History VideoGame / OurDarkerPurpose

* EvilTeacher/ApatheticTeacher: Almost averted actually, Many of the teachers were actually nice to the students, barring Dr.Bloodfather and the Head of Punishment. The higher ups were the ones who ignore terrible happenings, and berate students for their justified fears

* AnimateInanimateObject: to the point of EverythingTryingToKillYou. There are spider-like desks, a soul-stealing chandelier, a pot of gruel, two dragon junk statues, a balloon, a collaboration of elevator parts, a grandfather clock and so on. Notably most of these possessed objects are bosses.
* AnkleDrag: done in a disturbing way, not that you'd expect anything less, with Cyndar's Timekeeper. A long thin chain is said to have been creeping through Edgewood before catching up to Cyndar, an orphan the clock appeared alongside on the doorstep. When it reached him, it dragged him into its gears.
* [[spoiler:BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: It's suggested from the Shuddering Jim lore that Edgewood is a reconstruction of the [[BigBad Bandit's]] FreudianExcuse, and the adults disappearing are a sign of him finally falling apart. We think. [[MindScrew It's all quite confusing]].]]

* CoolOldGuy: Elderly Mr. L, one of the teachers at the very beginning who's dissappearance in part led to the kids taking the school

* EvilCounterpart: there are two, the first, A Buoyant Double, is an averted case in that it is a balloon, that only somewhat resembles Cordy, and does not have any similar attacks. The second is Better Cordy, who while being better in personality (nicer, prettier, etc.) and gameplay (she's stronger and faster that Cordy), plays it straight in gameplay.

* EldritchLocation: Edgewood, given its tendency to animate inanimate objects and its shifting geometries.

* LemonyNarrator: The antagonistic Administrators also provide item descriptions and floor descriptions.

* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: After being defeated as a large being made of paper, The Administrator, melts into the floor and becomes His Natural Defences in a paper vortex.]]

* MyLittlePanzer: Most of the Broggs utilize some sort of kids toy to combat Cordy. Right from jacks to bubble blowers.
* MyNewGiftIsLame: The Arrival Day Gifts, a boss, is a subversion. None of the kids want these things because they're lame; much like everything else in Edgewood, the gifts are very deadly to the point that the students try to destroy them.
* OrphanageOfFear: Edgewood was terrible when the adults were around with students often dying to neglect and various inanimate objects become possessed. It's only gotten worse in their absence.
* PlagueDoctor: in the Malady Ward boss fight, there appear to be two ghostly Plague Doctors named Specialist Fenwick. According to the entry they were intended to heal student ailments, but spent untold time doing ''something'' involving burlap dummies hanging around. They walk about the room as their burlap dummy patients attack you, and need to be hit while tending to a fallen dummy.

* TakingYouWithMe: Regan upon defeat, tries to entrap Cordy in her lunchbox, by using a fake Administrator.

* XMeetsY: ''Videogame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' meets Creator/TimBurton movie

* MyGiftIsLame: The Arrival Day Gifts, a boss, is a subversion. None of the kids want these things because they're lame; much like everything else in Edgewood, the gifts are very deadly to the point that the students try to destroy them.

* AnkleDrag: done in a disturbing way, not that you'd expect anything less, with Cyndar's Timekeeper. A long thin chain is said to have been creeping through Edgewood before catching up to Cyndar, and orphan the clock appeared alongside on the doorstep. When it reached him, it dragged him into its gears.

* ChekovsGun: The onslaught of the quiet kids, ended with a bookcase crushing them. While Cordy survived the bookcase, it concluded with her being able to speak. Or well, throw fire at stuff.

* XMeetsY: ''Videogame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' meets TimBurton movie

* FlunkyBoss: Gonreil hides behind his Woundworts until his fortress is sufficiently devastated.
* FollowTheLeader: The game draws heavy inspiration from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', but a little more forgiving.

* PowerFloats: Regan.

* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Caring Friends are neither caring nor friendly.]]

* MyLittlePanzer: Most of the children in the orphanage utilize some sort of kids toy to combat Cordy. Right from jacks to bubble blowers.

* {{Roguelike}}: Though unlike most, it has a {{metagame}} allowing one to unlock new tricks.

* FlunkyBoss Gonreil hides behind his Woundworts until his fortress is sufficiently devastated.

* JerkJock: The Woundworts, especially Gonreil.

* AcademicAlphaBitch: Regan is head of the popular clique and a powerful sorceress in her own right.

''Our Darker Purpose'' is an Action {{Roguelike}} taking place in the [[OrphanageOfFear Edgewood Home for Lost Children]]. As creepy as the place is, things get worse when the teachers vanish, leaving the children in charge. [[KidsAreCruel Things go extremely badly]] as the children divide into violent gangs fighting one another and the various horrors of Edgewood.

The game follows Cordy, a shy girl who survived the initial slaughter by hiding under a bookcase, and is attempting to make her way up the building. While inspired by ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', it adds RPG elements -- both short-term (experience points) and long-term (every run, even failed ones -- [[NintendoHard and there will be many failed ones -- provides credits to give Cordy new abilities), and detailed journal entries on Cordy's past and various foes.