History VideoGame / EternalThreads

Eternal Threads is a video game developed by Cosmonaut Studios and published by Secret Mode. It was released on Steam on May 19th, 2022, with versions for the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Nintendo Switch planned for later in the year.

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Neil's friend constantly SpeaksInShoutOuts which Neil doesn't get most of the time.

* SecretRoom: You find a hidden room [[spoiler:behind a wardrobe in the junk room]]. Tom uses it to grow medical marijuana for his mother.

In the far-future, experiments in time travel caused chronal radiation to alter the timestream. Many seemingly-insignificant events have been altered, which have led to the world becoming an irradiated wasteland. The only hope the world has is the thing that destroyed it in the first place: Time Travel.

As Forty Three, the player alters the decisions made by each tenant to ensure their survival, and potentially improve their lives. The player monitors the events of the week leading up to the fire, altering decisions that may seem minor, but can drastically alter the fates of the tenants.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: Jenny's visions. Are they the result of her childhood mental illness, or is she seeing flashes of the future? Was the death of her mother a TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening? Was she able to see Forty Three when her meds stopped working? Was the picture of the house on fire merely a poorly-rendered photo, or a capture of the eventual fire?]]

* SequelHook: If the player achieves the GoldenEnding, then an alternate scene plays after the Conclusion Event. [[spoiler: Forty Three's extraction is interrupted by a new time anomally in Linda's room. When the player goes into the room, they're attacked by Brian Scott. He prepares his own extraction sequence, taking Forty Three with him, and offers to show them "what's really going on."]]

* [[WhenYouComingHomeDad When You Coming Home Mom]]: Linda's son Kieran. Linda left behind her job, husband, and son in a fit of unhappiness, and rented out the spare room in Tom's house while she figured out what she wanted in her life. Kieran wants her to come back, even asking her this at least once.

* ForegoneConclusion: There will always be a fire at the house on May 15th, 2015. Forty Three's mission (and by extension the player's) is to ensure the residents of the house survive the fire.

* ForWantOfANail: The whole premise of the game. A house fire that kills six ordinary people somehow negatively affects the future, and it's the player's job to prevent their deaths.

* ForgoneConclusion: There will always be a fire at the house on May 15th, 2015. Forty Three's mission (and by extension the player's) is to ensure the residents of the house survive the fire.

* ForWantOfANail: The whole premise of the game. A house fire that kills six ordinary people somehow negatively effects the future, and it's the player's job to prevent their deaths.

* PsychoEx-Girlfriend: Miranda, Tom's Ex. It's regularly mentioned how she would get rough with him without his consent, and became jealous every time he talked to another girl. Ben, Jenny, and Raquel all warn him to stay away from her, although whether he does is dependent on the player.

* BiTheWay: Raquel hooks up with both men and women over the course of the week. She and Jenny first met when Raquel tried to hook up with Jenny, but instead spent the night talking instead.