History VideoGame / TheVisitor

** [[EverybodyDiesEnding If you use the ElectrifiedBathtub strategy on the alien, it gets fried, but then uses its tongue to decapitate the survivor as a LastBreathBullet before dying.]]

* KillEmAll: It's possible for everyone, including the alien, to die in one of the endings of the first game.

** TheBadGuyWins: [[TimedMission Forget to act]] or play your cards right, and the alien will get away scot-free.
** BittersweetEnding: The lone survivor can kill the alien, but only after it's already killed his entire family.
** KillEmAll: If you use the ElectrifiedBathtub strategy on the alien, it gets fried, but then uses its tongue to decapitate the survivor as a LastBreathBullet before dying.

** TheBadGuyWins: Play your cards right, and the alien will get away scot-free.

* AlienBlood: Averted; the worm has normal, red blood.

** In the beginning of the first game, you start out as a worm-like creature.

* ItCanThink: Never mind that the parasite can think. It can move objects with its mind.
* KillEmAll: It's possible for everyone, including the alien, to die in one of the endings.

* MindOverMatter: How can such a little worm manipulate its environment from a distance? Telekinesis, of course!

* SlashedThroat: Well, more like ripped-out throat, but [[spoiler: this is the fate of the drunk old man in ''Returns'']].

* TelepathicSpacemen: While not telepathic, the little worm is telekinetic.

* TooDumbToLive: If the parasite is the one that moves the stuff around via telekinesis, it would mean that the BittersweetEnding of the first game has the alien purposely commit suicide by making itself slip, then finding a gun in the cabinet and shooting itself before using the gun to split its own head in two.
* ToServeMan: The one ending of the first game results in you eating the survivor. [[spoiler: He was crunchy.]]
* VillainProtagonist: You're a vicious alien parasitoid.
* WeakButSkilled: The worm is a telekinetic alien that can assimilate the abilities of anything it eats, but it's still just a small worm that gets splattered if it goes toe-to-toe with anything bigger than itself. The puzzle-solving in the game is for finding ways to get the drop on those things without facing them head-on.

* TheAlcoholic: The old man at the camper table in ''Returns'' is so deep in his cups he only reacts to being set on fire with DullSurprise and smothers the flames on his arm. [[spoiler: It's enough to distract him and allow the visitor to kill him, however]]. Though given that his reaction upon seeing the Visitor is to instantly skewer it with a thrown knife, it's possible he's simply a badass.
* AlienBlood: Averted, the worm has normal, red blood.

* BattleCouple: In ''Returns''. The man thinks nothing of his arm being lit on fire, and will immediately counter with a throwing knife if he sees the visitor, whereas woman is a crack shot with a revolver.

* CameFromTheSky: You come out of a Meteorite in each game.

* DeliciousDistraction: Quite a number of animals are distracted via food, such as the small bird and the flies in the first game, and the raccoon, skunk and spider in ''Returns''.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In ''Massacre at Camp Happy,'' the parasite can only attack animals smaller than it is. The object of the game is to eat all the campers, and there's a good chance you'll be significantly smaller than the targeted human of the level.

* HumansAreSpecial: The parasite ''really'' wants to eat one, but won't go after them without a host of [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal-based superpowers]] and the GoldenEnding of ''Returns'' is where you do and become humanoid, rather than brutally dismembering one or getting shot to pieces.

* ItCanThink: Never mind that the parasite can think. It can also move objects with its mind.

* LoveTriangle: Technically a Love Quadrilateral, between the three girls and one guy in ''Sleepover''. You get to resolve this... by exploiting it to kill all of them.

* MindOverMatter: How can a such a little Worm manipulate its environment from a distance? Telekinesis, of course!
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: With Close ups, you can see that the creature has lots of teeth.

** TheBadGuyWins: Play your cards right, and the alien will get away scott-free.

** KillEmAll: If you use the ElectrifiedBathtub strategy on the alien, it gets fried, but then uses his tongue to decapitate the survivor as a LastBreathBullet before dying.
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: The animal utility abilities in ''Massacre at Camp Happy''. You can only have one at a time--claws allow the alien to pass through bushes, fins allow it to swim and pass though water passages, and wings allow it to fly over water and holes but not through bushes.

** In ''Returns'' this is a possible ending; tearing off a woman's jaw and crawling down her throat to anthropomorphosize yourself.

* SlashedThroat: Well, more like ripped out throat, but [[spoiler: this is the fate of the drunk old man in ''Returns'']].

* AerosolFlamethrower: See TheAlcoholic
* TheAlcoholic: The old man at the camper table in ''Returns'' is so deep in his cups he only reacts to being set on fire with DullSurprise and smothers the flames on his arm. [[spoiler: It's enough to distract him and allow the visitor to kill him, however]]. Though given that his reaction upon seeing the visitor is to instantly skewer it with a thrown knife, it's possible he's simply a badass.

* CameFromTheSky: You come out of a Meteorite in each Game.

* AllWebbedUp: Eating a spider allows for this in ''Returns''

* LoveTriangle: Technically a Love Quadrilateral, between the three girls and one guy in ''Sleepover''. You get to resolve this. By exploiting it to kill all of them.

** In ''The Visitor,'' you kill a troublesome cat by [[AssShove crawling up its anus]] and [[BodyHorror eating it from the inside-out]]. You also kill a man by forcing yourself down his throat. In fact, in its original worm-like parasite form, it's fond of letting itself be eaten by nearby vermin.

* BodyHorror

* YouWillBeAssimilated

* ChestBurster: You can erupt out of your first host in Returns.

** TheBadGuyWins: Play your cards right, and the alien will get away scott free.

* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: The animal utility abilities in ''Massacre at Camp Happy''. You can only have one at a time- claws allow the alien to pass through bushes, fins allow it to swim and pass though water passages, and wings allow it to fly over water and holes but not through bushes.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Massacre at Camp Happy was so reviled that they made ''Returns'' another point-and-click adventure game where you can keep the abilities of the animals you eat as an apology (combining animal traits wasn't present in ''Massacre'' because it would have been too easy if you could).

In ''The Visitor'' series in general, one takes the role of a pink, leech-like alien parasitoid[[note]]A parasitoid is like a parasite except it kills its host, usually after completing it's larval stage.[[/note]] who [[TheAssimilator absorbs DNA from the animals and people it kills.]] Not to be confused with the 2007 Thomas [=McCarthy=] film.

* [[http://www.clickshakegames.com/games/the-visitor.php The Visitor]]
* [[http://www.clickshakegames.com/games/the-visitor-massacre-at-camp-happy.php The Visitor: Massacre at Camp Happy]]
* [[http://www.clickshakegames.com/games/the-visitor-returns.php The Visitor Returns]]

In ''The Visitor'', one takes the role of a pink, leech-like alien parasitoid[[note]]A parasitoid is like a parasite except it kills its host, usually after completing it's larval stage.[[/note]] who [[TheAssimilator absorbs DNA from the animals and people it kills.]] Not to be confused with the 2007 Thomas [=McCarthy=] film.

* BattleCouple: In Returns. The man thinks nothing of his arm being lit on fire, and will immediately counter with a throwing knife if he sees the visitor, whereas woman is a crack shot with a revolver.