History VideoGame / DeadEstate

** A couple of pictures that depict the Static Demon can be seen in Cordelia's introduction cutscene, on a wall in Albert's lab next to a picture of [[spoiler:Diavola]].

** Lydia's challenge, "Great Depression", has a gimmick where she is constantly losing money and will die the second she runs out. As such, bosses in this challenge which have long periods where they can't be damaged (such as the Golden Mask and The Glitch) have gold pots in their arena to prevent you from always incurring a monetary loss on them.

* BossOnlyLevel: The Old Set is completely eerily abandoned save for the secret and item rooms and the floor's BossKey, which picking up causes [[spoiler:the boss of the stage, The Glitch, to manifest]].

* TheSpook: The boss of the Old Set, [[spoiler:[[GlitchEntity The Glitch]]]], is substantially harder to explain than the other monsters infesting the Estate. While things like [[BlobMonster giant sentient gobs of flesh]] and [[MonsterClown killer clowns]] can be explained as coming from the [[spoiler:EXIT Realm or Dad's experiments]], there is nothing that explains [[spoiler:The Glitch's existence or how it's capable of manipulating sprites and [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou nearly crashing the game itself]]]]. It all just serves to [[NothingIsScarier make the encounter that much scarier]].

* ThreeStatSystem: Health, Strength and Agility. Health determines how many times your character can get hit before dying, Strength linearly increases how much damage they do and Agility increases their base speed. These stats can be upgraded by Cordelia at the Doctor's Office, which spawns guaranteed on the Ground Floor and anywhere after the Second Story.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The True Ending credits [[spoiler:play over polaroid snapshots of the various playable characters after the events of the game, such as Jeff and Lydia arm-wrestling Fuji and Jules, Cordelia and Lydia trying on each other's outfits]]. The very last photo is of [[spoiler:[[GroupPhotoEnding Cordelia and her family holding a welcome back party for Albert]]]].

* AnimalisticAbomination: Chunks is a mutated humanoid rat who is the only one with the ability to open the gate to the [[spoiler:[[EldritchLocation EXIT realm]], which is implied to have transformed him somehow]].

* FetusTerrible: The Nataleviathan, a boss encountered in the attic. One of the beings that the cult worships besides Diavola is the egg of an EldritchAbomination called The Leviathan and they found a way to hatch it. Good news: it didn't develop in time and the potentially god-like being is now an oversized mix between a stillborn fetus and a shrimp. Bad news: It can still cause room-wide shockwaves and spew acid all over the place.

''Dead Estate'' is an action {{Roguelike}} with strong {{Horror}} influences developed by Milkbar Lads and published by 2 Left Thumbs. It was released on October 19th 2021 for PC via Steam and itch.io.

The game has six post-launch updates planned, with five currently being released. The first, "Home Theater," was released on October 25, 2022, and added intro cutscenes for the unlockable characters and a ton of new enemies, bosses, items and weapons. The second update, "Bombs Away", released on December 29, 2022 and added BOSS as a playable character as well as the bonus sub-floors. The third update, "Heaven and Hell", released on February 14 2023 and added Filia and Faith's Hellmart and Heavenmart mechanic and a new set of unlockable costumes. The fourth update, "Axe To Grind", released on April 28th 2023 and added the final playable character, Axel, as well as "a shitload of bug fixes" and a rework of Chunks' mechanics. The fifth update, "Assignment Anya", released on December 21st 2023 and added 11 new unique challenges to the game[[note]]one for each character, plus a unique challenge for Mumba styled after ''VideoGame/PacMan''[[/note]], as well as an entire separate full-on SurvivalHorror mini-campaign called ''Assignment Anya'' which takes place shortly before the events of the main game.

* GenreThrowback: The game is a love letter to [[TheNineties '90s horror]] of all stripes, whether it be VHS B-movies or early SurvivalHorror games, especially ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Lydia gets the idea to go to the Estate after reading a newspaper headline which says "Haunted Mansion? Indie film crew still missing", which ''directly'' teases Axel's intro cinematic almost two ''years'' before he was added into the game.

** The [[GatlingGood minigun]] looks exactly like [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy's]], right down to the white underbarrel.

* OrwellianRetcon: BOSS and Axel were retroactively added into the game's EvolvingTitleScreen and the True Ending's credits after they were introduced in their respective updates.

The game has six post-launch updates planned, with five currently being released. The first, "Home Theater," was released on October 25, 2022, and added intro cutscenes for the unlockable characters and a ton of new enemies, bosses, items and weapons. The second update, "Bombs Away", released on December 29, 2022 and added BOSS as a playable character as well as the bonus sub-floors. The third update, "Heaven and Hell", released on February 14 2023 and added Filia and Faith's Hellmart and Heavenmart mechanic and a new set of unlockable costumes. The fourth update, "Axe To Grind", released on April 28th 2023 and added the final playable character, Axel, as well as "a shitload of bug fixes" and a rework of Chunks' mechanics. The fifth update, "Assignment Anya", released on December 21st 2023 and added 12 new unique challenges to the game[[note]]one for each character, plus a unique challenge for Mumba styled after ''VideoGame/PacMan''[[/note]], as well as an entire separate full-on SurvivalHorror mini-campaign called ''Assignment Anya'' which takes place shortly before the events of the main game.

** Bad Ending: [[spoiler:The Dead Estate game becomes a failure and Anya is forced to work at a burger joint to put herself through college]]
** Good Ending: [[spoiler:The Dead Estate game becomes a massive success, with Anya becoming a billionaire and eventually President of the USA]].

* BittersweetEnding: The Normal ending has [[spoiler:the player character defeating Chunks and escaping the Estate, but the Estate itself is still overrun with monsters and insane cultists, and the player never finds out what exactly happened or what the true cause of everything is, meaning that Albert is still imprisoned in the Exit Realm and Diavola is free to restart her plans another day. Its especially bitter for Cordelia, since finding and saving Albert was ''the entire point'' of her storyline.]]

Dead Estate is an action {{Roguelike}} with strong {{Horror}} influences developed by Milkbar Lads and published by 2 Left Thumbs. It was released on October 19th 2021 for PC via Steam and itch.io.

Dead Estate is a {{Roguelike}} with strong {{Horror}} influences developed by Milkbar Lads and published by 2 Left Thumbs. It was released on October 19th 2021 for PC via Steam and itch.io.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Averted as of the Assignment Anya update, which reveals the Estate is likely located somewhere on the tip of Usefulnotes/{{Michigan}}'s Lower Peninsula due to the Mors Mundi cult activity there.

* BigFancyHouse: The Estate itself is a sprawling mansion with at least four main floors and ''hundreds'' of rooms. It has an entire subfloor dedicated to just the kitchen, and the attic is both an entire floor and housing a massive laboratory full of equipment. There is also a roof-wide widow's walk balcony and a steeple which holds the [[spoiler:EXIT Realm portal machine]]. And that's not even getting into all the alternative floors, which seem to [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} defy euclidean space to a degree]].

* NoCutsceneInventoryInertia: Averted. Cordelia's secret cutscene at the end of her Normal Ending route has a unique sprite of her holding a lantern and reading her father's journal for each of her costumes, and the True Ending has unique sprites and artwork for every costume on every character.

* NoCutsceneInventoryInertia: Averted. Cordelia's secret cutscene at the end of her Normal Ending route has a unique sprite of her holding a lantern and reading her father's journal for each of her costumes.

* NostalgiaLevel: Jules' challenge, "Old Grounds", is simply to clear a run of the original Website/{{Newgrounds}} version of the game[[note]]What this means in terms of gameplay is that anything which the main game and subsequent updates added is not available to the player[[/note]]. It's not even that difficult or challenging, but long-time followers of ''Dead Estate'' will be please to see the Monster Maker machine at the end of the level again.

The game has six post-launch updates planned, with five currently being released. The first, "Home Theater," was released on October 25, 2022, and added intro cutscenes for the unlockable characters and a ton of new enemies, bosses, items and weapons. The second update, "Bombs Away", released on December 29, 2022 and added BOSS as a playable character as well as the bonus sub-floors. The third update, "Heaven and Hell", released on February 14 2023 and added Filia and Faith's Hellmart and Heavenmart mechanic and a new set of unlockable costumes. The fourth update, "Axe To Grind", released on April 28th 2023 and added the final playable character, Axel, as well as "a shitload of bug fixes" and a rework of Chunks' mechanics. The fifth update, "Assignment Anya", released on December 21st 2023 and added 12 new unique challenges to the game (one for each character), as well as an entire separate full-on SurvivalHorror mini-campaign called ''Assignment Anya'' which takes place shortly before the events of the main game.