History VideoGame / SlenderTheArrival

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: Judging by the Nightmare Extended Chapter, did the Slender Man himself make some of his victims commit suicide by immolating themselves and those related to them?]]
* ApocalypticLog: Potentially ''the entire game'', if we consider the game to be a recording on the camera that the PlayerCharacter is carrying. All the game is shown from the camera's point of view, rather than the PlayerCharacter's.

** The HeadsUpDisplay is actually the screen for a digital camera that the player is carrying, which they visibly hold in front of them judging by their shadow. This also justifies the static that appears when Slender Man gets close, which would not (or so you'd think) affect the naked eye... then the justification is taken away when you hit the TAB key to remove said interface, which is completely for aesthetic reasons, outside of telling you how long you've been playing.[[note]][[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Instead of telling you how long you've been playing this particular playthrough or how long it usually takes to get to the point you're at, it now, as of the console update, shows how long you've had the game on.]][[/note]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Wander around enough in the prologue and you'll find an abandoned wooden house. Inside there will be a deformed monster and approaching him will give you a JumpScare. It is later revealed that said monster is Charlie Matheson Junior, one of the Slender Man's most recent victims. He chases you throughout the Homestead level and ultimately attacks you and brings you back to the house at the end of The Arrival.]]

* JumpScare:

** If you roam around in the woods at the prologue, you can find a broken, abandoned wooden house. If you go into it, you'll see a deformed, shirtless creature twitching violently as it stares at the wall. If you walk towards it, it'll turn around suddenly and flash images of the same blue creature that you might remember seeing at the final level of the game. [[spoiler:Turns out they're the same thing, as said 'blue creature' appears repeatedly, in the Homestead level while walking on a cornfield on a way to the generator and chapel, inside the chapel after picking the toys, and walking down into the first floor of the house for the final chase, The Arrival when the player reaches the radio tower and gets the key which is indicated by a sound in the background, approaches the player after the recording, and make contact with it in a burnt house portion of the level where they are forced to collect the last two collectibles, and brings the images with it.]] It is confirmed that the figure was named Charlie which is a child that was captured by Slender Man in the woods and later on became a proxy or a servant of him.
** [[spoiler: The Chaser in the "Into The Abyss" level has a habit of running up behind you whilst you're not paying attention and tackling you, leading to a close up on her deformed mask as she attacks you. Averted if you manage to see or hear her coming. ]]
* KaizoTrap:

* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler: The Chaser turns out to be Kate, the protagonist of the original ''Slender'' game, after being captured and transformed into a Proxy by the Slenderman]].

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: "The Eight Pages", which is the ''first'' action chapter, is also one of the most challenging chapters. Chapter 3 is much more straightforward as your enemy is much more predictable and the area is more enclosed and thus easier to map, and Chapter 4 is both small, simple, and cannot be failed (or, rather, [[ForegoneConclusion cannot be won]]) Chapter 5 is similarly unwinnable, [[GuideDangIt and its only challenge is finding it in the first place, as it is hidden.]] Chapter 6 is ludicrously frustrating, as several items you need to progress are hidden/change places every time you play, and it's extremely dark. Then the difficulty goes completely insane in Chapter 7. Naturally, Chapter 8 is as easy as [[{{VideoGame/Slender}} the game it's remaking,]] [[FalseReassurance which means it's hard as]] [[PrecisionFStrike shit.]]
* TheScream:

** [[spoiler: CR]] also lets out a horrifying, distorted one at the end of [[spoiler: his camera recording.]]
** [[spoiler: The end of Memories features multiple from Charlie and his parents, the former of which has been grabbed by the Slender Man's many tentacles. [[LastNoteNightmare As they cover the screen,]] [[NightmareFuel a heavily distorted, blood-curdling scream can be heard.]]]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: CR is shown to be dead, burned alive in the hopes that it will stop Slender Man from "spreading". Kate has become a proxy, and, by the end, has either murdered her best friend or been killed herself, [[AmbiguousSituation depending on who the shared leg model is meant to represent]]. The boy from the missing poster at the start is shown to have turned into a monster, and Slender Man is still going strong.]]
* ShoutOut: One of the silhouettes in the intro looks like [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
** The credits also list [[{{Webcomic/Homestuck}} Sollux Captor]] as having worked on the game.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects, along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to [[UsefulNotes/UnrealEngine Unreal Engine 5]] and some new content, was announced, including three new chapters and a cooperative multiplayer mode. The graphical update and one new chapter were released on October 18th 2023.

* SilentProtagonist: Justified. Lauren has no-one else to talk to, but you get to hear (or rather, "read") her ''thoughts''.

*** Essentially, Kate (and later Lauren) was the only living person in the woods (besides the antagonists).

*** Essentially, Kate (and later Lauren) was the only person living in the woods.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: Did the Slender Man himself make some of his victims commit suicide by immolating themselves and those related to them?]]

* SilentProtagonist: Justified. Lauren has no-one else to talk to, but you get to hear her ''thoughts''.

Furthermore, a new game was announced on the same day: VideoGame/STheLostChapters. How or if this title ties into ''Slender: The Arrival'' is still unknown, however.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects, along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to [[UsefulNotes/UnrealEngine Unreal Engine 5]] and some new content, was announced, including three new chapters and a cooperative multiplayer mode, being set to release on October 18th 2023.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects, along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 and some new content, was announced, including three new chapters and a cooperative multiplayer mode, being set to release on October 18th 2023.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects, along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 and some new content, was announced, including three new chapters and a multiplayer mode, being set to release on October 18th 2023.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects, along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 and some new content, was announced, including three new chapters and a multiplayer mode, being is set to release on October 18th 2023.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects, along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 and some new content, was announced and is set to release on October 18th 2023.

The game was first released on March 26th 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 was announced, set to release on October 18th 2023.

The game was first released on March 26th, 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects along with porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 was announced, set to release in October 2023.

** Kate's house house in the prologue.

The game was first released on March 26th, 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles. Ten years later, on July 27th 2023, [[https://www.slenderarrival.com/ a new update]] that promises a complete overhaul of the game's visuals and effects by porting the game from UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} to Unreal Engine 5 was announced, set to release in October 2023.

The game was first released on March 26, 2013 for PC and Mac, before being eventually ported for consoles.

-> '''Slenderman:''' [[NoFairCheating Not even a bug in this game will save you from me.]]

** [[spoiler:In the Steam version's ending, Lauren is taken to a burned down building (implied to be Charlie Matheson Senior's house), where she finds Kate, who is crying on a corner, and once the protagonist approaches, she turns into her proxy self and jumps towards the player. The camera then cuts to the sight of a body being dragged away, which could be either Lauren's or Kate's.]]

** [[spoiler:In the Steam version's ending, Lauren is taken to a burned down building (implied to be Charlie Matheson Senior's house), where she finds Kate, who is crying on a corner, and once the protagonist approaches, she turns into her proxy self and jumps towards the player. The camera then cuts to the sight of a body being dragged away, which is all but stated to be Lauren's dead one.]]

''Slender: The Arrival'' is a remake of the immensely popular ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}''. [[FromBadToWorse The game is even more bleak and horrifying than the original.]] The game begins with the SilentProtagonist Lauren, visiting her friend Kate after receiving a collection of increasingly disturbing letters. But when she makes it to Kate's house, she finds nothing but scattered furniture. She finds a key to unlock Kate's room, only to discover that the room is [[RoomFullOfCrazy completely covered with drawings of Slender Man and a broken window.]] She picks up a page and suddenly hears a long-drawn out scream from the woods, prompting Lauren to grab the flashlight and video camera and search for Kate. [[FromBadToWorse The chase is now on.]]

** It's not like the original game was all sunshine and flowers, but the sequel/remake removes many off the goofier elements that some players may have found to be NightmareRetardant. Slender Man's model no longer resembles a blow-up doll, some of the more bizarre structures have been replaced with realistic ones, and the environments feel more like places you would expect for people to actually visit.
** [[spoiler:Not to mention the ending. Oh, God, the ending...]]