ThanksKilling Day is a Retraux Survival Horror Video Game by CloneKorp, RDH Development, and Aka_Nook.
The game casts you as a young boy who's family is getting ready for Thanksgiving. As they're preparing, the boy is tasked with fetching his grandfather, who was sent to get a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. As soon as the kid steps outside, however, he hears his grandfather's scream of terror from over by the silo and decides to investigate.
Before the kid knows it, his night's plans have gone from "celebrate Thanksgiving with my family" to "survive against some kind of killer pilgrim".
The game was released on December 20th, 2022.
ThanksKilling Day contains examples of:
- An Arm and a Leg: While the kid's father is wrestling with the turkey monster, it takes his arm off.
- Apocalyptic Log: Like any Survival Horror, there are notes strewn about the game world telling you about the events that came before.
- Batter Up!: The kid in the prologue picks up a baseball bat that he can use to defend himself against the turkeys, and the killer pilgrim. It doesn't do much good against the latter.
- Beneath the Earth: There's a large underground facility underneath the farm. The kid finds it when he falls into the hole in the toolshed.
- Down on the Farm: The main setting of the game is the family farm.
- Feathered Fiend: Aside from the killer pilgrim, all the enemies in the game are murderous turkeys. If course, in the end, we find out that the killer is some kind of humanoid turkey monster.
- Floorboard Failure: When the kid finds his mother calling the police in the toolshed, the floor gives out under her.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Food items, mainly peanut butter and jelly, act as healing items in the game.
- I Know Madden Kombat: In the room behind the fireplace, the kid can find a hockey stick that he can use as a weapon.
- Infinite Flashlight: The flashlight in the game never seems to need new batteries.
- Item Crafting: You can make PB&J sandwhiches by combining peanut butter and jelly.
- Lock and Key Puzzle: Like many a survival horror game, this has locked doors that require a key to open. There aren't many, though.
- Lost in the Maize: There's a crop maize standing between the silo and the rest of the farm.
- Mummies at the Dinner Table: When the kid returns to his at that point, on fire home, he finds his family at the dinner table, including his by-then-dead grandparents.
- P.O.V. Cam: While the game does used the fixed camera thing from survival horrors past, there's also the option to switch to a first-person view.
- Retraux: The game is rendered in PS1-era graphics, and there's even an option to invoke an old Standard Definition filter.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: At one point, the kid tries to escape from the killer by driving away in the tractor. Of course, since he's a kid, he ends up swerving all over the cornfield and crashing into a tree.
- Would Hurt a Child: The killer pilgrim spends the game trying to kill the Player Character, a child. He does the same to the kid in the prologue.
