History VideoGame / EscapeDeadIsland

Escape Dead Island is a adventure survival horror developed by Swedish developer Fatshark and published by German studio Deep Silver. It is a spinoff of the main ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' series. It was released on 18 November 2014, for Microsoft Windows, UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/XBox360. The game also has a different animation style and has third person game play in lieu of first person.

* BiggerBad:
** Charon, who two days prior to the outbreak had a mole infiltrate the Palm Garden Order to set the zombie virus loose.
** The game indicates that Emory Crown, the CEO of [=GeoPharma=], and a global conspiracy known as the Palm Garden Order were responsible for creating the zombie virus in a bid for world domination. Turns out they were all having a meeting on Banoi, which is why Charon released the virus there to kill them all.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Linda was either dead all along or not(there's a line in the final mission that suggests Faith did manage to save her) and both Cliff and Devan are bitten and there is only one cure serum. We don't see who takes the serum (although since Devan was already at the "eating human flesh" stage, it wouldn't make much sense to use the serum on him). Cliff releases a floatation case into the ocean containing the data drive (along with hints towards a possible cure to give humanity a fighting chance of stopping the outbreak) and his own narrated account of events. He is then called back into the island by the voice of Linda, indicating that either Faith really did save her, or Cliff isn't done spiraling into insanity.]]

* MindScrew: Due to Cliff losing his mind as the game progresses, the game's events start to become twisted and disjointed, resulting in many scenarios that presumably aren't real.

* ZombieApocalypse: You think?

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: One of the collectible text logs strongly suggests that Cliff was rescued by Dr. Kimball after hitting his head shortly after landing on the island, and most or all of the game is just a really crazy hallucination he's having while suffering from dehydration, head trauma, and possibly the zombie infection. Though that doesn't quite explain how Cliff is able to dream so vividly about people and topics he had no prior knowledge of, such as Xian Mei or Charon.]]

** The game indicates that Emory Crown, the CEO of [=GeoPharma=], and a global conspiracy known as the Palm Garden Order were responsible for creating the zombie virus in a bid for world domination.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: The Dweller EliteZombie enemies encountered in underground areas are virtually unkillable in combat, which means you'll have to either stealth kill them, avoid them, or die horribly. Even worse, their enhanced hearing means you can't sneak up on them to stealth kill them like you can other zombies. Instead you need to get creative using nearby machinery or tape recorders to distract them with sound, which isn't immediately apparent and never explained to you.