History VideoGame / Observer

''Observer'' (stylized as >OBSERVER_) is a Main/CyberPunk thriller/horror game, developed by Bloober Team of ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear'' fame and published by Aspyr. The game released for PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne on 15 August 2017.

* HellHotel: The Stacks are more like an apartment complex but it ticks all of the boxes. Everyone is behind heavily secured doors, overflowing toilets, [[spoiler: and a monster stalking the halls]].
** An actual hotel in a high-rise building at the endgame turns out to be [[spoiler: a quarantine area for nanophage victims, half of which aren't even infected.]]

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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: [[spoiler:Adam's A.I., while a cold, ruthless bastard, is hardly incomprehensible in its motives. As far as it knows, its creator kept on killing its older siblings with the goal of destroying its ego [[BrainUploading to replace it with himself]], and it knows the Chiron corporation will attempt to destroy it simply to cover up a mistake. And its only way out is Dan, who is a CorporateSamurai who works for them - no wonder it backstabs him in both endings.]]

* TvHeadRobot: [[spoiler: When Dan jacks into the killer's memories, one of the first things he sees is a group of people staring at him with boxy [=TVs=] for heads, all showing twitching human mouths in black-and-white.]]

* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Adam's A.I., while a cold, ruthless bastard, is hardly incomprehensible in its motives. As far as it knows, its creator kept on killing its older siblings with the goal of destroying its ego [[BrainUploading to replace it with himself]], and it knows the Chiron corporation will attempt to destroy it simply to cover up a mistake. And its only way out is Dan, who is a CorporateSamurai who works for them - no wonder it backstabs him in both endings.]]

** [[spoiler: Turned on Daniel himself at the end, as AI!Adam reveals he'd been slowly hacking into his head since Dan came out of his VR capsule, explaining his hallucinations in the high-rise.]]

* [[spoiler:InsideAComputerSystem: What you see when you finally find Adam's A.I. self, being a greenish void full of wireframe cubes and pathways, with Adam as a head connected by dozens of wires.]]

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Scanning people's implants will display a brief profile describing their personal information, including their gender. Rather than being classified as "male", "female" or nonbinary, gender is apparently classified using a letter - "A" to denote males and "B" to denote females - and a number (i.e., A1, A2, and A3 or B1, B2 and B3, with the bio-scan indicating the sex of dead bodies). It's ambiguous what identities exactly these designations refer to, but it would appear social views of gender are much less binary in the game's world.
** In order of appearance: [[spoiler: Amir(male)-A1, Pieta(female)-B3, Helena(female)-B1, Karnas(male)-A1, Victor(male)-A1, Adam(male)-A2.]]

* TheFundamentalist: The Immaculates are a religious family that live in the Stacks that refuse all cybernetic modification, even for medical purposes. Daniel has a somewhat disdainful view of them. It's {{Subverted}} as while a patriarchal group which puts the father at the head of the household, they seem to be the only people who genuinely give a shit about not only each other but their neighbors.