History VideoGame / Nightcry

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: The game actually has a record of all the possible deaths that you can get for the unfortunate protagonists. It even unlocks an achievement if it's a [[HaveANiceDeath Dead End]].

** The [[spoiler:shadow in the mirror Leonard encounters]] appears to be related to the "female statue" nearby that is vaguely implied to actually be a preserved corpse.

* AllForNothing: Leonard figures out [[spoiler:what the cult is planning to do and that it's being run by a man with a false eye]], but [[spoiler:he's killed before he can do anything about this information]]. He at least gets to warn his students about [[spoiler:the man, but by the time Rooney compares notes and learns from Monica that the man is Vigo]], you are unable to warn the people who are hiding with him. It takes until [[spoiler:Rooney finds the research the ship's captain was doing on Vigo]] for the heroes to get the information again.

* AllForNothing: Leonard figures out [[spoiler:what the cult is planning to do and that it's being run by a man with a false eye]], but [[spoiler:he's killed before he can do anything about this information]]. He at least gets to warn his students about [[spoiler:the man, but by the time Rooney learns from Monica that the man is Vigo]], you are unable to warn the people who are hiding with him. It takes until [[spoiler:Rooney finds the research the ship's captain was doing on Vigo]] for the heroes to get the information again.

* CharacterDevelopment: Most of the characters are fairly static, but Rooney especially goes through quite a bit of character development over the course of the game. At the start, she seems extremely detached, antisocial, and extremely awkward around the other characters, especially when her nickname of "Deathwish Diva" are called to attention. Depending on player choices, she can go from {{The Woobie}} to {{Badass Adorable}}, performing quite a few particularly death-defying feats, rescuing Monica, and choosing to survive no matter the costs.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: While they serve as flashlights, and recharging stations double as save points, nobody can use their phones to actually call for help, and their ability to ''recieve'' calls naturally depends on what the plot requires.

* CleanupCrew: A few times the characters remark that for all the death and gore around them, there aren't a lot of bodies. You eventually discover that [[spoiler:they're being brought to the dance hall and strung up like puppets]]. Whether it's [[spoiler:the Scissorwalker, Vigo, or some Faithful remaining on the ship]] moving the bodies around is never answered. This is exaggerated in the "It's All Too Late" ending, where the Oceanus is [[spoiler:discovered completely empty, with no signs of what happened to everyone on board]], implying that even the gore and signs of struggled had been cleaned up by then.

* AutoSave: The game autosaves regularly. It also keeps certain major checkpoints permanently on the tree of the game's path branches, allowing you to ''fairly'' easily go back and make different choices. Unfortunately, the major GuideDangIt branch of the game serves as the earliest branch on the tree, so you still have to restart from the very first checkpoint if you want to avoid a bad ending. A bit of an InterfaceSpoiler, however, is that the GoldenEnding branch has the most frequent permanent checkpoints on it, while the worst endings tend to have long gaps between permanent checkpoints (some branches don't give you a permanent save at all between the early part of the second chapter and a third of the way through the third chapter).