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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: John or more specifically [[spoiler: whether or not he knew in the end if his wife was DeadAllAlong. On a surface level it seems he might have been ignorant of this fact but his final line to his wife has what some interpret as a mournful tone to it and in addition one of the Project SEED entries has John audibly choke up when reading it, which details one of the birther subjects who happens to share the same name as his wife. In addition it is clear that John is undergoing SanitySlippage as the game goes on, being forced to witness the worst kinds of man made horrors, so he might have preferred to want to send his wife's body to a place where she might be able to be buried properly and not lost among the decaying ship]].
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* EnjoyTheStorySkipTheGame: While the setting, atmosphere, and visuals are very enjoyable and interesting unfortunately it is marred by the gameplay for some. With the game having several frustrating instances of pixel hunting or [[MoonLogicPuzzle Moon Logic Puzzles]] with not much hints about how to solve them outside trial and error.


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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Yes it is a horror game but the increasingly excalating horror and hopelessness of the situation [[spoiler: and knowing that it is all due to intentional human actions]] makes it difficult to want, much less expect, anyone to survive. [[spoiler: Not helped by the ending that reveals John's wife was DeadAllAlong making the whole story a ShaggyDogStory]].
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*** The most fucked up part, as WebVideo/MandaloreGaming pointed out in his review, that [[spoiler:Malan wasn't even ''original'' conceiving of Project SEED; he used the same research that was responsible for some of the most horrific crimes against nature at the center of [[GreatOffscreenWar the Eugenics Wars]] when creating his hybrids, he's simply capitalizing on his immense God Complex while using someone else's research... which somehow makes him even ''worse'' in this regard.]]

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* CompleteMonster: [[MadDoctor Doctor Geradus Malan]] is the Head of Special Projects for the Cayne Corporation, which is responsible for conducting illegal human experiments. On the ''Groomlake'', Malan leads efforts to kidnap random citizens to [[OrganTheft harvest their organs]], where he clones them to expand his operations and kill hundreds more. Proposing Project SEED to create the ultimate SuperSoldier, Malan experiments on countless humans that deform them into feral hybrids, where they are disposed of if they show defections, while others are produced by impregnating captured women with them. Out of spite towards [[PlayerCharacter John Maracheck]] for ruining his project, Malan [[spoiler:unleashes a hybrid on John's daughter and [[ForcedToWatch forces John to watch her demise]]]].
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** The surgery scene. John has to removed his personal data tag in order to get around the ship's security system. Said tag is ''wrapped around his spine'', requiring use of an AutoDoc to remove it. John is strapped in and has to guide the surgery himself, so he's conscious the entire time. The player is treated to a graphic view of the MeatgrinderSurgery. Oh, and if you mess it up, the AutoDoc rips out John's spine. The whole thing is extremely graphic.
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* CompleteMonster: [[MadDoctor Doctor Geradus Malan]] is the Head of Special Projects for the Cayne Corporation, which is responsible for conducting illegal human experiments. On the ''Groomlake'', Malan leads efforts to kidnap random citizens to [[OrganTheft harvest their organs]], where he clones them to expand his operations and kill hundreds more. Proposing Project SEED to create the ultimate {{supersoldier}}, Malan experiments on countless humans that deform them into feral hybrids, where they are disposed of if they show defections, while others are produced by impregnating captured women with them. Out of spite towards [[PlayerCharacter John Maracheck]] for ruining his project, Malan [[spoiler:unleashes a hybrid on John's daughter and [[ForcedToWatch forces John to watch her demise]]]].

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* CompleteMonster: [[MadDoctor Doctor Geradus Malan]] is the Head of Special Projects for the Cayne Corporation, which is responsible for conducting illegal human experiments. On the ''Groomlake'', Malan leads efforts to kidnap random citizens to [[OrganTheft harvest their organs]], where he clones them to expand his operations and kill hundreds more. Proposing Project SEED to create the ultimate {{supersoldier}}, SuperSoldier, Malan experiments on countless humans that deform them into feral hybrids, where they are disposed of if they show defections, while others are produced by impregnating captured women with them. Out of spite towards [[PlayerCharacter John Maracheck]] for ruining his project, Malan [[spoiler:unleashes a hybrid on John's daughter and [[ForcedToWatch forces John to watch her demise]]]].
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*CompleteMonster: [[MadDoctor Doctor Geradus Malan]] is the Head of Special Projects for the Cayne Corporation, which is responsible for conducting illegal human experiments. On the ''Groomlake'', Malan leads efforts to kidnap random citizens to [[OrganTheft harvest their organs]], where he clones them to expand his operations and kill hundreds more. Proposing Project SEED to create the ultimate {{supersoldier}}, Malan experiments on countless humans that deform them into feral hybrids, where they are disposed of if they show defections, while others are produced by impregnating captured women with them. Out of spite towards [[PlayerCharacter John Maracheck]] for ruining his project, Malan [[spoiler:unleashes a hybrid on John's daughter and [[ForcedToWatch forces John to watch her demise]]]].

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* HeartwarmingMoments: In an incredibly bleak game like this, some PDA entries show how some people kept their decency and cared for others through the end. Of note is an engineer whose body is found near the end: [[spoiler:a young man who was fed up with his rich family and chose such job, he had a very strained relationship with a colleague, but over time the latter became, as he writes in his last entries, the only true friend he ever had, and was happy to die with him.]]

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* HeartwarmingMoments: SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In an incredibly bleak game like this, some PDA entries show how some people kept their decency and cared for others through the end. Of note is an engineer whose body is found near the end: [[spoiler:a young man who was fed up with his rich family and chose such job, he had a very strained relationship with a colleague, but over time the latter became, as he writes in his last entries, the only true friend he ever had, and was happy to die with him.]]



** Really, the entire plot [[spoiler:turning to be a complete ShaggyDogStory by the very last shot of the ending sequence. John's efforts were for naught because his daughter is killed and his wife was DeadAllAlong, and he'll die of oxygen deprivation while never knowing it. On top of that, no one may ever know what happened to the Groomlake, so Cayne Corporation is going to go on with its evil deeds undisturbed.]]

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** Really, the entire plot [[spoiler:turning to be a complete ShaggyDogStory by the very last shot of the ending sequence. John's efforts were for naught because his daughter is killed and his wife was DeadAllAlong, and he'll die of oxygen deprivation while never knowing it. On top of that, no one may ever know what happened to the Groomlake, so Cayne Corporation is going to go on with its evil deeds undisturbed.]]]]
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** The utter... ''horror'' that awaits you in Hydroponics. [[spoiler: Said horror is the "Queen Insect", a hideous hybrid abomination of what looks like a human head, an ant queen's abdomen, and a cow's udder. That's the size of a bus. It's also being restrained and milked for its "jelly", so not only is it swelling and deflating horribly throughout, it is ''extremely'' pissed off.]] As John himself says when he enters the chamber:
---> '''John''': Are you FUCK-king kidding me?
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** Though this later example is somewhat undercut by [[spoiler: his "friend's" PDA which says that he ultimately killed said engineer in a fit of rage.]]
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* HeartwarmingMoments: In an incredibly bleak game like this, some PDA entries show how some people kept their decency and cared for others through the end. Of note is an engineer whose body is fopund near the end: [[spoiler:A young man who was fed up with his rich family and chose such job, he had a very strained relationship with a colleague, but over time he became, as he writes in his last entries, the only true friend he ever had, and was happy to die with him.]]

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* HeartwarmingMoments: In an incredibly bleak game like this, some PDA entries show how some people kept their decency and cared for others through the end. Of note is an engineer whose body is fopund found near the end: [[spoiler:A [[spoiler:a young man who was fed up with his rich family and chose such job, he had a very strained relationship with a colleague, but over time he the latter became, as he writes in his last entries, the only true friend he ever had, and was happy to die with him.]]



** The revelation that the 'products' that are being harvested are [[spoiler: abducted humans (''children included'') that the employees are being told are criminals and drifters to placate the obvious moral qualms about harvesting innocent people for unethical research]]
** The vats. Sweet merciful hades, the vats. To elaborate, [[spoiler: they were filled with enriched chemical broth to grow clones for organ harvesting. Predictably, the whole thing goes tits-up with deformed clones, horrific amalgamations (there is a lovely computer terminal that will inform you there was an amalgamation composed of '''12 infant clones''') and independently growing and somewhat sentient organs. To make matters worse, the clones that aren't deformed blobs of flesh are highly animalistic and are known to take chunks out of the employees. When you get there, the vats have been turned into massive pools of transparent flesh through which you can see some of the deformed clones writhing around in, moaning hideously.]] It is at this point you realise [[FromBadToWorse things are not going to be getting better anytime soon]].

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** The revelation that the 'products' that are being harvested are [[spoiler: abducted humans (''children included'') that the employees are being told are criminals and drifters to placate the obvious moral qualms about harvesting innocent people for unethical research]]
research]].
** The vats. Sweet merciful hades, Hades, the vats. To elaborate, [[spoiler: they were filled with enriched chemical broth to grow clones for organ harvesting. Predictably, the whole thing goes tits-up with deformed clones, horrific amalgamations (there is a lovely computer terminal that will inform you there was an amalgamation one composed of '''12 infant clones''') and independently growing and somewhat sentient organs. To make matters worse, the clones that aren't deformed blobs of flesh are highly animalistic and are known to take chunks out of the employees. When you get there, the vats have been turned into massive pools of transparent flesh through which you can see some of the deformed clones writhing around in, moaning hideously.]] It is at this point you realise [[FromBadToWorse things are not going to be getting better anytime soon]].



*** Even worse, later on, it's revealed that it is also parasitic and can take over a persons nervous system and subject them to a rather squicky AndIMustScream situation which reaches its apex when you encounter a woman bound to an organic material-coated tree who is thoroughly mutated and begs you to kill her with what little motor control she has left.

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*** Even worse, later on, on it's revealed that it is also parasitic and parasitic: it can take over a persons person's nervous system and subject them to a rather squicky AndIMustScream situation situation, which reaches its apex when you encounter a woman bound to an organic material-coated tree who is and thoroughly mutated and mutated, who begs you to kill her with what little motor control she has left.
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* CompleteMonster: The Cayne Corporation easily qualifies; mass abducting innocent people, including children, to peform highly painful and unethical experiements on them, always resulting in their deaths. On top on that, they kept their staff in the dark about the true identities of their test-subjects.
** Among the few living characters seen in the game, Doctor Malan certainly qualifies, being a truly reprehensible human being who is perhaps the living incarnation of ScienceIsBad. He believes that ethics will always get in the way of the progression of science and that the only way to truly progress and achieve greatness is to do whatever is necessary to get results, no matter what. His truly depraved attitude would make any sane person sick to the stomach and just ''seeing'' what horrible stuff he does in he game is more than anyone should bare witness to.
** While not as reprehensible as Malan (which is hard for ''anyone'' to compare to), Doctor Backman still manages to be a pathetic excuse for a human being. He reveals without any sense of guilt whatsoever (he even confesses he styles himself a sociopath) that he is not only a serial rapist, but he gets perverse pleasure from cutting up and disposing of bodies to a frankly disturbing degree.

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** Among the few living characters seen in the game, Doctor Malan certainly qualifies, while among the people we get to know through PDA entries, there's Doctor Backman, a senile scientist who was as capable as he was twisted: a self proclaimed sociopath (who showed signs of that since childhood) and serial rapist, also possibly serial murderer, who enjoyed his experiment too much.

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** Among the few living characters seen in the game, Doctor Malan certainly qualifies, while among being a truly reprehensible human being who is perhaps the people we living incarnation of ScienceIsBad. He believes that ethics will always get in the way of the progression of science and that the only way to know through PDA entries, there's truly progress and achieve greatness is to do whatever is necessary to get results, no matter what. His truly depraved attitude would make any sane person sick to the stomach and just ''seeing'' what horrible stuff he does in he game is more than anyone should bare witness to.
** While not as reprehensible as Malan (which is hard for ''anyone'' to compare to),
Doctor Backman, Backman still manages to be a senile scientist who was as capable as pathetic excuse for a human being. He reveals without any sense of guilt whatsoever (he even confesses he was twisted: styles himself a self proclaimed sociopath (who showed signs of sociopath) that since childhood) and he is not only a serial rapist, also possibly serial murderer, who enjoyed his experiment too much.but he gets perverse pleasure from cutting up and disposing of bodies to a frankly disturbing degree.



* NightmareFuel: From the copious BodyHorror, to the creepy sounds and screams, to the logs documenting the tragedy that happened on the spaceship, almost every screen has something.

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* NightmareFuel: From the copious BodyHorror, to the creepy sounds and screams, to the logs documenting the tragedy that happened on the spaceship, almost every screen has something. Highlights include:
** The revelation that the 'products' that are being harvested are [[spoiler: abducted humans (''children included'') that the employees are being told are criminals and drifters to placate the obvious moral qualms about harvesting innocent people for unethical research]]
** The vats. Sweet merciful hades, the vats. To elaborate, [[spoiler: they were filled with enriched chemical broth to grow clones for organ harvesting. Predictably, the whole thing goes tits-up with deformed clones, horrific amalgamations (there is a lovely computer terminal that will inform you there was an amalgamation composed of '''12 infant clones''') and independently growing and somewhat sentient organs. To make matters worse, the clones that aren't deformed blobs of flesh are highly animalistic and are known to take chunks out of the employees. When you get there, the vats have been turned into massive pools of transparent flesh through which you can see some of the deformed clones writhing around in, moaning hideously.]] It is at this point you realise [[FromBadToWorse things are not going to be getting better anytime soon]].
** Later on, you start seeing a lot of corpses with their skin stripped off. It's later revealed [[spoiler: the clones are using the skins to pass off as humans and bypass security. Doubles as ParanoiaFuel as no one knows who is still human and who is a mutant wearing a skin suit.]]
** Subtle example, but it's revealed there are several massive methane tanks ''directly underneath'' the staff quarters. Imagine sleeping directly above something that could potentially explode if something were to malfunction or go wrong (which given Cayne Corp's abysmal safety measures is a very real possibility).
** The strange fungus that's infesting the ship at alarming rates seems bad enough, but if you look closely at one particularly large clump. its revealed to ''be breathing''.
*** Even worse, later on, it's revealed that it is also parasitic and can take over a persons nervous system and subject them to a rather squicky AndIMustScream situation which reaches its apex when you encounter a woman bound to an organic material-coated tree who is thoroughly mutated and begs you to kill her with what little motor control she has left.
** Project SEED. Words cannot describe how thoroughly unethical and repulsive the whole concept alone is, but seeing the "fruits" of its endeavour is enough to make any sane person give up hope for humanity forever. Basically, [[spoiler: It was an attempt to create super-soldiers by "activating" junk data on DNA. Seems relatively harmless right? Whilst the project seems to work as a few hybrids are documented to be doing pretty well, what it took to get them was nothing short of crimes against nature, as many of the failed clones were callously disposed of and the ones that weren't were revealing to be pathetically dying all around the medical base, all with varying forms of gruesome BodyHorror. Additionally, you encounter several pregnant women in a quadrant who all have atrophied limbs and look incredibly malnourished and destitute. It is implied that they were used multiple times in trying to produce the hybrid children and are now nothing more than empty shells. Behind them are several artificial wombs with malformed and forlorn hybrid foetuses lying abandoned. Perhaps worst of all is a poor soul encountered in the adjacent lab who is fused to a truly ungodly mass of fused bodies and limbs that writhes and moans in a truly sickening way. To say nothing of the deformed and conjoined corpses strewn in here and around the medical section too, some of which are still alive and can do nothing but feebly attempt to move.]] Basically, only someone as morally bankrupt and depraved as Malan could ever ''conceive'' something as supremely fucked up as Project SEED, let alone go through with it to the extent that he did, making this one of the best cases for LuddWasRight. ScienceIsBad indeed.
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** Apparently not all hybrids were aggressive: [[spoiler:near the end, John finds a room full of bodies of both humans and hybrids who died of suffocation inside, and some look like they tried to comfort each other as they were dying.

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** Apparently not all hybrids were aggressive: [[spoiler:near the end, John finds a room full of bodies of both humans and hybrids who died of suffocation inside, and some look like they tried to comfort each other as they were dying.dying]].
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* CompleteMonster: The Cayne Corporation easily qualifies; mass abducting innocent people, including children, to peform highly painful and unethical experiements on them, always resulting in their deaths. On top on that, they kept their staff in the dark about the true identities of their test-subjects.

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* CompleteMonster: The Cayne Corporation easily qualifies; mass abducting innocent people, including children, to peform highly painful and unethical experiements on them, always resulting in their deaths. On top on that, they kept their staff in the dark about the true identities of their test-subjects.test-subjects.
** Among the few living characters seen in the game, Doctor Malan certainly qualifies, while among the people we get to know through PDA entries, there's Doctor Backman, a senile scientist who was as capable as he was twisted: a self proclaimed sociopath (who showed signs of that since childhood) and serial rapist, also possibly serial murderer, who enjoyed his experiment too much.
* HeartwarmingMoments: In an incredibly bleak game like this, some PDA entries show how some people kept their decency and cared for others through the end. Of note is an engineer whose body is fopund near the end: [[spoiler:A young man who was fed up with his rich family and chose such job, he had a very strained relationship with a colleague, but over time he became, as he writes in his last entries, the only true friend he ever had, and was happy to die with him.]]
* NightmareFuel: From the copious BodyHorror, to the creepy sounds and screams, to the logs documenting the tragedy that happened on the spaceship, almost every screen has something.
* TearJerker
** While some scientists and crew members were really bad people not to be missed, other were decent folks who were unaware of what was happening before they found themselves swarmed by monstrosities.
** Apparently not all hybrids were aggressive: [[spoiler:near the end, John finds a room full of bodies of both humans and hybrids who died of suffocation inside, and some look like they tried to comfort each other as they were dying.
** Really, the entire plot [[spoiler:turning to be a complete ShaggyDogStory by the very last shot of the ending sequence. John's efforts were for naught because his daughter is killed and his wife was DeadAllAlong, and he'll die of oxygen deprivation while never knowing it. On top of that, no one may ever know what happened to the Groomlake, so Cayne Corporation is going to go on with its evil deeds undisturbed.]]
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* CompleteMonster: The Cayne Corporation easily qualifies; mass abducting innocent people, including children, to peform highly painful and unethical experiements on them, always resulting in their deaths. On top on that, they kept their staff in the dark about the true identities of their test-subjects.

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