History Videogame / LittleInferno

* ArcWords: "You can't ever go back."
** Also, "It can't last forever."
** "You can't ever go back" is almost always paired with "You can go as far as you like, but..."
** More subtle, but still mentioned enough times to count, is "There's something more dangerous than fire". With hindsight, the "more dangerous thing" seems to be [[spoiler:lethargy, complacency or time-wasting]].

** More subtle, but still mentioned enough times to count, is "There's something more dangerous than fire". With hindsight, the "more dangerous thing" seems to be [[spoiler: lethargy, complacency or time-wasting]].

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Book of Darkness.]]

* CoolGate: [[spoiler: The gate to the Tomorrow Corporation. Or at least, the way it opens.]]

* TheFaceless: [[spoiler: The mailman who's been delivering you packages the whole time.]]
* FakingTheDead [[spoiler: Sugar Plumps.]]

* Hikikomori: The player character appears to be one, and likely most of the population as well. The player character never responds to Sugar Plumps, who at least attempts to socialize through letters, and is so addicted to the Little Inferno that he can't look away from it [[spoiler:even when the house next to his is burning to rubble and he hears screaming.]]
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Double subverted with Sugar Plumps.]]

* KillItWithIce: Some objects freeze others, preventing them from being burnt. Frozen objects can either be defrosted or shattered.

* MundaneMadeAwesome/[[spoiler: [[DramaticCurtainToss Dramatic Gate Raising]]: When you reach the Tomorrow Corporation building at the end of the game, the gate operator will only let you through if your request to open the gate is appropriately dramatic for such an important location. Apparently, the four booms are powered by two giant steam engines that produce booming honks and eject huge jets of steam into up to the sky, in one of the most awesome moments of the game. Or any game, for that matter.]]

* NightmareFace: The creepy smiley face in the middle of the fireplace, [[spoiler: which changes if you use a magnet, fireflies, exterminator, and/or sunglasses on it.]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: The fireproof curtains burn up around the time of Sugar Plumps's DisneyDeath.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Sugar Plumps becomes increasingly CuteAndPsycho up until her house burns down.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: All of the major characters say this at the end. Sugar Plumps leaves the city to live on a beach somewhere, Miss Nancy leaves the ''planet'', and the PlayerCharacter floats away in a balloon with the Weather Man.]]

* SpoiledByTheManual: A magazine, but [[spoiler: [[http://tomorrowcorporation.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/NP283_LittleInfernoPreviewPreview.png this]] Nintendo Power page...my ''god.'' It reveals the player character, the entire 4th catalog, and a screen from the ending.]]

* ToiletHumor: Kitty Kitty Poo Poo Plush.

* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: [[spoiler: When you burn the Transhumanist Action Figure, you can see his soul floating away.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: After burning the four things Sugar Plumps tells you to, your house burns down. The remainder of the game is spent walking around town, talking to people. In the end, your character gets into the weather balloon, leaving the city for somewhere else.]] This fits in with the ArcWords listed above.

** KillItWithIce: Some objects freeze others, preventing them from being burnt. Frozen objects can either be defrosted or shattered.

* LostForever: As fits the theme, there are some unique items that cannot be reacquired after burning them, including all the letters and [[spoiler:the hug coupon, which causes a (very) minor change in the game's ending if you keep it.]]
* LoudnessWar: [[spoiler:The Sonic Boombox.]]

* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler: the protagonist]]
* NonPlayerCharacter

** Or indeed ''your own!''

* TakeThat: The Old-Timey Camera description is a possible one towards Instagram.
** A ''lot'' of the descriptions are taking shots at various things, mean-spirited or otherwise. We might need another page for them all.
*** Fridge Brilliance when you realize that the contempt for so many things on display could be symbolic of your character's disregard and fear of the outside world.

''Little Inferno'' is an indie [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] made by Tomorrow Corporation for [[{{IOS}} iPad]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Wii U.

''Little Inferno'' is an indie [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] made by [[VideoGame/WorldOfGoo Tomorrow]] [[HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure Corporation]] for [[{{IOS}} iPad]], UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Wii U.

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** [[spoiler:Miss Nancy says that she always wanted to be an astronaut, and implied that she, personally, had little time left; it might be just a rich woman deciding to finally follow through and explore the cosmos.]]

* LargeHam: Despite only talking in letters, Sugar Plumps is this because a third of the time makes her works as looong as possible, and another third she CAPITALIZES HER WORDS!

''Little Inferno'' is an indie [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox game]] made by [[VideoGame/WorldOfGoo Tomorrow]] [[HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure Corporation]] for [[{{IOS}} iPad]], {{Steam}} and Wii U.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Before the game starts, the player is given a warning to not play with fire.

* CuddleBug: Miss Nancy. She even gives you a hug coupon!

* [[spoiler: DistantFinale: Sugar Plumps looks older and refers to her house burning down as happening "so long ago", so it is implied that it takes place several years after the game. She is on a beach getting a tan by the end, The Weather Man takes the player out of the town, and Miss Nancy has gone to space. In addition, while you received the Free Hug Coupon only hours ago in game-time, Miss Nancy remarks that they "Haven't printed these for years!" if you keep it and give it to her in the epilogue.]]

* [[spoiler: PlayableEpilogue: Unlocked by burning a secret combination of items. It reveals that Sugar Plumps survived her house burning down and left the city for a beach and that Miss Nancy is the CEO of the Tomorrow Corporation, among other things.]]

* LetsPlay: Simon and Lewis of The LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} did an 11-part Let's Play of the game, the first part of which can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIoGnC2YUU4 here.]]

* AfterTheEnd: [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe.]] There are a few obvious apocalyptic themes ([[ArcWords "This can't last forever" and "you can't ever go back"]]), and several mentions that it's been snowing for years without end and no-one seems to know why ([[spoiler: though the amount of ash being pumped into the atmosphere all the time may have something to do with it]]). Everyone is wilfully enslaved to their fireplaces for warmth and entertainment. [[spoiler: The sun is either ''way'' bigger or way ''closer'' than it ought to be and it's constantly in a state of half-rising, half-setting (implying the world has literally ''stopped spinning''.)]] And in the epilogue, [[spoiler: it turns out that it's ''still getting colder''. Miss Nancy tells us that the whole city is slowing down and wasting away, and soon enough it's expected to stop altogether and remain frozen forever.]] It's unclear whether the rest of the globe is in the same state, but if it weren't [[spoiler: why would Miss Nancy write off the entire planet as a lost cause and leave for space?]]

* NamesTheSame: In-game Tomorrow Corporation and the real world Tomorrow Corporation (the game devs).

* ColbertBump: It would not come as a surprise if the Yogscast were responsible for the recent increase in sales.

* LetsPlay: Simon and Lewis of The LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} did an 11-part Let's Play of the game, the first part of which can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIoGnC2YUU4 here.]] It might very well be responsible for [[ColbertBump an increase in the game's popularity]].

* {{Mascot}}: The Eager Bunny seems to be becoming this, appearing in several promotional materials and things. Again, possibly because of the Yogscast.

* TakeThatAudience: The game not-so-subtley chides you for wasting your time playing a game where you do nothing but burn things in a fireplace.

* NamesTheSame: In-game Tomorrow Corporation and the real world Tomorrow Corporation (the game devs.)

* FakeLongevity: Some people view the combo system and the waiting times this.

The story is told via a series of letters sent from different characters you meet along the way: [[TheCutie Sugar Plumps,]] a little girl who is in the same situation as you [[spoiler:and is your next door neighbor]], [[CuddleBug Miss Nancy,]] an employee from Tomorrow Corporation, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Weather Man,]] and [[TheFaceless a mysterious figure]] [[spoiler:(who is actually said neighbour.)]] Throughout the game, you burn items and spiders that crawl through the fireplace, get coins, then buy and unlock various new things to burn from the aforementioned catalogs. True to the real world, you have to wait for the items to arrive, but usually do not surpass a minute, and can be sped up with stamps that are collected from burning things. There is also a combo system in place that is sometimes required to move on to unlock the next catalogue. The combos are fairly easy to figure out; for instance, [[AppliedMathematics Alarm Clock + Instant Seed Packet = "Springtime".]]

* MundaneMadeAwesome/[[spoiler: [[DramaticCurtainToss Dramatic Gate Raising]]: When you reach the Tomorrow Corporation building at the end of the game, the gate opperator will only let you through if your request to open the gate is appropriately dramatic for such an important location. Apparently, the four booms are powered by two giant steam engines that produce booming honks and eject huge jets of steam into up to the sky, in one of the most awesome moments of the game. Or any game, for that matter.]]

The story is told via a series of letters sent from different characters you meet along the way: [[TheCutie Sugar Plumps,]] a little girl who is in the same situation as you [[spoiler:and is your next door neighbor]], [[CuddleBug Miss Nancy,]] an employee from Tomorrow Corporation, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Weather Man,]] and [[TheFaceless a mysterious figure]] [[spoiler:(who is also Sugar Plumps.)]] Throughout the game, you burn items and spiders that crawl through the fireplace, get coins, then buy and unlock various new things to burn from the aforementioned catalogs. True to the real world, you have to wait for the items to arrive, but usually do not surpass a minute, and can be sped up with stamps that are collected from burning things. There is also a combo system in place that is sometimes required to move on to unlock the next catalogue. The combos are fairly easy to figure out; for instance, [[AppliedMathematics Alarm Clock + Instant Seed Packet = "Springtime".]]