History VideoGame / SubwayMidnight

* Foreshadowing: Your playable character never really reacts to the shadowy monster like you'd expect, even waving at them early on. [[spoiler: This is because, from their perspective, the monster is just a regular (if unnerving) lady.]]

* GhostlyAnimals: Rusty is Ruby’s pet phantom dog.

* ThemeTwinNaming: Kiki and Colin Thomson

* BreatherLevel: Jessica's level and most of Victoria's level are both fairly calm and more puzzle-based, sandwiched between the Thomas twins' more intense levels where enemies are actively chasing you.

* ForWantOfANail: The crux of the Best Ending is [[spoiler: Jacklyn preventing any child murders from happening in the first place]].
* FriendlyGhost: The worst any of the spirits do is startle Lizzbeth, and in the Best Ending, [[spoiler:they’ll save Cass and Lizz from Eleanor.]]

* KitschCollection: Jessica owns multiple piles of all-women fantasy character figurines. One of the steps to getting the good ending involves [[spoiler:reuniting Jessica with it.]]

* BigFriendlyDog: Rusty’s much bigger than both Rose and Lizz, and all he wants is some pets. He even thanks Lizz with a lick if she stops to pet him at every opportunity.

** Victoria R. Ashley: Dark Grey

* WritersBlock: Victoria’s suffering from a case of art block through the entirety of her level. [[spoiler:Collecting all of the paint cans scattered throughout it will inspire her enough to break out of it.]]

* ForWantOfANail: The crux of the Best Ending is [[spoiler:a ghost preventing any child murders from happening in the first place]].

* JumpScare: The "Colin's Game" segment (in which you play a his horror game) has a few, most notably a monster that appears in the basement after you pick up an item there. [[spoiler:If playing the game a second time, there's an early jumpscare of that monster showing up in a subway car.]]
* KitschCollection: Jessica owns multiple piles of all-women fantasy character figurines. [[spoiler:One of the steps to getting the good ending involves reuniting Jessica with it.]]

* WritersBlock: Julia’s suffering from a case of art block through the entirety of her level. [[spoiler:Collecting all of the paint cans scattered throughout it will inspire her enough to break out of it.]]

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Every living character is portrayed in grayscale, while all of the ghosts are colored with a [[MonochromeApparition single hue based gradient]].
* DespairEventHorizon: As shown in the Best Ending, [[spoiler:the hobo lady is a mother whose daughter died, and began kidnapping and killing children afterwards]].

* EverybodyLives: In the Best Ending, [[spoiler:not only do Lizz and Cass live, but none of the murders occur in the first place, with the only death being the hobo lady's daughter that passed away before the game took place]].

* JumpScare: The "Colin's Game" segment (in which you play a ghost kid's horror game) has a few, most notably a monster that appears in the basement after you pick up an item there. [[spoiler:If playing the game a second time, there's an early jumpscare of that monster showing up in a subway car.]]
* MoralityPet: In the Best Ending, [[spoiler:the ghost of the hobo lady's daughter appearing just as the lady is about to harm a kid stops her from claiming any victims to begin with]].

* NoNameGiven: Due to [[SilenceIsGolden the lack of dialogue]], the main protagonist is never named in the game itself. However, WordOfGod states that her name is Lizz, and the DecoyProtagonist is named Cass.
* PerspectiveFlip: If [[EasterEgg playing the game at midnight]], there will be new segments added to the game, including some in which the perspective shifts to a spirit wearing a skull mask [[spoiler:that prevents any murders from happening]], as well as to [[spoiler:the hobo lady]] at the very end.

* WouldHurtAChild: All of the ghosts encountered throughout the subway trains are of children like the main protagonist, who had all gone missing while riding the train. [[spoiler:They were all murdered by the hobo lady.]]

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Every living character is portrayed in grayscale, while all of the ghosts are colored with a single hue based gradient.

* DecoyProtagonist: The game starts with a girl named Casswaking up in a subway train, traversing a few rooms before being cornered by a {{Sinister Silhouette|s}}...and then the game cuts to Lizz, the "actual" protagonist, at a subway station getting on the train.

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'''Subway Midnight'' is a PsychologicalHorror EnvironmentalNarrativeGame developed by Bubby Darkstar and published by Aggro Crab, released for PC on October 28, 2021. The game is about a young girl that boards a late-night subway train, encounters some ghosts, and tries to befriend them while avoiding a sinister weirdo.