History VideoGame / HappyGame

* DaylightHorror: First world aside, a surprisingly large majority of the nightmares inflicted take place in broad daylight, which makes the horrors taking place really uncanny.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Is everything in the game real and the Child really is being tormented by an EldritchAbomination for its own sick amusement or is everything part of a DyingDream as the Child, now an adult, suddenly seems to die in his room.]] Neither sound particularly pleasant, so it's probably best not to dwell on it.

!! ''Happy Game'' contains examples of these tropes:
* AllJustADream: The game begins with the child going to sleep. [[spoiler: Though this trope is likely {{Subverted}}. While most of the events really are nightmares, it's heavily implied the Demon is real and [[DreamWeaver created the nightmares]] the Child is having. The Demon is present in the flashbacks showing how the Child lost his toys and dog, and in the second flashback the Child seams to actually be able to see the Demon]].

** [[spoiler: The ending sequences for the third nightmare have several of these guys as well, this time being ghastly germ-like creatures that hide in mutilated dolls in the middle of a red space, and their intentions for the Child are less than peaceful.]]

** [[spoiler: Played much more cruelly the third time around. The game ends with the Child waking up for real and goes out to play with his dog...except this is just another part of the nightmare he's in, [[DownerEnding and he's seemingly trapped there forever]].]]

** [[spoiler: In the last part, two will appear in the giant smiley heads. One is large and will impale small cockroaches. The other one is a smaller variant of the little bunnies, but it will mutilate a tiny emoji person once you switch their roles in the machine]].

* YourHeadASplode: If you interfere with what the Hearts are doing, they will become unhappy and then this trope happens to them. The other Hearts seem to find this rather funny. Most of the Hearts can be actively dispatched by the player this way, but all of them will have this happen when the giant rabbit in that level is unleashed.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Is everything in the game real and the Child really is being tormented by an EldritchAbomination for its own sick amusement or is everything part of a DyingDream as the Child, now an adult, dies of what might be an antidepressant overdose?]] Neither sound particularly pleasant, so it's probably best not to dwell on it.

-->'''Reiuji Utsuho Okuu:''' I’ve heard the saying, “Children wake up from nightmares, Adults wake up ''to'' nightmares.”

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Child seems to have woken up from his final nightmare and has reclaimed all of his precious items...right as the screen glitches out and reveals the Child has grown up, but he has collapsed on the floor while something pops out of his chest. The game ends as the boy is still trapped in a nightmare, drifting off after he draws a smiley face on the screen]].

* AllJustADream: The game begins with the child going to sleep. [[spoiler: Though this trope is likely {{Subverted}}. While most of the events really are nightmares, it's heavily implied the Demon is real and [[DreamWeaver created the nightmares]] the Child is having. The Demon is present in the flashbacks showing how the Child lost his toys and dog, and in the second flashback the Child seams to actually be able to see the Demon.]].

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: [[spoiler: The main character's parents never appear onscreen. Best not to think about it too much.

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: [[spoiler: The main character's parents never appear onscreen. [[FridgeHorror Best not to think about it too much.]]]]

* PerpetualSmiler: The Demon's face is always in a constant, glowing smile that never moves (although WordOfGod confirms that it's probably a mask of some kind). This also goes with most other creatures in the dream worlds.

** [[spoiler: The ending sequences for the third nightmare have several of these guys as well, this time being ghastly germ-like creatures that hide in mutilated dolls in the middle of a red space, and their intentions for the Child are less then peaceful.]]

* PerpetualFrowner: In the fourth part of the second nightmare, the Child encounters creatures called Rippers, creatures that frown all the time and tear off the heads or helmets of anybody who enters with a smile. Once the Child exposes a Ripper's eyes, it suddenly smiles at the sight of it.

* OffWithHisHead: Decapitation plays a big role in the game. The second dream especially features multiple different Children with their heads popped off their bodies, and in the final dream the Child has two different experiences where they're a head without a body or a body without a head.

* {{Sadist}}: The Demon. Whenever the Child's in trouble or about to [[spoiler:get his toys back]], the Demon will usually either laugh at his misery, or it just trolls him in a mischievous manner. Unfortunately, you get to see this happen ''[[TraumaCongaLine a lot]]''.

** In the third part of the second nightmare, a slightly smaller, heart-faced rabbit can be summoned by the Bell, which then hunts the Child down while using its [[NestedMouths arm tongue]] to attack.
** [[spoiler: In the last part, two will appear in the giant smiley heads. One is large and will impale small cockroaches. The other one is a smaller variant of the little bunnies, but it will mutilate a tiny emoji person once you switch their roles in the machine]].