History VideoGame / YouAreEmpty

* ButThouMust: [[spoiler: The final level is set up as a TwoRoadsAheadOfYou type of scenario, with the protagonist being given the choice by the scientist of either replacing him in being supreme ruler of the world or going back in time and SettingRightWhatOnceWentWrong. The player can only make the second choice, however.]]

* ArchivedArmy: The Red Army soldiers with skull faces are anachronistic to the game's setting, being Revolution than [=WW2=]-era, as opposed to the rest of the army-men you encounter.

* AnAxeToGrind: The fireman enemy's weapon of choice is a fireaxe.

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: After shooting the scientist and preventing the end of the world, all of the soldiers around the protagonist (unsurprisingly, given that Stalin was next to the scientist) beat him to death.]]

* [[spoiler: MindControlConspiracy: Not a conspiracy, as that is what really happened. A brilliant but weak kid with mind control powers grew up into a brilliant scientist. Seeing a man die in a fight, he became determined to create a better man with his powers, and so persuaded Joseph Stalin to help him build a tower to which the scientist was connected, which mind controlled everyone in the world to be "better". He believes he succeeded.]]

* [[spoiler: SecretTest: The scientist is happy that he has created the new Soviet man; namely, the protagonist. Being perfect, he is left to choose the fate of humanity himself.]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The ending involves going back to the past and killing the scientist who plans to build the mind-controlling tower. The hero dies, but history goes on as normal.]]

* [[spoiler: UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The game ''heavily'' criticizes Societ utopianism, embodied in the mind-controlling scientist. The last level is even unsubtly called "Utopia".]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: All of the nurses have absurdly low-cut medical scrubs.

* CommieLand: Propaganda posters are suffocantly everywhere, even in the rural towns. "Totalitarianism alley" is an obvious indication of how this game tends to portray the USSR.

* AlternateHistory: Stalin is still alive and ruling in 1955, besides all of the AtomPunk mutants running around, of course.

* DrivenToSuicide: The offical in the City Council[[note]]Who is likely Lavrentiy Beria, [[TheDragon Deputy Premier]] to UsefulNotes/JosephStalin[[/note]] building shoots himself with a pistol, having determined that there is no hope for things to get better, not before helpfully giving you a roll of film that explains everything to play at the cinema.

* DrivenToSuicide: The offical in the City Council[[note]]Who is likely Lavrentiy Beria, [[TheDragon Deputy Premier]] to UsefulNotes/{{JosephStalin}}[[/note]] building shoots himself with a pistol, having determined that there is no hope for things to get better, not before helpfully giving you a roll of film that explains everything to play at the cinema.

* DrivenToSuicide: The offical in the City Council building shoots himself with a pistol, having determined that there is no hope for things to get better, not before helpfully giving you a roll of film that explains everything to play at the cinema.

* DirtyCommunists: The game has, unsurprinsingly, a very negative view of Communism (especially Stalinism) and its [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans utopianism]]. The scientist who wished to control human behaviour and the various hostile Red Army soldiers you encounter are not portrayed sympathetically.

* DummiedOut: [[https://youtu.be/8gkAnsP7rxw Weapons and enemies]] (like a butcher seen in the E3 trailer, an officer, an alternate skin for the nurse, a flamethrower), [[https://youtu.be/XWHCHQmG8YA levels]] (the beginning of the kolkhoz cutscene), and [[https://youtu.be/lQgzOBITiXY features]] (regenerating health) were cut from the game, but can still be easily accessed from the game files.

* TheWikiRule: Only in Russian, [[https://universe-by-game-you-are-empty.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%C2%ABYou_are_Empty%C2%BB_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8 here]]. Seriously NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's unclear whether or not the paratroopers are unmutated humans, given that they don't display any obvious mutations and seem to be following the orders of the official, who's confirmed human.

* ButThouMust: [[spoiler: The final level is set up as a RedPillBluePill type of scenario, with the protagonist being given the choice by the scientist of either replacing him in being supreme ruler of the world or going back in time and SettingRightWhatOnceWentWrong. The player can only make the second choice, however.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: The offical in the City Council building shoots hinself with a pistol, having determined that there is no hope for things to get better, not before helpfully giving you a roll of film that explains everything to play at the cinema.

* EvilTowerOfOminousness: [[spoiler: The reason for all the mutations and insanity is a large, red star-tipped tower built to harness the scientist's MindManipulation powers and create the new Soviet man. Jt looms ominously as you approach it in the final level.]]

* HongKongDub: The English dub is atrocious. All of the five humans you see speaking are seemingly voiced by the same man with a British accent, and the mouth movements do not match the dubbing. The man in the kolkhoz is parricularly noticeable in this.

* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The ending involves going back to the past and killing the scientist who plannes to build the mind-controlling tower. The hero dies, but history goes on as normal.]]

* AfterTheEnd: Soviet (and probably global) society has seemingly collapsed, [[spoiler: despite everyone being [[MindManipulation mind-controlled]] by an [[WideEyedIdealist scientist with utopian ambitions]]]], as everyone except a few people have all become horribly mutated and/or insane. It is somewhat ambiguous how well governments and other higher authorities function, as the man in the cooperative farm tells you to go to the City Council, where you meet an official who is seemingly in complete control of the soldiers around him.

* GasChamber: An empty room with a chair in the City Vouncil building is one. It is used by the official there to knock you out, after which he calls you into his office.

* AfterTheEnd: Soviet (and probably global) society has seemingly collapsed, [[spoiler: despite everyone being [[MindManipulation mind-controlled]] by an [[WideEyedIdealist utopian scientist]], as everyone except a few people have all become horribly mutated and/or insane. It is somewhat ambiguous how well governments and other higher authorities function, as the man in the cooperative farm tells you to go to the City Council, where you meet an official who is seemingly in complete control of the soldiers around him.

* GasChamber: An empty room with a chair in the Citt Vouncil building is one. It is used by the official there to knock you out, after which he calls you into his office.

* AbandonedHospitalAwakening: The gameplay begins begins with you awakening in an abandoned hospital, where there are zombie nurses with syringes and bandaged patients with broken sticks trying to kill you.

* AfterTheEnd: Soviet (and probably global) society has seemingly collapsed, [[spoiler: despite everyone being [[MindManipulation mind-controlled by an [[WideEyedIdealist utopian scientist]], as everyone except a few people have all become horribly mutated and/or insane. It is somewhat ambiguous how well governments and other higher authorities function, as the man in the cooperative farm tells you to go to the City Council, where you meet an official who is seemingly in complete control of the soldiers around him.
* AirborneMook: The Electricians. Basically, they are zombies with helicopter-like blades on their back that would fly dive down and attack you with their arc welder.

* ArchivedArmy: The Red Army soldiers with skull faces are anachronistic to the game's setting, being Revolution than WW2-era, as opposed to the rest of the army-men you encounter.

* BattleaxeNurse: The nurse enemy attacks you with kicks, scratches, and serynges, and she abuses the patients as well.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The last cutscene is the same as the first, only a bjt faster, up to a certain point where our protagonist shoots the scientist responsible for the device that ruined the world and then gets punmeled to death by other soldiers.]]

* ButThouMust: [[spoiler: The final level is set up as a RedPillBluePill type of scenario, with the protagonist being given the choice by the svientist of either replacing him in being supreme ruler of the world or going back in time and SettingRightWhatOnceWentWrong. The player can only make the second choice, however.]]
* CastFullOfCrazy: Besides the protagonist and four other NPCs, everyone is insane or horribly mutated (or both).

* CommieLand: Totalitarianism alley

* {{Cutscene}}: Only a few throughout the game. They are in black and white and show the evolution of a scientist from childhood up to the completion of a massive sciebtific project [[spoiler: to create the new, better, Sovirt man. It doesn't end well.]]
* DireBeast: Tje gigantic hens in the kolkhoz level have shades of this.
* DirtyCommunists: The game has, unsurprinsingly, a very negative view of Communism (especially Stalinism) and its [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans utopianism]]. The scientist who wished to co trol human behaviour and the various hostile Red Army soldiers you encounter are not portrayed sympathetically.
* DrivenToSuicide: The offical in the City Council building shoots hinself with a pistol, havinf determined that there is no hope for things to get better, not before helpfully giving you a roll of film that explains everything to play at the cinema.
* DummiedOut: [[https://youtu.be/8gkAnsP7rxw Weapons and enemies]] (like a butcher seen in the E3 trailer, an officer, an alternate skin for the nurse, a flamethrower), [[https://youtu.be/XWHCHQmG8YA levels]] (the beginning of the kolkhoz cutscene]], and [[https://youtu.be/lQgzOBITiXY features]] (regenerating health) were cut from the game, but can still be easily accessed from the game files.

* GasChamber: An empty room with a chair in the Citt Vouncil building is one. It is used by the offici there to knock you out, after which he calls you into his office.
* GasMaskMooks: The liquidators, armed with pistols, who make quealing noises.

* HammerAndSickle: While the symbol is common in the tons of propaganda posters you see through-out the game, they can also be found in the parralel and symmetrical enemies the peasant woman and the hammer worker. The peasant woman wields a sickle, is slow and is found in the cooperative farm, while the hammer worker wields a hammer and is found near industrial machinery.

* HeroicMime: Our hero never speaks, even when confronted with sane NPCs.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: After shooting the scientist and preventing the end of the world, all of the soldiers around the protagonist (unsurprisingly, given that Stalin was next to the scientist), beat him to death.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: The insane and mutated enemies you see run the gamut from normal-looking but apparently always choking men (the paratroopers), to buffer (most workers) or cadaver-like (peasant woman) humans with odd eyes, to men with rusting contraptions stapled to their bodies (electricians, patients), to almost zombies (nurses, hammer workers, Red Armt soldiers), to more ogres than men.

* LockAndKeyPuzzle: Common. A key wilk tell you where to find the key to unlock the gate, so you do.

* [[spoiler: MindControlConspiracy: Not a conspiracy, as that is what really happened. A brilliant bjt weak kid with mind control powers grew up into a brilliant scientist. Seeing a man die in a fight, he was deteemined to create a better man wirh his powers, and so persuaded Joseph Stalin to help him build a tower ro which the scientist was connected that mind controlled everhone in the world to be "better". He believes he succeeded.]]

* {{Mooks}}: The rivet worker enemies occasionalky come in groups. The paratroopers are the best example, guarding the City Council building and the tower at the end.
* {{Mutants}}: All of the enemies. Some have remained human bjt went insane, others have beckme more animalistic abominations.

* NoGearLevel: After being gased by the official in the City Cohncil building, all your weapons are taken away. You must slowly get them back, starting eith the pistol the official shot himself with.
* NonPlayerCharacter: Only four NPCs are in the game: the man from the kolkhoz, the City Council building official, the male ballet dancer from the theatre, and [[spoiler: the scientist hooked to the tower]].

* RaygunGothic: Occasionally appears with the electric weapon and enemy and the final level. Otherwise, the game's setiing is firmly grounded in reality.

* SoleSurvivor: Only five people in total, including the protagonist, remained alive and sane after [[the tower was activated. Becomes literal after the kolkhoz man and baller dancer die and the official commits suicide.]]
* SovietSuperscience: You Are Empty is a weird Soviet-style Atom Punk story about psi-emitter designed to create a "New Soviet Man", but it has Gone Horribly Wrong, creating insane zombies and killer Pavlov's Dogs.

* {{Telepathy}}: The scientist's power, extending from flies toStalin hinself, [[spoiler: harnessed for the tower]].
* UniqueEnemy: All firemen wield axes except a singlr one in the theatre who has a flamethrower.
* [[spoiler: UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The game ''heavily'' criticulizes Societ utopianism, embodies in the mind-controlling scientist. The last level is even unsubtly called "Utopia".]]
* WasOnceAMan: All of the mutants, especially the vomitting dog-like one and the electrical spider-thing.
* WideEyedIdealist: The scientist who, after seeing a man getting beaten to death, decided to create the new Soviet man and an utopia on earth. It did not work.

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* AbsoluteCleavage:
* AfterTheEnd:

* AlternateHistory:
* {{Angrish}}:
* AnAxeToGrind:
* AnimalEyes:
* AnimalisticAbomination:

* ArchivedArmy:

* BattleaxeNurse:
* BookEnds:
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
* ButThouMust:
* CastFullOfCrazy:

* CommissarCap:
* Cutscene:
* DireBeast:
* DirtyCommunists:
* DrivenToSuicide:
* DummiedOut:
* EmptyEyes:
* EvilMinions:
* EvilOldFolks:
* EvilTowerOfOminousness:

* FliesEqualsEvil:
* GagPenis:
* GasChamber:
* GasMaskMooks:
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath:
* HammerAndSickle:
* HearingVoices:
* HeroicMime:
* HeroicSacrifice:
* HongKongDub:
* HumanoidAbomination:
* HyperspaceArsenal:
* LockAndKeyPuzzle:
* MadDoctor:
* MindControlConspiracy:
* MisplacedAccent:
* MissingReflection:
* MolotovCocktail:
* MonstrousHumanoid:
* {{Mooks}}:
* {{Mutants}}:
* NailEm:
* NoGearLevel:
* NonPlayerCharacter:

* RaygunGothic:
* RodentsOfUnusualSize:

* SecondaryFire:
* [[spoiler: SecretTest: ]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: ]]
* ShockAndAwe:
* SkullForAHead:
* SoleSurvivor:

* SplashOfColor:
* {{Telepathy}}:
* UniqueEnemy:
* [[spoiler: UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: ]]
* WasOnceAMan:

* WrenchWhack:
* ZombiePukeAttack: