History VideoGame / TheBlackoutClub

''The Blackout Club'' is a 2019 [[IndieGame indie]] [[StealthBasedGame stealth-based]] [[FirstPersonPerspective first person]] [[CoopMultiplayer cooperative multiplayer]] [[SurvivalHorror survival horror]] game developed by [[http://www.questiongames.com/ Question Games]]. It entered UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access on 31 Oct, 2018 and the full game was [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/599080/The_Blackout_Club/ released]] on July 30th, 2019, along with the UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne versions.

* BodySnatcher: Happens to players who are caught by the Shape. They are forced to helplessly watch their now suppressed character wander around, all with the text telling you that 'Your mind is not your own.'

* HiveMind: If the Sleeper's dialogue is anything to go by.
-->'''Sleeper:''' WE SPEAK AS ONE.

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: From a kids point of view, this can very well seem this.

--> '''Kid (Male Voice):''' Can we do the cool [[PowerWalk slo-mo walk]] this time ''please?''

* AdultsAreUseless: All the adults in Redacre have been taken over by the darker entity and cannot be trusted. Some of the members of the Blackout Club have resorted to run away from home to escape them.

* WalkingBackwards: Players will be doing a lot of this when they open the door to be greeted with a Sleeper walking in their direction. Just walk backwards, slowly and quietly...

* WeirdMoon: Very weird. In fact so weird, that there's actually ''no moon'' to be seen, at least in missions. However, players ''have'' been taken to the "moon" by the Daimons. Weird.

* DemonicPossession: Although is unclear what exactly happens to those who had fallen under control of the Shape, the shape puts them into a deep sleep to which they start sleepwalking and are completely under it's control.

* AdultFear: ''All'' the adults in Redacre have been brainwashed by this unknown entity to do its bidding. The kids of the town are the only ones left due to their strange connection with a voice in their heads. Not only are the children the only ones standing in the way of this terrifying evil, but their lives are clearly on the line doing so. Not to mention some of the kids started sacrificing themselves to a strange being that haunts their dreams.

* ComebackMechanic: When players are grabbed, they can fight back by pushing the enemy of themselves at the cost of being wounded or using an escape item. When a player is finally overwhelmed and are being dragged by their feet, they have a small window to escape by grabbing an escape item hidden in trash bags they are being dragged by, which would allow them to escape.

* DwindlingParty: Completely possible during members as club members may start getting picked off or even killed.

* AnachronismStew: The game is ostensibly set in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000s]], but much of the technology used by the kids (slim form-factor laptops, small flatscreen displays, "fablet" style smartphones) only became commonly available in TheNewTens. A journal entry [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this by explaining that, as the Radio Quiet Zone by necessity doesn't have access to certain IT stuff students would be expected to have, which frees up some of the school budgets to reinvest in other technologies to prepare the students.

* AnachronismStew: The game is ostensibly set in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000s]], but much of the technology used by the kids (slim form-factor laptops, small flatscreen displays, "fablet" style smartphones) only became commonly available in TheNewTens.

''The Blackout Club'' is a 2019 [[IndieGame indie]] [[StealthBasedGame stealth-based]] [[FirstPersonPerspective first person]] [[CoopMultiplayer cooperative multiplayer]] [[SurvivalHorror survival horror]] game developed by [[http://www.questiongames.com/ Question Games]]. Early Access was released on 31 Oct, 2018 and the full game was released on July 30th, 2019 on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/599080/The_Blackout_Club/ Steam]].

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Many of the kids have woken up with this feeling, having supposedly missing days from their memories and have vivid dreams about doing things at night while they were asleep.

* InstantSedation: Tranq Darts work very quickly, causing Sleepers and Lucids pass out in seconds. Kids even mention "large animal tranquilizers" when picking up a crossbow.