.

''Aisle'' is an InteractiveFiction game by Sam Barlow. The setting and conceit are simple: you control a character standing in an aisle of the supermarket. In each play-through, you may type one and only one command; the game responds with a short snippet of story about the main character. But as the opening narration implies, many of the stories are mutually contradictory, which gives the sense of hopping between [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universes]] on each reload. Can be [[http://wurb.com/if/game/431 downloaded]] or played [[http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=40&game=232&mode=html in-browser]]. Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/PickUpThePhoneBoothAndAisle'', which parodies this game's one-move mechanic.

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''Aisle'' is an InteractiveFiction game by Sam Barlow. The setting and conceit are simple: you control a character standing in an aisle of the supermarket. In each play-through, you may type one and only one command; the game responds with a short snippet of story about the main character. But as the opening narration implies, many of the stories are mutually contradictory, which gives the sense of hopping between [[AlternateUniverse Alternate Universes]] on each reload. Can be [[http://wurb.com/if/game/431 downloaded]] or played [[http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=40&game=232&mode=html in-browser]]. Not to be confused with PickUpThePhoneBoothAndAisle, which parodies this game's one-move mechanic.