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* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: Found on the emergency container in admin. There's cutbacks, thus the fire axe was replaced with a note.

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* ShoutOut: The tram terminal plays a sound effect from the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' when recharging the tram.
** A later terminal plays a sound from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''.
*** As in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', the Hydroponics area is a breeding ground for the alien menace and their junk is clogging up the elevator.
** One of the crewmembers John can find the ApocalypticLog belonging to is named [[Film/{{Aliens}} Burke Carter]].

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Some audio cues are taken from classic ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}'' games
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The tram terminal plays a sound effect from the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' when recharging the tram.
** *** A later terminal plays a sound from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''.
*** ** As in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' and ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', the Hydroponics area is a breeding ground for the alien menace and their junk is clogging up the elevator.
** There are several references to ''Film/{{Aliens}}''
*** The protagonist's name, John Maracheck, is likely taken from a scene in which Bishop reads out the medical report of a failed attempt at removing a facehugger from a colonist with that name.
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One of the crewmembers John can find the ApocalypticLog belonging to is named [[Film/{{Aliens}} Burke Carter]].Carter.
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* ShoutOut: The tram terminal plays a sound effect from the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' when recharging the tram.
** A later terminal plays a sound from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.

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* ShoutOut: The tram terminal plays a sound effect from the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' when recharging the tram.
** A later terminal plays a sound from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: A hybrid named "Samantha" is mentioned several times in the ''Groomlake'' audio logs, but never appears in the game itself. She turns out to be the main threat in ''Cayne''.
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Another game set in the same universe and set parallel to ''Stasis'', ''Cayne'', was released in 2017. Another sequel, ''Stasis: Bone Totem'', is set for a May 2023 release.

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Another game set in the same universe and set parallel to ''Stasis'', ''Cayne'', was released in 2017. Another sequel, ''Stasis: Bone Totem'', is set for a ''VideoGame/StasisBoneTotem'', was released on May 2023 release.31st, 2023.
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Another game set in the same universe and set parallel to ''Stasis'', ''Cayne'', was released in 2017.

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Another game set in the same universe and set parallel to ''Stasis'', ''Cayne'', was released in 2017. Another sequel, ''Stasis: Bone Totem'', is set for a May 2023 release.
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** At one point, John [[Series/RedDwarf makes use of a dead man's severed hand as a]] BorrowedBioMetricBypass.
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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Two examples are used as puzzles within the game:
** Early into the story, John uses a shard of glass to cut the hand off Yuri's corpse in order to use his level 5 clearance to access the morgue.
** Late into the game, John must take an eye from a corpse in a freezer to start up a loading truck.
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* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: Not one person survives the game thanks to the experiments, the disasters onboard, the machinations of Doctor Malan, or what John does to the oxygen production down in Hydroponics. Not Malan, not Te'ah, not [[TheHeroDies even John himself]] nor his family.]]
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** One of the crewmembers John can find the ApocalypticLog belonging to is named [[Film/{{Aliens}} Burke Carter]].
** One log mentions someone running around shouting [[WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound "I'm covered in bees!"]] as a prank.
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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Dr. Clifford Beckman is an alleged rapist who had three illegitimate children with three women and manipulated the DNA test results so they would not know he is the father. He takes no issues with tormenting animals, experimenting on people and outright murder.]]
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* ProfaneLastWords: The final entry of one journal ends with the writer, who knows he will soon be dead, telling his estranged wife to go fuck herself. [[spoiler:Doctor Malan seems to shout "Fucking hell!" as he plummets to his death.]]
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:John kills Doctor Malan by shattering the glass floor panel he was standing on, sucking him out into Neptune's atmosphere.]]
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* DeflectorShields: Some doors are blocked by force fields. [[spoiler:Doctor Malan has a personal force field, which will NoSell any attempt to shoot him with the plasma cutter.]]

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* ActionSurvivor: John is hardly the most fit person to take on a deserted space ship full of horrors, being a history school teacher by trade. Yet with a determination born of AdultFear and a little ingenuity, he will find his way from one end of the madhouse to the next.

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* ActionSurvivor: John is hardly the most fit person to take on a deserted space ship full of horrors, being a history school teacher by trade. Yet with a determination born of AdultFear parental fear and a little ingenuity, he will find his way from one end of the madhouse to the next.



* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Having your daughter, who was happy and unaware of the horrors happening all around, horribly killed before your eyes.]]


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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Having your daughter, who was happy and unaware of the horrors happening all around, horribly killed before your eyes.]]
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* RaisedCatholic: John, who crosses himself on multiple occasions when encountering the ''Groomlake's'' victims.

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* DeathOfAChild: Relatively early on, when John finds bodies of children. [[spoiler:Late in the game, John is forced to witness the brutal death of his young daughter.]]



* InfantImmortality: Horribly averted relatively early on when John finds bodies of children. [[spoiler:Late in the game, John is forced to witness the brutal death of his young daughter.]]
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** ''Cayne'' isn't any better. [[spoiler:Hadley makes it to the evac elevator, but there are...''complications'' with her birth, which leave her screaming in terror. And then the camera pulls out, and we see the research vault she's been trying to get out of- with the '"Groomlake'' crashed nearby.]]

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** ''Cayne'' isn't any better. [[spoiler:Hadley makes it to the evac elevator, but there are...''complications'' with her birth, which leave her screaming in terror. And then the camera pulls out, and we see the research vault she's been trying to get out of- with the '"Groomlake'' ''Groomlake'' crashed nearby.]]
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'''''Stasis''''' is an isometric SciFiHorror AdventureGame from 2015, made by THE BROTHERHOOD, a South-African indie development team of two brothers. The game was funded through a successful Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign.

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'''''Stasis''''' is an isometric SciFiHorror AdventureGame from 2015, made by [[Creator/TheBrotherhood THE BROTHERHOOD, BROTHERHOOD]], a South-African indie development team of two brothers. The game was funded through a successful Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign.

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