History VideoGame / HomeSweetHome

Not related to the equally terrifying NES horror game ''VideoGame/SweetHome''.

** The Ghost Girl travels through the Dorms using portals made of blood.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler: The third area is haunted by a Preta, or a Hungry Ghost, a kind of being born from the souls of people who committed sins against those who loved them. They are bound to haunt the location of their crimes, with their massive form and disproportionately tiny mouth meaning that they can never eat enough to be full. The one in-game is implied to be a man who robbed and injured his mother, condemned to stay around the house where it occured.]]
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: [[spoiler: The crawlspace in Tim's house can somehow lead to two different locations, which themselves make little sense.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Late in the game, one of the scares revolves around a student at the dorms committing suicide by hanging himself from one of the balconies. Strangely enough, the Girl stops and weeps in front of his body when you return through the same area later, allowing you to escape]]. [[spoiler:The girl is implied to be his one-sided admirer, explaining why she'd cry at the sight]].
* ExorcistHead: [[spoiler:When you manage to catch up to the Girl, she proceeds to turn her entire head 180 degrees towards you and let out an ear-piercing scream. Cue running.]]
* HauntedTechnology: The TV in [[spoiler:Tim's house, the second time you arrive there, which appears to be counting down to something]].

** [[spoiler:The Ghost Girl's scream, and the weird creaking noise she makes as she walks around.]]
** [[spoiler:The 'creaking' sound, is, in fact, the sound of her repeatedly sliding the blade of the box cutter she is armed within and out of its sheath.]]
* HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, you're trapped in a room with the Ghost Girl, and have to use a bottle of holy water to keep her away while you're sawing through a locked door. It's not enough to kill her but it drives her off.]]
* JumpScare: Plenty, considering what kind of game it is. Ironically, the first jump scare you encounter is [[spoiler:just a trash bag falling from an upper story past you on the staircase]].
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Jane's diary reveals that she had been going through some serious mental issues possibly caused by a supernatural phenomenon.]]

An AsymmetricalMultiplayer SpinOff ''VideoGame/HomeSweetHomeSurvive'' was released 2021. One play takes the role of a specter hunting four survivors controlled by other players.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler: The third area is haunted by a Preta, or a Hungry Ghost, a kind of being born from the souls of people who committed sins against those who loved them. They are bound to haunt the location of their crimes, with their massive form and disproportionately tiny mouth meaning that they can never eat enough to be full. The one in game is implied to be a man who robbed and injured his mother, condemned to stay around the house where it occured.]]

** [[spoiler:The 'creaking' sound, is, in fact, the sound of her repeatedly sliding the blade of the box cutter she is armed with in and out of its sheath.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Jane's diary reveals that she had been going through some serious mental issues possibly caused by supernatural phenomenon.]]

* StoryBreadcrumbs: The plot of the game is only hinted at through newspaper clips, radio broadcasts and pages from [[spoiler: Jane's]] diary. Each location has its own story.

** [[spoiler: Tim's wife Jane was haunted by a supernatural phenomena, causing her severe stress. She hid this from Tim and tried to deal with it on her own, which did ''not'' go well. At the end of the game, she has been kidnapped by something.]]

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler: Played with. You see a gigantic monster roam in the forest, but it never does anything other than look and then walk away.]]

* EmbodimentOfVice: The entire storyline of Episode 1 and 2 happens because [[spoiler: Chai needs these for his ritual and both Jane and Tim embody one.]] In this game, instead of the Christian SevenDeadlySins, the vice are Murder, Theft, Sexual Misconduct, [[ConsummateLiar Falsehood]] and [[TheAlcoholic Intoxication]].

* {{Necromancer}}: The BigBad is [[spoiler: a old man called Chai that controls the dead and tries to finish a ritual that would give him unlimited power.]]

* ParentalFavoritism: [[spoiler: Turns out to be at least part of The Dancers descent into evil, having been turned into a monstrous brat by her grandmothers favoritism and snapped when she reached adulthood and she wasn't just handed everything anymore, though there's some implication she might have been a sociopath to start with.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Jane got killed in the spirit world]], Tim is [[UnconfessedUnemployment still suspended]] from [[MarriedToTheJob his beloved job]], he now has an empty house and when the phone rings, it is [[YourCheatingHeart from Dew]]. And then it's revealed that [[EvilWeapon he still has the Nano-Dagger which glows threateningly]] as he [[MurderTheHypotenuse invites Dew over]]...]]
* EmbodimentOfVice: The entire storyline of Episode 1 and 2 happens because [[spoiler: Chai needs these for his ritual and both Jane and Tim embody one.]] In this game, instead of the Christian SevenDeadlySins, the vice are Murder, Theft, [[YourCheatingHeart Sexual Misconduct]], [[ConsummateLiar Falsehood]] and [[TheAlcoholic Intoxication]].

* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Chai]] needs to offer five people who [[spoiler: commited the major sins]] to gain unlimited power. You were chosen for [[spoiler: [[TheAlcoholic intoxication]]]] and Jane for [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart sexuality]]]].

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The game seems to be setting this up with The Dancer, who was raised by abusive grandparents who massively favored her younger sister. It's then subverted when it's revealed that she IS the younger sister, who turned into a ManipulativeBitch because of the favoritism]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Late in the game, one of the scares revolves around a student at the dorms comitting suicide by hanging himself from one of the balconies. Strangely enough, the Girl stops and weeps in front of his body when you return through the same area later, allowing you to escape]]. It's implied that [[spoiler:the girl is the ghost of that student's girlfriend, so that's one reason for her to start crying]].
* ExorcistHead: [[spoiler:When you manage to catch up to the Girl, she proceeds to turn her entire head 180 degrees towards you and let out an earpiercing scream. Cue running.]]

** [[spoiler: The College Dorms were home to a student who practiced magic, and used it to murder a rival and get the boy she liked to love her back. Unfortunately, the boy committed suicide. The magic-using student (or perhaps the girl she killed) is implied to be the Ghost Girl.]]

* EmbodimentOfVice: The entire storyline of Episode 1 and 2 happens because [[spoiler: Chai needs these for his ritual and both Jane and Tim embody one.]] In this game, instead of the christian SevenDeadlySins, the vice are Murder, Theft, [[YourCheatingHeart Sexual Misconduct]], [[ConsummateLiar Falsehood]] and [[TheAlcoholic Intoxication]].

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The game seems to be setting this up with The Dancer, who was raised by abusive grandparents who massively favored her younger sister. It's then subverted when it's revealed that she IS the younger sister, who turned into a manipulative hellspawn because of the favoritism]]

** The clinks from the jewelry worn by The Dancer as she walks around, trying to find you.

* MurderousMannequin: Well, sort of. The mannequins don't do much other than look creepy, but they're actually tools for The Dancer, who can use them to teleport around the building. [[spoiler: This is key to defeating her in the last battle]]

* ParentalFavoritism: [[spoiler: Turns out to be atleast part of The Dancers descent into evil, having been turned into a monstrous brat by her grandmothers favoritism and snapped when she reached adulthood and she wasn't just handed everything anymore, though there's some implication she might have been a sociopath to start with.]]

** Picking up where the last episode left off, we have [[spoiler: The Dancer who took away Janet at the end of the last episode is a possessed dance student named Tari]].

%%* TakenForGranite: What happens to [[spoiler: the executioner upon Chai's death.]]
* ThatOneLevel: The final caves. They are dark, confusing and filled to the brink with zombies, invulnerable headless zombies, spike traps and [[spoiler: the invulnerable insta-kill executioner.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler:The Ghost Girl's scream, and the weird creaking noise she makes as she walks around.]]

* BlindWeaponmaster: [[spoiler: The executioner]] who is also absolutely invulnerable.
* DemonicPossession: Implied to be the cause of a lot of the supernatural events.
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Jane got killed in the spirit world]], Tim is [[UnconfessedUnemployment still suspended]] from [[MarriedToTheJob his beloved job]], he now has an empty house and when the phone rings, it is [[YourCheatingHeart from Dew]]. And then it's revealed that [[EvilWeapon he still has the Nano-Dagger which glows threateningly]] as he [[MurderTheHypotenuse invites Dew over]]...]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The clinks from the jewelry worn by The Dancer as she walks around, trying to find you.

* TakenForGranite: What happens to [[spoiler: the executioner upon Chai's death.]]

* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler: What happens to Chai and the Executioner once Tim kills the first.]]

* ThatOneLevel: The final caves. They are dark, confusing and filled to the brink with zombies, invulnerable headless zombies and [[spoiler: the invulnerable insta-kill executioner.]]