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** Ellen's fear of the colour yellow, along with a backstory involving claustrophobia and mysoginistic abuse, seems to be inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''Literature/TheYellowWallpaper''.
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** Ellen's fear of the colour yellow, along with a backstory involving claustrophobia and mysoginistic misogynistic abuse, seems to be inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''Literature/TheYellowWallpaper''.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Inverted. Three of the group have heavily implied specific mental illness: Ellen has PTSD, Gorrister has depression, and Ted has severe paranoia. However, none of them committed any violent crimes; it's the seemingly neurotypical Nimdok and Benny who have.
** In the original story Ellen is a "virgin only twice removed". In the game it's mentioned she only had sex twice in her life up until her marriage to Eddie. It's quite a clever way of doing a {{Retcon}} since it makes the former comment seem like Ted's paranoid brain getting the information wrong.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Whilst the original short story is downright cynical from start to finish, the video game adaption is at least slightly more idealistic, because it allows you to defeat AM if you make the right moral decisions.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Whilst the original short story is downright cynical from start to finish, the video game adaption is at least slightly more idealistic, because it allows you to defeat AM if you make the right moral decisions. There's a similar thread of broken, desperate people managing to overcome their worst aspects and engage in monumental acts of humanity in both of them, though.
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* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: In the original story Ted is the one who suffers the ultimate fate while the rest of his friends all die. Here depending on who you play as in the end every character can end up as a blob abomination and not just Ted.]]
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The game was rereleased on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]] on October 17, 2013, while an Android phone compatible version was released on January 14, 2016.
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The game was rereleased on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom [[Platform/GOGDotCom GOG]] on October 17, 2013, while an Android phone compatible version was released on January 14, 2016.
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* TauntingTheTransformed:
** In the introduction of the game, [[BigBad AM]] reviews the horrific transformations he's forced Benny to undergo in the 109 years since the world ended, chuckling over the fact that he's left the once-handsome military commander with "[[BeautyToBeast the hideous warped countenance]] of [[BeastMan an ape-thing]]," before giving Benny TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on what he did to deserve all the transformation and torture.
** In Benny's scenario, AM enacts a non-verbal version of this trope: every single aspect of the psychodrama has been designed to humiliate Benny with the weaknesses of his new form, to the point that he can't even descend a simple flight of stairs without tripping and falling all the way down it, while the food he desperately needs is either beyond the reach of his hopelessly crippled limbs or impossible for him to eat without coughing up blood.
** In the introduction of the game, [[BigBad AM]] reviews the horrific transformations he's forced Benny to undergo in the 109 years since the world ended, chuckling over the fact that he's left the once-handsome military commander with "[[BeautyToBeast the hideous warped countenance]] of [[BeastMan an ape-thing]]," before giving Benny TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on what he did to deserve all the transformation and torture.
** In Benny's scenario, AM enacts a non-verbal version of this trope: every single aspect of the psychodrama has been designed to humiliate Benny with the weaknesses of his new form, to the point that he can't even descend a simple flight of stairs without tripping and falling all the way down it, while the food he desperately needs is either beyond the reach of his hopelessly crippled limbs or impossible for him to eat without coughing up blood.
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* FissionMailed: Of a sort. Succeeding morally and obtaining the best ending requires you to fail AM's intended "game" for each character, doing the opposite of what he wants you to do and provoking his wrath. For example: AM's goal with Benny is to try and get him to act like a beast and commit cannibalism. If you subvert this by [[spoiler: befriending the village child and sacrificing yourself]], AM will curse Benny and torture him out of anger...but this is of course the "good" way to resolve this scenario. One major exception is the end of [[spoiler: Ted's game, since it seems AM always knew the surface was uninhabitable and successfully tricked him]].
