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* EldritchLocation: While not quite as twisted as a ''Franchise/SilentHill'' game, the world Sally explores is a twisted version of her own town. There are parts that look like they were hit by an earthquake, large pipes and tubes come out of the retro arcade, and the school looks very twisted and modified to the point where Sally starts musing aloud that it's not recognizable. The gym looks like a hybrid between a gym and a prison, and it even connects to an underground mine.
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* OptionalStealth: The game includes one of the most detailed stealth systems for the horror genre, with the monsters possessing multiple alert states, and Sally able to distract them with thrown items, as well as sneak-kill them by suddenly jamming her flashlight in them and turning it on.
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* NonSequiturEnvironment: The gym in particular is a hybrid of a gym and a prison, with one area labeled "isolation room," and a mine underneath the gym with a ladder leading up to the roof.
* OptionalStealth: The game includes one of the most detailed stealth systems for the horror genre, with the monsters possessing multiple alert states, and Sally able to distract them with thrown items, as well as sneak-kill them by suddenly jamming her flashlight in them and turning it on. What makes it optional is that players can choose to directly fight the monsters instead, risking potential damage and the loss of flashlight battery, which serves as ammo.
* OptionalStealth: The game includes one of the most detailed stealth systems for the horror genre, with the monsters possessing multiple alert states, and Sally able to distract them with thrown items, as well as sneak-kill them by suddenly jamming her flashlight in them and turning it on. What makes it optional is that players can choose to directly fight the monsters instead, risking potential damage and the loss of flashlight battery, which serves as ammo.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The old man that Sally meets tells her what she needs to do, but Sally asks why he can't come with her. He says something about not being strong enough to handle going through the mines, but an 11-year-old can, of course!
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* AdultsAreUseless: AdultsAreUseless:
** The old man that Sally meets tells her what she needs to do, but Sally asks why he can't come with her. He says something about not being strong enough to handle going through the mines, but an 11-year-old can, of course!
** The old man that Sally meets tells her what she needs to do, but Sally asks why he can't come with her. He says something about not being strong enough to handle going through the mines, but an 11-year-old can, of course!
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** Prior to the events of the game, [[spoiler:Emily being bullied by other students either went under the radar of the teachers, or they just chose not to do anything. Downplayed with her mother, who let Emily stay home and recover after a particularly bad day, but she apparently wasn't able to do anything to actually ''stop'' the bullying.]]
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''Gylt'' is a 3D SurvivalHorror game, developed by Creator/TequilaWorks (the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Deadlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'') and released on November 19th, 2019 as a [[{{Platform/GoogleStadia}} Stadia]] launch exclusive. Following the announcement that Stadia was getting canned, the developers announced a multiplatform release, with the game releasing for Platform/{{Steam}}, Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne and Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS on July 6, 2023.
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''Gylt'' is a 3D SurvivalHorror game, developed by Creator/TequilaWorks (the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Deadlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'') and released on November 19th, 2019 as a [[{{Platform/GoogleStadia}} Stadia]] launch exclusive. Following the announcement that Stadia was getting canned, the developers announced a multiplatform release, with the game releasing for Platform/{{Steam}}, Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne and Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS on July 6, 2023.
2023, and for the Platform/NintendoSwitch on March 14, 2024.
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* CentralTheme: Bullying.
** There are cruel things written on chalkboards and walls.
** Many of the enemies represent bullying and its effects, such as the enemy Paranoia, an invisible creature that makes sounds similar to children laughing and whispering, or the giant eyeballs and stare at you.
** The theater advertises a play about Emily's life, with her life being presented as something to laugh at or feel sorry for.
** Groups of mannequins are arranged in ways suggestive of bullying.
** Bosses represent various aspects of bullying, such as one who forces Emily to watch all the sad scenes of her life, and one who steals Sally's important items from her.
** There are cruel things written on chalkboards and walls.
** Many of the enemies represent bullying and its effects, such as the enemy Paranoia, an invisible creature that makes sounds similar to children laughing and whispering, or the giant eyeballs and stare at you.
** The theater advertises a play about Emily's life, with her life being presented as something to laugh at or feel sorry for.
** Groups of mannequins are arranged in ways suggestive of bullying.
** Bosses represent various aspects of bullying, such as one who forces Emily to watch all the sad scenes of her life, and one who steals Sally's important items from her.
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''Gylt'' is a 3D SurvivalHorror game, developed by Creator/TequilaWorks (the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Deadlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'') and released on November 19th, 2019 as a Platform/GoogleStadia launch exclusive. Following the announcement that Stadia was getting canned, the developers announced a multiplatform release, with the game releasing for Platform/{{Steam}}, Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne and Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS on July 6, 2023.
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''Gylt'' is a 3D SurvivalHorror game, developed by Creator/TequilaWorks (the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Deadlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'') and released on November 19th, 2019 as a Platform/GoogleStadia [[{{Platform/GoogleStadia}} Stadia]] launch exclusive. Following the announcement that Stadia was getting canned, the developers announced a multiplatform release, with the game releasing for Platform/{{Steam}}, Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne and Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS on July 6, 2023.
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''Gylt'' is a 3D SurvivalHorror game, developed by Creator/TequilaWorks (the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Deadlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'') and released on November 19th, 2019 as a UsefulNotes/GoogleStadia launch exclusive. Following the announcement that Stadia was getting canned, the developers announced a multiplatform release, with the game releasing for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS on July 6, 2023.
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''Gylt'' is a 3D SurvivalHorror game, developed by Creator/TequilaWorks (the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Deadlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSexyBrutale'') and released on November 19th, 2019 as a UsefulNotes/GoogleStadia Platform/GoogleStadia launch exclusive. Following the announcement that Stadia was getting canned, the developers announced a multiplatform release, with the game releasing for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne Platform/{{Steam}}, Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS on July 6, 2023.
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* HeelRealization: Sally eventually comes to realize that she was part of the reason Emily ran away from home. The player might realize it before she does, but eventually, Sally feels terrible about her role. Ironically, this is lampshaded by one of the bullies in the beginning, who taunts Sally about Emily having run away from home, saying, "What'd you do to her?"
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* InfantImmortality: Averted or played straight by using a workaround, depending on how you look at it. Emily somehow managed to survive in the DarkWorld for over a month on her own, and she's only seven. Sally, on the other hand, can be "killed" by enemies, being electrocuted, burned by fire or scalded by steam, and when she does, she is [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]. Yet, a diary entry makes it clear that the people who were turned to stone are actually possibly alive, and seem to be breathing, as though they are suffering a FateWorseThanDeath. As a result, it could be said that in order to avoid showing a kid being killed, the game gives Sally a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* ArtworkAndGameGraphicsSegregation: What exactly do Sally and Emily look like? The in-game graphics, title picture, Steam banner picture (which also serves as promo art), hand-drawn cutscene graphics, and paintings all use different art styles.
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* ForcedToWatch: A monster forces Emily to watch slides from a projector showing horrible things that have happened to her throughout her life, while she begs it to stop. This lasts during an entire boss fight.
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* UnwillingSuspension: Emily is hung from a ceiling by what appears to be filmstrips, held up by a monster, and forced to watch projector slides of her unhappy life.
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* LivingShadow: The shadow monsters. Sally can beat them with her flash light.
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* TheRunaway: Implied to be what happened to Emily. Her school life is absolutely horrible.
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* MissingChild: It starts with Emily missing, and many missing posters of her. But it can end [[spoiler:with Sally missing, with a missing poster for her as well.]]
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* MinorLivingAlone: Essentially what happened to Emily after running away from home and ending up in the twisted town. She's basically living in the school, and the boxes of cookies and juice boxes discarded throughout the school hint at how she was keeping herself alive while hiding from the monsters.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Some mannequins are arranged to act out scenes of bullying, such as a bunch of them pointing to another mannequin who is sitting on the ground with a trash bin on its head and the word "PATHETIC" written on it.
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* EvolvingTitleScreen: The title screen changes to show the most recent setting the player reached.
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* CagedBirdMetaphor: One of the collectibles is canary statues inside cages. Earning all of them enables you to reach a new area to rescue one of the hidden people who'd turned to stone.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Depending on how one of the endings is interpreted. [[spoiler:If you choose to give Emily the ticket to go back home and escape the twisted town, you see Sally having monsters close in on her... Later, there is a missing poster for Sally.]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: The girls' grandfather is named [[spoiler:Charon, the name given in the credits to the mysterious old man met in the town.]] How do we know this? Because the developers said so on their Twitter/X account.
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* CreepyDoll: Some monsters appear as teenage-girl-sized robots with the appearance of an unvarnished porcelain doll.
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* CreepyDoll: Some monsters appear as teenage-girl-sized robots roughly Sally's size with the appearance of an unvarnished porcelain doll.doll. Even Sally remarks on how creeped out she is when she first sees one.
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* GeniusLoci: Apparently, the town itself. According to diary entries, [[spoiler:the mountain is alive and feeds on people's fear, creating manifestations of what they're afraid of, eventually killing people and turning them to stone, removing their life force in the form of the red quartz stones you've been collecting.]] That's not all. There's a strong hint this might be true, if you collect all 6 canaries and enter the secret area to find [[spoiler:what appears to be a sort of literal "beating heart" of the town.]]
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* DialogDuringGameplay: There are a few moments in which Sally will speak aloud to herself about her thoughts on what's going on. Not just from examining things (which isn't an example of this trope), but sometimes when walking through an area or after something big just happened, or in a few cases during boss fights.
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* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Very much averted and deconstructed by the narrative.
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* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Very much averted and deconstructed by the narrative. Emily ran away for a reason.
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* StoryBreadcrumbs: The mysterious diary entries Sally finds on her journey gives clues on what's going on. They appear to be the thoughts of various people magically changed into diary form, as one of them even speculates. One character even remarks that everything they don't want to think about appears as written down diary entries.
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* StoryBreadcrumbs: They seem to come in two forms.
** The mysterious diary entries Sally finds on her journey gives clues on what's going on. They appear to be the thoughts of various people magically changed into diary form, as one of them even speculates. One character even remarks that everything they don't want to think about appears as written down diaryentries.entries.
** Some elements of environmental storytelling hint further at things that happened. For example, all the boxes of food and the juice boxes found inside vents and safe rooms, combined with the chocolate on Emily's fingers and shirt, strongly imply that Emily was taking food with her to eat while hiding from monsters.
** The mysterious diary entries Sally finds on her journey gives clues on what's going on. They appear to be the thoughts of various people magically changed into diary form, as one of them even speculates. One character even remarks that everything they don't want to think about appears as written down diary
** Some elements of environmental storytelling hint further at things that happened. For example, all the boxes of food and the juice boxes found inside vents and safe rooms, combined with the chocolate on Emily's fingers and shirt, strongly imply that Emily was taking food with her to eat while hiding from monsters.
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* StoryBreadcrumbs: The mysterious diary entries Sally finds on her journey gives clues on what's going on. They appear to be the thoughts of various people magically changed into diary form, as one of them even speculates. One character even remarks that everything they don't want to think about appears as written down.down diary entries.
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* StoryBreadcrumbs: The mysterious diary entries Sally finds on her journey gives clues on whats what's going on.on. They appear to be the thoughts of various people magically changed into diary form, as one of them even speculates. One character even remarks that everything they don't want to think about appears as written down.
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* SprintMeter: Sally has a stamina meter that drops when she runs.
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* SprintMeter: Sally has a stamina meter that drops when she runs. It's a very short meter, possibly related to Sally's asthma. (She uses inhalers to refill health, which is the only real hint that she has asthma.)
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* InfiniteFlashlight: Averted. Sally's flashlight is very useful, as besides simply providing illumination, it is also crucial for dealing with the weaker shadow creatures, and is also powerful enough to outright charge key machinery when it is shone at solar panels. Nevertheless, it still requires batteries to operate.
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* InfiniteFlashlight: Averted.Partially averted. Sally's flashlight is very useful, as besides simply providing illumination, it is also crucial for dealing with the weaker shadow creatures, and is also powerful enough to outright charge key machinery when it is shone at solar panels. Nevertheless, Its regular beam is unlimited, but it still requires batteries to operate.operate for the powerful charge beam.
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* AndIMustScream: One of the diary entries shows that the people who've been TakenForGranite are still alive and breathing. Freeing them from this fate appears to kill them, ending their suffering.
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* AndIMustScream: One of the diary entries shows that the people who've been TakenForGranite are still alive and breathing. Freeing them from this fate appears to kill them, ending their suffering. That said, this is apparently the fate of Sally if she dies - she too is turned to stone.
