History VideoGame / SlenderTheArrival

* ShizophrenicDifficulty: "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. Then the difficulty goes completely insane in Chapter 5.

Features 5[[spoiler:6]] stages (Prologue, The Eight Pages, Into the Abyss, The Flashback, and The Arrival) of [[BringMyBrownPants pants-ruining horror]].

Features 5 stages (Prologue, The Eight Pages, Into the Abyss, The Flashback, and The Arrival) of [[BringMyBrownPants pants-ruining horror]].

** [[spoiler: The Proxy/Masky 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 his deformed mask as he attacks you. Averted if you manage to see or hear him coming. ]]

** The credits also list [[{{Webcomic/Homestuck}} Sollux Captor]]as having worked on the game.

* EasterEgg: One of the rooms in the house has a poster which is an image from ''Subsistence'' one of the games Blue Isle Studios developed.

** If you roam around in the woods, looking for the pages, 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.

* GainaxEnding: The final cutscene raises more questions than it answers.

* AbandonedArea: The game has five.

* NoOSHACompliance: So, if there's a sudden power outage in your mine, the emerg

* NoOSHACompliance: So, if there's a sudden power outage in your mine, the emergency protocol is to wander around in the dark looking for six generators hidden in remote corners of the mine, so that you can power the emergency lift and escape.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Kate's room is filled with drawings of Slender Man all over the walls.
* SceneryPorn: The outdoor scenery is spectacular to look at.
* ScenicTourLevel: The opening to ''The Arrival'' has the PlayerCharacter, well, '''arrive''' at Kate's property. Thanks to a tree fallen into the road, the player gets out of their car and must walk to Kate's house on foot, while the opening credits appear. It is late afternoon on an autumn forest trail, and is [[SceneryPorn actually kind of pleasant]]. However, as the player nears the house, the sun goes down quickly, almost unnaturally so, setting an creepy tone by the time they reach the [[OminouslyOpenDoor Ominously Open Front Door]]...
** Though it is still possible to die in the prologue; Slender Man lurks outside of the house, and looking at him for too long will cause you to lose.
* TheScream: [[spoiler:Kate]] lets one loose at the end of the house level in The Arrival, once you reach her room and pick up a drawing of Slender Man.
** [[spoiler: CR]] also lets out a nasty, distorted one at the end of [[spoiler: his camera recording]].
* ShoutOut: One of the silhouettes in the intro looks like [[TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
* SilentProtagonist: Justified. Lauren has no-one else to talk to, but you get to hear her ''thoughts''.
* TakeThat: There's a reference to the twenty dollars meme on the last level, which the creators of ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' (the writers of the Arrival) are sick of.
* UnwinnableByDesign: Chapter 4.

* JumpScare: A new visual distortion is the appearance of grainy, fish-eyed faced when Slendy gets close.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Kate's room is filled with drawings of Slender Man all over the room.

* TakeThat: There's a reference to the twenty dollars meme on the last level, which the creators of Marble Hornets (the writers of the Arrival) are sick of.

''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.]] Picking up a page will cause 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.]]