History VideoGame / Enigmatis

* HeroesWantRedheads: Emily, Detective Hamilton's missing girlfriend, is shown in pictures to have had deep red hair.

* IllGirl: Fang spends much of her screen time being sick with a fever.

* NiceHat: [[spoiler:Hamilton]] wears one; it helps to obscure his face.

* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: Seen more in the second and third games than the first; the BigBad of the series is a SinisterMinister, and the BiggerBad is [[spoiler:Asmodai, the "king of demons."]] Several references are made to angels, demons, {{God}}, and hell.

* RegainedMemorySequence: Happens to the detective when she finally locates the place where [[spoiler:the Priest nearly murdered her before her clever escape]]. Suddenly all the memories she's been struggling to reclaim come rushing back, and she remembers everything about the investigation.

* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:The true culprit behind the disappearances and the strange behavior of the townspeople. He uses dark magic to suck their life force and keep himself alive, brainwashing them into his servants.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Hamilton, in his younger days - the dark and handsome parts, at least, are corroborated by photographs from the time period.

* TownWithADarkSecret: By the time the game begins it’s become evident that everything is completely messed up — by commentary you can see on some forums discussing the town in-game, it was like this long before the storm. The residents are described as polite, but odd. [[spoiler:The bonus chapter of the collector's edition shows that the town has been under the Priest's spell for over 150 years. Given how old the Priest is eventually revealed to be, it's entirely possible that Maple Creek has been this from its inception.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared with ''Ghosts of Maple Creek'', which was already fairly creepy, this one is even more unsettling.

--->BURN IN HELL, PREACHER

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: The detective has a gun in this game, and she uses it several times for unconventional purposes, like breaking a lock.

''The Mists of Ravenwood'', the second game, begins two years after the end of the first, with the detective following some leads along the west coast for investigation. As she’s driving through the woods, a mysterious creature nearly runs her off the road — straight to an abandoned and torn up camper, outside the gates to Ravenwood Park. She ends up embroiled in another set of strange disappearances, the activities of a bloodthirsty cult, and supernatural phenomenon.

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* {{Prequel}}: All three bonus chapters are set before each game's main story. [[spoiler:Naturally, this also means that the DownerEnding of each one is a ForegoneConclusion - Hamilton's girlfriend Emily is dead, the ticket seller ends up mentally enslaved by Whitmarsh and Britney is murdered by the Priest.]]

* VideoGameCaringPotential: The detective is a really good person, and many of the people she assists in the games are as well. [[spoiler:Hamilton]] also turns out to be a CoolOldGuy, once the detective knows him better. It's really easy for the player to get attached to them.

* HopeSpot: Near the end of the bonus chapter, [[spoiler:Hamilton finds Emily alive in the ritual chamber. Needless to say, the hope doesn't last.]]

* {{Prequel}}: The bonus chapter, which shows [[spoiler:the release of the Wrath of God]]. Unlike the bonus chapters of the other two games, this is not a story being told to the detective by someone who was there; it's unlikely the detective will ever learn most, if any, of the details presented, since [[spoiler:the only participant still alive is Fang, who is mute]].

** SeeYouInHell: They also made a point of burning the church before they left, and one of them even carved a message in the doorframe: [[AC: "burn in hell, preacher"]]

** SeeYouInHell: They also made a point of burning the church before they left, and one of them even carved a message in the doorframe: "[[AC: burn in hell, preacher]]"

* UnexpectedlyAbandoned: Maple Creek, in the two years since the detective was last there, has been abandoned by its occupants; a newspaper she finds under her car says that they fled in the wake of the horrible discoveries. They also made a point of burning the church before they left, and one of them even carved a message in the doorframe: "[[SeeYouInHell Burn in hell, preacher]]"

* NoNameGiven: The Ticket Seller, also called the Watchman, never has her name revealed. Unlike the previous installment, she is the ''only'' character (besides the detective) whose name is not given.

* GratuitousLatin: The series title, ''Enigmatis'', is a form of the Latin word ''enigma,'' meaning "riddle."

* AltumVidetur: The series title, ''Enigmatis'', is a form of the Latin word ''enigma,'' meaning "riddle." See GeniusBonus on the Trivia page.

* HowWeGotHere: The periodic flashbacks the detective experiences as she slowly regains her memories provide this, explaining how she ended up where she is.

* InMediasRes: The story begins after the detective’s initial investigation was concluded, trying to pick up the pieces of what she discovered during that time.

* PetTheDog: Kate’s boyfriend tries to insist that the mysterious stranger, [[spoiler:really Detective Hamilton]], is a dangerous lunatic. The detective wonders why he would bother patching up the man’s wounds if he's so unconcerned with human life. [[spoiler:(Most likely, he was really hiding the young man from the Priest.)]]

* EnemyMine: Though she doesn't know it, the detective is working alongside [[spoiler:the priest from the first game, who has his own reasons to want to kill Whitmarsh]].

* NoNameGiven: The Ticket Seller (also called the Watchman) never has her name revealed. Unlike the previous installment, she is the ''only'' character whose name is not given.

* StockShtick: The old "men refuse to ask for directions" gag gets lampshaded by the detective when she finds someone's notes on ways to figure out directions without a compass.

* UndyingLoyalty: The detective and Rick seems to have developed this for each other, as proven by the escape from the plane crash; he tries to convince her to go and save herself, and she refuses to leave him. During the parts of the game where they're separated, she is repeatedly shown to be worried about him.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the bonus chapter, Britney's colleagues Jen and Jim leave the camp and go to the village in hopes of finding transport to a hospital. [[spoiler:It's unknown whether they actually escaped or if they were killed by the Priest.]]