History VideoGame / Morpheus

* FullMotionVideo: Similar to ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'', the game's cast were filmed against bluescreen backdrops, and then rendered translucent to appear as ghosts.

* CondensationClue: Turning on the ship's sauna reveals a bible verse drawn on the glass door; It's also the code for Grace Thermon's room.

* MysteriousAntarctica: Like in ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'', the game takes place in Northern Greenland, as Jan had hijacked the ship into going there when J.C. Pharris had tried to turn it towards New York instead. The minute it ran around, Pharris set out to find [[spoiler: Matthew's father]] in search of help.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Neurographicon gets its power from the death-like trances its subjects are placed in after receiving their blood samples. This power is then used to heal another person, and controlled by a final one. Ideally, it's designed to revive the subjects after use, but...[[spoiler: Jan]] had other motives. Resolving a person's dream world makes the owner of that dream fully pass on.

* TheAmazon: John Mahlerby first discovered the concept of revitalization through half-death, from an Indonesian tribe called the Kailigi, on an island off the coast of Sumatra. Their ceremony, "Kwala Seliki Hiatu", is what the Neurographicon was eventually based on, and which you partake in solving the ship's mysteries.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: John Mahlerby]] hung himself from the deck, in despair from the ramifications behind helping Jan.

* GottaKillEmAll: In a twisted sense. Jan set about knocking out each of the guests and stuffing them into the Neurographicon so he could try healing Claire again, and he roped Dr. Mahlerby into it. By the time they were finished, J.C. Pharris found out.
* KickTheDog: Jan received this to no end during his lifetime, and Leo did this to the point that he coaxed Belle's dog into jumping overboard, all because it wouldn't stop biting his leg.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Dr. Mahlerby says this word for word when he realized the ramifications of his helping Jan. Before that, he was still reluctant to help out with his plan.

* SnakeCharmer: You have to be this to a cobra in Belle's dream world, in a puzzle that involves choosing the right instrument out of several others. It also results in some rather nice music.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Neurographicon gets its power by the death-like trances its subjects are placed in after receiving their blood samples. This power is then used to heal another person, and controlled by a final one. Ideally, it's designed to revive the subjects after use, but...[[spoiler: Jan]] had other motives. Resolving a person's dream world makes the owner of that dream fully pass on.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: The Neurographicon gets its power by the death-like trances its subjects are placed in after receiving their blood samples. This power is then used to heal another person, and controlled by a final one. Ideally, it's designed to revive the subjects after use, but...[[spoiler: Jan]] had other motives.

* SchizoTech: ''Herculania'' is run by both solar and ''uranium'' power. And it's from 1928.

* CarnivalOfFear: Billy's dream world, given the unsettling music and dark sky.

* TheAlcoholic: Leo. Helps that he's Irish.

* BabysitterFromHell: Grace Thermon, big time. She was the headmistress at the Goodman Home, but her methods were so harsh that they eventually got her fired. She was still just as strict even when on ''Herculania'', much to the annoyance of the others.
--> '''Billy:''' Loosen up, Miss Grace! We're not in the home anymore!

* CigarChomper: Billy Mexler sure loves those Cuban cigs.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Matthew Holmes appears in person during the introductory cutscene, just barely holding together from the arctic cold. When the gameplay kicks in, he'll still speak on occasion, but we never see his body, though more likely a developer oversight on that part.

* HumanResources: The Neurographicon gets its power by the death-like trances its subjects are placed in after receiving their blood samples. This power is then used to heal another person, and controlled by a final one. Ideally, it's designed to revive the subjects after use, but...[[spoiler: Jan]] had other motives.

* TheAlcoholic: Leo. Helps that he's Irish.

The year is 1928, fish oil magnate and member of the Explorers' Club, Commander Theodore Holmes is attempting to travel across the North Pole in a hot air balloon. As he is making preparations, a man suffering from the climate stumbles in and mutters many incoherent words, he mentions a luxury liner called the ''Herculania'' and that the people on it need help. Intrigued by this, he proceeds in the direction of the liner...and disappears. In 1952, Matthew Holmes has embarked upon a quest to find his father and gain some closure. Unfortunately, he has lost his way and is separated from the rest of his party in a blizzard. He has begun to lose control of his understanding between dreams and reality and is about to succumb to the weather when he suddenly discovers the ship that his father was searching for. Could this ship hold the answers to his disappearance?

* DrivenToSuicide: John Mahlerby hung himself from the deck, in despair from the ramifications behind helping Jan.

--> ''July 15th, 1952. The Arctic twilight; A season between light and dark, life and death, waking and sleeping, life and death. Matthew Holmes records his final words.''

* AbusiveParents: Jan's family is ''chock full'' of abusive members. Even his caretaker and roomate weren't any better.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Matthew Holmes appears in person during the introductory cutscene, just barely holding together from the arctic cold. When the gameplay kicks in, he'll still speak on occasion, but we never see his body, though more likely a developer oversight on that part.