History YMMV / AntiChamber

* GeniusBonus: One of the items on the moral wall is the phrase "[[EpilepticTrees Some things don't]] [[DefiedTrope have a deeper meaning]]," the image this is paired with being [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a pig in rollerskates, goggles, and with the number 18 drawn on it's side]]. At first one might think this to be an [[InvokedTrope invoked]] BigLippedAlligatorMoment, but it might actually be a reference to a particular joke: "Step 1: grease four pigs. Step 2: write the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5 on their sides with a marker. Step 3: discreetly release them in a large public building at different locations. Step 5: Watch as they search for #4."

* ThatOnePuzzle: Link in a Chain Reaction. The only puzzle in the game to require decent spatial awareness, and utilizing the game's less than stellar three dimensional block construction.

* ThatOneLevel: ''Stairway to Heaven'', ironically, is one of the rooms you'll end up hating the most; not because of its difficulty, but because many different puzzles around the game lead to it (it's quite the inverse of a HubLevel: it has a lot of different entries, but not many exits). It can be very frustrating to solve a puzzle believing you're going to unlock a new zone, only to discover you're again in the same room where you've already been lots of times. Worse yet, once you've seen the room's glowing spheres, and therefore realised where you're now, it's too late to go back: the passage you came from has already disappeared, meaning you have to use the Escape button to come back there.

* EarWorm: Once you hear the pendulum enough times, it can be difficult to avoid hearing it even when your (seemingly) nowhere near it.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The black block (the only thing in the game that you could tentatively call a character) is pretty creepy, so it's easy to think of it as an antagonist, [[YankTheDogsChain a tease]], an EldritchAbomination, etc. But you could also interpret it as just...[[spoiler:lost]]. It seems to be [[spoiler:trying to find its way home]]. This also gives us an alternate interpretation of the ''player's'' role — instead of just being "the player", you're [[spoiler:a ''hero'' of sorts. This poor black block can't find its way home, and you swoop in to save the day and personally escort it back to its proper place. With this in mind, the GainaxEnding can feel like a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The black block (the only thing in the game that you could tentatively call a character) is pretty creepy, so it's easy to think of it as an antagonist, [[YankTheDogsChain a tease]], an EldritchAbomination, etc. But you could also interpret it as just...[[spoiler:lost]]. It seems to be [[spoiler:trying to find its way home]]. This also gives us an alternate interpretation of the ''player's'' role — instead of just being "the player", you're [[spoiler:a ''hero'' of sorts. This poor black block can't find its way home, and you swoop in to save the day and personally escort it back to its proper place. With this in mind, the GainaxEnding can feel like a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming]].

* ScrappyLevel: ''Stairway to Heaven'', ironically, is one of the rooms you'll end up hating the most; not because of its difficulty, but because many different puzzles around the game lead to it (it's quite the inverse of a HubLevel: it has a lot of different entries, but not many exits). It can be very frustrating to solve a puzzle believing you're going to unlock a new zone, only to discover you're again in the same room where you've already been lots of times. Worse yet, once you've seen the room's glowing spheres, and therefore realised where you're now, it's too late to go back: the passage you came from has already disappeared, meaning you have to use the Escape button to come back there.

* ScrappyLevel: ''Stairway to Heaven'', ironically, is one of the rooms you'll end up hating the most; not because of its difficulty, but because many different puzzles around the game lead to it (it's quite the inverse of a HubLevel: it has a lot of different entries, but not many exits). It can be very frustrating to solve a puzzle believing you're going to unlock a new zone, only to discover you're again in the same room where you've already been lots of times. Worse yet, once you've seen the room's glowing balls, and therefore realised where you're now, it's too late to go back: the passage you came from has already disappeared, meaning you have to use the Escape button to come back there.

** The '''DON'T LOOK DOWN''' room. [[spoiler:Take the SchmuckBait, and you see a giant eye appears on the floor. It blinks, the floor disappears, and the player is forced to plummet down a lengthy shaft while the usual ambient sound changes to a thunderstorm.]]

** The ending may qualify. [[spoiler:As soon as you capture the black block, the game loses all color and the ambient soundtrack becomes dark and ominous, with the constant rumble of thunder being heard in the background]]. And if that wasn't enough, once [[spoiler:you shoot the black block into a wreckage inside a dome, it rises up and forms the Antichamber logo, which starts sucking everything in like a black hole, including you.]] After that, the credits roll... and then the game closes itself.

* NightmareFuel: The ending may qualify. [[spoiler:As soon as you capture the black block, the game loses all color and the ambient soundtrack becomes dark and ominous, with the constant rumble of thunder being heard in the background]]. And if that wasn't enough, once [[spoiler:you shoot the black block into a wreckage inside a dome, it rises up and forms the Antichamber logo, which starts sucking everything in like a black hole, including you.]] After that, the credits roll... and then the game closes itself.

* NightmareFuel: The ending may qualify. [[spoiler:As soon as you capture the black block, the game loses all color and the ambient soundtrack becomes dark and ominous, with the constant rumble of thunder being heard in the background]]. And if that wasn't enough, once [[spoiler:you shoot the black block into a wreckage inside a dome, it rises up and forms the Antichamber logo, which starts sucking everything in like a black hole, including you.]] After that, the credits roll... and then the game closes itself.

* NightmareFuel: As soon as you capture the black block, the game loses all color and the soundtrack becomes dark and ominous.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn as little as two cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn as little as four cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn four cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn two cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn two cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn four cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

* GameBreaker: The Red Gun's ability to turn two cubes into a theoretically infinite number of cubes trivializes all of the puzzles that weren't specifically made with it in mind.

CaptainObviousAesop: The quotes you find scattered throughout are intended to be both clues and musings on the nature of life (see the game's original title). Many find them more useful as the former than the latter.