History VideoGame / DreamOfGluttony

* SurpriseCreepy: In the first playthrough, everything seems innocent enough- Sissy is a cute girl who goes through Food Town, a SugarBowl full of a quirky RagtagBunchOfMisfits who identify as [[CastOfPersonifications humanoid foods]] and act friendly to her. Then Sissy goes off on her own and encounters Chili, a SerialKiller who [[ImAHumanitarian devours her victims]], and she eats Sissy. The NewGamePlus has Sissy admit to being a human, and then all hell breaks loose as the inhabitants reveal themselves as misanthropic humans who try to kill her for fear that she will expose them to the world. Sissy ends up going through immense SanitySlippage while running for her life.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: {{Downplayed}}. The trailer's MoodWhiplash ends up revealing the [[SurpriseCreepy kind of game it is]], and it also reveals parts of the first playthrough's ending, albeit omitting the parts showing Chili. Notably, there's no footage of the DarkerAndEdgier second playthrough.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A large part of the cast has unique hair colors. The only characters to avert this trope are Sissy, Butter, Bread, Cinnamon, Dumpling, and Milk if you think of him as an albino or PrematurelyGreyHaired.

* SurpriseCreepy: In the first playthrough, everything seems innocent enough- Sissy is a cute girl who goes through Food Town, a SugarBowl full of a quirky RagtagBunchOfMisfits who identify as[[CastOfPersonifications humanoid foods]] and act friendly to her. Then Sissy goes off on her own and encounters Chili, a SerialKiller who [[ImAHumanitarian devours her victims]], and she eats Sissy. The NewGamePlus has Sissy admit to being a human, and then all hell breaks loose as the inhabitants reveal themselves as misanthropic humans who try to kill her for fear that she will expose them to the world. Sissy ends up going through immense SanitySlippage while running for her life.

** [[spoiler:Sissy, covered in Chili's blood.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: You know it's bad when there's an entire village made up of outcast people that ran away from civilization due to DarkAndTroubledPasts.

* BigBadDuumvirate: The people of [[TownWithADarkSecret Food Town]] are collectively the antagonists in the [[NewGamePlus second playthrough]] who seek to kill Sissy for being a normal human for fear that she will report their murderous activities.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Food Town looks like an idyllic place with quirky humanoid foods... Except most of them are actually misanthropic humans who've shed their old identities to live a false life that they will violently protect.
* DownerEnding: Both routes. No matter what happens, Sissy/Passion Fruit can't leave Food Town, and lost her sanity wandering it in the process.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Played with; while the Food Town residents are clearly mental ill, seeing as they genuinely believe themselves to be anthropomorphic foodstuffs, most are only violent towards humans- if Sissy claims to be a passion fruit, they let her in and act nice to her, being quirky at worst. Candy and Chili are the only ones who kill and eat their fellow "foodstuffs", while Grape and Strawberry never attack Sissy, remaining friendly even if they know she is human. And it is shown that, with the possible exception of Chili, all of them are societal outcasts with tragic pasts and SocietyIsToBlame as much as them.

* MeatOVision: Implied in Chili's district on the first playthrough. It's likely that the place's true colors are only visible to the player; Sissy/Passion Fruit is too far gone and starving to fight against Food Town's charm and realize she's looking at dead bodies, instead of treats in the trees.
* MinigameGame: In both playthroughs, excluding the encounters with Chili (and Milk on the second playthrough), you play a minigame related to the character you're currently meeting at the moment.

** In the second playthrough: The once-lovable cast of characters that Sissy meets aren't [[CastOfPersonifications humanoid personifications of food]], but actual humans that suffered bullying and scorn from other humans long enough that they became unhinged enough to attack anyone that doesn't have a food name.
* SurpriseCreepy: In the first playthrough, everything seems innocent enough- Sissy is a cute girl who goes through Food Town, a SugarBowl full of a quirky RagtagBunchOfMisfits who act friendly to her. They are all [[CastOfPersonifications humanoid foods]], for extra quirkyness. Then Sissy goes off on her own and encounters Chili, a SerialKiller who [[ImAHumanitarian devours her victims]] and eats Sissy. The NewGamePlus has Sissy admit to being a human, and then all hell breaks loose as the inhaitants reveal themselves as misanthropic humans who try to kill her for fear that she will expose them to the world, and Sissy goes through immense SanitySlippage while running for her life.

* YankTheDogsChain: Sissy suffers this on both of the playthroughs. In the first, after a while, she begins to believe that she's actually Passion Fruit, and even though she initially pleaded her to give her food, she felt proud of dying, eaten by Chili. In the second, the fluffy mask of the town shatters as soon as she reveals she's a human, and even after learning SocietyIsToBlame for the citizen's tragic backstories, she ruthlessly kills Chili. The result in both playthroughs is that she ends up in a camp full of trees, being to talk with all the Food Town citizens, and when she tries to get out of it, she finds out ''she can't''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A large part of the cast has unique hair colors. The only characters to avert this trope are Sissy, Butter, Bread, Cinnamon, and Dumpling and Milk if you think both of them are albinos or PrematurelyGreyHaired.

''Dream of Gluttony'' is a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HorrorVideoGames horror]] game created by UminoAoi.

* AllJustADream: At the beginning of the game, a girl named Dreamy Rose is told to dream about an ideal world and ends up dreaming the whole story. She wakes up at the end of the second playthrough, lamenting that the whole dream turned into a nightmare by the end. To those that played UminoAoi's previous game, ''VideoGame/{{Veins}}'', you'll likely know that the Campfire Quintet are dream beings, reinforcing this trope.

* TheCameo: In the beginning of the game, Sissy encounters a quirky group of friends in a campfire. They're from UminoAoi's previous game, ''VideoGame/{{Veins}}''.

'''Warning:''' Due to the nature of the game, spoilers are unmarked for revelations that take place in the first playthrough. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* BigBadDuumvirate: The people of Food Town are collectively the antagonists in the second playthrough who seek to kill Sissy for being a normal human for fear that she will report their murderous activities.
* BrokenAesop: [[spoiler:The game talks about how SocietyIsToBlame as the cause of the deteriorating mental health of the outcasts caused by shunning them and hating them due to having a different mindset or having something that isn't the status quo. However, in the second playthrough, several characters [[HeWhoFightsMonsters try to convince Sissy to follow their mindset and live with them, attempting to murder her when she refuses in order to preserve their own perspective]].]]

* TheCakeIsALie: Food Town doesn't have a train station. [[spoiler:Sissy can never leave, no matter what she tries to do.]]

* CastOfPersonifications: The inhabitants of Food Town seem to be humanoid versions of many kinds of food, including condiments and a drink. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it's revealed that they all are just humans.]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Food Town looks like an idyllic place with quirky humanoid foods... Except [[spoiler:most of them are actually misanthropic humans who've shed their old identities to live a false life that they will violently protect]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: The second playthrough in comparison to the first. [[spoiler:It, much like the residents of Food Town, don't even bother with the idyllic act because of their hatred for humans.]]
* DownerEnding: Both routes. [[spoiler:No matter what happens, Sissy/Passion Fruit can't leave Food Town, and lost her sanity wandering it in the process.]]
* EvolvingTitleScreen: The title screen changes, showcasing the character Sissy is currently meeting.

** The description of [[spoiler:all the skills you can use against Chili on the second playthrough's battle against her (excluding [[HealingFactor Don't Give Up]])]] is just the word "kill" repeated.

** In the second playthrough, it initially doesn't seem like much stuff will change. Until Sissy decides against playing along and shamelessly admits she's a human. [[spoiler:Dumpling very thinly masks his disdain, and it only gets worse from there.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sissy behaving differently from her cheerfully optimistic self and wearing an expression with shadowed eyes shows how Food Town is affecting her: in the first playthrough, she's wearing a SlasherSmile because she embraced the idea of being a resident.

* OnlySaneMan: In the second playthrough, it's revealed that [[spoiler:neither Milk nor Bread]] live in the same delusion as the other inhabitants do. That doesn't stop them from having their own issues, though.
* ProphetEyes: Grape has these.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Food Town's inhabitants decided to isolate themselves in this town due to society's poor treatment of them.]]

** In the second playthrough: [[spoiler:The once-lovable cast of characters that Sissy meets [[{{Subverted}} aren't]] [[CastOfPersonifications humanoid personifications of food]], but actual humans that suffered bullying and scorn from other humans long enough that they became unhinged enough to attack anyone that doesn't have a food name.]]
* SlasherSmile: Sissy (as Passion Fruit) and Chili sport these frequently.
* SssssnakeTalk: Chili speaks like this.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Sissy slowly transforming into Passion Fruit. See BecomingTheMask.
* SurpriseCreepy: In the same vein of "the quirky and cute cast of characters and the place they live in have a dark truth behind them" that made other examples of this trope popular.
* SympatheticMurderer: Zigzagged with [[spoiler:Dumpling. It's implied that Dumpling killed his bullies after being mocked too much but in the second playthrough, he is perfectly willing to murder Sissy who hasn't wronged him other than being a human.]]
* TalkingWithSigns: Dumpling's way of communicating. [[spoiler:In the second playthrough, it becomes his ImprovisedWeapon.]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[spoiler:You know it's bad when there's an entire village made up of outcast people that ran away from civilization due to DarkAndTroubledPasts.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Strawberry and Grape.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: In the first playthrough, Sissy sees Food Town as an idyllic paradise filled with quirky but kind residents that live there. In the second playthrough, she sees [[spoiler:the residents as their true unhinged selves with all the murder that entails]].
* TooKinkyToTorture: Tomato. He asks you to pelt him with rocks so he can make tomato sauce in the first playthrough. [[spoiler:And is seen shooting himself for the pain in the second.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: See CrapSaccharineWorld.
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Milk is one of the few inhabitants of Food Town that doesn't try to kill Sissy in the second playthrough, he sympathizes with her plight and offers her a place to rest. He even gives her the town's backstory. He does, however, willingly enable the town to function the way it does without intervening.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Most of the town residents in the second playthrough, after Sissy chooses not to mask herself as a fruit.

* {{Transgender}}: Cinnamon. Sissy/Passion Fruit is surprised when Dumpling reveals this.
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Sissy kills Chili at the end of the second playthrough, but she's shown to be fine in TheStinger.]]
** Likewise, Sissy lives in TheStinger of the first playthrough despite being eaten by Chili.
* VillainousGlutton: Fittingly enough for the game's title, we meet two characters completely driven by their gluttony: Candy, who is constantly eating sweets [[spoiler:and other inhabitants that represented them]], and Chili, who eats anyone that dares step on her district for mysterious reasons.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Played with [[spoiler: Dumpling. Dumpling becomes hostile to Sissy in the 2nd playthrough due to being a normal person, and having [[FreudianExcuse personal bad experiences with them.]]]]

* YankTheDogsChain: Sissy suffers this on both of the playthroughs. In the first, after a while, she begins to believe that she's actually Passion Fruit, and even though she initially pleaded her to give her food, she felt proud of dying, eaten by Chili. In the second, [[spoiler:the fluffy mask of the town shatters as soon as she reveals she's a human, and even after learning SocietyIsToBlame on the citizen's backstories, she ruthlessly kills Chili]]. The result in both playthroughs is that she ends up in a camp full of trees, being to talk with all the Food Town citizens, and when she tries to get out of it, she finds out ''she can't''.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Sissy in both of the playthroughs.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Butter's parents would starve her due to their poverty.]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Strawberry and Grape are colored after their respective fruits. The second playthrough reveals [[spoiler:it's the result of expensive plastic surgery]].
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Subverted. While some of the residents seem to have questionable features like Tomato, whose blood tastes like tomato sauce, and Chili, who has snake-like features such as a tongue, [[spoiler:they are all human, and it's implied that this is the result of Sissy's deteriorating mental state]].
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: The Food Town residents leave the impression that they are designed around the food they're based on. For example, Strawberry is noticeable chubby and has gigantic breasts, to evoke the image of a plump strawberry.
** Justified later on with the Fruits, though, as [[spoiler:they're revealed to be hardcore vegans who had plastic surgery to match their food]].
* BecomingTheMask: At the end of the first playthrough, Sissy embraces the identity of Passion Fruit and willingly accepts being killed and eaten by Chili.

* {{TheCameo}}: In the beginning of the game, Sissy encounters a quirky group of friends in a campfire. They're from UminoAoi's previous game, ''Veins''.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Butter and Bread.
* CorruptTheCutie: Sissy can't catch a break.
** First playthrough (lies that she's a Passion Fruit): Sissy's mind and sanity become one with Food Town's inhabitants, and she sees everything under a rose-tinted lens. That leads up to Sissy endlessly begging Chili for food before becoming a meal for the latter.
** Second playthrough (just says she's a human): [[spoiler:Sissy sees the true hell that Food Town is, but even after being explained they had reasons to build a community to be themselves (although with misanthropy and lack of moral thinking), she can't see Food Town's inhabitants as anything more than monsters. Immediately, she begins to accept society's ways despite being a victim of society.]]
* CrapSaccharineWorld: Food Town looks like an idyllic place with quirky humanoid foods... Except [[spoiler:most of them are actually misanthropic humans who've shed their old identities to live a false life that they will violently protect]].
* CuteMute: Dumpling. [[spoiler:At least on the first playthrough.]]

* DrivenByEnvy: In the second playthrough, [[spoiler:Sissy]] feels this way.
--> ''"Why can't I do it?! Don't they have any responsibility?! Why does no one understand me?! They all should just be exterminated!"''

* EyepatchOfPower: Chili, the most dangerous person in Food Town, has a white eyepatch over her left eye.
* GenocideFromTheInside: A variation took place in Food Town before Sissy arrived. [[spoiler:Candy killed all the other inhabitants of Food Town that represented candy because of the fact she goes crazy looking at candy.]]
* GlamourFailure: If you're a human and aren't bothering at all to hide this fact, the town loses its cute charm in seconds.
* HateSink: Chili is the only inhabitant of Food Town without a redeeming quality and, as far as we know, a DarkAndTroubledPast that justifies her behavior.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The residents of Food Town. [[spoiler:They're outcasts who were rejected by society for different reasons leading to their escape into Food Town. There, they form a society in which [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis they despise those who don't think in the same way they do]], going so far as to murder them if they refuse to comply and become a part of their town.]]
* HiddenElfVillage: Food Town.
* ImAHumanitarian:
** Chili's district is full of dead bodies from her fellow foods, and when Sissy/Passion Fruits gets close to ask food from her, she eats her instead.
--->''"Food ssssshouldn't eat... It ssssshould be eaten, don't you know?"''
** [[spoiler:Candy's district is empty because she eats all the candy residents, which Sissy sees in full detail in the second playthrough.]]
* IronicName: Chili peppers symbolize warmth and friendship in southwestern American tradition. Yet, Chili is the ''least'' friendly character of the Food Town bunch, notable for being hostile to Sissy in both playthroughs.
* KnightOfCerebus: Things start taking a strange turn once Sissy encounters Tomato.
* LazyBum: Strawberry and Grape do nothing but sit in the sun all day.

* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler:Most of the people living in Food Town are humans who were rejected by society and found in that town a chance to be themselves. That's why all of them are out for Sissy's blood in the playthrough she doesn't mask herself as a fruit.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:The description of all the skills you can use against Chili on the second playthrough's battle against her (excluding [[HealingFactor Don't Give Up]]) is just the word "kill" repeated.]]

** The game's trailer. It starts with Sissy meeting Dumpling and it's followed by him presenting the other inhabitants of Food Town for her. Then, halfway, the music gets distorted to the point of HellIsThatNoise, until it ends in a LastNoteNightmare with Sissy (now called Passion Fruit) hungrily looking at the trees until the screen is overtaken by static. Then, it cuts to her black silhouette against a red background walking, with the only sound being feet walking on grass, and she says this before it cuts to the game's title:
-->''"I'm so hungry that I can't help it..."''

** Meanwhile in the second playthrough, [[spoiler:''almost everyone'' acts differently at one point or another from their initial selves, reflecting their true natures]].
* OrcusOnHisThrone: [[AxCrazy Chili]] just stays on her district of Food Town (aka, the only one lacking everlasting glamour in the first playthrough). It's probably for the best.

* RuleOfCute: The art style.

You play as Sissy - a normal girl, that got lost in the forest. She tries to find her way back home, and so decides to take the one that the mysterious man in the forest had mentioned. She then discovers a town, where people claim to be... food. Everything seems to be cute and nice, but... something feels odd here... Maybe visiting this town only once isn't enough to learn the truth?

'''Warning:''' Due to the nature of the game, spoilers are unmarked for revelations that take place in the first playthrough. [[{{Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned}} You have been warned]].

* AllJustADream: At the beginning of the game, a girl named Dreamy Rose is told to dream about an ideal world and ends up dreaming the whole story. She wakes up at the end of the second playthrough, lamenting that the whole dream turned into a nightmare by the end.
** To those that played UminoAoi's previous game, ''"Veins"'', you'll likely know that the Campfire Quintet are dream beings, reinforcing this trope.

* SequelHook: If we go by WordOfGod, [[spoiler: [[https://uminoaoi.tumblr.com/post/643122113869381632/last-illustration-from-dream-of-gluttony-i-cant Dreamy Rose appearing at the end of the second playthrough is this for a future game.]]]]

Warning: thanks to this game's nature, spoilers will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* AbusiveParents: Butter's parents would starve her due to their poverty.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: The [[EvolvingTitleScreen title screen]] once it decides to get DarkerAndEdgier.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Strawberry and Grape are colored after their respective fruits. The second playthrough reveals it's the result of expensive plastic surgery.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: All the humans living in Food Town play this trope for a degree. A notable case is Tomato, who makes tomato sauce [[IAteWhat with the dripping blood from his own head]]... that tastes like a tomato as well. Chili plays it a step further, having teeth and a snake tongue, and behaving in a much more cruel and animalistic way than the other citizens. The second playthrough implies it's the result of Sissy going crazy.

* BecomingTheMask: In the first playthrough, Sissy embraces the identity of Passion Fruit and her hunger, and willingly accepts being killed and eaten by Chili.
* BigBad: Chili.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kyrie, of the campfire quintet. While he initially seems like the OnlySaneMan of the group, giving advice for Sissy to reach Food Town, it's possible that he gave this tip just to allow Sissy's "true form" to wake up (Passion Fruit in the first playthrough, and GreenEyedMonster, outcast-hating Sissy in the second playthrough).
* BrokenAesop: The game talks about how SocietyIsToBlame as the cause of the deteriorating mental health of the outcasts caused by shunning them and hating them due to having a different mindset or having something that isn't the status quo. However, in the second playthrough, several characters [[HeWhoFightsMonsters try to convince Sissy to follow their mindset and live with them, attempting to murder her when she refuses in order to preserve their own perspective]].
* ButThouMust: If you choose to wait for Dumpling to stop bickering with Cinnamon in the first playthrough, you'll be stuck. You have to send Sissy/Passion Fruit to Chili's area [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption and let her die]].
* TheCakeIsALie: Food Town doesn't have a train station. No matter if Sissy embraces being a fruit or if Sissy feels disgusted against and hates them, she can never escape.
* CastOfPersonifications: At first glance, the inhabitants of Food Town seem to be humanoid versions of many kinds of food, including condiments and a drink. {{Subverted}} when it's revealed that they all are just humans. Played straight with the Campfire Quintet though.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Butter and Bread are childhood friends that are now dating. The second playthrough shows the darker side of this as Bread is willing to kidnap and lock up Sissy to keep Butter happy.
* CityInABottle: Food Town.
* CorruptTheCutie: Sissy gets corrupted by outside influences no matter what she decides to do once she introduces herself to Dumpling.
** First playthrough (lies that she's a Passion Fruit): Sissy's mind and sanity become one with Food Town's inhabitants, and she sees everything with rose-tinted eyes in a way that she's unable to see their darker side. That leads up to Sissy endlessly begging Chili for food before becoming a meal for the latter.
** Second playthrough (just says she's a human): Sissy sees the true hell that Food Town is, but even after being explained they had reasons to build a community to be themselves (although with misanthropy and lack of moral thinking), she can't see Food Town's inhabitants as anything more than monsters. Immediately, she begins to accept society's ways despite being a victim of society.
* CrapSaccharineWorld: Food Town looks like an idyllic place with quirky humanoid foods... Expect that actually, all of them are [[SocietyIsToBlame people that don't fit into society]] that somehow found their way to this place.
* CuteMute: Dumpling. At least on the first playthrough.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The second playthrough in comparison to the first. It doesn't even bother playing the SurpriseCreepy card, and already drops hints behind the town's true nature while Sissy is kidnapped by Butter and Bread out of all people. Even some explicit swears are dropped in the dialogue.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: ''[[UpToEleven Almost everybody in the game]]'' has hints of a tragic past, and the reason for all of those is SocietyIsToBlame. Sissy's cooking career was ruined by a lazy chef and an angry female customer, Dumpling was bullied for being mute and eventually snapped, Butter was a victim of an abusive household that starved her and Bread saved her, Candy goes crazy seeing candy and candy-looking objects, Strawberry and Grape are vegans that abused the use of plastic surgery, and Tomato is a severe masochist. It's unknown if Cinnamon and Chili have backstories as tragic as all of those, but Cinnamon's nature along with his interactions with Dumpling can give us a hint [[BuryYourGays of why he escaped to Food Town as well]].
* DeathWorld: Chili's district, once its glamour falls apart in seconds in the first playthrough. There are entrails and eyeballs wrapped in the trees and dead bodies everywhere, showing that Sissy/Passion Fruit is not a unique case of a person who died at Chili's hands. Worst of all, as Sissy/Passion Fruit walks through this death mayhem, her mind rapidly gets unhinged enough for her to get interested in ''[[{{Squick}} eating]]'' the bodies.
* DownerEnding: No matter the ending, Sissy will have her psyche damaged (possibly to an irreversable degree), and she'll be forced to stay in the town forever.
* DrivenByEnvy: Hinted. Sissy attacks Chili in the second playthrough while the former tries to reason with herself as to why the inhabitants of Food Town can live a lazy, happy idealistic life while she suffers from living a social life and working.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Cinnamon. Even Sissy/Passion Fruit mistakes him for a woman at first.
* EvolvingTitleScreen: The title screen changes, showcasing the character we're currently meeting. [[SarcasmMode It starts to get really pleasant after we meet Chili]].
* EyeMotifs: This game uses them to show a character, a worldview, or a change to one of them.
** Characters that lose the sparkles on their eyes are either about to act insane or like jerks.
** Eyes covered by a shadow can symbolize a large, threatening person (e.g Chili), or someone becoming radically different from their former selves (e.g Sissy).
** In the second playthrough, the character featured in the title screen will have a black sketch over their eyes, showing that they now envision Sissy as a threat solely because she's a human. Sissy having them once you finish the second playthrough is fitting in that she accepted society's dark worldview.

* FantasticRacism: The town residents towards humans (i.e normal people).
* FakeLongevity: You have to play it twice. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the experience of the second gameplay is deeply different from the first one.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: In the second playthrough, Sissy begins to be disgusted by and hate Food Town's inhabitants because of the fact they can live a carefree life while she can't.
-->"Why can't I do it?! Don't they have any responsibility?! Why does no one understand me?! They all should just be exterminated!"
* GenocideFromTheInside: A variation. Candy killed all the other inhabitants of Food Town that represented candy because of the fact she goes crazy looking at candy.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: PlayedWith in the second playthrough. Sissy actually understands Food Town's inhabitants are crazy and nasty against her, but can't understand they have ''[[FreudianExcuse reasons]]'' for why they act that way (namely, society mistreated them). Milk, the one who explains Food Town's true nature, doesn't judge her for this mindset but tries to make her understand how Food Town's inhabitants see the town. Unfortunately, society's mindset silently takes over Sissy's personality before she can have a chance.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In the second playthrough, Sissy, initially a scared and lost girl that used to be a victim of society, [[NotSoDifferent not too unlike the people of Food Town]], becomes an EmotionlessGirl and GreenEyedMonster that criticizes Food Town's carefree lifestyle, thinking they should be part of normal society, and eventually snaps in her faceoff against Chili.
** The residents of Food Town are another example of this in themselves, they're outcasts who were rejected by society for different reasons leading to their escape into Food Town. There, they form a society in which [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis they despise those who don't think in the same way they do]], going so far as to murder them if they refuse to comply and become a part of their town.
* HiddenElfVillage: A Justified, PlayedForDrama example. Food Town's inhabitants were [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy maddened into misanthropy]] and went into exile just to have a place to be themselves without society's weight. Also, unlike most of this trope's examples, they're not just apathetic to society's problems; ''they kill anyone that claims to be human because of their bitter past with them''.

-->Chili: (sporting her SlasherSmile) ''Food ssssshouldn't eat... It ssssshould be eaten, don't you know?''
** Candy's district is empty because she eats all the candy residents, which Sissy sees in full detail in the second playthrough.
* IronicName: Chili peppers symbolize warmth and friendship in southwestern American tradition. Yet, Chili is the most unhinged, cold and ''least'' friendly character of the Food Town bunch, notable for being hostile to Sissy in both playthroughs.

* LimitedAnimation: Despite having a [[AwesomeArt gorgeous]] and [[RuleOfCute adorable]] art style with big characters (unless you count the minigames), it has the same limited animation as it's fellow horror games made on UsefulNotes/RPGMaker (for example, two walking frames).

* {{Transgender}}: The possible cause for Cinnamon coming onto Food Town.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Most of the people living in Food Town are humans who were rejected by society and found in that town a chance to be themselves. That's why all of them are out for Sissy's blood in the playthrough she doesn't mask herself as a fruit.
* MadnessMantra: The description of all the skills you can use against Chili on the second playthrough's battle against her (excluding [[HealingFactor Don't Give Up]]) is just the word "kill" repeated.

* MeatOVision: Implied in Chili's district on the first playthrough. It's likely that the place's true colors are only visible to the player; Sissy/Passion Fruit is too down the drain to fight back against Food Town's charm and realize she's looking at dead bodies, instead of treats in the trees.
* MinigameGame: In both playthroughs, excluding the encounters with Chili (and Milk on the second playthrough), you play a minigame related to the character you're currently meeting at the moment. In the first playthrough, they're lighthearted and fun. In the second, however, they're basically survival struggles, excluding the one that reveals Sissy's backstory in detail.

-->''I'm so hungry that I can't help it...''

** In the second playthrough, it initially doesn't seem like much stuff will change besides Sissy not playing along and shamelessly admitting she's a human. Then Dumpling informs Butter about it and, judging by her [[OhCrap facial]] [[DeerInTheHeadlights reaction]], Sissy's already realized she screwed up big time before she ends up in the basement due to Dumpling bashing her head in.
* TheMole: Sissy, towards the population of Food Town. In the first playthrough, she makes them think she's an passion fruit, in an attempt to pass by unnoticed while trying to find the train station. Then, halfway through the first playthrough, [[OhCrap she begins to like]] [[BecomingTheMask her fruit persona a little too much...]]
** Likewise, Milk is a scientist that came to Food Town to study the inhabitant's behavior, and to blend in, adopted a food identity and a high status there. But, as revealed in the second playthrough, unlike first playthrough Sissy, who completely embraced being Passion Fruit, he's still sane enough to see both sides while being TrueNeutral in the whole conflict.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sissy behaving differently from her cheerfully optimistic self and wearing an expression with shadowed eyes shows how Food Town is affecting her: in the first playthrough, she's wearing a SlasherSmile because she embraced the idea of being a food. In the second playthrough, her expression seems like a cold and uncaring frown, showing her disdain to the inhabitants.

* OminousPipeOrgan: The music that plays in Chili's district, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECVweHqAqI "Shiver"]], is a dramatic organ piece to emphasize that you're going to personally meet the most dangerous character of the Town.
* OnlySaneMan: In the second playthrough, Milk is the only one that is cordial towards Sissy and doesn't mistreat her for being human due to being a human that adapted to Food Town. Also, Bread is clearly uneasy about locking Sissy, but goes along with it for Butter's sake.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: PlayedForDrama. Food Town's inhabitants decided to isolate themselves in this town due to society's poor treatment of them.

** In the first playthrough's [[TheStinger stinger]] (also carried to the second one): Food Town [[TheCakeIsALie actually doesn't have a train station]] and Sissy's forced to stay there forever.
** In the second playthrough: The once-lovable (with the exception of [[TokenEvilTeammate Chili]]) cast of characters that Sissy meets [[{{Subverted}} aren't]] [[CastOfPersonifications humanoid personifications of food]], but actual humans that suffered bullying and scorn from other humans long enough that they became unhinged enough to attack anyone that doesn't have a food name.
** A mostly Downplayed one also revealed in the second playthrough, but significant yet: Sissy's passion for her cooking career eroded thanks to lazy employees and rude customers, especially a woman who blamed her for bad food.
* RuleOfCute: The {{moe}}-esque art style. It doesn't lessen the impact of the {{gorn}} moments, though.
* ShoutOut: In the beginning of the game, Sissy encounters a quirky group of friends in a campfire. They're from UminoAoi's previous game, ''Veins''.
* SlasherSmile: Sissy (as Passion Fruit) and Chilli sport these frequently.

* SympatheticMurderer: Zigzagged with Dumpling. It's implied that Dumpling killed his bullies after being mocked too much but in the second playthrough, he is perfectly willing to murder Sissy who is completely innocent.
* TalkingWithSigns: Dumpling's way of communicating. In the second playthrough, it becomes his ImprovisedWeapon.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: You know it's bad when there's an entire village made up of outcast people that ran away from civilization.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: In the first playthrough, Sissy sees Food Town as an idyllic paradise filled with quirky but kind residents that live there. In the second playthrough she sees the residents as their true unhinged selves with all the murder that entails.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Tomato is described by Milk as an extreme masochist and this is seen in his section of the second playthrough where he shoots himself for his own enjoyment.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Chili is the only inhabitant of Food Town without a redeeming quality and, as far as we know, a DarkAndTroubledPast that justifies her behavior.
* TokenGoodTeammate:
** Milk is one of the few inhabitants of Food Town that doesn't try to kill Sissy in the second playthrough, he sympathizes with her plight and offers her a place to rest. He even gives her the town's backstory.
** Strawberry and Grape are the only food inhabitants that don't harm Sissy physically or mentally in the second playthrough.

* TookALevelInKindness: After seemingly killing Chili (see UnexplainedRecovery below), Sissy meets the other residents, who have calmed down and don't want to kill her anymore (except for Butter). It's likely they're aware Sissy is trapped in the town from now on.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Sissy kills Chili at the end of the second playthrough, but she's shown to be fine in TheStinger.

* VillainousGlutton: Fittingly enough for the game's title, we meet two characters completely driven by their gluttony: Candy, who ate every one that represented sugary sweets, and Chili, who eats anyone that dares step on her district for mysterious reasons.
* WeCanRuleTogether: A more driven-by-fear variant. Butter, in the second playthrough, offers to Sissy to become an inhabitant of Food Town.

** Sissy being murdered by Chili.
** Sissy, covered in Chili's blood.

* YankTheDogsChain: Sissy suffers this on both of the playthroughs. In the first, after a while, she begins to believe that she's actually Passion Fruit, and even though she initially pleaded her to give her food, she felt proud of dying, eaten by Chili. In the second, the fluffy mask of the town shatters as soon as she reveals she's a human, and even after learning SocietyIsToBlame on the citizen's backstories, she ruthlessly kills Chili. The result in both playthroughs is that she ends up in a camp full of trees, being to talk with all the Food Town citizens, and when she tries to get out of it, she finds out ''she can't''.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: All the humans living in Food Town play this trope for a degree. A notable case is Tomato, who makes tomato sauce [[{{Squick}} with the dripping blood from his own head]]... that tastes like a tomato as well. Chili plays it a step further, having teeth and a snake tongue, and behaving in a much more cruel and animalistic way than the other citizens. The second playthrough implies it's the result of Sissy going crazy.

* DownerEnding: No matter the ending, Sissy will have her psyche (possibly) irreversibly changed, and she'll be forced to stay on the town forever.
* DrivenByEnvy: Hinted. Sissy lungs at Chili on the second playthrough while trying to reason on her mind why Food Town can live a lazy, happy idealistic life while she suffers from living a social life and working.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Cinnamon. Even Sissy/Passion Fruit thinks that he at first is a woman.

** Chilli's district is full of dead bodies from her fellow foods, and when Sissy/Passion Fruits gets close to ask food from her, she eats her instead.
-->Chilli: (sporting her SlasherSmile) ''Food ssssshouldn't eat... It ssssshould be eaten, don't you know?''

* IronicName: Chilli peppers symbolize warmth and friendship in southwestern American tradition. Yet, Chilli is the most unhinged, cold and ''least'' friendly character of the Food Town bunch, notable for being hostile to Sissy in both playthroughs.

** Sissy also repeats the word "please" as she pleads for Chilli to give her food.
* MeatOVision: Implied in Chilli's district on the first playthrough. It's likely that the place's true colors are only visible to the player; Sissy/Passion Fruit is too down the drain to fight back against Food Town's charm and realize she's looking at dead bodies, instead of treats in the trees.

** Turns out [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil the trailer gave in]] the MoodWhiplash moment of the first playthrough: Sissy/Passion Fruit's idyllic view on Chilli's district breaking apart in ''seconds'' in the midst of her hunger.
** In the second playthrough, initially, it doesn't seem like much stuff will change besides Sissy not playing along and shamelessly admitting she's a human. Then Dumpling informs Butter about it and by her [[OhCrap facial]] [[DeerInTheHeadlights reaction]], you already realize Sissy screwed up big time before she ends up in the basement due to Dumpling bashing her head.
* TheMole: Sissy, towards the population of Food Town. In the first playthrough, she makes them think she's an passion fruit, in an attempt to pass by unnoticed while trying to find the train station. Then, halfway through the first playthrough, [[OhCrap she begins to like]] [[BecomingTheMask being her mask a little too much...]]

* OminousPipeOrgan: Chilli's district's music, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECVweHqAqI "Shiver"]], is a dramatic organ piece to emphasize that you're going to personally meet the most dangerous character of the Town.

** In the second playthrough: The once-lovable (with the exception of [[TokenEvilTeammate Chilli]]) cast of characters that Sissy meets [[{{Subverted}} aren't]] [[CastOfPersonifications humanoid personifications of food]], but actual humans that suffered bullying and scorn from other humans long enough that they became unhinged enough to attack anyone that doesn't have a food name.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: In the first playthrough, Sissy sees Food Town as an idyllic paradise filled with quirky but kind residents that live there, in the second playthrough she sees the residents for their true unhinged selves with all the murder that entails.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Most of the town residents in the second playthrough, after Sissy doesn't mask herself as a fruit.
* TookALevelInKindness: After seemingly killing Chilli (see UnexplainedRecovery below) Sissy meets the other town residents, who have calmed down and don't want to kill her anymore (except for Butter). It's likely they're aware Sissy is trapped in the town from now on.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: {{Downplayed}}. The trailer's MoodWhiplash ends up revealing the [[SurpriseCreepy kind of game it is]], and it also reveals parts of the first playthrough's ending, albeit omitting the parts showing Chilli. Notably, there's no footage of the DarkerAndEdgier second playthrough.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Sissy kills Chilli at the end of the second playthrough, but she's shown to be fine in TheStinger.
** Likewise, Sissy lives in TheStinger of the first playthrough despite being eaten by Chilli.

** First playthrough (lies that she's a Passion Fruit): Sissy's mind and sanity become one with Food Town's inhabitants, and she sees everything with rose-tinted eyes in a way that she's unable to see their darker side. That leads to her endlessly begging Chili for food before becoming her meal.

* ButThouMust: If you choose to wait for Dumpling to stop bickering with Cinnamon in the first playthrough, you'll be stuck. You have to send Sissy/Passion Fruit to Chilli's area [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption and let her die]].

** First playthrough (lies that she's a Passion Fruit): Sissy's mind and sanity become one with Food Town's inhabitants, and she sees everything with rose-tinted eyes in a way that she's unable to see their darker side. That leads to her endlessly begging for food for Chilli before becoming her meal.

* DeathWorld: Chilli's district, once its glamour falls apart in seconds in the first playthrough. There are entrails and eyeballs wrapped in the trees and dead bodies everywhere, showing that Sissy/Passion Fruit is not a unique case of a person who died at Chilli's hands. Worst of all, as Sissy/Passion Fruit walks through this death mayhem, her mind rapidly gets unhinged enough for her to get interested in ''[[{{Squick}} eating]]'' the bodies.

* EvolvingTitleScreen: The title screen changes, showcasing the character we're currently meeting. [[SarcasmMode It starts to get really pleasant after we meet Chilli]].
* EyeMotifs: This game uses them to show a character, a worldview, or a change of one of them.

** Eyes covered by a shadow can symbolize a large, threatening person, in Chilli's case, or someone becoming radically different from their former selves, in Sissy's case.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: All the humans living in Food Town play this trope for a degree. A notable case is Tomato, who makes tomato sauce [[{{Squick}} with the dipping blood from his own head]]... that tastes like a tomato as well. Chili plays it a step further, having teeth and a snake tongue, and behaving in a much more cruel and animalistic way than the other citizens. The second playthrough implies it's the result of Sissy going crazy.

* CastOfPersonifications: At first glance, the inhabitants of Food Town seem to be humanoid versions of many kinds of food, including condiments and a drink. {{Subverted}} when it's revealed that they all are just humans.

* BitCharacter: Dreamy Rose, a girl that's referred that's told to dream about an ideal world, seemingly setting up the plot before the SurpriseCreepy nature kicks in. She appears in the second playthrough's ending as well, waking up from a nightmare. Her canon role in the whole story isn't really clear for now.

* LimitedAnimation: Despite having a [[AwesomeArt gorgeous]] and [[RuleOfCute adorable]] art style with big characters (unless you count the minigames), it has the same limited animation as it's fellow horror games made on RPGMaker (for example, two walking frames).

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Butter's parents would starve her due to their poverty.]]
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: The [[EvolvingTitleScreen title screen]] [[spoiler:once it decides to get DarkerAndEdgier]].
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Strawberry and Grape are colored after their respective fruits. [[spoiler:The second playthrough reveals it's the result of expensive plastic surgery.]]
* AmbiguouslyHuman: All the humans living in Food Town play this trope for a degree. A notable case is Tomato, who makes tomato sauce [[{{Squick}} with the dipping blood from his own head]]... that tastes like a tomato as well. Chili plays it a step further, having teeth and a snake tongue, and behaving in a much more cruel and animalistic way than the other citizens. [[spoiler:The second playthrough implies it's the result of Sissy going crazy.]]

* CastOfPersonifications: At first glance, the inhabitants of Food Town seem to be humanoid versions of many kinds of food, including condiments and a drink. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} when it's revealed that they all are just humans.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Butter and Bread are childhood friends that are now dating. [[spoiler:The second playthrough shows the darker side of this as Bread is willing to kidnap and lock up Sissy to keep Butter happy]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast: ''[[UpToEleven Almost everybody in the game]]'' has hints of a tragic past, and the reason for all of those is SocietyIsToBlame. Sissy's cooking carrier was difficulted by a lazy chef and an angry female customer, Dumpling was bullied for being mute and eventually snapped, Butter was a victim of an abusive household that starved her and Bread saved her, Candy goes crazy seeing candy and candy-looking objects, Strawberry and Grape are vegans that abused the use of plastic surgery, and Tomato is a severe masochist. It's unknown if Cinnamon and Chili have backstories as tragic as all of those, but Cinnamon's nature along with his interactions with Dumpling can give us a hint [[BuryYourGays of why he escaped to Food Town as well]].

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: In the second playthrough, Sissy begins to disgust and hate Food Town's inhabitants because of the fact they can live a carefree life while she can't.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In the second playthrough, Sissy, initially a scared and lost girl that used to be a victim of society, [[NotSoDifferent not too unlike the people of Food Town]], becomes an EmotionlessGirl and GreenEyedMonster that criticizes Food Town's carefree lifestyle, thinking they should be part of normal society, and discounts her fury snap on Chili, theoretically becoming worse than her.
* HiddenElfVillage (or [[{{Pun}} Hidden Food Village]]): A Justified, PlayedForDrama example. Food Town's inhabitants were [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy maddened into misanthropy]] and went into exile just to have a place to be themselves without society's weight. Also, unlike most of this trope's examples, they're not just apathetic to society's problems; ''they kill anyone that claims to be human because of their bitter past with them''.

** [[spoiler: Candy's district is empty because she eats all the candy residents which Sissy sees in full detail in the second playthrough]].

* MinigameGame: In both playthroughs, excluding the encounters with Chili (and Milk on the second playthrough), you play a minigame related to the character you're currently meeting at the moment. In the first playthrough, they're lighthearted and fun. In the second, however, they're basically survival struggles, [[spoiler:excluding the one that reveals Sissy's backstory in detail]].

* RuleOfCute: The {{moe}}-esque art style. [[spoiler: It doesn't lessen the impact of the {{gorn}} moments, though.]]

* SympatheticMurderer: Zigzagged with [[spoiler:Dumpling. It's implied that Dumpling killed his bullies after being mocked too much but in the second playthrough, he is perfectly willing to murder Sissy who is completely innocent]].
* TalkingWithSigns: Dumpling's way of communicating. [[spoiler: In the second playthrough, it becomes his ImprovisedWeapon.]]

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:In the first playthrough, Sissy sees Food Town as an idyllic paradise filled with quirky but kind residents that live there, in the second playthrough she sees the residents for their true unhinged selves with all the murder that entails]].
** The second playthrough implies that the first playthrough was this

** The inverse happens in the first playthrough, yet Sissy/Passion Fruit is also shown to be fine.
** Likewise, Sissy lives in TheStinger despite being eaten by Chilli.
* WeCanRuleTogether: A more driven-by-fear variant. Butter, in the second playthrough, offers to Sissy to become a inhabitant of Food Town.