History VideoGame / Gamedec

** Later on you can get an achievement for finding a robot called Morty, it is called [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty I am in great pain, please help me.]]

* GroundhogDayLoop: Turns out the Realium is another world within the Virtualium and people inside are being kept oblivious due to an AmnesiaLoop, the Gamedec's predecessor found this out and found a way to preserve his memory between loops as a HelpfulHallucination.

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: You get in a showdown with the Sherrif in ''Harvest Time'' [[spoiler: He's using a cheat to draw his gun faster, if you made the right deductions to figure this out and do the right actions during the showdown you can sabotage the cheat to win the duel.]]

* AdvertOverloadedFuture: There's a holo advert outside the players office window.

* CarFu: During the case ''Father and Son'' you can ask a fellow gamedec to help you with the [[DepravedDwarf Jester]] in the theater, this results in the Jester getting turned into roadkill.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Turns out the Realium is another world within the Virtualium and people inside are being kept oblivious due to an AmnesiaLoop, The gamedec's predecessor found this out and found a way to preserve his memory between loops as a HelpfulHallucination.
* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: In the backstory a massive cyberterrorism attack messed up all timekeeping programs, digital records as well as the perception of time for everyone who was on the Virtualium to the point where society had to reboot the calendar, by everyone's best estimate it is around the [[YearX the 2140's]] acording to the old calendar. [[spoiler: this is actually part of the cover story for the AmnesiaLoop]].

** Ending 1: Replace the Jester: [[spoiler: The Gamedec becomes a VirtualRealityWarper but becomes LonelyAtTheTop.]]
** Ending 2: Stop the resets: [[spoiler: The Gamedec and Ken hang out in Yet's bar, though now there's a chance that people in the simulation can get KilledOffForReal.]]
** Ending 3: Turn off the simulation: [[spoiler: The Gamedec wakes up in his apartment where the Jester tells him the simulation has reset again and the delete will begin shortly, the Gamedec calls Ken who doesn't remember him and asks to call him again tomorrow, the Gamedec hangs up as the simulation shuts down.]]
** Ending 4: Escape the simulation: [[spoiler: The Gamedec negotiates with the CEO of Blue Whale Interactive and his lawyer regarding getting a robot body in the real world to upload to and questions whether this is a trick, the CEO tells him there's no need because they have blackmail material to destroy his credibility and they argue whether one of them is willing to go down and take the other with them.]]
** Ending 5: Become a HiveQueen for the simulations inhabitants: [[spoiler: Lord wonders whether he actually started believing his own ScamReligion, the Gamedec appears before him as a pink unicorn only he can see, Lord starts the cult of the Invisible Pink Unicorn.]]
** Ending 6: Go back into the simulation: [[spoiler: The events at the start of the game repeat themselves, though there is the implication that it isn's a perfect AmnesiaLoop and the Gamedeck might get a chance to do something else the next time around.]]
* RefugeeFromTvLand: Actually a common occurance, technology is advanced enough that anything mimicing a human mind like a videogame NPC or Virtual Assistant has a chance of becoming self aware.

* SkyscraperCity: We see a cross-section of the city while traveling between locations in the realium like your appartment and Mr. Haggis's office at the start of the game, the buildings look incredibly tall and thin.

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* {{Unicorn}}: You meet a Jerkass Unicorn in ''Twisted and Perverted that keeps blowing you up, and in one of the endings you can start a cult of The Invisible Pink Unicorn [[ItAmusedMe just for the heck of it.]]

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' meets ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium''.

''Gamedec'' is a Detective RPG by Anshar Publishing and is based on a collection of short stories by Polish science-fiction author Marcin Przybyłek. In the future humans have created the Virtualium - a globe spanning virtual reality network with countless virtual worlds, the protagonist is a Gamedec, short for ''Game Detective'' who specializes in Virtualium based crimes, and as he solves more cases and travels to new virtual worlds he notices a pattern, as if his cases were part of something bigger...

* AdvertOverloadedFuture: there's a holo advert outside the players office window.
* AntiPoopSocking: a gameplay mechanic in Knights Code, though if you have the right profession you can reboot the timer.

* GoombaStomp: if you infiltrate the theater through the secret entrance you can do this to the Jester, you get an Achievement for it.

* JobSystem: doing certain tasks or completing them a certain way gives you one of four kinds of aspects, which can be traded for jobs which allow for special interactions

* SkyscraperCity: we see a cross-section of the city while traveling between locations in the realium like your appartment and Mr. Haggis's office at the start of the game, the buildings look incredibly tall and thin.

* TaxidermyIsCreepy: the sci fi equivalent, Mr. Haggis has a Panda suspended in several blocks of some transparent substance, pressing the button lets you separate the blocks to see cross-sections of the panda.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: both ''Paradise Beach'' and ''Twisted and Perverted'' are sex themed, the latter being DarkerAndEdgier than the former obviously.

* {{Unicorn}}: you meet a Jerkass Unicorn in ''Twisted and Perverted that keeps blowing you up, and in one of the endings you can start a cult of The Invisible Pink Unicorn [[ItAmusedMe just for the heck of it.]]

* VirtualRealityWarper: the Jester in the first case modified the theater into a TimeLoop as part of his plan, players inside it are aware but have to repeat their actions over and over, you have to figure out how to break it.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Franchise/TheMatrix meets VideoGame/DiscoElysium.

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: In the backstory a massive cyberterrorism attack messed up all timekeeping programs, digital records as well as the perception of time for everyone who was on the Virtualium to the point where society had to reboot the calendar, by everyone's best estimate it is around the [[YearX the 2140's]] acording to the old calendar. [[spoiler: this is actually part of the cover story for the AmnesiaLoop]]

** Ending 2: Stop the resets: [[spoiler: The Gamedec and Ken hang out in Ken's bar, though now there's a chance that people in the simulation can get KilledOffForReal.]]

* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The harp in Mr. Haggis's office opens the floor safe.

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: In the backstory a massive cyberterrorism attack messed up all timekeeping programs, digital records as well as the perception of time for everyone who was on the Virtualium to the point where society had to reboot the calendar, by everyone's best estimate it is around the [[YearX the 2140's]] acording to the old calendar.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Franchise/TheMatrix meets VideoGame/DiscoElysium.

* VirtualRealityWarper: the Jester in the first case modified the theater into a TimeLoop as part of his plan, players inside it are aware but have to repeat their actions over and over, you have to figure out how to break it.