Lorraine is a short Gothic Horror, story-driven indie game developed by ABNOCTO in 2023.
Lorraine Barker had recently lost her husband in the wake of a rampant illness that has affected her hometown. One day after the funeral, she is suddenly visited by - to her horror - her husband, who had somehow returned, but worse for wear and with a monstrous appetite.
Due to the length of the game, spoilers will not be hidden.
Lorraine holds close the following examples:
- The Alcoholic: Discussed by Timmy, whose father drinks absinthe (or the Green Fairy) with unpleasant results.
- Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Gender inverted. When her husband staggers in the house without warning, he is seen by Lorraine with the clothes he was buried in stained in blood and dirt.
- Bloody Horror: By the time the final scene starts, Lorraine's house has very noticeable blood stains on the walls and on the floor, suggesting she might've had other victims killed and kept hidden in the house to feed her husband before she lured in the undertaker.
- Bludgeoned to Death: When the cats she collected started to get aggressive in the bag, Lorraine resorted to beating the cats with a lantern and kicking for good measure.
- Creepy Basement: The basement in Lorraine's house becomes this because her husband is kept in there and it is where she offers her victims to him for food.
- Creepy Cemetery: The cemetery Lorraine pays her last respects to her husband also has a large pit where bodies carrying an illness are placed for a mass burial.
- Downer Ending: Despite all her efforts to keep up appearances as a widow and maintain feeding her unnatural husband, she falls down the basement stairs, finds herself trapped inside, and then she ends up being her husband's next meal.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Lorraine is very pale and has dark hair, fitting the bill.
- Gaining the Will to Kill: While searching for new prey to feed her husband, Lorraine's frustrations over the cats' behavior drives her to kill them just to silence them and make it easier to deliver them home without drawing attention to herself.
- Horror Hunger: Lorraine finds out for herself what manner of appetite her husband has developed the instant she finds him devouring the flesh of a rat she had just caught in a trap earlier.
- Never One Murder: It's heavily implied by the bloodstains in the house, body bags in her bedroom, and the mess in the basement that she has been accumulating many victims to feed her undead husband.
- Of Corset Hurts: Lorraine comments on this when she complains on the pain her corset is giving her.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Lorraine uses a knife as her weapon to kill the undertaker.
- Trail of Blood: In the final scene, as Lorraine tracks down the undertaker as her next victim, he leaves a trail of blood to follow throughout the house.
- Undertaker: An undertaker makes an appearance working on burying the bodies of people who died of illness, including Lorraine's husband. At the end, he becomes her latest victim.
- Victorian Novel Disease: Played for horror. Tuberculosis, or consumption, is mentioned in the game, explaining the reason behind the pit filled with corpses of residents that died of the illness and is implied to be what Lorraine's husband died of prior to the start of the game.
- Widow's Weeds: Lorraine is introduced wearing a black mourning dress with a veil in the wake of her husband's funeral.
