History VideoGame / Truberbrook

->''"Beverly, I have arrived. I feel spewn out into the most barren, dark void of Europe. All things considered, this could most likely be...the best vacation ever."''

The journey is long, but the town is peaceful and pleasant if a bit run-down. Its citizens are a bustle over the recent discovery of an intact dinosaur skeleton in the nearby marshes, and are in deep preparations for Trüberbrook's 998th anniversary. This tranquil and remote slice of the nation of his forefathers might just be the place where Hans can clear his head enough to finally finish his thesis, which he is on the verge of cracking.

Trüberbrook is a fully-voiced, single player sci-fi mystery adventure game that draws heavily from the likes of ''Series/TwinPeaks'', ''Series/TheXFiles'', and ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' albeit with a mid-20th Century twist. It boasts a "handcrafted" aesthetic for its various environments as they were constructed with physical miniature sets that were scanned and inserted into the game's engine through a process called photogrammetry, resulting in gorgeous and highly detailed scenery across all platforms.

The title was funded on {{Website/Kickstarter}} in under 30 hours, and as of 2020, it is available on [=iOS=], Android, Windows, Mac & Linux, UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XBoxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* ColdOpen: Starring Gretchen as she tries to find a way to refuel her motorcycle in an unmanned gas station.

* GermanHumour: Permeates the narrative, even at its kookiest junctures.
* GermanicDepressive: Tannhauser, an American tourist of German descent, only manages to pass the personality tests of the Sanatorium Paradiso after he learns that his initial responses to them were too well-adjusted and happy to be in line with what a post-World War 2/Cold War German citizen would say. When he starts doling out more damaged and pessimistic answers, the doctors declare him "a real human" and let him leave since [[InsaneTrollLogic someone of this mindset can't possibly be]] [[ProperlyParanoid an alien or a robot.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Millennium Cooperative. Although, how much of it is still active remains ambiguous.

* {{Macgyvering}}: Tannhauser does this regularly. Sometimes in rather sensible ways (ex. creating a makeshift flashlight with some jarred fireflies), occasionally veering into more obtuse territory (ex. stuffing a cheese skewer into a straw to form a makeshift dart gun), and climaxing with finding and combining some truly out-there implements when he has to construct the [[spoiler:Quantum Discriminator.]]

* MoonLogicPuzzle: While the developers tried to make it so that the puzzles were "designed to integrate into the narrative", some of them veer into this trope hard.
* MushroomSamba: Hallucinogenic mushrooms can be found in Trüberbrook which are used for medicinal and culinary purposes. Bolzenschuss, the local schnapps speciality, has them as a primary ingredient. When Tannhauser tries some after completing a puzzle, he attributes a suddens shift from the summer to winter seasons to the mushrooms in the drink, only for Madonna Lübke to shuffle into the scene to confirm that this change is indeed real. Tannhauser then realizes that this was a moment of RealityBleed due to the [[spoiler:Saturn Portal]] being tampered with further, and he's running out of time.
* QuirkyTown: The titular Trüberbrook.

* SceneryPorn: Thanks to photogrammetry techniques.

* {{Feelies}}: The manual of physical copies of the game is crafted in the style of a lavish brochure for the fictional town.

* SurpriseCreepy: The marshes of Trüberbrook, which are gray, dark, and have a [[spoiler:dead body in them.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Using the portal in the climax send Tannhauser to the raw un-chroma-keyed village square model, complete with un-textured, un-voiced character models, including his own.]]

* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:A mid-credits scene reveals the true nature of the game's first playable sequence - it's a StealthSequel depicting Gretchen's adventures in the multiverse after being knocked through the portal.]]

->''Beverly, I have arrived. I feel spewn out into the most barren, dark void of Europe. All things considered, this could most likely be...the best vacation ever.''

* WorldOfSymbolism: From what is said and read during the story, Trüberbrook ''is'' Cold War Germany as the Millennium Cooperative (an aggressive, outside, international force) came in shortly after the end of the second World War, gutted the place for resources to fulfill its agendas, and left the the town a shell of its former self. The specter of communism, the promise of Space Age, and an underlying theme of emigrating to blocked off and hopefully better places loom large.

* SceneryPorn: Thanks to photogrammetry techniques, the vistas consistently look gorgeous across all platforms.

* WorldOfSymbolism: From what is said and read during the story, Trüberbrook ''is'' Cold War Germany as the Millennium Cooperative (an aggressive, outside, international force) came in shortly after the end of the second World War, gutted the place for resources to fulfill its agendas, and left the the town a gutted shell of its former self. The specter of communism, the promise of Space Age, and an underlying theme of emigrating to blocked off and hopefully better places loom large.

The title was funded on Website/Kickstarter in under 30 hours, and as of 2020, it is available on [=iOS=], Android, Windows, Mac & Linux, UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XBoxOne, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* MadScientist: Of the scientists seen, who cover a wide range of disciplines, the ones affiliated with the Millennium Cooperative tend to veer into EvilScientist territory whilst the rest like Tannhauser and Lübke are just kind of odd. Taft might be the most normal and sane one of the bunch, and he's technically [[spoiler:an alien.]]