History VideoGame / Scorn

The game was planned to release in two parts; the first, ''Dasein'', in October 2018, and then 2019, but in addition to being delayed to an unspecified date in 2021, the game ultimately had its two parts put back together into one game rather than being released episodically. The game will be distributed through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Windows Store, as a DRM-free download, and on Xbox Series X. It was then delayed again, but was finally released on 14 October 2022.

* BaitAndSwitch: In the puzzle to get the humanoid out of its pod, you come across two chairs, which can either kill the creature or let it out. One chair is equipped with a scooper and one is equipped with a circular saw. Logically, you would assume that the scooper is what will get the creature out safely, while the circular saw would kill it. It's actually the inverse; the saw will destroy the pod and let the creature out, while using the scooper will kill the creature immediately.

** In the final part of the game, you need to acquire several dead baby-like creatures and blend them into a slurry that is used as some kind of battery fuel.

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Near the end of the game, you have to burst open some fluid filled sacks to get a baby like creatures that you need to put in a juicer machine to get their life fluids to make a battery. Apparently the only way to get their corpse is to put them in what is essentially organic PoweredArmor and fight them to the death. [[spoiler: To be fair, at this point the parasite has been painfully cocooning your character's body and ripping at his abdomen, so it's possible that he isn't thinking clearly.]]

* AbnormalAmmo: the gun you're equipped with - an acid trip of biotech all on its own - fires little blobs that look like luminescent insect eggs.
* AfterTheEnd: Whatever this factory was supposed to accomplish it's just filled with corpses now and hostile creatures.

* BaitAndSwitch: In the puzzle to get the humanoid out of its pod, you come across two chairs, which can either kill the creature or let it out. One chair is equipped with a scooper and one is equipped with a circular saw. Logically, you would assume that the scooper is what will get the creature out while the circular saw would kill it. It's actually the inverse; the saw will destroy the pod and let the creature out while using the scooper will kill the creature immediately.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, the protagonist successfully manages to pry the parasite out of their body and is a stretch away from going ''somewhere'', presumably someplace better than wherever the hell they are...only for the parasite to show up again and latch itself back on, proceeding to wrap up the protagonist in a flesh-like cocoon with a half-grown face.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The prologue starts with the player character waking from unconsciousness and finding himself enveloped in strange tendrils and half-embedded on the floor, which he then breaks out of. The game's first section comprises of how the player got there.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: One of the most viscerally horrific ones in gaming. The character has been painfully mutilated, eviscerated, and the top of his head removed exposing his brain. He is being repeatedly cut in his exposed organs by a malfunctioning surgical machine, but he has managed to remove the parasite and he is being carried to what is implied to be some semblance of safety....only for the parasite to ambush him, knocking him from the drone's arms, reattach itself to his back and impale him with its tail. He desperately reaches out towards the now inert drone, his connection to it severed, as the parasite wraps around him and rapidly cocoons him. All that is visibly recognizable of him being his face, forever staring out toward the salvation he almost reached. Damn.]]

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Near the end of the game, you have to burst open some fluid filled sacks to get a baby like creatures that you need to put in a juicer machine to get their life fluids to make a battery. Apparently the only way to get their corpse is to put them in what is essentially organic PoweredArmor and fight them to the death.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The fate of the protagonist at the end, merged into a horrific cocoon by the parasite and left unable to move, mere feet away from possible salvation.]]

** In the prologue, your first quest revolves around retrieving a pod into which a distorted humanoid has been painfully crammed inside of and either murdering it so you can take its arm, outfit it with a key unit, or break the pod and let it out, where it will mindlessly follow you and let you put the key on its hand, and use it to unlock a two-man gate - whereupon it is promptly discarded and forgotten in place, hand still inserted in the console.

** In the prologue, your first quest revolves around retrieving a pod into which a distorted humanoid has been painfully crammed inside of and either murdering it so you can take its arm, outfit it with a key unit, or break the pod and let it out, where it will mindlessly follow you and let you put the key on its hand, and use it to unlock a two-man gate.

* OrganicTechnology: The game is set in the rotting ruins of a biomechanical civilization. All technology in the game seems to be made from bone, chitin or steel as the framework structures, with living tissue as the interactive medium. The basic key to interface with various switches is a retractile bone implement fused into the player's hands, whilst most switches are fleshy sockets that the player inserts their hand or fingers into. A power core that the player has to bring online has myriad pipes that look like giant veins. When the multitool/weapon is first found, it's been hooked into its station by what looks to be an umbilical cable, which actually oozes blood when the player frees the weapon.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The parasite is heavily implied to be the first being you play as after being heavily mutated, possibly by the liquid that spilled out in the prologue.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: One of the most viscerally horrific ones in gaming. The character has been painfully mutilated, eviscerated, and the top of his head removed exposing his brain. He is being repeatedly cut in his exposed organs by a malfunctioning, but he has managed to remove the parasite and he is being carried to what is implied to be some semblance of safety....only for the parasite to ambush him, knocking him from the drone's arms, reattach itself to his back and impale him with its tail. He desperately reaches out towards the now inert drone, his connection to it severed, as the parasite wraps around him and rapidly cocoons him. All that is visibly recognizable of him being his face, forever staring out toward the salvation he almost reached. Damn.]]

* DownerEnding: ||One of the most viscerally horrific ones in gaming. The character has been painfully mutilated, eviscerated, and the top of his head removed exposing his brain. He is being repeatedly cut in his exposed organs by a malfunctioning, but he has managed to remove the parasite and he is being carried to what is implied to be some semblance of safety....only for the parasite to ambush him, knocking him from the drone's arms, reattach itself to his back and impale him with its tail. He desperately reaches out towards the now inert drone, his connection to it severed, as the parasite wraps around him and rapidly cocoons him. All that is visibly recognizable of him being his face, forever staring out toward the salvation he almost reached. Damn.||

* BagOfSpilling: The player loses the key implant and gun-probe they acquire during the prologue at the end of the prologue, and then has to find a whole new array of equipment in the game proper.

* LateToTheTragedy: When the player character wakes from the events of the prologue, they find themselves in a barren wastelande littered with the skeletal corpses of alien humanoids and slowly disintegrating structures.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: In the prologue, your first quest revolves around retrieving a pod into which a distorted humanoid has been painfully crammed inside of and either murdering it so you can take its arm, outfit it with a key unit, or break the pod and let it out, where it will mindlessly follow you and let you put the key on its hand, and use it to unlock a two-man gate.

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* BaitAndSwitch: In the puzzle to get the humanoid out of its pod, you come across two chairs, which can either kill the creature or let it out. One chair is equipped with a scooper and one is equipped with a circular saw. Logically, you would assume that the scooper is what will get the creature out while the circular saw would kill it, but it's actually the inverse, where the saw will destroy the pod and let the creature out, while using the scooper will kill the creature immediately.

* BodyHorror: When your game is inspired directly by {{Creator/Zdzislaw Beksinski}} and [[Creator/HRGiger H. R. Giger]], this is a given. Special note goes to the humanoid lifeform shown with exposed muscle and glassed over eyes forced into a nook and having a cord of flesh extending from the back of their head, the bizarre ''[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gzy2mEHTR7Y/maxresdefault.jpg thing]]'' the PlayerCharacter encounters at the end of the reveal trailer, and a mechanism shown at the end of the pre-alpha gameplay trailer that appears to have a fleshy ball with someone cramped inside it ([[AndIMustScream and possibly still alive and conscious, too]]).
* HowWeGotHere: The prologue starts with the player character waking from unconsciousness and finding himself enveloped in strange tendrils and half-embedded in the floor, which he then breaks out of. The game's first section comprises of how the player got there.
* LivingWeapon: The gameplay trailer indicates this as much with the "Pistol" twitching muscle fibers as if trying to locate a lost limb when you reload it. A tri-barreled shotgun attachment is also shown. Both weapons are "reloaded" and ammo checked by removing the attachment and inserting small glowing pebble-like projectiles into muscle folds.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: In the prologue, your first quest revolves around retrieving a pod into which a distorted humanoid has been painfully crammed and either murdering it so you can take its arm, outfit it with a key unit, or break the pod and let it out, where it will mindlessly follow you and let you put the key on its hand, and use it to unlock a two-man gate.
%%No citation* SilenceIsGolden: There is no dialogue whatsoever in the game, so the storytelling is entirely dependent on the environment.
* SwissArmyWeapon: The 2020 gameplay trailer reveals that the player character's weapon has multiple uses, and deploying it largely consists of taking off and attaching different "barrels" to a universal trigger mechanism. Displayed barrels include a standard "Pistol/Rifle" weapon, an extendable bladed probe that pulls double-duty as a key to activate various mechanisms scattered around the landscape and a short-ranged stabbing weapon, and a rotating, tri-barreled "Shotgun".

''Scorn'' is an upcoming First-Person SurvivalHorror game by Serbian developer Ebb Software set in a universe directly inspired by the works of Creator/ZdzislawBeksinski and Creator/HRGiger. The concept is that the PlayerCharacter is thrown into this world and has to explore it while solving puzzles and occasionally fighting off monsters in order to better understand the literal nightmare they're in, and possibly escape.

The game was planned to release in two parts; the first, ''Dasein'', in October 2018, and then 2019, but in addition to being delayed to an unspecified date in 2021, the game ultimately had its two parts put back together into one game rather than being released episodically. The game will be distributed through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Windows Store, as a DRM-free download, and on Xbox Series X. It was then delayed again, now currently set to release on 14 October 2022.

The game was planned to release in two parts; the first, ''Dasein'', in October 2018, and then 2019, but in addition to being delayed to an unspecified date in 2021, the game ultimately had its two parts put back together into one game rather than being released episodically. The game will be distributed through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Windows Store, as a DRM-free download, and on Xbox Series X. It was then delayed again, now currently set to release on 21 October 2022.

* HowWeGotHere: The prologue starts with the player character waking from unconsciousness and finding himself enveloped in strange tendrils, which he then breaks out of. The game then flashes back to show how he got there.

* BodyHorror: When your game is inspired directly by Zdzisław Beksiński and H. R. Giger, this is a given. Special note goes to the humanoid lifeform shown with exposed muscle and glassed over eyes forced into a nook and having a cord of flesh extending from the back of their head, the bizarre ''[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gzy2mEHTR7Y/maxresdefault.jpg thing]]'' the PlayerCharacter encounters at the end of the reveal trailer, and a mechanism shown at the end of the pre-alpha gameplay trailer that appears to have a fleshy ball with someone cramped inside it ([[AndIMustScream and possibly still alive and conscious, too]]).

The game was planned to release in two parts; the first, Dasein, in October 2018, and then 2019, but in addition to being delayed to an unspecified date in 2021, the game has had its two parts put back together into one game rather than being released episodically. The game will be distributed through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Windows Store, as a DRM-free download, and on Xbox Series X. It was then delayed again, now currently set to release on 21 October 2022.