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''True Fear: Forsaken Souls'' is a set (currently a duology, intented to be a trilogy) of horror games made by Goblinz Studio and originally released by Big Fish Games. While the first game was primarily a HiddenObjectGame when first released, the revised version for console and Steam and the sequel game are more classic PointAndClick puzzle games.
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''True Fear: Forsaken Souls'' is a set (currently a duology, intented intended to be a trilogy) of horror games made by Goblinz Studio and originally released by Big Fish Games. While the first game was primarily a HiddenObjectGame when first released, the revised version for console and Steam and the sequel game are more classic PointAndClick puzzle games.
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* DeadAllAlong: When Holly finds [[spoiler: her sister Heather]], the latter has been dead long enough to have essentially been mummified.
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* AssholeVictim: Averted by [[spoiler: The Realtor]] and [[spoiler: The Journalist]], who were both grouchy and somewhat egotistical in their notes and logs, but didn't actually do anything to deserve their miserable deaths. Played straighter by [[spoiler: Igor]], whose death by being frozen solid is discovered after several records of his disdain and abuse of patients has already been read.
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* AssholeVictim: Averted by [[spoiler: The Realtor]] and [[spoiler: The Journalist]], who were both grouchy and somewhat egotistical in their notes and logs, but didn't actually do anything to deserve their miserable deaths. Played straighter by [[spoiler: Igor]], whose death by being frozen solid is discovered after several records of his disdain and abuse of patients has have already been read.
* DisappearedDad: Holly's mother told the girls that their father had died. She told her own parents that he'd run off. [[spoiler: There was never a father at all.]]
* PartingWordsRegret: The sisters' grandparents had a fight after their mother's suspicious death when all of the anxiety over the family's situation came to a head over an entirely mundane incident (a broken bookend). Their grandfather intended to apologize, but died before he could, and their grandmother never got over it.
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* PartingWordsRegret: The sisters' grandparents had a fight after their mother's suspicious death when all of the anxiety over the family's situation came to a head over an entirely mundane incident (a broken bookend). Their father intended to apologize, but died before he could, and their grandmother never got over it.
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* AxCrazy: Jack Smith apparently went raving mad and slaughtered his coworkers at the asylum before disappearing.
* BystanderSyndrome: There are several instances of asylum employees writing about their superiors making decisions they're uncomfortable with concerning the patients, especially [[spoiler: Dahlia and the mysterious Three]]. The majority don't do anything to interfere, however.
* BystanderSyndrome: There are several instances of asylum employees writing about their superiors making decisions they're uncomfortable with concerning the patients, especially [[spoiler: Dahlia and the mysterious Three]]. The majority don't do anything to interfere, however.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Starving after falling in a pit and breaking one's legs, being burned to death while trying to escape the building, being slowly frozen to death and unable to do anything to stop it, whatever the ''hell'' happened to Heather after she'd been dragged into the basement...
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Starving after falling in a pit and breaking one's legs, being burned to death while trying to escape the building, being slowly frozen to death and unable to do anything to stop it, whatever the ''hell'' happened to [[spoiler: Heather after she'd been dragged into the basement...]]
* {{Determinator}}: Even while exhausted and scared out of her wits, Holly keeps pressing on to find the truth.
* {{Determinator}}: Even while exhausted and scared out of her wits, Holly keeps pressing on to find the truth.
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* InVinoVeritas: A log left behind by the girls' mother says that the most Charles Laudius ever confessed about the pregnancy ritual going wrong was when he was ''intensely'' drunk and depressed.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Unlike that of [[spoiler: her sister]], Holly never comes across the bodies of [[spoiler: Jack Smith]] or [[spoiler: The Journalist]], just the bloody holes in the walls where they were dragged away.
* NeverSuicide: The death of the girls' mother was listed as a suicide, but the more information Holly digs up, the more suspicious of this she becomes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The few people who ''do'' try to stop what's going on in the asylum undoubtedly make things ''worse,'' (the fire, the massacre) but how much of their drastic actions was them acting under their own decisions and how much of it was them being influenced by [[spoiler: HER]] is currently under question.
* OhCrap: Holly gets several, but the most intense one is described in one of the audio logs: when told that there would be [[spoiler: triplets]] born rather than the expected only child, the ever composed Charles Laudius went ''death white''.
* PlayfulHacker: "The Amazing Alex" liked to prank his coworkers with things like messing with their passwords, but was generally considered a friend by most of the staff and even [[spoiler: tried to help Jack figure out what was happening with Dahlia.]]
* NeverSuicide: The death of the girls' mother was listed as a suicide, but the more information Holly digs up, the more suspicious of this she becomes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The few people who ''do'' try to stop what's going on in the asylum undoubtedly make things ''worse,'' (the fire, the massacre) but how much of their drastic actions was them acting under their own decisions and how much of it was them being influenced by [[spoiler: HER]] is currently under question.
* OhCrap: Holly gets several, but the most intense one is described in one of the audio logs: when told that there would be [[spoiler: triplets]] born rather than the expected only child, the ever composed Charles Laudius went ''death white''.
* PlayfulHacker: "The Amazing Alex" liked to prank his coworkers with things like messing with their passwords, but was generally considered a friend by most of the staff and even [[spoiler: tried to help Jack figure out what was happening with Dahlia.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Shh.]]
''True Fear: Forsaken Souls'' is a set (currently a duology, intented to be a trilogy) of horror games made by Goblinz Studio and originally released by Big Fish Games. While the first game was primarily a HiddenObjectGame when first released, the revised version for console and Steam and the sequel game are more classic PointAndClick puzzle games.
Protagonist Holly Stonehouse wakes up from a lurid nightmare to an unexpected letter from her twin sister, Heather, begging her to visit. Driving out to her sister's house sets her on a confrontation with her family's hidden past, the supernatural forces woven into it, and what the Dark Falls Asylum and one Charles Laudius has to do with it all.
!!''True Falls: Forsaken Souls'' contains examples of:
* AbandonedHospital / AbandonedLaboratory: Dark Falls Asylum, closed after a deadly fire and a bloody massacre.
* {{Adorkable}}: Holly's investigation text has a lot of snark and understandable fear about what she's being put through, but also she gets excited about small things like a pen made out of a chunk of titanium.
* ApocalypticLog: ''Oh yes.'' Nearly every dead character has some record left behind to tell their story.
* AssholeVictim: Averted by [[spoiler: The Realtor]] and [[spoiler: The Journalist]], who were both grouchy and somewhat egotistical in their notes and logs, but didn't actually do anything to deserve their miserable deaths. Played straighter by [[spoiler: Igor]], whose death by being frozen solid is discovered after several records of his disdain and abuse of patients has already been read.
* CreepyCemetery: [[spoiler: ''Under the girls' childhood home.'']]
* CreepyDoll: There are creepy toys all over the place, but most prominent is Katie, Holly's childhood doll who acts as the player's hint tool and has glowing red eyes whenever she's active.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Starving after falling in a pit and breaking one's legs, being burned to death while trying to escape the building, being slowly frozen to death and unable to do anything to stop it, whatever the ''hell'' happened to Heather after she'd been dragged into the basement...
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the second game, a figure can be seen collapsing on the security cameras during the guard's flashback in the prologue. This is in fact [[spoiler: the time-displaced Holly from the end of the game.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Charles Laudius may be responsible for the entire conspiracy, but even ''he'' was apparently terrified by [[spoiler: whatever SHE is]].
* GuideDangIt: Some of the puzzles or objects aren't intuitive at all, and a walkthrough comes in handy when trying for all of the achievements.
* JumpScare: ''All over the place.'' [[spoiler: The SHE]] at the heart of the hauntings likes to play with [[spoiler: her]] victims.
* LiteralSplitPersonality / SoulFragment: Implied to be what [[spoiler: the triplets]] really are.
* ManipulativeBastard: ''Charles Laudius.'' The deeper Holly's investigation goes, the more she finds he had his hands in nearly ''everything'' from behind the scenes.
* PartingWordsRegret: The sisters' grandparents had a fight after their mother's suspicious death when all of the anxiety over the family's situation came to a head over an entirely mundane incident (a broken bookend). Their father intended to apologize, but died before he could, and their grandmother never got over it.
* [[spoiler: SameSexTriplets]]
* SanitySlippage: Anyone who comes in contact with [[spoiler: HER]] can be expected to go downhill in a hurry, with Jack Smith being the most blatant example.
* SurpriseMultipleBirth: Whatever the ritual was that got the girls' mother pregnant, it was ''not'' supposed to cause more than one child.
* TwinThemeNaming: Plants.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Subverted. Holly originally thinks that [[spoiler: Dahlia's ghost]] is responsible for all the deaths and chaos, angry about her own death, but it turns out [[spoiler: Dahlia survived the fire]] and [[spoiler: SHE]] appeared while [[spoiler: Dahlia]] was still alive.
[[caption-width-right:350:Shh.]]
''True Fear: Forsaken Souls'' is a set (currently a duology, intented to be a trilogy) of horror games made by Goblinz Studio and originally released by Big Fish Games. While the first game was primarily a HiddenObjectGame when first released, the revised version for console and Steam and the sequel game are more classic PointAndClick puzzle games.
Protagonist Holly Stonehouse wakes up from a lurid nightmare to an unexpected letter from her twin sister, Heather, begging her to visit. Driving out to her sister's house sets her on a confrontation with her family's hidden past, the supernatural forces woven into it, and what the Dark Falls Asylum and one Charles Laudius has to do with it all.
!!''True Falls: Forsaken Souls'' contains examples of:
* AbandonedHospital / AbandonedLaboratory: Dark Falls Asylum, closed after a deadly fire and a bloody massacre.
* {{Adorkable}}: Holly's investigation text has a lot of snark and understandable fear about what she's being put through, but also she gets excited about small things like a pen made out of a chunk of titanium.
* ApocalypticLog: ''Oh yes.'' Nearly every dead character has some record left behind to tell their story.
* AssholeVictim: Averted by [[spoiler: The Realtor]] and [[spoiler: The Journalist]], who were both grouchy and somewhat egotistical in their notes and logs, but didn't actually do anything to deserve their miserable deaths. Played straighter by [[spoiler: Igor]], whose death by being frozen solid is discovered after several records of his disdain and abuse of patients has already been read.
* CreepyCemetery: [[spoiler: ''Under the girls' childhood home.'']]
* CreepyDoll: There are creepy toys all over the place, but most prominent is Katie, Holly's childhood doll who acts as the player's hint tool and has glowing red eyes whenever she's active.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Starving after falling in a pit and breaking one's legs, being burned to death while trying to escape the building, being slowly frozen to death and unable to do anything to stop it, whatever the ''hell'' happened to Heather after she'd been dragged into the basement...
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the second game, a figure can be seen collapsing on the security cameras during the guard's flashback in the prologue. This is in fact [[spoiler: the time-displaced Holly from the end of the game.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Charles Laudius may be responsible for the entire conspiracy, but even ''he'' was apparently terrified by [[spoiler: whatever SHE is]].
* GuideDangIt: Some of the puzzles or objects aren't intuitive at all, and a walkthrough comes in handy when trying for all of the achievements.
* JumpScare: ''All over the place.'' [[spoiler: The SHE]] at the heart of the hauntings likes to play with [[spoiler: her]] victims.
* LiteralSplitPersonality / SoulFragment: Implied to be what [[spoiler: the triplets]] really are.
* ManipulativeBastard: ''Charles Laudius.'' The deeper Holly's investigation goes, the more she finds he had his hands in nearly ''everything'' from behind the scenes.
* PartingWordsRegret: The sisters' grandparents had a fight after their mother's suspicious death when all of the anxiety over the family's situation came to a head over an entirely mundane incident (a broken bookend). Their father intended to apologize, but died before he could, and their grandmother never got over it.
* [[spoiler: SameSexTriplets]]
* SanitySlippage: Anyone who comes in contact with [[spoiler: HER]] can be expected to go downhill in a hurry, with Jack Smith being the most blatant example.
* SurpriseMultipleBirth: Whatever the ritual was that got the girls' mother pregnant, it was ''not'' supposed to cause more than one child.
* TwinThemeNaming: Plants.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Subverted. Holly originally thinks that [[spoiler: Dahlia's ghost]] is responsible for all the deaths and chaos, angry about her own death, but it turns out [[spoiler: Dahlia survived the fire]] and [[spoiler: SHE]] appeared while [[spoiler: Dahlia]] was still alive.
