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* MadeOfExplodium: Red barrels, the [[RayGun ray guns,]] and the Jacks. Ik even mentions that the latter are partially composed of gunpowder. [[spoiler:Turns out the player was this while he was living, having died due to spontaneous combustion.]]
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''The Upturned'' is a action platformer game developed by Zeekerss, who previously made ''VideoGame/DeadSeater''.Zeekerss. The game mixes survival horror with comedy in part due to its main mechanic of [[DieChairDie grabbing and throwing everything you can get your hands on.]] You are [[HelloInsertNameHere Mr. -- ---,]] the latest tenant in the Upturned Inn, [[MundaneAfterlife a hotel for the dead]] run by the eccentric Ik. Luckily for you, you have a luxury suite at room 1434...but unfortunately, thanks to the [[HostileWeather terrible storm outside,]] the elevator keeps losing power, forcing you to go out into other rooms in the hotel to find replacement fuse boxes. And as you explore the hotel, it becomes more and more clear that [[HellHotel not everything is what it seems.]] And that's not even mentioning the biggest mystery of all - [[WhodunnitToMe just how exactly did you die?]]
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''The Upturned'' is a action platformer game that developed by Zeekerss, who previously made ''VideoGame/DeadSeater''. The game mixes survival horror with comedy in part due to its main mechanic of [[DieChairDie grabbing and throwing everything you can get your hands on.]] You are [[HelloInsertNameHere Mr. -- ---,]] the latest tenant in the Upturned Inn, [[MundaneAfterlife a hotel for the dead]] run by the eccentric Ik. Luckily for you, you have a luxury suite at room 1434...but unfortunately, thanks to the [[HostileWeather terrible storm outside,]] the elevator keeps losing power, forcing you to go out into other rooms in the hotel to find replacement fuse boxes. And as you explore the hotel, it becomes more and more clear that [[HellHotel not everything is what it seems.]] And that's not even mentioning the biggest mystery of all - [[WhodunnitToMe just how exactly did you die?]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:Some guy on a horse shows up at the end of the game and distintegrates you with his radiating light. You could interpret this as an angel bringing you to heaven, but with how the game ends right after this, we'll never know.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob, TheManBehindTheMan who took ownership of the Upturned Inn from Ik and turned it into the HellHotel it currently is by [[ForcefulTransformation forcefully turning the tenants into monsters]] [[ItAmusedMe for his own pleasure.]]]]
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: A vital survival tactic against certain enemies like the Water Slug, which attacks anything that falls into the water covering the entirety of the floor it resides on.
* ThrowTheMookAtThem: One set of enemies has the distinction of being light enough to pick up and throw like any other object.
* ThrowTheMookAtThem: One set of enemies has the distinction of being light enough to pick up and throw like any other object.
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* MetalDetectorCheckpoint: [[{{Parodied}} Parodied.]] Ik had some installed, but there was a miscommunication between the inn and the manufacturer, [[EpicFail as the metal detectors]] ''[[Epic Fail only]]'' [[EpicFail allow metal to pass through.]] Thankfully, there are some exceptions, such as ash, [[BizarreAlienBiology and as everyone in the afterlife is made of ash,]] your player character can pass through just fine.
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* [[MonsterWhale Mr.]] [[LivingStatue Baleen,]] who can almost be considered an upgrade to the Fat Pajama Man. Unlike him, Mr. Baleen can't be stunned ''at all,'' and can go so far as to break through walls to try and get to you. The most you can hope to do is run. The one saving grace compared to Fat Pajama Man is that Mr. Baleen is slower and can't do as much damage.
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* MurderousMannequin: The Mannequins in the hotel appear far more humanoid than [[spoiler:almost]] anything in the game, and some will start pursuing you when you complete certain objectives. Oh, and did we mention that they're invincible.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: No matter what, Ik continuously insists that the Upturned Inn is normal, despite the continuiously growing evidence to the contrary.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Have a nice night!'']]
->''"Ah! You already have a reservation! I should have known you did, because everyone does."''
-->-- '''Ik'''
''The Upturned'' is a action platformer game that mixes survival horror with comedy in part due to its main mechanic of [[DieChairDie grabbing and throwing everything you can get your hands on.]] You are [[HelloInsertNameHere Mr. -- ---,]] the latest tenant in the Upturned Inn, [[MundaneAfterlife a hotel for the dead]] run by the eccentric Ik. Luckily for you, you have a luxury suite at room 1434...but unfortunately, thanks to the [[HostileWeather terrible storm outside,]] the elevator keeps losing power, forcing you to go out into other rooms in the hotel to find replacement fuse boxes. And as you explore the hotel, it becomes more and more clear that [[HellHotel not everything is what it seems.]] And that's not even mentioning the biggest mystery of all - [[WhodunnitToMe just how exactly did you die?]]
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!! ''The Upturned'' contains examples of:
* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: It's not obvious right from the outset, [[PurgatoryAndLimbo given that this game takes place in the afterlife,]] but Ik mentions that the current year is 2062.
* AbnormalAmmo: After you find some classic [[RayGun ray guns,]] you find versions of the same gun in later levels that fire things that are a bit less...conventional, ranging from rubber duckies to entire couches.
* AerithAndBob: You have characters like Ik and Mr. Baleen, and then you have characters like Lawrence and Jack.
* AirVentPassageway: In plentiful amount throughout the hotel!
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: It's not clear [[OurMonstersAreWeird exactly]] ''[[OurMonstersAreWeird what]]'' [[OurMonstersAreWeird Shrimp is,]] but he acts almost exactly like a dog. [[spoiler:[[HorrorHunger "Almost" being the key word.]]]]
* AmbushingEnemy: Jacks, which disguise themselves as ordinary boxes before trying to leap out and attack the player.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: While not exactly a full scale amusement park, one of the levels takes place in an arcade that styles itself like this, having bumper cars, a bouncy house, and several games to play! It's also entirely abandoned, save for you and the monsters within.
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:As Ik discovers, and the player character already knows, humanity suffered a Class X thanks to a series of incredibly unfortunate cosmic events leading to the planet being ''split into three pieces.'']]
* BedlamHouse: There's an asylum on one of the floors, with its most notable inhabitant being [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Shrimp.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob, TheManBehindTheMan who took ownership of the Upturned Inn from Ik and turned it into the HellHotel it currently is by [[ForcefulTransformation forcefully turning the tenants into monsters]] [[ItAmusedMe for his own pleasure.]]]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: As the game progresses, you start to [[MysteriousBacker recieve calls from someone unknown,]] hinting that Ik isn't all that he seems. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the voice was the one you can't trust, as it was Mr. Sob, who only cares about helping you out so he can get to you himself.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: For starters, everyone in the afterlife is apparently made of ash, and that's not even getting into how creatures like the [[AmbushingEnemy Jacks]] work.
* BlackoutBasement: Some of the levels turn into this thanks to the storm outside causing power outages. Special mention goes to the floor where you meet the [[SpidersAreScary Lil' Chucklers,]] which are only warded away by the light. Of course, there are several sections cloaked entirely in darkness, [[OhCrap and this is the exact level where your flashlight stops working.]]
* ABoyAndHisX: A man and his weird, shadowy, vaguely dog-esque...thing.
* CloudCuckooLander: Ik qualifies, having a variety of nonsensical things to say as you progress through the inn and generally not seeming that grounded.
* DegradedBoss: In one of the early levels, you face what the game dubs a "Water Slug," a massive, slimy creature who can track where you are as soon as you step ''anywhere'' in the GrimyWater that floods its floor, not helped by the fact that said water slows you down drastically. Later on, in the aquarium, there's an exhibit dedicated to a water slug, with a key right in the middle of it, forcing you to face the creature again. However, unlike last time, [[BlowYouAway there's a convenient fan right next to the exhibit,]] making it laughably easy to keep the slug away as long as you keep the fan pointed right at it while you go to get the keys.
* DemBones: The aptly named Ribcages, who, as their name would suggest, have fully exposed ribs coming out of their torso. [[spoiler:Mr. Sob also qualifies.]]
* DieChairDie: The game is built around this, with nearly everything being able to be picked up and thrown at the various monsters who hunt you down.
* DownTheDrain: At one point, the floor beneath you collapses and you find yourself stuck in the plumbing system, with only your MysteriousBenefactor as a guide.
* DrivingQuestion: [[WhodunnitToMe How did you die in the first place?]]
* DynamicEntry: The local [[TheJuggernaut juggernauts,]] Fat Pajama Man and Mr. Baleen, both love to do this, with the former breaking through the ceiling and the latter bursting through the wall.
* FragileSpeedster: The two first monsters, and the most common, Lawrences and Crows, qualify for this, only needing two hits and one hit to go down respectively.
* FeatheredFiend: [[ZergRush The Crows]] definitely qualify.
* [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowing:]]
** Upon entering the aquarium level and beginning to look through the exhibits, Ik will insist that all the fish are real [[BlatantLies despite the fact that you can clearly see that they're plastic,]] calling attention to one Mr. Baleen in particular and mentioning that he likes it when you buy things at the gift shop. As it turns out, Ik mentioning Mr. Baleen being alive wasn't a lie. [[LivingStatue It was]] [[MonsterWhale a warning.]]
** When you run into your first monster, Ik refers to it as "Lawrence," saying he's a tenant at the inn. This is quickly dismissed as [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial one of Ik's attempts to insist that this is normal]] when you start running into multiple Lawrences at once, [[spoiler:but you learn that he was telling the truth when Mr. Sob reveals that all the monsters were former tenants.]]
** Ik mentions a "supplier" very briefly in one of the early levels, [[spoiler:which is the first indicator that [[TheManBehindTheMan he's not entirely alone in running the hotel.]]]]
** The Fat Pajama Man always makes a DynamicEntry by bursting through the ceiling...even after his debut level, when you leave him several floors behind. [[spoiler:This makes a lot more sense when you learn that the floors go DOWN instead of up.]]
** Although he has no memory of how he died, the player character seems to remember everything else about his life, [[spoiler:which indicates [[MadeOfExplodium the true nature of his death.]]]]
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:Grade: [[FiveSecondForeshadowing WATCH OUT]]]]
* GameplayGrading: [[{{Parodied}} Parodied;]] there are grades, but they're completely unaffected by your performance in each level since each one is just randomly generated. [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Well, for the most part, anyway.]]]]
* GiantHandsOfDoom: The art museum introduces enemies who look like this, who can only be placated by throwing something into their open palm.
* GrimyWater: Several levels feature floors flooded with a strange green water that significantly slows down your movement.
* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits: Your MysteriousBenefactor complains about the randomized nature of the GameplayGrading.
* HellHotel: The titular Upturned Inn.
* HellIsThatNoise: Several monsters qualify, but special note to the giant arms, which are foretold by an ominous gurgling from above which Ik tells the player to ignore.
* HelloInsertNameHere: An odd variant, where you have to pick a two letter first name and a three letter last name.
* HostileWeather: The main reason you have to go through all the floors in the first place, as the storm outside keeps knocking out the power.
* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:Why was [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Shrimp]] locked away in a BedlamHouse? Well, as it turns out, Shrimp is an ExtremeOmnivore with a monstrous appetite, and if you can't get him enough food fast enough, [[IAmAHumanitarian you WILL be on the menu.]]]]
* ItemGet: Whenever you successfully collect a fuse box.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The entire game is you travelling to your luxury suite at room 1434. [[spoiler:Turns out to be [[{{Inverted}} Inverted,]] as the floors of the Upturned Inn go down instead of up.]]
* TheJuggernaut: Two in particular:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Fat Pajama Man,]] one of the early encounters you have to face, and easily one of the most terrifying despite his appearance. ''Nothing'' can slow this man down - barbed wire? GrimyWater? Absolutely nothing to him. The most the player character can hope to do is stun him by throwing objects at him, but it won't last long, and he'll start to block if you try to do it too often. He's also easily the most determined enemy to try to get to you, [[spoiler:going so far as to BREAK INTO THE ELEVATOR after you finish a level.]]
* [[MonsterWhale Mr.]] [[LivingStatue Baleen,]] who can almost be considered an upgrade to the Fat Pajama Man. Unlike him, Mr. Baleen can't be stunned ''at all,'' and can go so far as to break through walls to try and get to you. The most you can hope to do is run. The one saving grace compared to Fat Pajama Man is that Mr. Baleen is slower and can't do as much damage.
* KingMook: The Mother Slug is this to the terrifying Water Slug you encounter early on.
* MacroZone: One of the late game floors is this.
* MadeOfExplodium: Red barrels, the [[RayGun ray guns,]] and the Jacks. Ik even mentions that the latter are partially composed of gunpowder. [[spoiler:Turns out the player was this while he was living, having died due to spontaneous combustion.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob is this to Ik.]]
* MonsterWhale: A somewhat strange case in the form of Mr. Baleen, a goofy looking LivingStatue who nevertheless hunts you down just as relentlessly as the rest of the monsters.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Ik, Lawrences, the Water Slug, and [[spoiler:Shrimp]] all qualify for this.
* MundaneAfterlife: Turns out the afterlife is just you checking into a hotel. Granted, [[HellHotel considering how the hotel is,]] it's not exactly peaceful either...
* MurderByCremation: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob attempts to do this to the player once he gets to his suite.]]
* MysteriousBacker: A mysterious voice starts to call you as you progress through the game, giving advice on how to survive the horrors of the Upturned Inn.
* NightmarishFactory: Three of them, to be exact! First a power plant, then a glass pane factory, and finally a toy factory.
* OneSceneWonder: The Mother Slug, the Lil' Chucklers, and the Ribcages come to mind.
* PurgatoryAndLimbo: The game takes place in the afterlife.
* RayGun: [[AmusementParkOfDoom The arcade]] introduces some when you enter a laser tag room.
* RunOrDie: The game itself says that running sometimes might be a better idea, [[OhCrap shortly before you drop down into a massive den of crow eggs.]] And indeed, several levels tend to end like this after you grab the fuse box.
* SpeakingSimlish: All the dialogue is spoken like this.
* SpidersAreScary: Though you don't see much of them, the Lil' Chucklers certainly look the part.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At one point, you enter a darkened floor, wandering through a maze of rooms with no fuse box in sight...and then Ik calls to inform you that he doesn't detect any electricity on that floor, indicating that there isn't actually a fuse box there. [[LampshadeHanging Ik even lampshades it,]] remarking that you've been remarkably lucky that every floor up to that point had a fuse box somewhere.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: No matter what, Ik continuously insists that the Upturned Inn is normal, despite the continuiously growing evidence to the contrary.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: During the Water Slug level, Ik will call in and ask if you want to hear his tunes. [[ShmuckBait If you say yes,]] the resulting tunes are so loud they shake the room and your carefully placed platforms, forcing you into the water and making you easy prey for the water slug.
* VocalTic: Your MysteriousBenefactor has a rather notable one he ends all his calls with, alow alow.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: The player character gets caught in a massive trash compactor at one point.
* WhodunnitToMe: The player character can't remember how he died, leading Ik to try and investigate his cause of death.
* ZergRush: [[FragileSpeedster Though they're not the hardiest enemies by a long shot,]] Crows make up for it by swarming the player whenever you disturb even one of their eggs.
[[caption-width-right:350:''Have a nice night!'']]
->''"Ah! You already have a reservation! I should have known you did, because everyone does."''
-->-- '''Ik'''
''The Upturned'' is a action platformer game that mixes survival horror with comedy in part due to its main mechanic of [[DieChairDie grabbing and throwing everything you can get your hands on.]] You are [[HelloInsertNameHere Mr. -- ---,]] the latest tenant in the Upturned Inn, [[MundaneAfterlife a hotel for the dead]] run by the eccentric Ik. Luckily for you, you have a luxury suite at room 1434...but unfortunately, thanks to the [[HostileWeather terrible storm outside,]] the elevator keeps losing power, forcing you to go out into other rooms in the hotel to find replacement fuse boxes. And as you explore the hotel, it becomes more and more clear that [[HellHotel not everything is what it seems.]] And that's not even mentioning the biggest mystery of all - [[WhodunnitToMe just how exactly did you die?]]
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!! ''The Upturned'' contains examples of:
* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: It's not obvious right from the outset, [[PurgatoryAndLimbo given that this game takes place in the afterlife,]] but Ik mentions that the current year is 2062.
* AbnormalAmmo: After you find some classic [[RayGun ray guns,]] you find versions of the same gun in later levels that fire things that are a bit less...conventional, ranging from rubber duckies to entire couches.
* AerithAndBob: You have characters like Ik and Mr. Baleen, and then you have characters like Lawrence and Jack.
* AirVentPassageway: In plentiful amount throughout the hotel!
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: It's not clear [[OurMonstersAreWeird exactly]] ''[[OurMonstersAreWeird what]]'' [[OurMonstersAreWeird Shrimp is,]] but he acts almost exactly like a dog. [[spoiler:[[HorrorHunger "Almost" being the key word.]]]]
* AmbushingEnemy: Jacks, which disguise themselves as ordinary boxes before trying to leap out and attack the player.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: While not exactly a full scale amusement park, one of the levels takes place in an arcade that styles itself like this, having bumper cars, a bouncy house, and several games to play! It's also entirely abandoned, save for you and the monsters within.
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:As Ik discovers, and the player character already knows, humanity suffered a Class X thanks to a series of incredibly unfortunate cosmic events leading to the planet being ''split into three pieces.'']]
* BedlamHouse: There's an asylum on one of the floors, with its most notable inhabitant being [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Shrimp.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob, TheManBehindTheMan who took ownership of the Upturned Inn from Ik and turned it into the HellHotel it currently is by [[ForcefulTransformation forcefully turning the tenants into monsters]] [[ItAmusedMe for his own pleasure.]]]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: As the game progresses, you start to [[MysteriousBacker recieve calls from someone unknown,]] hinting that Ik isn't all that he seems. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the voice was the one you can't trust, as it was Mr. Sob, who only cares about helping you out so he can get to you himself.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: For starters, everyone in the afterlife is apparently made of ash, and that's not even getting into how creatures like the [[AmbushingEnemy Jacks]] work.
* BlackoutBasement: Some of the levels turn into this thanks to the storm outside causing power outages. Special mention goes to the floor where you meet the [[SpidersAreScary Lil' Chucklers,]] which are only warded away by the light. Of course, there are several sections cloaked entirely in darkness, [[OhCrap and this is the exact level where your flashlight stops working.]]
* ABoyAndHisX: A man and his weird, shadowy, vaguely dog-esque...thing.
* CloudCuckooLander: Ik qualifies, having a variety of nonsensical things to say as you progress through the inn and generally not seeming that grounded.
* DegradedBoss: In one of the early levels, you face what the game dubs a "Water Slug," a massive, slimy creature who can track where you are as soon as you step ''anywhere'' in the GrimyWater that floods its floor, not helped by the fact that said water slows you down drastically. Later on, in the aquarium, there's an exhibit dedicated to a water slug, with a key right in the middle of it, forcing you to face the creature again. However, unlike last time, [[BlowYouAway there's a convenient fan right next to the exhibit,]] making it laughably easy to keep the slug away as long as you keep the fan pointed right at it while you go to get the keys.
* DemBones: The aptly named Ribcages, who, as their name would suggest, have fully exposed ribs coming out of their torso. [[spoiler:Mr. Sob also qualifies.]]
* DieChairDie: The game is built around this, with nearly everything being able to be picked up and thrown at the various monsters who hunt you down.
* DownTheDrain: At one point, the floor beneath you collapses and you find yourself stuck in the plumbing system, with only your MysteriousBenefactor as a guide.
* DrivingQuestion: [[WhodunnitToMe How did you die in the first place?]]
* DynamicEntry: The local [[TheJuggernaut juggernauts,]] Fat Pajama Man and Mr. Baleen, both love to do this, with the former breaking through the ceiling and the latter bursting through the wall.
* FragileSpeedster: The two first monsters, and the most common, Lawrences and Crows, qualify for this, only needing two hits and one hit to go down respectively.
* FeatheredFiend: [[ZergRush The Crows]] definitely qualify.
* [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowing:]]
** Upon entering the aquarium level and beginning to look through the exhibits, Ik will insist that all the fish are real [[BlatantLies despite the fact that you can clearly see that they're plastic,]] calling attention to one Mr. Baleen in particular and mentioning that he likes it when you buy things at the gift shop. As it turns out, Ik mentioning Mr. Baleen being alive wasn't a lie. [[LivingStatue It was]] [[MonsterWhale a warning.]]
** When you run into your first monster, Ik refers to it as "Lawrence," saying he's a tenant at the inn. This is quickly dismissed as [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial one of Ik's attempts to insist that this is normal]] when you start running into multiple Lawrences at once, [[spoiler:but you learn that he was telling the truth when Mr. Sob reveals that all the monsters were former tenants.]]
** Ik mentions a "supplier" very briefly in one of the early levels, [[spoiler:which is the first indicator that [[TheManBehindTheMan he's not entirely alone in running the hotel.]]]]
** The Fat Pajama Man always makes a DynamicEntry by bursting through the ceiling...even after his debut level, when you leave him several floors behind. [[spoiler:This makes a lot more sense when you learn that the floors go DOWN instead of up.]]
** Although he has no memory of how he died, the player character seems to remember everything else about his life, [[spoiler:which indicates [[MadeOfExplodium the true nature of his death.]]]]
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler:Grade: [[FiveSecondForeshadowing WATCH OUT]]]]
* GameplayGrading: [[{{Parodied}} Parodied;]] there are grades, but they're completely unaffected by your performance in each level since each one is just randomly generated. [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Well, for the most part, anyway.]]]]
* GiantHandsOfDoom: The art museum introduces enemies who look like this, who can only be placated by throwing something into their open palm.
* GrimyWater: Several levels feature floors flooded with a strange green water that significantly slows down your movement.
* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits: Your MysteriousBenefactor complains about the randomized nature of the GameplayGrading.
* HellHotel: The titular Upturned Inn.
* HellIsThatNoise: Several monsters qualify, but special note to the giant arms, which are foretold by an ominous gurgling from above which Ik tells the player to ignore.
* HelloInsertNameHere: An odd variant, where you have to pick a two letter first name and a three letter last name.
* HostileWeather: The main reason you have to go through all the floors in the first place, as the storm outside keeps knocking out the power.
* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:Why was [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Shrimp]] locked away in a BedlamHouse? Well, as it turns out, Shrimp is an ExtremeOmnivore with a monstrous appetite, and if you can't get him enough food fast enough, [[IAmAHumanitarian you WILL be on the menu.]]]]
* ItemGet: Whenever you successfully collect a fuse box.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The entire game is you travelling to your luxury suite at room 1434. [[spoiler:Turns out to be [[{{Inverted}} Inverted,]] as the floors of the Upturned Inn go down instead of up.]]
* TheJuggernaut: Two in particular:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Fat Pajama Man,]] one of the early encounters you have to face, and easily one of the most terrifying despite his appearance. ''Nothing'' can slow this man down - barbed wire? GrimyWater? Absolutely nothing to him. The most the player character can hope to do is stun him by throwing objects at him, but it won't last long, and he'll start to block if you try to do it too often. He's also easily the most determined enemy to try to get to you, [[spoiler:going so far as to BREAK INTO THE ELEVATOR after you finish a level.]]
* [[MonsterWhale Mr.]] [[LivingStatue Baleen,]] who can almost be considered an upgrade to the Fat Pajama Man. Unlike him, Mr. Baleen can't be stunned ''at all,'' and can go so far as to break through walls to try and get to you. The most you can hope to do is run. The one saving grace compared to Fat Pajama Man is that Mr. Baleen is slower and can't do as much damage.
* KingMook: The Mother Slug is this to the terrifying Water Slug you encounter early on.
* MacroZone: One of the late game floors is this.
* MadeOfExplodium: Red barrels, the [[RayGun ray guns,]] and the Jacks. Ik even mentions that the latter are partially composed of gunpowder. [[spoiler:Turns out the player was this while he was living, having died due to spontaneous combustion.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob is this to Ik.]]
* MonsterWhale: A somewhat strange case in the form of Mr. Baleen, a goofy looking LivingStatue who nevertheless hunts you down just as relentlessly as the rest of the monsters.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Ik, Lawrences, the Water Slug, and [[spoiler:Shrimp]] all qualify for this.
* MundaneAfterlife: Turns out the afterlife is just you checking into a hotel. Granted, [[HellHotel considering how the hotel is,]] it's not exactly peaceful either...
* MurderByCremation: [[spoiler:Mr. Sob attempts to do this to the player once he gets to his suite.]]
* MysteriousBacker: A mysterious voice starts to call you as you progress through the game, giving advice on how to survive the horrors of the Upturned Inn.
* NightmarishFactory: Three of them, to be exact! First a power plant, then a glass pane factory, and finally a toy factory.
* OneSceneWonder: The Mother Slug, the Lil' Chucklers, and the Ribcages come to mind.
* PurgatoryAndLimbo: The game takes place in the afterlife.
* RayGun: [[AmusementParkOfDoom The arcade]] introduces some when you enter a laser tag room.
* RunOrDie: The game itself says that running sometimes might be a better idea, [[OhCrap shortly before you drop down into a massive den of crow eggs.]] And indeed, several levels tend to end like this after you grab the fuse box.
* SpeakingSimlish: All the dialogue is spoken like this.
* SpidersAreScary: Though you don't see much of them, the Lil' Chucklers certainly look the part.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At one point, you enter a darkened floor, wandering through a maze of rooms with no fuse box in sight...and then Ik calls to inform you that he doesn't detect any electricity on that floor, indicating that there isn't actually a fuse box there. [[LampshadeHanging Ik even lampshades it,]] remarking that you've been remarkably lucky that every floor up to that point had a fuse box somewhere.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: No matter what, Ik continuously insists that the Upturned Inn is normal, despite the continuiously growing evidence to the contrary.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: During the Water Slug level, Ik will call in and ask if you want to hear his tunes. [[ShmuckBait If you say yes,]] the resulting tunes are so loud they shake the room and your carefully placed platforms, forcing you into the water and making you easy prey for the water slug.
* VocalTic: Your MysteriousBenefactor has a rather notable one he ends all his calls with, alow alow.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: The player character gets caught in a massive trash compactor at one point.
* WhodunnitToMe: The player character can't remember how he died, leading Ik to try and investigate his cause of death.
* ZergRush: [[FragileSpeedster Though they're not the hardiest enemies by a long shot,]] Crows make up for it by swarming the player whenever you disturb even one of their eggs.
