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A RPG Maker game about Jeff the Killer.

You play as college-student aged Liu, who decides to visit his not-so-imaginary pyromaniac brother Jeffrey Dahmer at the hospital, only discover that he has escaped, and intends to exact revenge on his family for abandoning him.

The official GameJolt page for the Spanish version is here, an English translation can be found here, and a French translation is here.


  • Abusive Parents: Liu and Jeff's parents savagely beat six/seven year-old Jeff to a bloody pulp as punishment for trashing the house during a house party, despite the fact that it was Liu who hosted the party.
    • Even their supposed love for Liu is questionable, considering the mother has little qualms about running out of the house, abandoning Liu to face off his homicidal brother alone.
  • Adaptation Name Change: Jeff's full name here is Jeffrey Dahmer, after the real-life serial killer, instead of his canonical name Jeffrey Allen Woods.
  • The Atoner: Liu. He goes to the hospital to visit Jeff to make up for the fourteen year tim gap that has passed between them.
    • When Liu meets Jeff once more at the hospital where he's holding their mother hostage, one of the game options has Liu giving Jeff a heartfelt apology, and admitting how horrible they all treated him. Needless to say, it doesn't work, so...
    • In a rather grim ending, the "Good Ending 1" has Liu walking out on his mother after listening to Jeff's side of the story, silently deciding that their mother deserves her grisly fate. And Jeff, out of gratitude for letting him carry out his revenge, lets you leave and doesn't hound you any further.
  • Book Ends: Liu reconnects with Jeff at the hospital. At the end, he confronts Jeff at the same hospital (and in the same room) for the last time, where Liu either leaves him or kills him.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Liu in both instances where their parents' lives are being immediately threatened by Jeff..
  • Enfant Terrible: Child Jeff, who sets of his Start of Darkness by setting the family house on fire.
  • Freudian Excuse: Jeff's abuse at his parents' hands is what completely breaks to the point of actually setting their old home on fire.
  • Insane Troll Logic: When Liu confronts his mother about Jeff's beating, she defends her actions by stating that, as his mother, she protected him all his life, and so was perfectly entitled to beat him.
  • Jerkass: The whole family, really. Special mention goes to the parents, who love one child over another, make their unloved child into a personal servant to their favourite child, and then brutally punish said child for the actions of the favourite child.
    • Jeff by default. But really, can you blame him?
    • Liu has shades of this. For one, he never appeared to stand up for young Jeff in the flashbacks when their parents antagonized him, and he literally says nothing and walks up to his room when the parents make it clear their intention to punish someone for the disastrous party.
  • Patricide: Jeff starts his revenge by killing his father, who apparently put up some resistance before his deranged son cut up his face and stabbed out his eyes.
  • Self-Made Orphan: Jeff's main and only goal in the game is to make himself this.
  • The Un-Favourite: The parents made it very clear in flashbacks that they loved Liu far more than Jeff, so much that they send Jeff to get a cup of water for Liu (heavily implying they made Jeff a perpetual servant to him), and beat the crap out of him for trashing the house and destroying their mom's "rare book", despite Liu being responsible for the mess.

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