History VideoGame / TwelveThirteen

* OntologicalMystery: Stop me if you've heard this one: you awake in a room with no memory. Through exploration, you learn a backstory of horror, and ultimately fight to liberate yourself from your condition of ignorance. Yahtzee happily [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in the special edition commentary.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: InUniverse [[spoiler:The secret silly ending. Quite literally, actually.]]

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: O'Hagan makes the incredibly wise decision to tell Westbury that she hasn't told anyone about the evidence against him. Note that Westbury didn't even ask about evidence, she threatens him with it ''[[TooDumbToLive while he's holding a gun]]''.

''1213'' is a freeware game in three parts by [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' fame.

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: O'Hagan makes the incredibly wise decision to tell Westbury that she hasn't told anyone about the evidence against him. Note that Westbury didn't even ask, she threatens him ''[[TooDumbToLive while he's pointing a gun at her]]''.

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* [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization Not If They Can't Remember It Rationalization]]: Not-so-subtly implied by O'Hagan; Westbury does "unpleasant things" to 1213, but she doesn't do anything about it because 1213 won't remember it, so it's better to just let Westbury use him as an outlet for his stress in the hope that it'll help his mental health.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: The horrible truth learned just in time for the player to realize just how badly every last source of hope has been destroyed.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: 1213's entire perception of reality breaks down on several occasions, leaving you to keep him ahead of the breakdown.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] The inky blackness doesn't kill you, and doesn't advance on its own, [[TakeYourTime only advancing when you reach a certain point]].
* [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow: All air-breathing life on Earth has died from a pathogen, and the space station gets overrun by zombies. It's reasonable to assume that by the end of things, 1213 is the only living mammal in existence.]]

* {{Backtracking}}
* BandagedFace

* [[spoiler:ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts]]: The horrible truth learned just in time for the player to realize just how badly every last source of hope has been destroyed.
* [[spoiler: CloningBlues]]: What the facility was built for.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In a sense, Westbury.
** Otherwise subverted by Westbury's [[spoiler:''downright hatred'' of these sorts of people and how they go about doing things - this is the entire basis of his MotiveRant. When Petrovitch asks Westbury "Do you know how much that costs?!?" when 1213 destroys the final boss, Westbury ''snaps'', and shoots the poor guy in the head. Westbury ''despises'' bureaucrats. In fact, in the Special Edition commentary, Yahtzee makes a point that this [[PrecisionFStrike piece of dialogue has the only example of profanity in the game to demonstrate how absolutely pissed off he is]].]]

** Petrovich himself has a bit of CorruptCorporateExecutive about him. Who else would care so much about equipment costs when [[spoiler: the last living humans]] are suffering from a ZombieApocalypse?
* DeathCourse
* DownerEnding: And ''how''. Even the comparatively silly hidden ending is equally depressing when you think about it.
** Not really. [[spoiler:Death by chocolate sounds positively ''divine'']]

* InsecurityCamera: Mostly averted; most cameras are decorative, and only two will impede your progress if they see you.

* LateToTheTragedy

* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Westbury, Westbury, Westbury.
* MotherlyScientist: O'Hagan. And, in his own twisted way, possibly Westbury.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By generally shooting everything that moves, 1213's considered a threat by the crew of the facility, which is a damned shame, considering what his purpose is...
** Not to mention [[spoiler:releasing the zombies from the first chapter to spread throughout the remainder of the facility when he blasts his way through the quarantine]]. Oops.
* NobodyPoops: Shower blocks exist, barracks exist, there's even a small mess room and an entire ''food court'', but not one toilet.
** [[FridgeBrilliance They could very well be behind those doors in the background.]]
* OntologicalMystery: Stop me if you've heard this one: you awake in a room with no memory. Through exploration, you learn a backstory of horror, and ultimately fight to liberate yourself from your condition of ignorance.
** Yahtzee happily [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in the special edition commentary.
* PrecisionFStrike: As demonstrated above.
* PuzzleBoss: The final boss.

* YouWakeUpInARoom
* ZombieApocalypse: Granted, it ''is'' confined to the facility. However, [[spoiler: there ''isn't anything else left'' by the time the plot begins]] so it kinda still counts.

* IdiotBall: O'Hagan is a trained psychologist who ''already knows'' how crazy Westbury is. She ''still'' thinks it's a good idea to collect evidence against him and threaten him with it [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse before telling anyone else]]. To his face, '''while he's armed'''.

* AntiVillain: Westbury. You'd be insane too if you'd [[GoMadFromTheRevelation been through everything he has]].

* IdiotBall: O'Hagan is a trained psychologist who ''already knows'' how crazy Westbury is. She ''still'' thinks it's a good idea to collect evidence against him and threaten him with it [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse before telling anyone else]]. '''While he's armed'''.

* TakeThat: In the second episode, Croshaw included a "sprint" function, which allows 1213 to run faster at the risk of making his heart explode, by request of the fan-base. He then did not include a single puzzle in the game that requires the faster speed imparted by the sprint function.

** More pleasant in the secret ending, where [[spoiler: there are still people alive, but most of them have turned into magic chocolate people.]]

Somewhat inspired by ''Flashback'' with some ''SystemShock'' thrown in for good measure, ''1213'' is an action-adventure platformer complete with gun combat. Not bad for a game engine specifically ''designed'' for point-and-click adventure games. The title character, 1213, manages to escape the cell in which he has lived for as long as he can remember (which isn't that far back) into something much worse.

''1213'' is a freeware game in three parts by [[BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]. [[ZeroPunctuation Yes, it's him again]].

As with the ChzoMythos games, Yahtzee made a special edition of 1213. Originally donationware, [[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/donate.htm it is now free to download]].

* ApocalypticLog

Somewhat inspired by ''Flashback'' with some ''SystemShock'' thrown in for good measure, ''1213'' is an action-adventure platformer complete with gun combat. Not bad for a game engine specifically ''designed'' for point-and-click adventure games. The title character, 1213, manages to escape the cell in which he has lived for as long as he can remember (Which isn't that far back) into something much worse.

* LateToTheParty

* TheIshmael: 1213 towards Westbury.

* [[spoiler:[=~But What About The Astronauts?~=]]]: The horrible truth learned just in time for the player to realize just how badly every last source of hope has been destroyed.

** Not really. [[spoiler:death by chocolate sounds positively ''divine'']]