History VideoGame / House2020

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:If you kill all the 8 frogs scattered around the house in NewGamePlus, a giant zombie frog will come at midnight instead of Daddy. It is ''much'' more difficult to defeat than Daddy due to having a move that slows you down, an attack with longer range, and a lot more health.]]

* PerceptionFilter: [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/683412 The flash version]] doesn't have the carpet launch its spikes if the lights are off.

* AcidAttack: [[spoiler:Daddy's severed head throws you acidic blood as its killing move, [[HollywoodAcid dissolving Tabby to the bone]].]]
* AintTooProudToBeg: When the CreepyDoll comes to realize, that [[spoiler:Tabby has [[OhCrap managed to defeat the House]] and break the GroundhogDayLoop, it doesn't hesitate to bribe her to spare it. It doesn't help.]]

** She's not much better in Melody's story, she'll drink straight from the bottle after 3:00, oblivious to the world around her. [[spoiler: Melody will need to play "Screaming" to shatter her drink to get her attention.]]

* BackFromTheDead: Any family members who die [[spoiler:will revive as undead and become a threat.]]

** In the 1.5 update, [[spoiler:Melody defeats the old man and escapes with her sister; both are last seen living with the woman with a long neck. However, their parents and Toby are still dead, but their spirits are set free from their cursed house, leans even more to the sweet side if you save the cat too as it will escape the house alongside the sisters.]]

* ConnectedAllAlong: While playing Melody's route, you can talk to the spirit of the girls' late grandmother. [[spoiler:One of these conversations implies that the [[GreaterScopeVillain man Tabby defeated to escape the house]] was in fact the girls' grandfather]].

* CreepyGood: The long necked woman definitely looks like another threat to Tabby at first but she’s the only character in the game that will never try to kill Tabby, she acts as the games main HintSystem giving Tabby helpful advice to save her family [[spoiler: and she adopts Tabby and Melody after they escape the house giving the two a place to stay in.]]

* FinalBoss: Daddy on most routes. [[spoiler:He must be attacked three times to be put down — the bear trap and the shotgun will hurt him.]] In Melody's story, [[spoiler:the role instead belongs to a face-stealing old man, who must be weakened by the other inhabitants of the house before Melody can land a fatal blow.]]
* GlassShatteringSound: In Melody's story, one of her songs has this effect. [[spoiler:Melody needs to use it to break Mom's wine bottle so she can help fight off the old man.]]
* GrandTheftMe: In Melody's story, [[spoiler:Melody's boyfriend, Toby, can do this to ''himself'': his hostile soulless corpse can be lead to his passive spirit, causing the latter to possess the former. This not only ends the threat of the zombie boyfriend killing Melody, it is also required to help Melody escape.]]

* MadeOfPlasticine: Every member of the family seems to be made of it considering how easily they can be torn up, but Tabby takes the cake in [[spoiler:the true ending where she tears her own arm off in order to escape the old man.]]

* ManOnFire: The [[spoiler:cat, of all things, will catch fire and die if the chandelier falls and doesn't get put out.]]

** Melody's path is one long string of these. She normally dies by the chandelier falling on her piano while she plays. If you prevent this, by dropping the chandelier early or just breaking the piano yourself, she'll [[spoiler:go into the bathroom and let the toilet ghost kill her.]] Stop ''that'' by [[spoiler:breaking the toilet in advance]] and she'll [[spoiler:commit suicide via hanging in her bedroom.]] The only way for her to [[spoiler:survive fully is by breaking the piano, toilet, AND the stool in her bedroom before she reaches any of them.]]
** You need [[spoiler:three hits to kill Daddy — which means the beartrap and BOTH shotgun shells. Miss a shell, waste one on the rat or any of the zombies, or use the beartrap already, and you have no way of finishing Daddy off — once he gets home, YouAreAlreadyDead.]]

* OhCrap: The CreepyDoll exhibits a big one when it comes to realize, that [[spoiler:Tabby has defeated the House and now has turned onto the doll.]]

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: After certain amount of "beating" the game the creepy doll loses its cool and repeats its ominous catchphrase word by word to get the point across. In all uppercase no less.

** There are also two references to the 1977 Japanese horror movie ''{{Film/Hausu}}'' aka House. The tune Melody plays on the piano is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_Yo06kIIA exact song from the movie's trailer]] and [[spoiler:when the cat catches on fire, it looks exactly like the demon cat painting.]]

** A ''mobile'' variant, distressingly! [[spoiler:The carpet in the hallway outside the boarded-up room will begin moving at a certain point; if it ever gets underneath Tabby, spikes will shoot up from it, killing her instantly (Oh, and the carpet's not there at the start of the day). You can use the bowling ball to stop its movement however.]]

** In Melody's story, [[spoiler:a face-stealing old man([[AmbiguouslyHuman ?]]) will arrive in the house at 6:00, where he fills the same role as Daddy.]]

* YouDirtyRat: The giant rat will try to kill you, although [[spoiler:[[AndroclesLion if you feed it a sandwich, it will stop attacking you]].]]

** [[spoiler:The true ending is this; the threat is gone for good and Tabby survives, but she's traumatized, lost her arm, and still has nightmares about that night regularly (which acts as NewGamePlus).]]

* GrandTheftMe: In Melody's story, [[spoiler:Melody's boyfriend can do this to ''himself'': his hostile soulless corpse can be lead to his passive spirit, causing the latter to possess the former. This not only ends the threat of the zombie boyfriend killing Melody, it is also required to help Melody escape.]]

** If you kept your entire family alive, including your cat, Melody's song burns away the darkness and you return to your old, familiar life… or do you?
** In the 1.3 version of the game, [[GoldenEnding you can finally dispel the darkness for good]]. [[spoiler:After achieving every previous ending, you break the grandfather clock and cause time to be stopped. You defeat the various body parts that spring up around the house, which causes the heart of the house to become vulnerable. After destroying it, you fall through a hole and encounter a skeletal abomination playing with puppets of your family's likeness, and it grabs your arm and begs you to stay… but you [[LifeOrLimbDecision literally tear yourself loose]] and cleave the asshole in two! The epilogue shows you sitting on a bench in a field, finally free of the house.]]

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: One of the very first perils Tabby can meet is an enormous rat who leaps in from a closed window of the storage room, and who will literally [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bite the player character in half]] if it connects with its attack. [[TookALevelInKindness Thankfully, it's considerably friendlier in Melody's story.]]

** A ''mobile'' variant, distressingly! [[spoiler:The carpet in the hallway outside the boarded-up room will begin moving at a certain point; if it ever gets underneath Tabby, spikes will shoot up from it, killing her instantly. (Oh, and the carpet's not there at the start of the day.)]]

-->There's no way to stop it. It never ends...

** If you choose to [[KillEmAll massacre your entire family]], your father embraces you when he comes home and you both get swallowed by the darkness.

* AnAxeToGrind: One of the first, and most useful, tools Tabby can get is an axe. It can be used to break certain objects, [[spoiler: but will break itself once used three times. It's also useless against most monsters, as they'll kill Tabby before she can kill them (the Zombie Cat being the only exception; Tabby can kill it with the axe if she can get the jump on it.) You can also use it to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential murder your family]].]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Like the rest of their family, the dad was just another victim of the house's twisted influence. Before departing, his spirit apologizes and asks Melody to forgive him for killing Toby in the ''Melodies'' update.]]

** [[spoiler:If she doesn't slip and die]], the mom will sit at the dinner table and drink wine until she passes out. [[spoiler: The monster in the fridge will eventually eat her if she's left like this.]]

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: How the game justifies continued play past the true ending; it's just a nightmare Tabby is having. This lets you look for more things you might have missed. There are also two secret diary entries that can only be obtained past this point.]]

* BerserkBoardBarricade: Tabby catches her mother finishing up a relatively restrained one of these, claiming the place "smells" and therefore she should stay out of it — though the fact that ''boarding a room up'' is an overreaction to a bad smell indicates something else is going on. [[spoiler:It's implied to be the parental bedroom. Usefully, it contains the Shotgun… and a trapdoor that can be broken through to reveal a dead body.]]

* CatsAreMean: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], the family kitty is sweet as can be, if a bit oblivious. [[spoiler:As a zombie, however…]]
* ConnectedAllAlong: While playing Melody's route, you can talk to the spirit of the girls' late grandmother. [[spoiler: One of these conversations implies that the [[GreaterScopeVillain man Tabby defeated to escape the house]] was in fact the girls' grandfather]].

* DeathByFallingOver: The mother suffers an unusually realistic variant of this, given this is a game with real, actual monsters killing people — [[spoiler:she slips on water dripping from the ceiling of the kitchen]]. [[spoiler:Tabby can save her through a similarly realistic method — putting a bucket under the drip, making sure the floor doesn't get wet.]]

* FinalBoss: Daddy on most routes. [[spoiler:He must be attacked three times to be put down — the bear trap and the shotgun will hurt him.]] In Melody's story, [[spoiler:the role instead belongs to a face stealing old man, who must be weakened by the other inhabitants of the house before Melody can land a fatal blow.]]

* ItCameFromTheFridge: Inverted — there's a monster in the fridge, alright, but it isn't mutant food. Should Mom survive to serve lunch, she will eventually fall into a drunken stupor; while she is lying prone, the fridge opens and a ghastly arm emerges, grabs the mom, and yanks her in. If you chop off the arm before it steals her away, the monster it belongs to comes out of the fridge and after Tabby.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:After the old man in the void under the house seizes her by the arm, Tabby ''bloodily'' tears herself free, leaving her arm in his viselike grip.]]

* MadeOfPlasticine: Every member of the family seems to be made of it considering how easily they can be torn up, but Tabby takes the cake in [[spoiler:the true ending where she tears her own arm off in order to escape the GreaterScopeVillain.]]

** In Melody's story, [[spoiler:a face-stealing man([[AmbiguouslyHuman ?]]) will arrive in the house at 6:00, where he fills the same role as Daddy.]]

** In Melody's story, [[spoiler:a face-stealing man(?) will arrive in the house at 6:00, where he fills the same role as Daddy.]]

* AintTooProudToBeg: When the CreepyDoll realizes, that [[spoiler:Tabby has [[OhCrap managed to defeat the House]] and break the GroundhogDayLoop, it doesn't hesitate to bribe her to spare it. It doesn't help.]]

* OhCrap: The CreepyDoll exhibits a big one when it realizes that [[spoiler:Tabby has defeated the House and now has turned onto the doll.]]