History VideoGame / BeingOne

* HealingFactor: Rycroft's experiments revealed that your skin and body can rapidly regenerate over time, to the point that [[spoiler: you [[PullingThemselvesTogether draw upon universal elements to reform if destroyed]].]] Half of your head missing when Rycroft first found you before the series began.

* DistressCall: You can listen to three of these on a Quantum Radio in Episode 5. [[spoiler: One of them is from Venus, adrift in space after escaping Rycroft's lab.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: When you start receiving live messages from Rycroft in episode 5, it becomes clear just how twisted he actually is, having left you and all his workers to die at the hands of the nanobots he set loose in the station.

* MadScientist: Dr. Rycroft, full stop. He performs [[ForScience strange, unethical experiments on all sorts of creatures]], and locks his staff members in with the test subjects when they don't obey him. All while claiming you and his science [[ForTheGreaterGood can help millions]].

* GiantSpider: Near the start of Episode 4, which had already mummified several workers by the time you see it. [[HandWave Handwaved]] by the crew logs saying that the lighter gravity in Rycroft's base allows spiders
to grow larger than they would on Earth.

** Rycroft's nanobots in Episode 5.

* LivingShadow: Episode 3 deals with a lab experimenting with Dark Matter, but in actuality Rycroft is dealing with [[spoiler: a living, shadow-like being from AnotherDimension that even ''he'' doesn't fully understand. And judging from the results of the experiments therein, it didn't end well in that regard.]]

* SuddenLossOfSignal: Some way into Episode 4, Venus stops texting you because the base's cell signals went down.

* GiantSpider: Near the start of Episode 4, which had already mummified several workers by the time you see it. [[HandWave handwaved]] by Rycroft that the lighter gravity of the complex than Earth is what allows them to grow so large.

* AbandonedLaboratory: The first four episodes are spent exploring abandoned labs, each of them host to different [[GoneHorriblyWrong experiments gone wrong.]] Episodes 5 and 6 subvert this, with you directly going after Dr. Rycroft in his

** One of the lab workers in the same episode screams "KILL ME!" when you find it wrapped up in webbing.

** The first game has a few alien specimens kept in stasis. A disembodied head of a telepath says "Help us help us help us..." just as you pull the plug, and another alien was reported to have [[BodyHorror grown eyes, arms, and limbs at random non-stop]] before the scientists killed it.
** The lycans in Episode 4 can't kill themselves easily due to regenerative abilities.

* SuddenLossOfSignel: Some way into Episode 4, Venus stops texting you because the base's cell signals went down.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Venus, a mysterious woman who left you a cellphone at the beginning of Episode 1. She can only send you text messages, though. Logs later reveal that she was Dr. Rycroft's assistant which was how she set you free.

* HealingFactor: Rycroft's experiments revealed that your skin and body can rapidly regenerate over time, to the point that [[spoiler: you draw upon universal elements to reform if destroyed.]] Half of your head missing when Rycroft first found you before the series began.

* SpaceStation: The majority of the series is spent on [[spoiler: an asteroid in the debris belt orbiting Earth after the Moon impact of 2020.]] Saboteurs blow it up just after you finally escape in Episode 4. Episode 5 is set on Rycroft's orbiting "nano-station", with a giant [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]] in its center to covertly transfer cargo to and from Earth without the authorities noticing.

* AbandonedLaboratory:

* MadScientist: Dr. Rycroft, full stop. He performs [[ForScience strange, unethical experiments on all sorts of creatures]], and locks his staff members in with the test subjects when they don't obey him. All while claiming you and his science [[ForTheGreaterGood can help humanity]].

* SpaceStation: The majority of the series is spent on [[spoiler: an asteroid orbiting Earth after the Moon impact of 2023.]] Saboteurs blow it up just after you finally escape in Episode 4. Episode 5 is set on another space station, with a giant [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]] in its center to covertly transfer cargo to and from Earth without the authorities noticing.

* SpaceStation: The majority of the series is spent on [[spoiler: an asteroid orbiting Earth after the Moon impact of 2023.]] Saboteurs blow it up just after you finally escape in Episode 4. Episode 5 is set on another space station, with a giant [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]] in its center to covertly transfer cargo to and from Earth without the authorities noticing.

* OnlySmartPeopleWillPass: Slightly downplayed by the explanation that Rycroft had designed his labs so that his workers couldn't leave without finishing his experiments in that area.

* GiantSpider: Near the start of Episode 4. [[HandWave handwaved]] by Rycroft that the lighter gravity of the complex than Earth is what allows them to grow so large.

* MadScientist: Dr. Rycroft, full stop.

* RunningGag: From Episode 2 onward, your character gets more and more annoyed at seeing air vents.

* PeopleJars: You wake up in one, and the first puzzle is to unlock it from inside. [[spoiler: The ending of the third game reveals that Dr. Rycroft has ''hundreds'' of these for his research.]]

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* PeopleJars: You wake up in one, and the first puzzle is to unlock it from inside.