- Rumor has it that a couple once attempted to elope and was meant to meet on the scenic bridge.
However, the girl waited until midnight, and the boy was nowhere to be seen. Out of anger and despair, the girl committed suicide by jumping into the lake.
Since then, when people walk on the bridge while counting the staircases, the original 13-steps bridge will become a 14-steps bridge.
This is the horrifying haunted story of a female ghost haunting the cursed bridge...
The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation is the video game sequel to the 2020 Taiwanese horror film, The Bridge Curse developed by Softstar Entertainment.
Months after the film's events, six post-graduate college students from Tung Hu University decides to re-investigate the haunted bridge, which turns out to be one of six campus urban legends Tung Hu is known for. Led by Hsin-Chiao, the student council president and player-controlled protagonist, the students inevitably gets stranded within the haunted campus grounds, and finds out the urban legends are anything but a legend.
A sequel, The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication, was announced on October 9th, 2023, with a demo showing the prologue chapter. Taking place in Wen Hua University, a competing haunted university to Tung Hu that was mentioned in the first game, the game follows a reporter investigating supernatural going-ons and getting more than she bargained for.
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- 100% Completion: There are a number of collectibles and documents scattered around the campus you can examine, which are stored permanently in your archive. Getting all of them nets you an achievement, and you can replay chapters to search for them after finishing the game.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: While Hsin-Chiao is the main character, you play as the various different members of the Bridge Curse club as they encounter the supernatural on the university grounds.
- And You Thought It Was a Game: The students spend almost half the game under the assumption the ghosts attacking them are just other students playing a prank on them as part of the Bridge Curse livestream challenge. As a result, they frequently engage in Let's Split Up, Gang! and other unwise decisions.
- Broad Strokes: It becomes clear in the latter half of the game that it's actually a loose re-telling of the events of the film, specifically the flashback events in 2016, though the fact the protagonist has the same name as the lead 2016 girl in the film should have been a clue.
- Camera Abuse: More than one death screen sees your blood covering the screen from a first-person perspective.
- Content Warnings: The game opens with one such warning, right before the title screen, warning players with a weak heart, aversion to gory scenes, scary moments, or otherwise easily-offended by religious beliefs to play something else. Followed by the usual "Events Depicted Are Fictional" disclaimers.
- Creepy Doll: One of the many ghosts haunting Tung Hu inexplicably comes in the form of a sentient, living, crying baby doll. Investigating the sound of baby crying in the dark corridors, trying to follow the source of crying will lead you into a playroom filled with blood and destroyed dolls... moments before the doll pounces onscreen and stabs you.
- Dead All Along: It's heavily implied that all of the students except for DeCyuan are already dead and in purgatory, reliving their last night alive, due to having been killed by Hsin-Chiao in 2016. DeCyuan has returned to Tung Hu in hopes of putting an end to the curse and helping his friends move on to the afterlife.
- Fan Disservice: Some of the female ghouls attacks you naked. Being undead, their skins are graying with visible scabs and flakes peeling off, looking a lot like severe psoriasis victims.
- Four Is Death: Most of the creepy dorm events tend to happen in the fourth floor, although that doesn't mean the other floors are safe to begin with.
- Jump Scare: Every single player death will have the background music suddenly turning shrill, loud, and the monster / ghost that killed you filling the screen with their face while cackling away. Followed by a blood-red "YOU ARE DEAD".
- Murderous Mannequin: Tung Hu's drama club has a number of mannequins in the changing room, originally meant for fashion design students, some which will come to life at night with blood leaking from their eyes and mouth. Like every other supernatural creature within Tung Hu, it will chase you down and kill you with a single touch.
- Newspaper Backstory: One of the clues regarding the titular curse comes from an old, archived newspaper clipping from 1989, which sheds some light on the urban legend's backstory:THE BRIDGE CURSE: TRAGEDY BEHIND THE WELL-KNOWN CAMPUS LEGEND
Dated: Xinhe News, June 10, 1989
The Bridge Curse of Tunghu University has been well known for a long time and it also includes one of the taboos local students love to challenge. Rumor has it that when you walk on the cursed bridge at midnight, a female ghost might appear and kill you if you count the staircases while walking... - Old School Building: The game is set entirely in an old university that dates back several decades, and expectedly it hides some creepy secrets.
- Perverse Puppet: The girl puppet used in the rehearsal sequence. It's implied to be possessed by the actual ghost, since it can follow and kill you despite being just a prop.
- Pop-Up Texting: Messages received by the player via phone are depicted as floating text bubbles.
- Revealing Continuity Lapse: DeCyuan's cellphone gives the year as 2020, while everyone else's cellphones give it as 2016. This is an early hint that DeCyuan is the only one who's still alive, while the others are dead in purgatory stuck reliving the events of the 2016 massacre where the 5 of them died.
- Room Full of Crazy: One of the rooms, whose main wall is covered with photographs and bloodied writing of the word "You Should Die" (该死) in Mandarin.
- The Seven Mysteries: The Taiwanese variant, but early in the game you can investigate the six myths of Tung Hu Campus, including the ghost of the suicidal ghost in red shoes (where a pair of ownerless shoes will mysteriously "walk" around the campus after dark), the creepy headless anglers fishing by the lake after dark in their bright yellow raincoats and a knife-wielding killer baby doll who made the basement its own playroom
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: The ghost-girl from Tung Hu's urban legend is depicted as one of these, clad in white clothes and her long, damp hair obscuring her face. What's even creepier is how she chose to manifest herself, rising from a pool of sludge suddenly forming on the floor in a corridor where you're alone before chasing you.
