History VideoGame / FearAndHungerTermina

** The game is far, far more generous with save spots than the previous game. The train you start out on is a completely safe place where you can save, complete with a Perfected Ritual Circle for drawing All-Mer's sigil on and unlocking fast travel there. Drawing the God of Fear and Hunger's sigil on a Perfected Ritual Circle will summon it as a save point to use, and many of the beds around Prehevil are perfectly safe to sleep in if the areas is cleared of monsters. In particular, the bed in the Mayor's house is safe to sleep in once you kill the priest just outside the room, which is fairly easy to do if you nabbed a gasoline can (or even just come with backup).

* DropTheHammer: The meat mallet, which is wielded by half-cocooned men (with a chance of inflicting bleeding on each swing), and can also be used by the player (causing more critical hits than usual).

* PointOfNoReturn: If you pursue Ending A, [[spoiler:the door to the White Bunker slams shut after you enter, with the narration telling you it is now your tomb. This is true whether you die from the various threats therein or [[AscendToAHigherPlane are absorbed into the Artificial Green]].]]

* DungeonBypass: With enough damage, you can skip significant chunks of the game by breaking locked [[DoorToBefore Doors to Before]]. [[spoiler:This includes the entire effigy hunt and its subsequent encounter with Rancid, cutting out roughly a third of the game in the process.]]
** Instead of finding the two keys to the gate into central Prehevil you can [[CutTheKnot cut the chain with Bolt Cutters or blast them with a Trenchgun]]. Alternatively you can use the sewers or summon vines with a Vinuska sigil and go through the deep woods instead.

** Being defeated by a Moonscorched while near a pig pen will result in that Moonscorched throwing your character inside it, wounded and only able to crawl. No matter what you do, you can only evade the pigs so much before they devour you.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Ending C results not only in the festival succeeding, but also in Per'Kele getting what he wanted — a new recruit to the Cult of Sulfur, who will be reborn in the sulfur pits.]]

* DownerEnding: One character's epilogue is particularly harrowing. [[spoiler:Daan decides that life is not worth living since his trip to Prehevil doesn't really give him the answers as to why his beloved was killed. He becomes a Pocketcat out of despair.]]

** Unlocking the fight with [[BonusBoss The Heartless One]] requires you to ignore the standard route through the Church of All'Mer (dropping its chandelier) and instead reach its basement through the sewers and Foundations of Decay.

* NonStandardGameOver: Sleeping on Day 3 will lead to [[spoiler:your character becoming one of the Moonscorched.]]

* SacrificialLamb: On top of the obvious many, many potential plights of poor Tanaka, two of which could occur within fifteen minutes of leaving the train, one of two participants is guaranteed not to make it past Day 1 morning [[spoiler:as themselves. Open up Tunnel 7 and meet Abella, and Henryk will vanish entirely, emerging in the evening as the Moonscorched Gentleman. Reach the Mayor's house and aid Henryk, and Abella will become the highly aggressive Chaugnar. Presently, the only way to avoid this is either to make Abella the protagonist and save Henryk, or complete the game within the span of the first morning before Henryk can turn... A time window that also effectively dooms August unless playing as O'shaa.]]

** Daan's and Levi's B endings. [[spoiler: While they do defeat Per'kele and (potentially) survive the traces of Rher, Daan is left hopeless as he never finds out what happened to his wife and father-in-law and feels guilty about killing the other contestants, and the game implies he is going to take Pockecat's deal. Levi moves places constantly as he feels his past is always following him, with the game ominously stating that it may eventually catch up to him.]]

** Daan's and Levi's B ending, [[spoiler: while they to defeat Per'kele and (potentially) survive the traces of Rher, Daan's is left hopeless as he never finds out what happened to his wife and father-in-law and feels guilty about killing the other contestants, and the game implies he is going to take Pockecat's deal, Levi moves place constantly as he feels his past is always following him, with the game ominously stating that it may eventually catch up to him.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The train personnel is stated to have disappeared before the passengers of the train became contestants and woke up from the shared dream. There is no explanation on what happened to them, however, [[spoiler:even in Ending A, which has the train depart Prehevil.]]

*** In Ending A, [[spoiler: while the remaining contestants are saved, your protagonist (and their remaining party members) get absorbed into Logic's collective unconscious, implying they lose their individuallity.]]
*** Daan's and Levi's B ending, [[spoiler: while they to defeat Per'kele and (potentially) survive the traces of Rher, Daan's is left hopeless as he never founds out what happened to his wife and father-in-law and feels guilty about killing the other contestants, and the game implies he is going to take Pockecat's deal, Levi moves place constantly as he feels his past is always following him, with the game ominously stating that it may eventually catch up to him.]]

* CosmicHorror: Similar to the first entry, though the entry emphasizes combat more that are still plenty of elements that fit.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthullu:
*** In Ending A,[[spoiler: while the remaining contestants are saved, your protagonist (and their remaining party members) get absorbed into Logic's collective unconscious, implying they lose their individuallity.]]

** [[spoiler:Daan]]'s NonstandardGameOver will have the Pocketcat call [[spoiler:him]] a "dirty degenerate furry" [[spoiler:before the former's transformation into his Moonscorched form (essentially another incarnation of the Pocketcat).]] In our world, the furry fandom wouldn't become fully established until around 40 years after the game's events.

* PowerAtAPrice: Heroine provides a huge 30% buff to all your stats for the next few screens, in return for making you permanently addicted and losing 10% and later 30% of your stats due to withdrawal until you use it again, though that won't matter if you save it for the final area.