History VideoGame / Orwell

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Juliet is the only daughter of the Kerringtons that doesn't have a verbatim month name and doesn't like a shade of the color blue. [[spoiler: And she's the only terrorist in the family.]]

* MultiEthnicName: [[spoiler: Initiate's real name, Themba van Biljon - his first name is Zulu, while his surname is Afrikaans. Such combinations aren't unheard of in South Africa, but they're not very common either.]]

* YouWouldntShootMe: Raban to [[spoiler:Ilya in one of the endings. He's wrong.]]

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Despite the English names of it's inhabitants, the country involved in the game's plot, as well the countries in it's borders, are completely fictional as mentioned above, probably to avoid UnfortunateImplications.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Depending on the datachunks you send Orwell, you can make things ''very'' uncomfortable for the people you're monitoring. They can range from innocuous things like freezing their credit card [[spoiler: to getting them arrested or even killed]]. ''Ignorance Is Strength'' takes this UpToEleven with the Influencer.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: As mentioned above, the Influencer takes this UpToEleven. [[spoiler: It uses the datachunks you enter into Orwell to create a narrative on social media that is designed to completely destroy Raban's credibility ''and'' personal life. Depending on your actions, you could [[DrivenToSuicide convince Raban to kill himself.]]]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Symes]] gets doxxed, revealing his name, his pregnant fiancée's name, their photo, and their home address. [[spoiler:Depending on Nina's fate, either Symes and his fiancée are relocated to a safe location and his house is later vandalized (Nina is dead or arrested) or he is shot and killed on his doorstep (Nina survives).]]

* MayDecemberRomance: Cassandra and Josef are ages apart. She was born on the same year as his college graduation.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The only real lead the investigators have to start with is CCTV spotting a woman who alleged assaulted an officer at a protest boarding a bus moments before the bomb went off. She turns out to be closer to the conspiracy than at first glance.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The city of Bonton is only letter off from Boston, and is subject to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing series of bombings]] and a citywide manhunt.

** [[spoiler:The revelation that even the player is being watched by Orwell.]]

* DevelopersForesight: Uploading Nina's medical file on her leg injury [[spoiler:will lead to the police shooting to disable, allowing them to take her alive]].

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Raban Vhart's wife is having an affair with his brother. Uploading evidence of it is one way to stop Vhart from publishing his article in the second episode.]]

* HeroicMime: {{Reconstructed|Trope}}. In the first game, Symes (one of the few people who speaks directly to you) mentions that his communication channel only goes one way, meaning that you really have no means of speaking to any of the characters in the game. Also mentioned in the planning files for Orwell as a way to ensure the only influence the investigator can take is through forwarded evidence.

** [[spoiler:There are signs that point to Juliet before the reveal. She was the only one to get an A in Goldfels' media course in college. All the other members in Thought mentioned how she insisted on organizing the protest where the bombings happened. Harrison claimed Juliet was Goldfels' favorite student. Nina points out how Juliet is a great organizer. Juliet's opinions against the government are no different than Goldfels. Juliet insists on working during the weekend, which surprises even her mother and older sister, June. On her timeline, she has one cryptic message from a few months ago complaining about how nobody noticed or cared about something terrible that happened, foreshadowing Goldfels' death and her particularly close relationship to him.]]

** Ending 1: [[spoiler:'''Incrimination of Thought.''' You completely follow orders and take down Thought. You find a message chain on the Initiate's phone between him and Goldfels, which contains an out-of-context statement suggesting Thoguht was intended to become a guerilla-terrorist cell. Orwell is praised and the program is expanded worldwide. Any remaining members of Thought are arrested. And you get promoted to a powerful position within the Party.]]

** Ending 3: [spoiler:'''Delacroix's Demise''': You decide to follow the Initiate's plea and incriminate Delacroix. You eventually gain access to her phone, which contains messages either showing her regarding the bombings as a positive event due to justifying Orwell, or admitting to leaking Thought being allegedly behind the bombings to TNB. Delacroix is forced to resign, and Orwell is taken down. However, you become a wanted criminal by the Nation due to your complicity as an Orwell investigator.]]
** Ending 4: [spoiler:'''Self-Sacrifice'''. You decide to follow Juliet's plea and incriminate yourself using a PC left by Goldfels. Orwell gets exposed and shut down because of nationwide protest, and Delacroix is removed from office in disgrace. Thought becomes a major political party, and you are made an honorary member, both as a reward for helping bring down Orwell and Delacroix, and also to pardon you from your technically committing crimes against the state as an Orwell investigator.]]

* MultipleEndings: There are three endings, each one with a different fate befalling the Orwell program, the people in charge of it, the members of Thought, and the player themselves:
** Ending 1: [[spoiler: You completely follow orders and take down Thought. Orwell is praised and the program is expanded worldwide. And you get promoted to a powerful position.]]
** Ending 2: [[spoiler: You disobey orders and discover the truth about how Orwell was created, but still go after Thought. Orwell is once again praised. The program is expanded worldwide. But the investigator is exposed as a potential traitor and inside person for Thought thanks to Delacroix.]]
** Ending 3: Possibly the GoldenEnding. [[spoiler: You don't finish your investigation against Thought. You instead focus on finding out the truth about how Orwell was started and how Abraham Goldfels is connected. And you investigate Catharine Delacroix. She will threaten you and turn Orwell against you. If you decide to follow Juliet's advice and incriminate yourself, Orwell gets exposed and shut down because of nationwide protest, and Delacroix is removed from office in disgrace.]]

* SmallNameBigEgo: Harrison. [[spoiler:He talks a big game on the blogs about how much he hates the government and how he plans to fight them. But once he is offered a good paying job as a writer for the news, he quits his rebellious punk band, he deletes his Timeline posts that are anti-government, and he writes articles praising the actions of the government. The only harm he does is expose Symes. But the serious acts of terrorism and violence against authority are committed by Cassandra, Nina, and Juliet.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Harrison says down with the establishment, fight the power! [[spoiler:Until the government offers him a job writing op-eds, upon which he immediately leaves his punk band, deletes all of his recent anti-government posts, and distances himself from Thought.]]
** On a much darker note, [[spoiler:Juliet was clearly very close to Goldfels, agreed with him that violence is not the answer, and was entrusted with his backup data on Orwell, which he asked her to delete as he was dying. After he died, her attitude took a 180 - she refused to delete the data, and impersonated Goldfels to convince Nina to carry out the bombings, completely ignoring everything Goldfels wanted. Naturally, she refuses to acknowledge the disparity between her actions and his intentions, though she at least admits that she probably deserves punishment.]]

** [[spoiler:There are signs that point to Juliet before the reveal. She was the only one to get an A in Goldfels' media course in college. All the other members in Thought mentioned how she insisted on organizing the protest where the bombings happened. Harrison claimed Juliet was Goldfels' favorite student. Nina points out how Juliet is a great organizer. Juliet's opinions against the government are no different than Goldfels. Juliet insists on working during the weekend, which surprises even her mother and older sister, June.]]

* ShoutOut: A Blabber account used to contact Raban is named [[Film/FightClub Tyler Durden]].
** [[spoiler:Ilya]] seems to be a fan of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Star Trek Voyager]], using "captain of USS Voyager" as his profession on Timelines, and calling himself Captain [[spoiler:Ilya]] Janeway on the [[spoiler:Save Parges Initiative]] webisite