History VideoGame / TheInfectiousMadnessOfDoctorDekker

* AmoralAttorney: One of the endings implies that certain lawyers [[spoiler: sent Dekker his clients and told them to feign "strangeness" in order to get insanity diagnoses]].

* AnimateDead: One patient considers themselves to be something of a necromancer.

* CreepyChild: A little girl sometimes shows up that invokes this.

* DreamWalker: A past client of Doctor Dekker claims to be one of these.

* EnthrallingSiren: One female patient is compared to this.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening sequence consists of clips from Dr. Dekker's therapy sessions including one with a girl called Molly who says her father is trying to hurt her. [[spoiler:We later find out that her father committed suicide and took her with him]].
* FreudianCouch: The main way you interact with the other characters is by typing questions while they sit on the couch in your office. In fact, almost the entire game takes place here.

* GroundhogDayLoop: One of the patients believes he is stuck in one. [[spoiler:At one point, you get stuck alongside him.]]

* InsanityDefense: One of the characters [[spoiler: killed her husband]]. It's mentioned that it would be quite convenient if their sanity was put in doubt.

* MentalTimeTravel: One character says they experienced this.

* ProfessionalGambler: One of the patients tried to become one.

* ShapeShifting: One of the patients claims to be able to do this in certain circumstances.

* StalkerWithACrush: Marianna seems to attract a LOT of these. [[spoiler: Possibly including you.]] Also, Bryce to certain extent. He takes naked photos of his neighbor without her knowledge.
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Apparently, one character's mother succumbed to this.

* TimeStandsStill: One of the patients describes experiencing this for one hour every night.

* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: Your assistant stresses the need to keep an eye on you as you work with the patients.

* YourCheatingHeart: Claire's husband with his assistant Iris.

* StalkerWithACrush: Marianna seems to attract a LOT of these. [[spoiler: Possibly including you.]]

* TheGhost: Most of the people the patients talk about are never seen. Dr. Dekker himself is also this since we never see a picture of him and we never even learn his first name.

* ShoutOut: Six possible suspects, a murder victim known only by their last name, a randomly chosen murderer and the game concluding with an accusation (which you can get right or wrong) make it superficially similar to ''TabletopGame/Clue''.

* Featureless Protagonist: The game plays out almost entirely from the player character's point of view and we never find out anything about them, including their gender (although there are hints that the doctor is male, given Marianna's flirtatious behavior).
* Foreshadowing: The opening sequence consists of clips from Dr. Dekker's therapy sessions including one with a girl called Molly who says her father is trying to hurt her. [[spoiler:We later find out that her father committed suicide and took her with him]].

* AmoralAttorney: One of the endings implies that certain lawyers [[spoiler: sent Dekker his clients and told them to feign "strangeness" in order to get insanity diagnoses.]]

* AntimagicalFaction: Some of the characters believe that [[spoiler: psychologists should be this, talking any [[RealityWarper reality warpers]] out of believing in their powers, so that [[YourMindMakesItReal those powers cease to work.]] Dr. Dekker apparently abandoned this philosophy.]]

* TheCutie: Elin, absolutely. She'll even give you cookies! [[spoiler: And you can ask if they're poisoned, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential you dick.]]]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:During the sequence where you get stuck in time, Nathan mentions that Doctor Dekker gave him a pill with a skull-and-crossbones on it that could [[DeadlyEuphemism put an end to the time loop.]] You can encourage him to take it, but doing so doesn't seem to work.]]

* EasterEgg: If you ask Professor Warwick about Atlas, Ryan Rand or ''VideoGame/{{Contradiction}}'', he will chuckle and say [[ActorAllusion "I think you're confusing me with someone else" and swirl his whisky glass.]]

* FullMotionVideo: Like it's predecessor, it's a game centered on live action footage that works similar to a visual novel.

* GuessTheVerb: As the game is entirely based around "following up on statements via a text parser," it can run into this pretty frequently. It gets particularly bad when one needs to include ''multiple'' keywords to follow up on both at once.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Claire's husband (who is an optician) had an assistant named '''Iris'''. Claire lampshades it as being incredibly on the nose.

* InsanityDefense: One of the characters [[spoiler: killed her husband.]] It's mentioned that it would be quite convenient if their sanity was put in doubt.

* ItsAllMyFault: Nathan blames himself [[spoiler: for the truck driver's suicide, after sending him an accusing letter.]]
* JumpScare: A couple, mostly caused by Jaya breaking into your conversation to provide information. The other major ones tend to be implied to be [[spoiler: either visions or hallucinations, as if something like a ghostly little girl appears]] they won't appear in the video's playback, or little FreezeFrameBonus events in a client's idle screens like [[spoiler: Claire suddenly walking towards you holding a knife.]]

* LetsPlay: By [[WebVideo/JesseCox JesseCox]], [[WebVideo/PressHeartToContinue Dodger]], and DiploRaptor.

* MercyKill: It can be argued that [[spoiler: David's second death, if he experienced it at all, is this.]]

* MortonsFork: A few choices can arrive at the same conclusion anyway. For example, [[spoiler: Claire will kill David again whether you tell her to or not, but if you do, Anoushka will live.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: At one point, [[spoiler: Dr. Dekker's body went missing.]]

* RapeAsDrama: Comes up during a possible conversation with a patient as [[spoiler: Marianna can accuse ''you'' of this, making reference to you "getting inside her" and it hurting.]]

* TheTease: Marianna, Marianna, Marianna.

* CthulhuMythos: One of the game's influences. Cthulhu is mentioned by name in one video.

* LetsPlay: By [[WebVideo/JesseCox JesseCox]], [[PressHeartToContinue Dodger]], and DiploRaptor.

* LetsPlay: By [[WebVideo/JesseCox JesseCox]] and [[PressHeartToContinue Dodger]].

* LetsPlay: By JesseCox and [[PressHeartToContinue Dodger]].

* EasterEgg: If you ask Professor Warwick about Atlas, Ryan Rand or ''VideoGame/{{Contradiction}}'', he will chuckle and say [[ActorAllusion "I think you're confusing me with someone else" while swirling his whiskey in the glass.]]

* SanitySlippage: Can happen to characters as the game progresses.

* JumpScare: A couple, mostly caused by Jaya breaking into your conversation to provide information. The other major ones tend to be implied to be [[spoiler: either visions or hallucinations, as if something like a ghostly little girl appears]] they won't appear in the video's playback, or little FreezeFrameBonus events like client's idle screens like [[spoiler: Claire suddenly walking towards you holding a knife.]]

* CreepyChild

* FullMotionVideo

* InsanityDefense: One of the characters [[spoiler: killed her husband.]] It's mentioned that it would be quite convenient if her sanity was put in doubt.
* JumpScare: A couple, mostly caused by Jaya breaking into your conversation to provide information.

* MindOverMatter

* [[spoiler: RapeAsDrama:]] [[spoiler: Marianna can accuse you of this, making reference to you "getting inside her" and it hurting.]]

* EasterEgg: If you ask Professor Warwick about Atlas, Ryan Rand or ''VideoGame/Contradiction'', he will chuckle and say [[ActorAllusion "I think you're confusing me with someone else" while swirling his whiskey in the glass.]]

* EasterEgg: Ask Professor Warwick about Atlas, Ryan Rand or just Contradiction itself.

* EasterEgg: Ask Professor Warwick (played by [[Contradiction John Guilor]] about Atlas, Ryan Rand or just Contradiction itself.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve