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* BossBattle: Three: A [[AdvancingBossOfDoom tentacle ceiling]], a wheel monster, and [[spoiler:the DuelBoss against Harmonia and the [[BigBad Eldritch Lord]]]].



* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Usually the victims of HumanSacrifice

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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Usually the victims of HumanSacrificeHumanSacrifice.
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The game puts the player in the role of a strange, red-headed, [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] girl who is looking for another girl named Harmonia, who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities. You can download the fixed version [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82464706/AuSable.rar here]].

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The game puts the player in the role of a strange, red-headed, [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] girl who is looking for another girl named Harmonia, Harmonia (possibly her sister), who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities. You can download the fixed version [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82464706/AuSable.rar here]].

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The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl who is looking for a girl named Harmonia who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities. You can download the fixed version [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82464706/AuSable.rar here]].

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The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed a strange, red-headed, [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] girl who is looking for a another girl named Harmonia Harmonia, who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities. You can download the fixed version [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82464706/AuSable.rar here]].



* BigBad: The Eldritch Lord.



* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler:who is actually Harmonia, and possibly your sister.]]

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* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler:who is actually [[spoiler: Harmonia, and possibly your sister.under DemonicPossession.]]
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* OneHitKill: A point-blank clean hit with the shotgun will kill most enemies in one hit, but you need to get dangerously close to them to pull this off. However, the rocket launcher has much safer range and ridiculous fire speed, making it strictly superior to the shotgun anyways.
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* RedHeadedHero: You, the main character.
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* AlwaysNight
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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this. In the good ending, the demon lord is defeated and Harmonia is presumably freed from his influence. In the bad ending, Harmonia dies and the demon lord possesses the protagonist. Unlike in VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}, another game by the same developer, you don't have to play through the whole game to get the two endings - you can simply load the final boss battle again.]]

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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this. In the good ending, the demon lord is defeated and Harmonia is presumably freed from his influence. In the bad ending, Harmonia dies and the demon lord possesses the protagonist. Unlike in VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}, another game by the same developer, you don't have to play through the whole game to get the two endings - -- you can simply load the final boss battle again.]]



* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:During the good ending where the heroine carries Harmonia out of the woods.]]

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* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:During the good ending ending, where the heroine carries Harmonia out of the woods.]]



* SurrealHorror: Expected from the creator ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead''.

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* SurrealHorror: Expected from the creator of ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead''.
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-->''"Nearer my God to thee."''

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-->''"Nearer ->''"Nearer my God to thee."''



See also ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead'' and ''{{VideoGame/Gyossait}}'', surreal action-platformers by the same creator. Also see ''The Hunt'', a FirstPersonShooter prequel to ''Au Sable''.

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See also ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead'' and ''{{VideoGame/Gyossait}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}'', surreal action-platformers by the same creator. Also see A FirstPersonShooter prequel to this game, ''The Hunt'', a FirstPersonShooter prequel to ''Au Sable''.
was also created by Amon26.






--> '''Eldritch Lord:''' [[spoiler:''Pretty little girls... one by one you come... butchering each other... to be my only one...'']]

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--> '''Eldritch -->'''Eldritch Lord:''' [[spoiler:''Pretty little girls... one by one you come... butchering each other... to be my only one...'']]



* EldritchLocation: An abandoned town [[spoiler:that keeps repeating, getting uglier and uglier each time.]]
* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler: who is actually Harmonia, and possibly your sister.]]

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* EldritchLocation: An abandoned town [[spoiler:that keeps repeating, getting uglier and uglier each time.]]
time]].
* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who is actually Harmonia, and possibly your sister.]]



* GameBreakingBug: Older versions of the game made [[spoiler:getting the good ending impossible.]]

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* GameBreakingBug: Older versions of the game made [[spoiler:getting the good ending impossible.]]impossible]].



* NightmareFace: The thing that gave the protagonist its eyes [[spoiler:which might be her mother?]]. There's also the hydra which has nightmare ''faces.''

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* NightmareFace: The thing that gave the protagonist its eyes [[spoiler:which might be her mother?]].mother(?)]]. There's also the hydra which has nightmare ''faces.''



* RedHeadedHero

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* RedHeadedHeroRedHeadedHero: You, the main character.



* RhymesOnADime: Many of the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s do this [[spoiler:as well as the final boss]].

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* RhymesOnADime: Many of the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s Eldritch Abominations do this [[spoiler:as well as the final boss]].
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* BattleStrip: [[spoiler:Harmonia as the final boss battle begins.]]


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* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Harmonia during the final boss battle.]]

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* BottomlessMagazines: particularly flagrant in the case of the rocket launcher, which shoots at the speed of an AK-47 in addition to never needing to be reloaded. The fact that this weapon can fire more projectiles than its own volume within one second and never run out of ammo is the best indicator that strange magic is afoot in the area.

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* BottomlessMagazines: particularly Particularly flagrant in the case of the rocket launcher, which shoots at the speed of an AK-47 in addition to never needing to be reloaded. The fact that this weapon can fire more projectiles than its own volume within one second and never run out of ammo is the best indicator that strange magic is afoot in the area.



* DualBoss: the final boss is a fight against [[spoiler:the possessed Harmonia and the Eldritch Lord, who fights by proxy of three "angels" (so four enemies in all). The angels are easy to kill, but unless you collect the eyes they leave behind, they won't stay dead.]]

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* DualBoss: the The final boss is a fight against [[spoiler:the possessed Harmonia and the Eldritch Lord, who fights by proxy of three "angels" (so four enemies in all). The angels are easy to kill, but unless you collect the eyes they leave behind, they won't stay dead.]]



* MookMaker: The tall demon carrying a chain generates smaller demons. Also, the fireballs of the final boss chase you and can be destroyed, making them essentially mooks in the guise of projectiles.

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* MookMaker: The tall demon carrying a chain generates smaller demons. Also, the fireballs of the final boss chase you and can be destroyed, making them essentially mooks {{Mooks}} in the guise of projectiles.



* NoNameGiven: the BigBad is never named, though the sentence about a "Father" who will "set the world clean" probably refers to him. The protagonist seems to be named Au Sable, assuming that the quote "Oh, Au Sable. One of you had to burn," refers to her.

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* NoNameGiven: the The BigBad is never named, though the sentence about a "Father" who will "set the world clean" probably refers to him. The protagonist seems to be named Au Sable, assuming that the quote "Oh, Au Sable. One of you had to burn," refers to her.
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* NoNameGiven: the BigBad is never named, though the sentence about a "Father" who will "set the world clean" probably refers to him. The protagonist seems to be named Au Sable, assuming that the quote "Oh, Au Sable. One of you had to burn," refers to her.
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* BottomlessMagazines

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* BottomlessMagazinesBottomlessMagazines: particularly flagrant in the case of the rocket launcher, which shoots at the speed of an AK-47 in addition to never needing to be reloaded. The fact that this weapon can fire more projectiles than its own volume within one second and never run out of ammo is the best indicator that strange magic is afoot in the area.
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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this. In the good ending, the demon lord is defeated and Harmonia is presumably freed from his influence. In the bad ending, Harmonia dies and the demon lord possesses the protagonist. Unlike in {{Gyossait}}, another game by the same developer, you don't have to play through the whole game to get the two endings - you can simply load the final boss battle again.]]

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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this. In the good ending, the demon lord is defeated and Harmonia is presumably freed from his influence. In the bad ending, Harmonia dies and the demon lord possesses the protagonist. Unlike in {{Gyossait}}, VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}, another game by the same developer, you don't have to play through the whole game to get the two endings - you can simply load the final boss battle again.]]
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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this.]]

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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this. In the good ending, the demon lord is defeated and Harmonia is presumably freed from his influence. In the bad ending, Harmonia dies and the demon lord possesses the protagonist. Unlike in {{Gyossait}}, another game by the same developer, you don't have to play through the whole game to get the two endings - you can simply load the final boss battle again.]]

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* DualBoss: the final boss is a fight against [[spoiler:the possessed Harmonia and the Eldritch Lord, who fights by proxy of three "angels" (so four enemies in all). The angels are easy to kill, but unless you collect the eyes they leave behind, they won't stay dead.]]



* MookMaker: The tall demon carrying a chain generates smaller demons

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* MookMaker: The tall demon carrying a chain generates smaller demonsdemons. Also, the fireballs of the final boss chase you and can be destroyed, making them essentially mooks in the guise of projectiles.
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--> '''Eldritch Lord:''' [[spoiler:''Pretty little girls... one by one you come... butchering each other... to be my only one...''

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--> '''Eldritch Lord:''' [[spoiler:''Pretty little girls... one by one you come... butchering each other... to be my only one...'''']]
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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Harmonia appears to be under the spell of the EldritchAbomination BigBad. Disturbingly, if you kill Harmonia instead of the "angels" during the final boss battle, the bad ending that ensues implies that your protagonist has fallen prey to the same spell, and that this has happened multiple times already.]]
--> '''Eldritch Lord:''' [[spoiler:''Pretty little girls... one by one you come... butchering each other... to be my only one...''

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* AlwaysNight



* CollapsingLair: After shooting the tree that grows hearts, the area suddenly begins to shake apart.



* ImprobableWeaponUser: Toward the end of the game, the eyes must be used to destroy certain enemies. A good example is the tall MookMaker which turns into red smoke when shot. You have to touch the eyes to the smoke afterward or else it will regenerate. [[spoiler:They can also be used against the final boss.]]



* MookMaker: The tall demon carrying a chain generates smaller demons



* NightmareFace: The thing that gave the protagonist its eyes [[spoiler:which might be her mother?]]

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* NightmareFace: The thing that gave the protagonist its eyes [[spoiler:which might be her mother?]]mother?]]. There's also the hydra which has nightmare ''faces.''



* ReligionOfEvil: The cult that worships the {{EldritchAbomination}}s in the woods.

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* RedSkyTakeWarning
* ReligionOfEvil: The cult that worships the {{EldritchAbomination}}s {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in the woods.woods.
* RhymesOnADime: Many of the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s do this [[spoiler:as well as the final boss]].

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* GhostTown: Part of the setting of the game.



* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:During the good ending.]]

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* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:During the good ending.ending where the heroine carries Harmonia out of the woods.]]



* TearsOfBlood: In an exposition.

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* TearsOfBlood: In [[spoiler:Harmonia's mother]] in an exposition.exposition.
* TitleDrop:
-->''Oh, Au Sable. One of you had to burn.''

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* AdvancingWallOfDoom: A mass of red tentacles. You have to fire repeatedly to keep away from it.


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* GameBreakingBug: Older versions of the game made [[spoiler:getting the good ending impossible.]]


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* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:During the good ending.]]

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* {{BFG}}: You get a short-ranged shotgun in the beginning. Later, you get a long-ranged bazooka.



* IronicNurseryTune: At one point, a woman's voice hums a lullaby.



* MeatMoss: In the second half of the game, blood vessel vines are everywhere. You also have to shoot a tree that sprouts ''hearts''.



* NightmareFace: The thing that gave the protagonist its eyes [[spoiler:which might be her mother?]]
* OneHitPointWonder: The heroine will die in one hit.



* OneHitPointWonder: The heroine will die in one hit.

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* OneHitPointWonder: The heroine will die in one hit.RedEyesTakeWarning: You actually use a disembodied pair as tools!


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* ReligionOfEvil: The cult that worships the {{EldritchAbomination}}s in the woods.
* SharkPool: {{AcidPool}}s that have dozens of arms reaching out for you.

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The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl who is looking for a girl named Harmonia who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities.

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The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl who is looking for a girl named Harmonia who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities.
entities. You can download the fixed version [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82464706/AuSable.rar here]].



* BodyHorror

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* BodyHorrorBodyHorror: During the final boss, [[spoiler:Harmonia]] loses her face. [[spoiler:And as you pick off the "angels," the EldritchAbomination in the background slowly decays.]]



* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill your "sister." You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this.]]

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* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill your "sister." Harmonia. You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this.]]]]
* PlayingWithFire: Some of the enemies shoot fireballs which can bounce off walls.

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According to the README file, Harmonia is actually the missing girl.


The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl named Harmonia in a surreal, occult-driven world where bizarre events take place.

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The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl who is looking for a girl named Harmonia who went missing in an abandoned town surrounded by a surreal, occult-driven world where bizarre events take place.
sinister forest. But something very evil is living in these woods, and our heroine soon finds herself up against a dangerous cult and demonic entities.



* ActionGirl: Harmonia.

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* ActionGirl: Harmonia.The protagonist.



* DeadGuyOnDisplay

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* DeadGuyOnDisplayDeadGuyOnDisplay: Usually the victims of HumanSacrifice
* DontGoInTheWoods



* EldritchAbomination: Usually in the form of strange black beings with bright white eyes.

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* EldritchAbomination: Usually Quite a few of the enemies in the form latter half of the game, but special mention goes to recurring strange black beings with bright white eyes.



* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler: who may be your sister.]]

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* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler: who may be is actually Harmonia, and possibly your sister.]]
* HumanSacrifice: You see several of these taking place.
* InterfaceScrew: WordOfGod said in the README file that he left the gun's cursor out on purpose to show that the heroine was unfamiliar with using it. [[spoiler:If you want it back, just hit Backspace.
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* MadnessMantra



* OneHitPointWonder: Harmonia will die in one hit.
* RedHeadedHero: Harmonia

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* OneHitPointWonder: Harmonia The heroine will die in one hit.
* RedHeadedHero: HarmoniaRedHeadedHero


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* [[spoiler:YouAreNotAlone: The good ending]]

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-->''"Nearer my God to thee."''




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* WombLevel: Slowly turns into this.

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* DroneOfDread
* EldritchAbomination
* EldritchLocation

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* DroneOfDread
DroneOfDread: The soundtrack.
* EldritchAbomination
EldritchAbomination: Usually in the form of strange black beings with bright white eyes.
* EldritchLocationEldritchLocation: An abandoned town [[spoiler:that keeps repeating, getting uglier and uglier each time.]]
* EvilRedhead: The final boss [[spoiler: who may be your sister.]]
* JumpScare: This game features a lot of sudden events that cut away just as suddenly, as well as characters that appear and then immediately disappear.



* [[spoiler:MultipleEndings: To get the good ending, you cannot kill your "sister." You must only kill the "angels," using your eyes to absorb them when they turn into eyes. Note that a bug in older versions of the game prevents you from doing this.]]



* RedHeadedHero: Harmonia




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* TearsOfBlood: In an exposition.
* UnconventionalFormatting: Instead of text boxes, a speaker's words show up in the background.
* [[spoiler:UnwantedRescue]]
-->[[spoiler:''"I never wanted to be found"'']]

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See also ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead'', another surreal action-platformer by the same creator, and ''VideoGame/TheHunt'', a FirstPersonShooter prequel to ''Au Sable''.

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See also ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead'', another ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead'' and ''{{VideoGame/Gyossait}}'', surreal action-platformer action-platformers by the same creator, and ''VideoGame/TheHunt'', creator. Also see ''The Hunt'', a FirstPersonShooter prequel to ''Au Sable''.

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'''''Au Sable''''' is a freeware SurvivalHorror game by Amon26.

The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl in a surreal, occult-driven world where bizarre events take place.

See also ''VideoGame/TheHunt'', another pixelated horror game by the same creator.

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'''''Au Sable''''' is a freeware SurvivalHorror game by Amon26.

Amon26 released in March of 2009.
The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl named Harmonia in a surreal, occult-driven world where bizarre events take place.

See also ''VideoGame/AllOfOurFriendsAreDead'', another surreal action-platformer by the same creator, and ''VideoGame/TheHunt'', another pixelated horror game by the same creator.
a FirstPersonShooter prequel to ''Au Sable''.



* ActionGirl: Harmonia.
* BodyHorror



* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* DroneOfDread



* MadnessMantra



* OneHitPointWonder: The main character.

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* OneHitPointWonder: The main character.
Harmonia will die in one hit.
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See also ''TheHunt'', another pixelated horror game by the same creator.

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See also ''TheHunt'', ''VideoGame/TheHunt'', another pixelated horror game by the same creator.
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* This page is a work-in-progress

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'''''Au Sable''''' is a freeware SurvivalHorror game by Amon26.

The game puts the player in the role of strange red-headed girl in a surreal, occult-driven world where bizarre events take place.

See also ''TheHunt'', another pixelated horror game by the same creator.

* This page is a work-in-progress

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!!Au Sable provides trope examples of:

* BottomlessMagazines
* DarkWorld
* EldritchAbomination
* EldritchLocation
* MindScrew
* OneHitPointWonder: The main character.

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