History VideoGame / DeepSleepTrilogy

** The other ending [[spoiler:has the protagonist instead captures the traveler to use their body to awake into and trapping them in the dark world, at the cost of their remaining humanity and become what they were actively trying to avoid to begin with]].

* IAmAMonster: Almost said word-for-word [[spoiler:by the protagonist upon realizing they've become a Shadow Person]].

* WouldHurtAChild: Some of the Shadow People include children, such as the one you have the option to save, and one in ''Deepest Sleep'' that appears for a split second. The "hurt" part of this trope comes in the GrandTheftMe / FateWorseThanDeath nature of this trope.

* NothingIsScarier: During the three games, the monsters make a total of only nine appearances.

* SequelHook: The second game ends when [[spoiler: you descend to the deepest sleep, and a Shadow Person's eyes light up in front of you]].

* PrimalFear: The Shadow People by definition attack you when you are asleep.

** One of the notes in the second game is [[VideoGame/{{Slender}} pinned to a tree...in a dark forest...only visible from a flashlight...]]

* TheWallsAreClosingIn: The bloody spikes in the third game that quickly close in and out.

* WouldHurtAChild: Some of the Shadow People include children, such as the one you have the option to save, and one in ''Deepest Sleep'' that appears for a split second.

* BookEnds: The last passage from the last game is the one a Shadow Person chased you down in the first game, which you also revisit in the second, though that time it's empty.

* ShoutOut: The first game has a golden statue that you can pick up; it bears a strong resemblance to [[PewDiePie Stephano]].

* VideoGameCaringPotential: There is the potential, following a hint from the first game and using an item in the second game, to free one person from the Deeper Sleep without any ill effects.

* FateWorseThanDeath: A traveler you encounter in the second game would rather stay in the Deeper Sleep than in the waking world.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The first game opens with the paragraph that leads up to the TropeNamer.

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* ArcWords: "You have to wake up"
* BeingGoodSucks: In the last game, you have an option: [[spoiler: to perpetuate the cycle of the Shadow People, or be stuck in the Deeper Sleep for all time.]] There is no GoldenEnding.

* DangerousKeyFumble: in the second game; while you are stuck in the attic, and Felicity is closing in on you, you have to quickly unscrew a metal plate so you can reach the button for opening the elevator. But when you start, you drop the screwdriver and quickly have to pick it up again.

* FateWorseThanDeath: A traveler you encounter in the second game will rather stay in the Deeper Sleep than in the waking world.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The first game even opens with the paragraph that leads up to the TropeNamer.

* PlotTwist: In the third game, it is revealed that [[spoiler: your body had been taken by a shadow person, becoming one yourself!]]

** The third game opens with you waking up, unable to move and finding a monster in your bedroom.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: There is the potential, following a hint from the first game and using an item in the second game, to free one person from the Deeper Sleep without any ill effects.
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* FaceHeelTurn If you choose to [[spoiler: Capture the traveler, stealing his body for your own benefit.]]

* PlotTwist: In the third game, it is revealed that [[Spoiler: your body had been taken by a shadow person, becoming one yourself!]]

* Foreshadowing: In the third game you find a note near a winch that begins with [[spoiler: "Dear Bert"]] and ends with [[spoiler: "Signed Yourself"]]. Later in the game, you come across [[spoiler: Bert's body]] in the sewers. [[spoiler: This hints at the ending, when it is revealed that you have become a Shadow Person. Assuming that you are Bert, your old self has "died" in order to a host for the Shadow People.]]

** [[spoiler: Felicity's]] appearance and [[spoiler: the well you eventually have to go down]] bear heavy similarities to ''Film/TheRing''.

** One of the notes in the second game is [[VideoGame/{{Slender}} pinned to a tree...in a dark forest...only lit by a flashlight...]]
** [[spoiler: Felicity's]] appearance and the well you eventually have to go down bear heavy similarities to ''Film/TheRing''.

** [[spoiler: Felicity's]] appearance and the well you eventually have to go down have heavy similarities to [[Film/TheRing]]

* BeingGoodSucks: In the last game, you have an option: [[spoiler: to perpetuate the cycle of the Shadow People, or the be stuck in the Deeper Sleep for all time.]] There is no GoldenEnding.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The third game even opens with the paragraph that leads up to the TropeNamer.

* BookEnds: The last passage from the last game is the one a Shadow Person chased you down in the first game.

* AdultFear: If the Shadow People get you, they possess your body and kill your family.
** There is at least one child the Shadow People have trapped in the Deep Sleep, who is in a coma in the waking world.

* NothingIsScarier: During the three games, the monsters make a total of [[spoiler: only nine]] appearances.

Deep Sleep is a trilogy SurvivalHorror games, named [[http://armorgames.com/play/13979/deep-sleep Deep Sleep]], [[http://armorgames.com/play/15698/deeper-sleep Deeper Sleep]] and [[http://armorgames.com/play/16018/the-deepest-sleep The Deepest sleep]]. You, the FeaturelessProtagonist, are trapped in a lucid nightmare, which you have to wake up from before something else does it for you.

* BookEnds: The last passage from the last game is the one a night-folk chased you down in the first game.

* TheDarknessGazesBack: The night folk are entirely black, vaguely human-shaped, and have large, glowing white eyes.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: In the second game.

* PrimalFear: These monsters are lurking in the realm of deep sleep, and the protagonist has managed to get there by accident.
** If the night folk get you, they possess your body and kill your family.
* SequelHook: The second game ends with [[spoiler: you escaping to the deepest sleep, with a night-folk's eyes glowing in front of you]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: Literally in the end of [[spoiler: The Deepest Sleep. Turns out you didn't get away in the second game]].
* ViciousCycle: If a person loses their body to the night folk, they are left in the deep sleep as night folk trying to possess someone's body.