Line #20 VideoGame/LakeviewCabin


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3	''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/627444 Lakeview Cabin]]''[[note]][[GuideDangIt At the red screen, press the space bar to start the actual game]][[/note]] is a game about someone who is having a cozy weekend, with not a care in the world. All alone, in the woods, on an island in the middle of a lake. [[SarcasmMode Clearly, nothing can possibly go wrong with this situation.]]
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5	The basic game is advertised as a cabin simulator, which makes it look the part, though there are occasional moments where the protagonist can get hurt. After night approaches and you start looking around more, you start to notice that something's not quite right...
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7	'''WARNING:''' Do not read further until you've played at least once.
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9	Was followed by:
10	* ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabinCollection'' (2015-2017)
11	* ''VideoGame/LakeviewValley'' (2019)
12	* ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabin2'' (2020)
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15	!!Tropes demonstrated by the original ''Lakeview Cabin'':
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17	* TheAlcoholic: Red, the protagonist, has some whiskey lying around, which he can of course drink.
18	* AntiFrustrationFeatures: [[spoiler:If you want to fight Eleanor as early as possible without waiting, the game helpfully tells you that pressing "O" will summon her.]]
19	* CantHoldHisLiquor: Drink the bottle of whiskey and Red will [[VomitIndiscretionShot periodically vomit everywhere.]]
20	* ContentWarnings: Player discretion is advised.
21	* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:You have to do a ''lot'' of damage to Eleanor to put her down for good.]]
22	* DisguisedHorrorStory: At first, the game seems to be quite peaceful. You can relax in the sauna, drink some beer, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and look at half-naked women]]. However, it isn't until [[spoiler:your wife comes back from the dead]] that it truly becomes a horror game.
23	* EarnYourHappyEnding: You have to really figure out how to [[spoiler:deal with your zombie wife and unborn child]] but when you do, [[spoiler:Red kneels down, remorseful over what he had to do.]]
24	* FetusTerrible: [[spoiler:After you've put down your wife, say hello to your beautiful baby ChestBurster!]]
25	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
26	** Even if Red is naked, he'll still refuse to go very far out into the water.
27	** Sometimes the ghost of a blonde woman can be glimpsed before disappearing.
28	** Sometimes a baby's cry can be heard out of nowhere.
29	* FullFrontalAssault: Red can go naked and still fight.
30	* HellIsThatNoise: At the beginning of the second night, a strange moan plays regardless of where you are on the island. [[spoiler:It's the sound the deer makes after having its leg ripped off, and is the first warning that Eleanor is coming.]]
31	* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:Eleanor, your undead wife.]]
32	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Works better on the chest burster than your wife, unless you manage to trap her in a cabin.]]
33	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Red can strip off his clothes for full pixelated nudity. Can be combined with FullFrontalAssault if he chooses to do this [[spoiler:while fighting his wife.]]
34	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:You can shoot your wife or set fire to her, but [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill unless you reduce her to a bloody pulp]], there's a chance she'll get up again. And even when you've done that, you've still got to deal with her unborn child!]]
35	* PsychoStrings: [[spoiler:When you take an axe to your wife, each swing is punctuated by shrieking notes.]]
36	* RedHerring: There's a bunch of things you can do like killing and cooking the deer that don't help win the game.
37	* {{Retraux}}: The game's graphics are done in the style of an 8-bit Nintendo game.
38	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The weapon that Red uses.
39	* StoryBreadcrumbs: There is a picture of [[spoiler:Eleanor]] over the bed, and [[spoiler:the place she comes out of and drags you back to]] has some bubbles as though something was dumped there recently. These facts combined with the bottles of booze strewn around suggest that [[spoiler:Eleanor [[DomesticAbuse may have a legitimate grievance]]]].
40	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Once Eleanor is down, you can attack her corpse till it's just a bloody mush, then the small fetus comes out and you have to kill it to really win.]]
41	* UnwinnableByDesign: ''Don't'' go doing the activities suggested by the author's description if you want to have the resources to survive the ending.
42	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can kill one of the teenage girls relaxing right across the island you're on, and also kill a deer.

Context VideoGame / LakeviewCabin