History VideoGame / Downfall

Joe Davis is a troubled man. Lately his thoughts have been occupied by his wife, Lucy, as she appears to be in the middle of a serious psychological breakdown; she is constantly talking in riddles, cursing vulgarly, and belittling him, and than is only when she is not wildly hallucinating or having panic attacks. In his attempt to get her help to a specialist some towns over, the couple has been surprised by a violent storm and pull over in a small town.

Deciding that they aren't getting any closer to their destination for today, Joe checks them in at the local Quiet Haven Hotel and rent a room there for the night. Unfortunately, things go downhill from there. First, Lucy drags him into a bizarre argument about their troubled marriage. Then, she just disappears. Now Joe, joined with a mysterious woman named Agnes, must find Lucy somewhere in the hotel before it's too late. But it won't be easy, considering that the hotel has mysteriously changed to having rooms covered with carnage and debris, walls coated with blood, and a dining room full of faceless corpses.

Joe Davis and Ivy Davis are a couple who come to a small town on a dark stormy night. They go to the Quiet Haven Hotel and rent a room there for the night. Unfortunately, things go downhill from there. First, they have an argument about their troubled marriage. Then, Ivy just disappears. Now Joe, joined with a mysterious woman named Agnes, must find Ivy before it's too late. But it won't be easy, considering that the hotel has mysteriously changed to having rooms covered with carnage and debris, walls coated with blood, and a dining room full of faceless corpses.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Sophie]]

* ByTheBookCop

* ItsUpToYou: [[spoiler: Poor Agnes' fate completely rides on whether or not you choose to defend yourself against what you assume is going to be a horrible monster that comes to take you from your premature grave. Turns out that the two rotting corpses that told you to shoot on sight ''might'' having been lying to you.]]

* HereWeGoAgain: When Joe [[spoiler: carries Ivy out of the building at the end of the game, it's implied that the cycle will begin again. Or did the entire ending sequence happen ''before'' the events that took place during Joe's tim in the Quiet Haven Hotel?]]

* WeightWoe

* HereWeGoAgain: When Joe [[spoiler: carries Ivy out of the building at the end of the game, it's implied that the cycle will begin again. Or did the entire ending sequence happen "before" the events that took place during Joe's tim in the Quiet Haven Hotel?]]

* ItsUpToYou: [[spoiler: Poor Agnes' fate completely rides on whether or not you choose to defend yourself against what you assume is going to be a horrible monster that comes to take you from your premature grave. Turns out that the two rotting corpses that told you to shoot on sight ''might'' having been lying.]]

** Oddly enough, [[spoiler: the ending seems to play out largely the same regardless of which of the three options you pick. It goes without saying that, besides having Agnes around with you, your other decisions don't carry much impact either.]]

* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler: Joe's brother's death. The engine makes it difficult to really make the scene very dramatic, and with the absence of any sort of appropriate music, voice acting of any kind, and perhaps best of all, a shoddy, superimposed explosion image used as 'special effects', the scene comes off as laughable.]]

* ItsUpToYou: [[spoiler: Poor Agnes' fate completely rides on whether or not you choose to defend yourself against what you assume is going to be a horrible monster that comes to take you from your premature grave. Turns out that the two rotting corpses that told you to shoot on sight "might" having been lying.]]

* SanitySlippage: Very obvious towards the end of the game. Especially [[spoiler: when you murder Sophie's adult form with a freaking "chainsaw" at the behest of several disfigured dolls nailed to the walls. Oh yeah, did I mention she's obese, mute, and doesn't even react to Joe when he enters the room?]]

* AllJustADream

* BigBad

* DownerEnding

* FetchQuest: Doctor Z sends you on these several times.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Joe makes tis joke in reference to [[spoiler: Mr. Harris after he's blown to smithereens.]]

* HereWeGoAgain

* ItsUpToYou

* OnceMoreWithClarity

* SanitySlippage: Very obvious towards the end of the game. Especially [[spoiler: when you murder Sophie's adult form with a chainsaw at the behest of several disfigured dolls nailed to the walls.]]

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[spoiler: Only if you shoot Agnes]].
* BossCorridor
* BridalCarry

* CouldntFindAPen

* DarkWorld
* DeliberatelyMonochrome

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe

* ItsAllMyFault

* Narm: [[spoiler: Joe's brother's death. The engine makes it difficult to really make the scene very dramatic, and with the absence of any sort of appropriate music, voice acting of any kind, and perhaps best of all, a shoddy, superimposed explosion image used as 'special effects', the scene comes off as laughable.]]

Joe Davis and Ivy Davis are a couple who come to a small town on a dark stormy night. They go to the Quiet Haven Hotel and rent a room there for the night. Unfortunately, things go downhill from there. First, they have an argument about their troubled marriage. Then, Ivy just disappears. Now David, joined with a mysterious woman named Agnes, is trying to find Ivy. But it won't be easy, considering that the hotel has mysteriously changed to having rooms covered with carnage and debris, walls coated with blood, and a dining room full of faceless corpses.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Mr.Harris.

* MrExposition

* OurGhostsAreDifferent

* RageAgainstTheReflection

* SanitySlippage

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink

* YouBastard: Most notably, [[spoiler: when the player thinks he's defending himself from Sophie, but really just murders Agnes at the behest of two talking corpses. Made especially awful by the fact that you are forced to play as her for a bit before the penultimate moment, regardless of your decision beforehand. This has the effect of causing the player to fall in love with Agne's character just in time for you to murder her senselessly. Worse still, it's very possible that the player will see this coming after it's too late, and spend much of this chapter in denial about whether or not Joe will really shoot her.]]

* RealLifeWritesThePlot

* YouBastard

* BlondGuysAreEvil

* ThoseWackyNazis: Doctor Z has something for Nazis and Hitler...

* AdventureDuo

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent

* CreepyChild

* DrivenToSuicide

* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: Sophia. [[spoiler: Averted in the reveal]].

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking:
* GottaKillEmAll

* HellHotel

* HorrorHunger

* ImAHumanitarian

* LightningCanDoAnything

* PluckyComicRelief

* RoomFullOfCrazy
* TheReveal

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter

* TooDumbToLive

* ThoseWackyNazis

* WellDoneSonGuy

* TheTroubles

* AxCrazy

* FetchQuest

* YourHeadASplode

''Downfall'' is a 2009 Horror AdventureGame developed by Harvester Games, who have also released VideoGame/TheCatLady.

''Downfall'' is a Horror AdventureGame developed by Harvester Games and released in 2009.

* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress

* AuthorAvatar

* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking

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* ShinyMidnightBlack

* AndNowforSomeoneCompletelyDifferent

* BloodSpatteredWeddingDress

* FatBitch