History VideoGame / WhoPressedMuteOnUncleMarcus

* RewatchBonus: If you know the identity of the killer, you will notice some suspicious behavior. [[spoiler:In Round 1, Mum, Nan, and Aunt Jane all share about Uncle Marcus catching fire and who did what in response, but Nan leaves out that she applied a first aid kit, which is likely how the poison was applied. Immediately after Round 1, Nan turns her camera off, giving her time to send the threatening messages to Abby. And after Round 3 when she shares about Uncle Marcus' previous paranoid delusions, she talks about anonymous e-mails despite her saying in Round 1 that she neither has an e-mail nor really understands how the internet works.]]

* GeniusBonus: If you know a bit about the three possible poisons (or look them up online), you can make an educated guess about which one was used based on how easily it might be administered. [[spoiler:Polonium-210 is so difficult to produce that Russia exports only 8 grams per month. Dimethylmercury is so dangerous to handle that it can permeate certain types of gloves. But Thalium was once used in easy to obtain rat poison and led to a string of murders in 1950s Australia.]]

* LifeMeter: Used to track the declining health of the poisoned Uncle Marcus. It even increases if you correctly give him the proper antidote and it starts working.

* TragicMistake: If Abby concludes that [[spoiler:Marcus is faking his poisoning]].

* SmugSnake: In the ending where the killer is fingered but Marcus passes away, [[spoiler:Nan gloats that there's nothing Abby can do and she should just let it go for her own good, as Marcus' share in the family business goes back to Nan and she can now just buy off anyone she needs to]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The GoldenEnding, in which Abby both saves Marcus and fingers the correct murderer, is capped off with Abby giving one of these to [[spoiler:every single relative in the group call before cutting them all out of her life (except Lottie, whose shallowness is a byproduct of their screwed-up family and tolerable enough that Abby says she might text her again later)]].

* ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler:Nan had killed her husband, Eddie, because he was planning on leaving her to be with his mistress/Marcus' mother, cutting Nan and her daughters out of the family business and fortune in the process.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Toby's life revolves around charitable causes (well, mainly how he can seem like a better person for supporting them), and he uses his round of the quiz to guilt-trip his relatives into caring more about global crises like climate change and supporting third-world countries. He also [[spoiler:invested all of his money in a diamond mine that was shut down by Amnesty International for exploiting slave labor, which he claims he wasn't aware of]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Quite literally everyone in the family, aside from Abby, is some degree of awful. [[spoiler:Aside from Nan's attempt on Marcus's life, each member of the family have their own secrets that are uncovered with each of their respective accusations. Felicity is an uncaring mother and have put her reputation and image before the happiness of her daughters. June is an example of what staying in the toxic environment of the family would do to someone, it's very clear that she is just a tired and hollow shell of a woman, trying to drink away her depression. Toby is revealed to actually have been living out of a van in London, and not in Africa due to a greedy investment that went south. Bradley does some pretty disturbing and dangerous things, with the fact he has access to illegal poisons just the tip of the iceberg. Lottie confesses that along with her career as a social media influencer, she is also selling cocaine on the side. Even Uncle Marcus is revealed to have had bouts of paranoia a couple years prior.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Uncle Marcus, in trying to get Abby to turn on her own parents and interrogate them in order to reveal their dark secrets, provokes her into admitting that she'd rather be a game designer and is only currently studying law because that's what her parents wanted her to do.

* AffablyEvil: The true culprit of poisoning. [[spoiler:Nan is by far the most outwardly nice to Abby and the other family members. But after you accuse her of murder she still remains fairly friendly if not, a little worried about the future of herself and her descendants.]]

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The game retains any evidence you find from your previous playthroughs, on top of that the game allows you to skip cutscenes already see, saving you the aggravation of playing through certain parts of the story over and over. [[TrialAndErrorGameplay which you will do.... a lot.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Quite literally everyone in the family, aside from Abby, is some degree of awful. [[spoiler:Aside from Nan's attempt on Marcus's life, each member of the family have their own secrets that are uncovered with each of their respective accusations. Felicity is an uncaring mother and have put her reputation and image before the happiness of her daughters. June is an example of what staying in the toxic environment of the family would do to someone, it's very clear that she is just a tired and hollow shell of a woman, trying to drink away her depression. Toby is revealed to actually have been living out of a van in London, and not in Africa due to a greedy investment that went south. Bradley does some pretty disturbing and dangerous things, with the fact he has access to illegal poisons is the tip of the iceberg. Lottie confesses that along with her career as a social media influencer, she is also selling cocaine on the side. Even Uncle Marcus is revealed to have had bouts of paranoia a couple years prior.]]

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Felicity calls Lottie a "brainless, stuck-up little moron" towards the start of Toby's quiz round, Lottie objects to being called stuck-up.

* BeneathSuspicion: The path to the GoldenEnding has a moment of this. [[spoiler:After learning from Lottie about two of Bradley's poisons going missing, Abby can interrogate Bradley over who knew he kept poisons. He notes that he had told Lottie to brag about his collection, that Toby would've had access...and then he pauses, gasps "it couldn't be", and adds that Nan was snooping in his room the morning the poisons went missing.]]

You play as Abby, a young woman has experience in investigation, who receive a disturbing video call from her uncle, Marcus, claiming that he has been poisoned by one of the other family during their last family gathering and is hours away from dying. He asks for Abby's help by having her enter her family's virtual quiz night and have her find the poison that was used, evidence for why a family member would poison Marcus, and of course, the culprit themselves.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Quite literally everyone in the family, aside from Abby, is some degree of awful. [[spoiler:Aside from Nan's attempt on Marcus's life, each member of the family have their own secrets that are uncovered with each of their respective accusations. Felicity is an uncaring mother and have put her reputation and image before the happiness of her daughters. June is an example of what staying in the toxic environment of the family would do to someone, it's very clear that she is just a tired and hollow shell of a woman, trying to drink away her depression. Toby is revealed to actually have been living out of a van in London, and not in Africa due to a greedy investment that went south. Bradley does some pretty disturbing and dangerous things the fact he has access to illegal poisons in the tip of the iceberg. Lottie confesses that along with her career as a social media influencer, she is also selling cocaine on the side. Even Uncle Marcus is revealed to have had bouts of paranoia a couple years prior.]]

* ABirthdayNotABreak: The events of the story take place on family quiz night, which is also the birthday of Felicity, her mother.

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus is an FMV Mystery Game developed by Wales Studios and released on March 18, 2022.

* AffablyEvil: The true culprit of poisoning. [[spoiler: Nan is by far the most outwardly nice to Abby and the other family members. But after you accuse her of murder she still remains fairly friendly if not, a little worried about the future of herself and her descendants.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Quite literally everyone in the family, aside from Abby, is some degree of awful. [[spoiler: Aside from Nan's attempt on Marcus's life, each member of the family have their own secrets that are uncovered with each of their respective accusations. Felicity is an uncaring mother and have put her reputation and image before the happiness of her daughters. June is an example of what staying in the toxic environment of the family would do to someone, it's very clear that she is just a tired and hollow shell of a woman, trying to drink away her depression. Toby is revealed to actually have been living out of a van in London, and not in Africa due to a greedy investment that went south. Bradley does some pretty disturbing and dangerous things the fact he has access to illegal poisons in the tip of the iceberg. Lottie confesses that along with her career as a social media influencer, she is also selling cocaine on the side. Even Uncle Marcus is revealed to have had bouts of paranoia a couple years prior.]]
* BittersweetEnding: Any ending where you save Uncle Marcus but are unable to find the true culprit. And then the ending where you do find the true culprit, but failed to save Marcus.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Quite literally everyone in the family, aside from Abby, is some degree of awful. From Felicity and June's unbridled disdain for each other and other family members, to Toby's smug, holier-than-thou attitude because he works for good causes, to Bradley's creepy and apathetic behavior, and Lottie's general shallow and self-absorbed personality. Even Uncle Marcus is revealed to have had episodes of paranoia in the past. And then there's Nan who, while never outwardly awful, seems to be an enabler to everyone else's behavior. Then, there is the fact one of them made an attempt on Uncle Marcus's life.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Quite literally everyone in the family, aside from Abby, is some degree of awful. From Felicity and June's unbridled disdain for each other and other family members, to Toby's smug, holier-than-thou attitude because he works for good causes, to Bradley's creepy and apathetic behavior, and Lottie's general shallow and self-absorbed personality. Even Uncle Marcus is revealed to have had episodes of paranoia in the past. And then there's Nan who, while never outwardly awful, seems to be an enabler to everyone else's behavior. Then, there is the fact one of them made an attempt on Uncle Marcus's life.

The game has multiple endings, and the series of events are short, so the player is encouraged to play multiple times in order to find all that there is to find.