History VideoGame / TheLastDoor

The Last Door is a horror/PuzzleGame hybrid set in 1890s Great Britain that puts the player in the shoes of Jeremiah Devitt, a man who's just received a strange and urgent letter from his old school pal, Anthony. When he reaches his friend's house, he finds everything in a very weird way: the house is seemingly deserted, spooky notes are scattered on the floor, and there's a murder of crows devouring... something in a very enthusiastically bloody way in the backyard. Obviously, Jeremiah has some questions and sets out to get to the bottom of this mystery. Using a traditional PointAndClickGame layout very much akin to any given LucasArts AdventureGame, you'll guide Jeremiah as he unravels the mystery of what's occurred and why.

Can be played [[https://thelastdoor.com/index.php/episodes here.]] Four chapters are available to play for free, while the fift will require a donation until the next chapter is released. In addition, a novella taking place as a distant prologue to the story (and some coupons) is available for free [[http://www.postudios.com/company/games/lastdoor/index.php by filling out a small form on the main page here.]] [[spoiler: It covers an Amazonian expedition by Anthony in 1886, which goes Very, Very wrong.]]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler:Dr. Wakefield]]’s dream about [[spoiler: meeting the man on crutches in an alley in the beginning of Chapter 5]] eventually comes true.

* IdiotBall: [=DeWitt=] and Wakefield continually walk into situations that most sane people would run screaming away from. While they have their reasons to push on, there's often the feeling that continuing on into that creepy, dark cave is a really bad idea, ButThouMust.

* SuddenDownerEnding: The Mr. Rabbit story in Chapter 2. It starts off as a lighthearted story in the tradition of Br'er Rabbit, with Mr. Rabbit tricking a wolf, a vulture, and a snake in order to keep them from eating him. [[spoiler:Then, in the middle of his getaway, Mr. Rabbit is abruptly killed by a human hunter. It mirrors how the interaction between {{Eldritch Abomination}}(s) and humans marks a sudden shift in the nature of human affairs.]]

* StartsWithASuicide: The opening of Chapter 1 has the player guiding Anthony to pick up a rope, sling it over a rafter, climb up onto a chair...

* TitleDrop: Found in the recording that Dr. Kaufmann discovers in Chapter 6 in [[spoiler: the Wright manor]]. “Primal terror is the key that we will use to open the Last Door.”

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler:Dr. Wakefield]]’s dream about [[spoilers: meeting the man on crutches in an alley in the beginning of Chapter 5]] eventually comes true.

* ParentalAbandonment: A flashback shows that Devitt's father shipped him off to boarding school after his mother died, with the excuse that "a man of his stature cant be bothered to raise a little boy", and tells him to not bother writing home.

* ScareChord: There are many of these throughout the game.

* Scare Chord: There are many of these throughout the game.

** While wandering the sewers in London, you can hear the pleasant hummed tune of "Hush Little Baby." It's creepy in context, but it still sounds nice.

Can be played [[http://thelastdoor.com/index.php/menu here.]] Four chapters are available to play for free, while the fift will require a donation until the next chapter is released. In addition, a novella taking place as a distant prologue to the story (and some coupons) is available for free [[http://www.postudios.com/company/games/lastdoor/index.php by filling out a small form on the main page here.]] [[spoiler: It covers an Amazonian expedition by Anthony in 1886, which goes Very, Very wrong.]]

Can be played [[http://thelastdoor.com/index.php/menu here.]] Three chapters are available to play for free, while the fourth will require a donation until the next chapter is released. In addition, a novella taking place as a distant prologue to the story (and some coupons) is available for free [[http://www.postudios.com/company/games/lastdoor/index.php by filling out a small form on the main page here.]] [[spoiler: It covers an Amazonian expedition by Anthony in 1886, which goes Very, Very wrong.]]

*** There is a note written by Anthony that suggests that [[he blinded the cat himself in his madness.]]

Can be played [[http://thelastdoor.com/index.php/menu here.]] Three chapters are available to play for free, while the fourth will require a donation until the next chapter is released.

* AnimalMotifs: To an extent. Crows (or ravens) appear to be a symbol for [[spoiler:whatever strange malevolent force the schoolboys and Father Ernest awoke when they "parted the veil"]].
** There's also the parable about a rabbit tricking its predators that alludes to something not quite explained yet.
* CatScare: Just once, so far. And unlike most examples of this, it was meaningfully connected with the plot. [[spoiler: See EyeScream .]]

* SecretCircleOfSecrets: Shows up [[spoiler:at the end of chapter 3]], but there's hints of it in chapter 4[[spoiler: And may be related to the bunny scene in chapter 2]]. It doesn't help that this overlaps with the MindScrew stuff that's going on.

* AnachronismStew: The "Impossible Love" segment is done in the style of an early silent film melodrama, complete with intertitles and piano music. But the games take place in 1891, before films were ever long enough to warrant intertitle exposition and when such short moving pictures were still enough of a novelty that piano music had yet to be introduced to accompany the images.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom[=/=]HellishPupils[=/=}BlackEyesOfEvil: All very good descriptions of The Eye of the Bird

* SurrealHorror: There are numerous scenes that don't seem related to the main plot and feel like something out of a David Lynch film. [[spoiler:Particularly the Rabbit Scene]]. This and the fact that they don't have any explanation makes them even more haunting and disturbing.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted; Devitt visits a therapist in Episode 2 in an attempt to get over seeing Anthony's dead body and all of the terrifying visions since.