History VideoGame / Downfall

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''Downfall'' is a 2009 Horror AdventureGame developed by Creator/HarvesterGames, who have also released ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'' and ''VideoGame/{{Lorelai}}''.

Joe Davis is a troubled man. Lately his thoughts have been occupied by his wife, Ivy, as she appears to be in the middle of a serious psychological breakdown; she is constantly talking in riddles, cursing vulgarly, and belittling him, and that is only when she is not wildly hallucinating about blood or having panic attacks. During his attempt to get her help from a specialist who lives some towns over, the couple has been surprised by a violent storm and forced to pull over in a small town.

Deciding that they aren't getting any closer to their destination for today, Joe checks them in at the local Quiet Haven Hotel and rent a room there for the night. And then, things go downhill from there. First, Ivy keeps muttering about the hotel, repeatedly claiming there is something wrong about it, before she drags Joe into a bizarre argument about their troubled marriage. Joe just brushes it off as her psychosis talking, but then Ivy disappears mysteriously, and the hotel has even more mysteriously changed into something horrible, like it was taken out of her macabre ramblings, having rooms covered with carnage and debris, walls coated with blood and weird messages, and a dining room full of faceless corpses, and a strange, clearly malevolent figure stalking the hallways, armed with an axe. Now Joe, along with a mysterious woman named Agnes, must find Ivy somewhere in the nightmarish hotel before it's too late.

The original 2009 version can be [[https://www.moddb.com/games/downfall-a-horror-adventure-game downloaded as freeware.]] Due to the original game's code being corrupt (and therefore incapable of being put on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) a complete remake was developed. It should be noted that the remake changes some plot details and characters from the original in addition to having updated artwork and soundtrack, to the point that it's now considered the second game in its trilogy after ''The Cat Lady''.

Should not be confused with the film ''Film/{{Downfall}}'', even though that one has its share of NightmareFuel.

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!!The game contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Both Joe and Ivy suffer from this in the remake.
* AdventureDuo: Joe and Agnes.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Depending on your choices in the remake, Joe can become much kinder and compassionate compared to the original game. Since in the remake [[spoiler: Joe never force fed his wife to the point of obesity, and has a much lower body count than in the original.]]
** The references of Doctor Z [[AllGermansAreNazis being a nazi]] in the original game were completely removed in the remake.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[spoiler: ''The Cat Lady'''s Susan is far more attractive compared to how she looked in her game. Though it could be a case of her Informed Attractiveness being addressed.]]
** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former going from [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/the-cat-lady/images/3/38/Ivy_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140429113150 a pixelated figure]] to being a fully rendered [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette eerie pale]] [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg skinned brunette]] and latter well just look at her in [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png the original]] compared to [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg the remake.]]
** It could also be a small clue that she's recovering from her depression and is taking better care of herself, having put on some weight as well and looking less frail.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: ...or was it?]]
* [[AffablyEvil Affably]] AmbiguouslyEvil: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Queen of the Maggots]].
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You switch to Agnes halfway through the game.
** In the remake, the last third of the game is played from the perspective of [[spoiler: Susan, the protagonist from ''The Cat Lady''.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Joe expresses this to Agnes near the end of the remake, [[spoiler: as she decides to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice herself to help resurrect Ivy.]]]]
* ArcWords
* ArtShift: The entirety of the remake is upgraded from pixels to have a simliar artstyle and feel to The Cat Lady.
* AssholeVictim: Harrison belittles the second incarnation of Sophie, even going as far as to encourage suicide upon her in the remake. He proceeds to be blown up into pieces shortly after.
* AudienceSurrogate
* AuthorAvatar: The game's author, Remigiusz Michalski, has stated that Joe Davis's character is based on him. Whatever that may entail.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Sophie]]. And, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Axeman]]. [[spoiler: Who is really [[TheKillerInMe Joe]]]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler: After spending her entire game destroying parasites that kill other people or that make people kill themselves, it's revealed that ''The Cat Lady'''s Susan is now encouraging people to commit suicide in the remake's Downer ending.]]
* BigBad: Played with a bit. For most of the game, Sophie fills this space nicely. Then things get complicated and you discover that [[spoiler:Joe was the BigBad all along.]] Even then, the biggest BigBad of them all might be the Quiet Haven Hotel itself.
* BittersweetEnding: One of the possible endings in the remake. [[spoiler: Ivy is brought back to life and saves Joe from being killed by Susan (from ''The Cat Lady''). The pair then reconciles their relationship and promise to stay with each other till the end. However they are hunted by the police and their fate afterwards is ambiguous.]]
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[spoiler: Only if you shoot Agnes]]
** Averted when Agnes [[spoiler: falls over Harrison's legs and lands in the mush that came from the Sophie Joe blew up with gas from the stove. She stands up with no visible gore on her dress.]]
* BossCorridor: The player knows from the very beginning that everything leads to the big mirror in the Twilight Lounge. Especially obvious when [[spoiler: cutscenes show the mirror cracking after each Sophie is murdered.]]
* BridalCarry: Joe does this to Ivy [[spoiler: after he murders her.]]
** The same thing happens in the remake, the difference being is that this time [[spoiler: Joe carries Ivy to Dr Z's machine to resurrect her after she's already died.]]
* ByTheBookCop: Averted with [[spoiler: Billy]].
* ChainsawGood: Used by Joe in the remake [[spoiler: to kill Sophie after abandoning his axe.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: How Joe and Ivy's relationship starts in the remake. Unfortunately their first meeting ends with [[spoiler: Joe's brother getting blown up by a grenade]]. So they immediately went their separate ways, until they met later on in life and officially started being together.
* CosmicPlaything: Poor Joe...at least in the remake. From the moment [[spoiler: his brother died]], his life turned for the worse. [[spoiler: His own mother committed suicide out of grief, from his father blaming him entirely and assuring him that it would have been better if he was the one that died]]. Meeting Ivy again and marrying her was one of the last moments of joy and peace he had before she started [[spoiler: becoming anorexic and making herself sick]] which resulted in their marriage collapsing on it's knees. He can spend the rest of the game bitterly trying to pick up the pieces of this broken relationship until it's made abundantly clear that there's nothing left. The fact that he falls into his own Darkworld is just the icing on the cake, it's evident that his story can't end well. [[spoiler: That is unless he gets the GoldenEnding and reconciles with Ivy]]
* CouldntFindAPen: The Body in the cellar. [[spoiler: Also, Joe's flat.]]
* CreepyChild: One of Sophie's selves.
* DarkWorld: Pretty much the entire game, in great part due to the look of the game, which is both stylish and horrifying. Especially evident in Joe's memory of the construction site. [[spoiler: One can assume that this is due to the entire game being seen through Joe's eyes, who is a very disturbed individual.]]
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Several distinctive rooms use this, usually with a SplashOfColor by way of blood. Perhaps the most obvious example is the entire 'Black Widow Studio' part of town, which is completely devoid of any color.
* DistressedDamsel
* DownerEnding: Joe [[spoiler: murders the detective and then proceeds to carry on with his cycle of madness. Even if the player chooses the Suicide option.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Sophie]].
** In the backstory, [[spoiler: Joe's mother]].
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Ivy has this look in the remake.
* TheEveryman
* FacialHorror
* FanDisservice: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Joe if you choose not to [[spoiler: kiss the receptionist]].
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: Sophie. [[spoiler: Averted in the reveal]].
* FetchQuest: Doctor Z sends you back and forth a few times to help him along with his experiments. [[spoiler: It's too bad you weren't there when that monstrous creation of his decided to steal his brain.]]
* GeniusLoci
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Joe smokes for a bit with Agnes at one point.
* GottaKillEmAll: [[spoiler: You end up killing everyone in the building, even Ivy]].
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Joe makes this joke in reference to [[spoiler: Mr. Harris after he's blown to smithereens.]]
* HellHotel: Quiet Haven Hotel, of course.
* HereWeGoAgain: When Joe [[spoiler: carries Ivy out of the building at the end of the game, it's implied that the cycle will begin again. Or did the entire ending sequence happen ''before'' the events that took place during Joe's time in the Quiet Haven Hotel?]]
* HeroAntagonist: At the remake's final act [[spoiler: Susan (from ''The Cat Lady'') takes this role and confronts Joe in the climax.]]
** In the original [[spoiler: it's the detective, as he faces Joe at the end when he's electrocuting his wife.]]
* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler: Sophie used to eat rather disgusting things so she could get fat to get the attention of her lover.]]
* HowDareYouDieOnMe
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Sophie. Look under HorrorHunger]].
* ItsAllMyFault: See YouBastard below. Basically, the game constantly faces you with decisions that are blatantly misleading or outright lies all in the name of making you feel awful about yourself. Also, [[spoiler: "Meow"]]
* ItsUpToYou: [[spoiler: Poor Agnes's fate completely rides on whether or not you choose to defend yourself against what you assume is going to be a horrible monster that comes to take you from your premature grave. Turns out that the two rotting corpses that told you to shoot on sight ''might'' have been lying to you.]]
** Although, this is hardly the only example. Another notable one is where Joe [[spoiler: can either cheat on Ivy with a lonely ghost, or stay faithful.]]
** Oddly enough, [[spoiler: the ending seems to play out largely the same regardless of which of the three options you pick. It goes without saying that, besides whether or not you have Agnes hanging around, your other decisions don't carry much impact on the story either.]]
* TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:Joe is the Amnesiac version.]]
* LightningCanDoAnything: Doctor Z has you use lightning to help complete his experiment.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: The case between [[spoiler:Ivy and Agnes in the remake.]]
* ManOnFire
* AMinorKidroduction: The remake's prologue starts with a young Joe Davis, his brother Robbie, and Ivy.
* MoralityChain
* MrExposition:
* MultipleEndings:
** "On the Run" (Normal Ending): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, with Mitzi joining her shortly afterwards. The pair mourn over Ivy, and Mitzi leaves to call the police while Susan stays a few minutes longer. Just as she is about to leave, Joe stands up once more, bloody fireaxe in hand as the screen goes black... He is later seen escaping the hotel with Ivy's corpse in hand.]]
** "The Impossible" (GoldenEnding): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, with Mitzi joining her shortly afterwards. The pair mourn over Ivy, and Mitzi leaves to call the police. While she is gone, Ivy begins to have a pulse again, and Susan calls out to call an ambulance instead. As she takes a few steps, a hacking sound is heard, and Susan falls to the ground with Joe's axe in her back - but it isn't Joe who attacked her, it was Ivy. Ivy goes to Joe, who is still alive, and the two escape the hotel. Susan is still alive, and the fire is blamed on the escaped couple who have left together.]]
** "The Sixth Parasite" (Bad Ending): [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, and finishes him off by placing him on the chair and electrocuting him before incinerating Ivy's corpse. She then returns to her flat on her computer, where she is on a blog with a person contemplating suicide. The camera pans over her "trophies", including the mace used to kill Dr. X, the Pest Control Man's gas mask and shotgun and two rings marked under "J and I", and then returns to Susan and her computer, where she tells the person to "do it" [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis à la Eye of Adam]]. Joe and Ivy's corpses were found burnt to a crisp in the basement, together on the operating table.]]
* MythologyGag: In the original version, after [[spoiler: the kitchen is blown up]], Agnes is upset at the gruesome scene and covers her eyes and Joe jokingly asks what if she ends up tripping over a pair of legs. In the remake, Agnes actually does trip on the legs in the exact same scene.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* NotSoAboveItAll
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: [[TheDragon The Axeman]]]] to Joe. Especially ironic after TheReveal.
* NotQuiteDead:
** [[spoiler:Joe. In the "On the Run" and Golden Endings, he is ambushed by [[VideoGame/TheCatLady Susan Ashworth]]. In the former he rises to his feet as the Axeman, now cornering the unarmed Susan, and in the latter he is saved by Ivy, who attacks Susan and escaped the hotel with him. In the last ending, "The Sixth Parasite", Susan notes that he is tough - and promptly finishes him off by electrocuting him on the chair.]]
** [[spoiler:Susan herself counts, as in the Golden Ending she is last seen bleeding on the ground after being hacked in the back by the resurrected Ivy, but the newspaper clipping at the end mentions that she is a survivor of the hotel events, and though she claims to have been attacked by Joe and Ivy the article also mentions that she "sustained no injury and did not require medical attention".]]
* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Joe]].
* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler: Ivy's resurrection.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Sophie's final form.]] [[NightmareFuel Yikes]].
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The ghosts in this game carry on with their daily lives as if nothing has happened, seemingly all living in their own version of reality. Similar to ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'''s trio of characters. [[spoiler: One even tries to seduce Joe because of how lonely she is. Although it's hinted that she may just be another force trying to make Joe face up to the horrible things he's done to Ivy.]]
* RageAgainstTheReflection: A lot of the mirrors that dot the game are shattered. One can only assume that it's no coincidence that this game deals with themes such as eating disorders, insanity, and [[spoiler: facing up to one's sins.]]
* RasputinianDeath
* RealLifeRelative
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In an interview, the creator states that the main inspiration came from working as a nurse, the same deal with ''VideoGame/TheCatLady.'' The things Ivy says also comes from things he's heard from conversations he's had with patients.
* RedHerring: There is absolutely no way to get into the [[spoiler: Room 666]]. WordOfGod states it was a "little experiment" to mess with players expectations.
** The room can be entered in the remake, inside it is [[spoiler: The Queen of Maggots herself.]] Players don't even know they entered it till after they've left.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: A good number of the rooms in the hotel. [[spoiler: And Joe's flat.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Doctor wasn't a bad person, he was Joe's therapist. Sophie was really a representation of Ivy's self esteem issues and anorexia. Joe was really just insane, and he killed Ivy after keeping her locked up and force feeding her for so long. The people he killed weren't ghosts, they were real. This was all Joe freaking out. Depending on what you do, he can kill Agnes too.]]
* SanitySlippage: Very obvious towards the end of the game. Especially [[spoiler: when you murder Sophie's adult form with a freaking ''chainsaw'' at the behest of several disfigured dolls nailed to the walls. Oh yeah, did I mention she's obese, mute, and doesn't even react to Joe when he enters the room?]]
* SharedUniverse: With ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'', specifically [[spoiler: after the events of the game, as both Susan and Mitzi appear in the remake's climax to strike Joe down.]]
* ShoutOut: A few are present in the remake.
** If Agnes grabs the doll from the toilet maze and goes back into the woods (before talking to Ivy, as the entrance will disappear if you do) you can see a figure that looks a lot like [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]. There is an achievement for doing this.
** If the player picks certain phrases during Joe's final argument with Doctor Z, it can wind up sounding a lot like a certain [[MemeticMutation memetic]] motivational speech Creator/ShiaLaBeouf gave. [[spoiler: '''"Just do it!"''']]. Like the above, there is an achievement for doing this.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Joe gets a shotgun later on.
* SickeninglySweethearts: It's possible for the player to make Joe and Ivy like this in the Remake, however this makes the collapse of their marriage all the more tragic. Just look at them having a heart to heart in their bed. [[https://alternativemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/screenshot-2.png?w=500&h=375]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: The cheerful background music that plays in Dr. Z's [[spoiler:secret Nazi shrine.]]
* AStormIsComing
* StringyHairedGhostGirl
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The player must do this to [[spoiler: kill one of Sophie's memories.]]
* TearsOfBlood
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Near the end of the remake Joe sees [[spoiler: Agnes as monster ]], it's not clarified if this was the truth or just Joe's perception being altered by [[spoiler: the receptionist.]]
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The two talking corpses [[spoiler: who try to get you to kill Agnes]].
* TogetherInDeath: Occurs in one of the remake's endings between [[spoiler: Joe and Ivy, after the Cat lady electrocutes Joe and burns Ivy's corpse. Their charred corpses are shown embracing each in the blacked remains of a bed]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Joe's brother picks up a mine, expecting to sell it. You know how this turned out.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: The once meek [[spoiler: Susan Ashworth (from ''The Cat Lady'') is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons and is utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching anyone she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated when she nearly kills Joe during his attempt to resurrect Ivy.]]
* ThoseWackyNazis: You find out Doctor Z had some fascination with Hitler after doing enough things in his room.
** This side of him is not shown in the remake.
* VillainousBreakdown/ VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: Joe experiences one or the other at the end, depending on how you play it. Of course, it is implied - and confirmed in "VideoGame/TheCatLady" - that he's really in the midst of an extended VillainousBreakdown, causing or resulting from SanitySlippage.]]
* WalkingTransplant
* WeightWoe: Inverted in the original - Sophie wants to gain as much weight as possible, because [[LoveHurts the man whom she loved said he liked girls "with curves"]]. It's played straight in the 2016 remake, where her lover makes derogatory comments about her being 'fat and ugly'.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Joe. [[spoiler: Only because he was there when his brother died, and because of that, his mother committed suicide and his father just gave up and went on to hating Joe for it.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Agnes to Joe after [[spoiler: Joe kills the teenage Sophie]]. Joe throws back a ShutUpKirk.
* WhenSheSmiles: Invoked by Ivy. Joe recalls how her smiles and laughs are part of the reasons he fell in-love with her.
* WindmillCrusader
* [[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: [[spoiler: Joe]].
* YouBastard: Pretty much the entire game. Most notably, [[spoiler: when the player thinks he's defending himself from Sophie, but really just murders Agnes at the behest of two talking corpses. Made especially awful by the fact that you are forced to play as her for a bit before the penultimate moment, regardless of your decision beforehand. This has the effect of causing the player to fall in love with Agne's character just in time for you to murder her senselessly. Worse still, it's very possible that the player will see this coming after it's too late, and spend much of this chapter in denial about whether or not Joe will really shoot her.]]
* YourHeadASplode: Several. Especially [[spoiler: Sophie's childhood memory.]]
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** More of a GainaxEnding, really.

''Downfall'' is a 2009 Horror AdventureGame developed by Harvester Games, who have also released ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'' and ''VideoGame/{{Lorelai}}''.

* AMinorKidroduction: The remake's prologue starts with a young Joe Davis, his brother Robbie, and Ivy.

The original 2009 version can be [[http://www.quiethavenhotel.co.uk/ downloaded as freeware.]] Due to the original game's code being corrupt (and therefore incapable of being put on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) a complete remake was developed. It should be noted that the remake changes some plot details and characters from the original in addition to having updated artwork and soundtrack, to the point that it's now considered the second game in its trilogy after ''The Cat Lady''.

* TheKillerInMe

The original 2009 version can be [[http://www.quiethavenhotel.co.uk/ downloaded as freeware.]] Due to the original game's code being corrupt (and therefore incapable of being put on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) a complete remake had to be made and is now available. It should be noted that the remake changes some plot details and characters from the original in addition to having updated artwork and soundtrack.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler: After spending her entire game destroying parasites that make people kill themselves, it's revealed that the Cat lady is now encouraging people to commit suicide in the remake's Downer ending.]]

''Downfall'' is a 2009 Horror AdventureGame developed by Harvester Games, who have also released ''VideoGame/TheCatLady.''

* TookALevelInBadass: The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons and is utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching anyone she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated when she nearly kills Joe during his attempt to resurrect Ivy.]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: [[spoiler: The Cat lady is far more attractive compared to how she looked in her game. Though it could be a case of her Informed Attractiveness being addressed.]]

** In the remake, the last third of the game is played from the perspective of [[spoiler: The Cat Lady]]

* AuthorAvatar: The game's author, Remigiusz Michalski, has stated that Joe Davis' character is based on him. Whatever that may entail.

* BittersweetEnding: One of the possible endings in the remake. [[spoiler: Ivy is brought back to life and saves Joe from being killed by the Cat Lady. The pair then reconciles their relationship and promise to stay with each other till the end. However they are hunted by the police and their fate afterwards is ambiguous.]]

* HeroAntagonist: At the remake's final act [[spoiler: the Cat Lady takes this role and confronts Joe in the climax.]]

* ItsUpToYou: [[spoiler: Poor Agnes' fate completely rides on whether or not you choose to defend yourself against what you assume is going to be a horrible monster that comes to take you from your premature grave. Turns out that the two rotting corpses that told you to shoot on sight ''might'' have been lying to you.]]

* LiteralSplitPersonality: The case between [[spoiler: Ivy and Agnes in the remake.]]

** [[spoiler:Susan herself counts, as in the Golden Ending she is last seen bleeding on the ground after being hacked in the back by the resurrected Ivy, though the newspaper clipping at the end mentions that she is a survivor of the hotel events, and though she claims to have been attacked by Joe and Ivy the article also mentions that she "sustained no injury and did not require medical attention".]]

** The room can be entered in the remake, inside it is [[spoiler: The Maggot Queen herself.]] Players don't even know they entered it till after they've left.

** Actually all of the characters are subjected to this due to the updated art style in the remake. Ivy and Agnes most of all, with the former going from a pixelated figure [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/the-cat-lady/images/3/38/Ivy_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140429113150]] to being a fully rendered EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/a93ec101d665eb6fdf1eb06c4a0c1564edd9c5db.jpg]] and latter well just look at her in the original [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/downfall/downfall_agnes.png]] compared to the remake [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/364390/73d1316639f0ce6b06cb774f32bd529b6503016f.jpg]]

The original 2009 version can be [[http://www.quiethavenhotel.co.uk/ downloaded as freeware]]. Due to the original game's code being corrupt (and therefore incapable of being put on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) a complete remake had to be made and is now available. It should be noted that the remake changes some plot details and characters from the original in addition to having updated artwork and soundtrack.

Deciding that they aren't getting any closer to their destination for today, Joe checks them in at the local Quiet Haven Hotel and rent a room there for the night. And then, things go downhill from there. First, Ivy keeps muttering about the hotel, repeatedly claiming there is something wrong about it, before she drags Joe into a bizarre argument about their troubled marriage. Joe just brushes it off as her psychosis talking, but then Ivy disappears mysteriously, and the hotel has even more mysteriously changed into something horrible, like it was taken out of her macabre ramblings, having rooms covered with carnage and debris, walls coated with blood and weird messages, and a dining room full of faceless corpses, and a strange, clearly malevolent figure stalking the hallways, armed an axe. Now Joe, joined with a mysterious woman named Agnes, must find Ivy somewhere in the nightmarish hotel before it's too late.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Depending on your choices in the remake, Joe can become much kinder and compassionate compared to the original game. Since in the remake [[spoiler: Joe never force fed his wife to the point of obesity, and has a much less body count than in the original.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Joe expresses this to Agnes near the end of the remake, [[spoiler: as she decides to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice her self to help resurrect Ivy.]]]]

** In the original [[spoiler: its the detective, as he faces Joe at the end when he's electrocuting his wife.]]

** If Agnes grabs the doll from the toilet maze and goes back into the woods (before talking to Ivy, as the entrance will disappear if you do) you can see a figure that looks a lot like [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]. There is an achivement for doing this.

* TookALevelInBadass: The once meek [[spoiler: Cat lady is now a genre savvy parasite killer that mastered MacGyvering various weapons, and utterly ruthless and efficient in dispatching whom she sees as a parasite. This is demonstrated on how she nearly kills Joe during his attempt to resurrect Ivy.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Joe. [[spoiler: Only because he was there when his brother died, and because of that, his mother committed suicide and his father just gave up and went onto hating Joe for it.]]

** If Agnes grabs the doll from the toilet maze and goes back into the woods (before talking to Ivy, as the entrance will disappear if you do) you can see a figure that looks a lot like [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]. There is an achivement for doing this.

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!!This VideoGame contains examples of:

* [[spoiler:BecameTheirOwnAntithesis]]: [[spoiler: After spending her entire game destroying parasites that make people kill themselves, it's revealed that the Cat lady is now encouraging people to commit suicide in the remake's Downer ending.]]

* [[spoiler: VillainProtagonist]]

* WeightWoe: Inverted. Sophie wants to gain as much weight as possible, because [[LoveHurts the man whom she loved said he liked girls "with curves"]].

** "GoldenEnding": [[spoiler:Susan ambushes Joe with her weapon, with Mitzi joining her shortly afterwards. The pair mourn over Ivy, and Mitzi leaves to call the police. While she is gone, Ivy begins to have a pulse again, and Susan calls out to call an ambulance instead. As she takes a few steps, a hacking sound is heard, and Susan falls to the ground with Joe's axe in her back - but it isn't Joe who attacked her, it was Ivy. Ivy goes to Joe, who is still alive, and the two escape the hotel. Susan is still alive, and the fire is blamed on the escaped couple who have left together.]]

** Averted when Agnes [[spoiler: falls over Harrison's legs and lands in the mush that came from the Sophie Joe blew up with gas from the stove.]]