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1[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aoofad_7568.jpg]]
2->''"Listen at us, won't you?''\
3''Share with us your head''\
4''Do hide behind the iris''\
5''[[TitleDrop As all of our friends are dead."]]''
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7''All of Our Friends Are Dead'' is a 2009 {{freeware}} game by Amon26. A frightening, disturbing, trippy, and fun run-and-gun platform shooter that can perhaps best be described as ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on a Benadryl trip]]; a work of art replete with some of the strangest and most unsettling images you're ever likely to see in a game. The industrial rock/noise soundtrack and bizarre first-person plural writing only contribute to the [[SurrealHorror highly surreal]] and nightmare-like atmosphere of the game. Since the story itself makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, it is therefore left to [[EpilepticTrees fan interpretation]] and [[WildMassGuessing speculation]]. The game can be downloaded [[http://studioeres.com/mirrors/AOOFAD.zip here]].
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9See also ''VideoGame/AuSable'' and ''VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}'', more freeware horror games by the same creator.
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12!!This game provides examples of:
13* AcidTripDimension: Everywhere you go the visuals are extremely deranged and vividly-colored.
14* BigBad: Seems to be [[spoiler: the woman who serves as the FinalBoss]], though it’s rather vague.
15* BodyHorror: Largely happens to the...''things'' in the background.
16* BossBattle: Three: a giant red ghost thing, a giant [[BuffySpeak womb-looking thingy]], and [[spoiler: a strange-looking woman]].
17* BottomlessMagazines
18* BottomlessPit
19* ChekhovsGunman: That strange woman tied to a wall that suddenly disappears turns out to be [[spoiler:the final boss]].
20* CrapsackWorld
21* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: One scene requires you to kill someone so that you can retrieve the key from their corpse.
22* DarkWorld
23* DeadGuyOnDisplay
24* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The game is almost entirely in black, white, and shades of red. The exception is the main character's orange gun and [[SplashOfColor the occasional green object]].
25* DroneOfDread: Most of the background music/noise.
26* EldritchAbomination: '''FUCKING EVERYWHERE''', from the enemies to the ''doorways''.
27* EverythingTryingToKillYou
28* GainaxEnding: More like Gainax Everything, to be exact.
29* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Your fate if you fall into one of the [[SpikesOfDoom spike pits]]. Also, many of the [[DeadGuyOnDisplay dead bodies on display]].
30* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys
31* LockAndKeyPuzzle: The game requires you to find and collect keys to advance in some areas.
32* MadnessMantra: Much of the bizarre narration and words randomly scrambled across the screen.
33-->''runwatchthecowardsrunwatchthecowardsrun''
34* MindScrew
35* NightmareFace: The frightening woman's face that randomly [[JumpScare pops out at you]] late in the game.
36-->''"...and to think she was once a mother!"''
37* NintendoHard
38* NoNameGiven: The protagonist and everyone else.
39* NoPlotNoProblem: WordOfGod said in an interview that this game doesn't actually have a plot.
40* OneHitPointWonder: One hit will kill you instantly.
41* OurMonstersAreWeird: And ''how''.
42* PostProcessingVideoEffects: Film grain and flickering.
43* RedSkyTakeWarning
44* {{Retraux}}
45* RhymesOnADime: The ending.
46* SceneryGorn: The game is noted for its incredibly nightmarish atmosphere.
47* SpikesOfDoom
48* SurrealHorror
49* TitleDrop: At the very end.

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