History VideoGame / AmbridgeMansion

* MindScrew

* OrphanedSeries
* ShoutOut: The game's theme sounds a lot like "Don't Cry Jennifer," the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxrXvDdKuw chase theme]] from ''VideoGame/ClockTower1995''.

* ViolenceDiscretionShot: Whenever you die, we don't get to see what happened to Silas, we only hear his scream and get a game over screen.

-->- '''Message written on the floor in the safe room'''

* NightmareSequence: At the beginning of the games, you play through Silas' nightmares. You wander around a creepy monster-infested house until you die in your dream, and then start the real game.

* ShoutOut: The game's theme sounds a lot like "Don't Cry Jennifer," the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxrXvDdKuw chase theme from Clocktower]].

* BadDreams: The NightmareSequence at the beginning.

Ambridge Mansion is a point-and-click indie horror game series. You are a clairvoyant named Silas Roderick, and you are trapped in a mansion infested with shadow-like monsters and must solve puzzles to figure out a way to escape. Each game takes place over the course of a day, and every day that you are there, the monsters will get continually worse. If you make a bad decision, like by walking into a room without a light, the monsters will get you. There is no apparent escape from the mansion and the outside is just filled with pure blackness.

* LivingShadow: The creatures in the mansion are this. Because of this, they have the [[{{Understatement}} nasty]] tendency to jump out of nowhere & kill the player...

* AlwaysNight: Subverted. You are in a haunted mansion in its own alternate world. Everywhere outside of the house is blackness, giving the appearance that it is always night, although there is no real day or night there.

* RavensAndCrows: There's a crow that lives in the library. In your nightmares, [[spoiler:it becomes a huge monster]].

* AlwaysNight: Subverted. You are in a haunted mansion in its own alternate world. Everywhere outside of the house is endless blackness, giving the appearance that it is always night, although there is no real day or night there.

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Or at least, you're trapped in an alternate dimension where there the only thing besides the mansion is infinite blackness.

* EldritchAbomination: The shadows are this.

* InescapableHorror: It might be this. Since only two games were made instead of seven, we'll never know.
* LivingShadow: The creatures in the mansion are this.

* NeverSleepAgain: Averted. Silas feels comfortable sleeping in one particular safe room, which is lit by blue candles that keep the monsters away.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[NightmareFuel This is not going to end well...]]

* HellIsThatNoise: You can hear monsters growling, the wind howling, scratching, and stuff like that all throughout the game.

* AlwaysNight: Because you're in an alternate dimension where there is nothing but blackness outside of the mansion.

-->''"THE WORLD ENDS IN SEVEN DAYS"''

--> ''THE WORLD ENDS IN SEVEN DAYS''

* ShoutOut: The game's theme sounds exactly like "Don't Cry Jennifer," the chase theme from the Clocktower.

* HauntedTechnology: [[In the second game, looking at the TV will get you killed. In the first game, there is a puzzle that you have to solve inside of it.]]

--> ''''THE WORLD ENDS IN SEVEN DAYS''''