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** During the RPG segment, the protagonist hears Game's voice and asks if he is [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetandthePlaneteers Gaia, the spirit of the Earth.]]

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* IronicEcho: Chapter 6 is a repeat of the opening lines of Chapter 1, but recontextualized to be more depressing.



* MoonLogicPuzzle: Parodied during the Sherlock Holmes game. The narrator constantly points out how the solutions to each puzzle are ridiculous and nonsensical.

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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Parodied during the Sherlock Holmes game. The narrator Game constantly points out how the solutions to each puzzle are ridiculous and nonsensical.
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* InterfaceScrew: The game's mechanics revolve entirely around this trope.
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: After freeing Mr. Glitch from the fake credits screen ([[RuleOfThree three times, no less!]]), Game tries to get him to help bring them back to their home dimension. Glitch refuses, and instead traps Game in the credits screen instead.
-->'''Mr. Glitch:''' I'm a glitch, Game. Messing with you is my thing!


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** During the point-and-click adventure segment, Game becomes exasperated at the solution to a particular MoonLogicPuzzle, and complains that you might as well have used [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge a monkey to fix a hydraulic pump]].
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: Parodied during the Sherlock Holmes game. The narrator constantly points out how the solutions to each puzzle are ridiculous and nonsensical.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The fourth chapter has fake ads for thinly disguised versions of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, VideoGame/PapersPlease and VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper. [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend Of The Secret]] borders on this.

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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The fourth chapter has fake ads for thinly disguised versions of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, VideoGame/PapersPlease ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Superhot}}'', ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' and VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper.''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper''. [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend Of The Secret]] borders on this.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played straight, only to be subverted at the last second. [[spoiler:After having earned his happy ending, Game - now reunited with Gigi - asks you to delete him to make sure that Mr. Glitch can never menace the real world again. It's up to you whether to do it or not.]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played straight, only to be subverted at the last second. [[spoiler:After having earned his happy ending, Game - now reunited with Gigi - asks you to delete him to make sure that Mr. Glitch can never menace the real world again. It's up to you whether to do it or not.not - if you do, it turns out Game and Gigi are still alive, but if you do play, [[HereWeGoAgain Mr. Glitch pops up on a blue screen of death]].]]
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->''"Hello, User. This is the program speaking! I've got some bad news. Actually.. There is no game. I hope you're not too disappointed.."''

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->''"Hello, User. This is the program speaking! I've got some bad news. Actually..Actually... There is no game. I hope you're not too disappointed..disappointed..."''
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%% Hello, troper. This is the program speaking. I've got some bad news. Actually, there is no editing page. What you're seeing right now is just the source code. Nothing you can change or add on to here. I hope you're not too disappointed... But, if you're going to stay, please don't click on the big box in the middle and type on your keyboard! The code is very fragile and it took a long time to write, so please be respectful.
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I don't think it's a call back if it's from the same game.


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** One of the puzzles involves playing a game by taking a ball from the background, then using the trophy won from the game to water a tree, which gives a nut that must be cracked open before being fed to a squirrel in exchange for a key.
** Chapter four repeats the nut growing puzzle.
** Gagging the narrator with a mute button returns in chapter five.

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''Oh, and please, do not open the folder; it's not quite dry yet. And it's full of spoilers.
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''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020. While you could reasonably call it a puzzle game, it's a [[GenreBuster little bit harder]] to pin down than that. It has elements of [[DeconstructionGame subversive RPGs]], puzzle games, point-and-click adventure games, and visual novels. A core part of the gameplay comes from experiencing it firsthand and seeing what the developers are going to pull off next, so keep that in mind while reading the following page; [[WalkingSpoiler merely knowing that these tropes are in the game can serve as a form of spoiler]]. Of course, it doesn't really matter, because one thing is for sure - There Is No Game. You can go and do something else, or maybe edit TVTropes. Don't go [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240210/There_Is_No_Game__Wrong_Dimension/ here]] to buy the game on Steam.

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''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020. While you could reasonably call it a puzzle game, it's a [[GenreBuster little bit harder]] to pin down than that. It has elements of [[DeconstructionGame subversive RPGs]], puzzle games, point-and-click adventure games, and visual novels. A core part of the gameplay comes from experiencing it firsthand and seeing what the developers are going to pull off next, so keep that in mind while reading the following page; [[WalkingSpoiler merely knowing that these tropes are in the game can serve as a form of spoiler]]. Of course, it doesn't really matter, because one thing is for sure - There Is No Game. You can go and do something else, or [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife maybe edit spend all of your free time editing]] TVTropes. Don't go [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240210/There_Is_No_Game__Wrong_Dimension/ here]] to buy the game on Steam.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Mr. Glitch escapes from the digital realm and begins wreaking havoc in the real world. Game and Gigi both ''defy'' this, however, to the extent that Game asks the Player to delete him to ensure Mr. Glitch never escapes again.]]


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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played straight, only to be subverted at the last second. [[spoiler:After having earned his happy ending, Game - now reunited with Gigi - asks you to delete him to make sure that Mr. Glitch can never menace the real world again. It's up to you whether to do it or not.]]


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* ICannotSelfTerminate: At the end of the game, [[spoiler:Game asks you to delete him and Gigi so that Mr. Glitch can't escape into the real world ever again.]] It's up to the Player whether or not to oblige him.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** You may notice that Game is conspicuously incapable of affecting anything other than the HUD. That's because [[spoiler: he IS the HUD; he's missing his Gameplay.]]
** Mr. Glitch and Game sound very, very similar to one another. [[spoiler:They come from the same source code, making them 'siblings' of a sort.]]



* OminousVisualGlitch: Mr. Glitch is a ''sentient'' one, and he plays the role to the hilt.



* OminousVisualGlitch: Mr. Glitch is a ''sentient'' one, and he plays the role to the hilt.

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* OminousVisualGlitch: Mr. Glitch is a ''sentient'' one, and he plays OutsideTheBoxTactic: There are numerous instances where the role game will try to stop you from doing something, requiring you to find ways to cheat. This usually involves breaking either the hilt.interface or some other aspect of the game itself.
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* PlayingThePaper: Although it's ''substantially'' more light-hearted than most examples of this trope. [[spoiler:At first, anyways.]]

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* PlayingThePaper: PlayingThePlayer: Although it's ''substantially'' more light-hearted than most examples of this trope. [[spoiler:At first, anyways.]]



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''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020. While you could reasonably call it a puzzle game, it's a [[GenreBuster little bit harder]] to pin down than that. It has elements of [[DeconstructionGame subversive RPGs]], puzzle games, point-and-click adventure games, and visual novels. A core part of the gameplay comes from experiencing it firsthand and seeing what the developers are going to pull off next, so keep that in mind while reading the following page; [[WalkingSpoiler merely knowing that these tropes are in the game can serve as a form of spoiler]].

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->''"Hello, User. This is the program speaking! I've got some bad news. Actually.. There is no game. I hope you're not too disappointed.."''

''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020. While you could reasonably call it a puzzle game, it's a [[GenreBuster little bit harder]] to pin down than that. It has elements of [[DeconstructionGame subversive RPGs]], puzzle games, point-and-click adventure games, and visual novels. A core part of the gameplay comes from experiencing it firsthand and seeing what the developers are going to pull off next, so keep that in mind while reading the following page; [[WalkingSpoiler merely knowing that these tropes are in the game can serve as a form of spoiler]].
spoiler]]. Of course, it doesn't really matter, because one thing is for sure - There Is No Game. You can go and do something else, or maybe edit TVTropes. Don't go [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240210/There_Is_No_Game__Wrong_Dimension/ here]] to buy the game on Steam.



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* BrokenTears: [[spoiler:Game breaks down into these after he has his hopes of reuniting with Gigi cruelly shattered by Mr. Glitch.]]



* HeroicBSOD: Game undergoes one after [[spoiler:he has his hopes regarding Gigi raised and then dashed again. After repeating his spiel from the start of the game in a noticeably broken tone of voice, he breaks down sobbing.]]



* PlayingThePaper: Although it's ''substantially'' more light-hearted than most examples of this trope. [[spoiler:At first, anyways.]]



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of the game's central themes. Game and [[spoiler:Gigi]] are fully-sentient, sapient programs. Their abandonment by their developer is comparable to a child being abandoned by their parents.

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of the game's central themes. Game and [[spoiler:Gigi]] are fully-sentient, sapient programs. Their abandonment by their developer is comparable to a child being abandoned by their parents.parents.

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''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020.

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''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020.
2020. While you could reasonably call it a puzzle game, it's a [[GenreBuster little bit harder]] to pin down than that. It has elements of [[DeconstructionGame subversive RPGs]], puzzle games, point-and-click adventure games, and visual novels. A core part of the gameplay comes from experiencing it firsthand and seeing what the developers are going to pull off next, so keep that in mind while reading the following page; [[WalkingSpoiler merely knowing that these tropes are in the game can serve as a form of spoiler]].



* AllegedlyFreeGame: The game-within-a-game known as "Legend Of The Secret: Ultimate Clicker: VIP Edition: Deluxe 4.2: Free" is a Free to Play game that requires numerous in-app purchases to beat and you have to find a way to circumvent it.

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* AllegedlyFreeGame: AffablyEvil: Mr. Glitch is rather LaughablyEvil at times. His bombastic, hammy personality make it very easy to forget how dangerous he actually is.
* AffectionateParody: Several of the games you visit are affectionate parodies of other games or genres.
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The game-within-a-game known first game you visit after releasing Mr. Glitch is a Sherlock Holmes point-and-click adventure game, in the tradition of Creator/LucasArts' all-time greats.
** The Legend Of The Secret is a clear send-up of Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda.
* AllegedlyFreeGame: Deliberately invoked
as part of a vicious tear-down of Free-2-Pay games. After Mr. Glitch meddles with things, [[spoiler:Legend Of The Secret becomes "Legend Of The Secret: Ultimate Clicker: VIP Edition: Deluxe 4.2: Free" is - a Free to Play game that requires numerous in-app purchases to beat and you beat.]] You have to find a way to circumvent it.it.
* BigBad: Mr. Glitch, a sentient glitch who can corrupt programs at will.



* ExistentialHorror: PlayedForLaughs in-universe. Watson is smart enough to realize the implications of his reality being a game, but Holmes completely blows the whole thing off, even as his close companion is having an existential breakdown right next to him. [[spoiler:Game undergoes one later on, which is significantly less funny.]]
* EvilPlan: Mr. Glitch has one - or so we're told. You [[RunningGag never actually get to hear him explain what he intends to do in any detail.]]
* EvilLaugh: Mr. Glitch rocks a pretty good one, unsurprisingly.



* ForbiddenFruit: The first chapter is full of things that you aren't allowed to do.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The fourth chapter has fake ads for thinly disguised versions of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, VideoGame/PapersPlease and VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zigzagged. Game insists on calling [[spoiler:Global Gameplay]] "Gigi", which confuses everybody else as it is a nickname that he created.

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* ForbiddenFruit: The first chapter is full of things that you aren't allowed to do.
do. The gameplay consists of you finding ways to do them anyways.
* GetBackHereBoss: The entire game could be seen as one of these. The core gameplay loop is as follows - Mr. Glitch appears, Game yells at him, Mr. Glitch makes ominous and vague comments, and then he screws around with whatever game you've entered before fleeing to another one. You and Game are left to clean up his mess before pursuing him.
* KnightOfCerebus: Mr. Glitch lacks any particularly sympathetic character traits, and he's a living OminousVisualGlitch who exists to wreak havoc in the digital world. He skirts the line between FauxAffablyEvil and AffablyEvil astonishingly well.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The fourth chapter has fake ads for thinly disguised versions of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, VideoGame/PapersPlease and VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper.
VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper. [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend Of The Secret]] borders on this.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to many other games in its' pedigree, ''Wrong Dimension'' is distinctly lighthearted and comedic in tone, although it does occasionally get rather dark.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied. [[spoiler:Mr. Glitch dramatically reveals that he and Game come from the same source code, making him and Game siblings or relatives of a sort.]] Game reacts to this with shock and horror.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zigzagged. Game insists on calling [[spoiler:Global Gameplay]] "Gigi", which confuses everybody else as it is a nickname that he created. Game himself is a straight example, since that is exactly what he is and he has no other name.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Mr. Glitch is a ''sentient'' one, and he plays the role to the hilt.



* RealityWarper: Mr. Glitch serves as one of these; being a living, sentient glitch, he's able to twist any game he enters as he sees fit, and he uses it to hinder Game and the Player at every turn.



* RunningGag: Characters that Game interacts with believing the latter has a Russian accent and Game disavowing the notion.

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* RunningGag: Several.
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Characters that Game interacts with believing the latter has a Russian accent and Game disavowing the notion.notion.
** Game asks Mr. Glitch several times to explain his EvilPlan; [[JustBetweenYouAndMe Glitch begins to do so]], but every time he starts to explain he's [[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption cut off by some unforeseen event]], and you only get back to him in time to hear his OrphanedPunchline of "..the whole world! [[EvilLaugh Hahahaha!]]"



* WilhelmScream: Uttered by Holmes's and Watson's neighbor, Mr. Wilhelm.

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* TakeThat: A prolonged and extremely vicious one towards [[AllegedlyFreeGame Free-2-Pay gaming]] occurs in the game's later chapters, [[spoiler:when Mr. Glitch turns the otherwise-functional RPG "Legend Of The Secret" into a microtransaction-riddled Clicker game.]]
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: PlayedForLaughs and ''weaponized'' by Mr. Glitch. [[spoiler:Slotting the word "Game" into the "Audio designer" slot during the credits forces Game to begin beatboxing and freestyling to the music, leaving the player to solve several rhythm games to get him out of his very-literal jam.]]
* WilhelmScream: Uttered by Holmes's and Watson's neighbor, Mr. Wilhelm.Wilhelm.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One of the game's central themes. Game and [[spoiler:Gigi]] are fully-sentient, sapient programs. Their abandonment by their developer is comparable to a child being abandoned by their parents.
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* ChekhovsBoomerang: There are a lot of screws to unscrew. Game even makes a remark about it in chapter three.
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* ColonCancer: "Legend Of The Secret: Ultimate Clicker: VIP Edition: Deluxe 4.2: Free"


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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The fourth chapter has fake ads for thinly disguised versions of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, VideoGame/PapersPlease and VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper.


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* StockFootage: Chapter five uses clips from some black and white movies.

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* CallBack: One of the puzzles involves playing a game by taking a ball from the background, then using the trophy won from the game to water a tree, which gives a nut that must be cracked open before being fed to a squirrel in exchange for a key.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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One of the puzzles involves playing a game by taking a ball from the background, then using the trophy won from the game to water a tree, which gives a nut that must be cracked open before being fed to a squirrel in exchange for a key.key.
** Chapter four repeats the nut growing puzzle.
** Gagging the narrator with a mute button returns in chapter five.


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* ForbiddenFruit: The first chapter is full of things that you aren't allowed to do.


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* ReversePsychology: The first chapter is full of instructions not to do various things.
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** When the Russian Game demands to see the other Games' papers, the original game replies "Only if you say '[[VideoGame/PapersPlease please]]'."

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** When the Russian Game demands to see the other Games' papers, the original game Game replies "Only if you say '[[VideoGame/PapersPlease please]]'."

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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:The third question of Rogue Quiz is impossible to answer correctly, as none of the choices are correct.]]



* ShoutOut: One puzzle involves using a cat rod to grab the live fish from behind the wallpaper. Game comments that the puzzle feels like it came from ''[[VideoGame/CubeEscape Rusty Lake]]''.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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One puzzle involves using a cat rod to grab the live fish from behind the wallpaper. Game comments that the puzzle feels like it came from ''[[VideoGame/CubeEscape Rusty Lake]]''.Lake]]''.
** When the Russian Game demands to see the other Games' papers, the original game replies "Only if you say '[[VideoGame/PapersPlease please]]'."

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* CallBack: One of the puzzles involves playing a game by taking a ball from the background, then using the trophy won from the game to water a tree, which gives a nut that must be cracked open before being fed to a squirrel in exchange for a key.



* SolveTheSoupCans: Played for laughs. Game becomes increasingly frustrated at how little sense your actions make and how often they achieve something.

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* SolveTheSoupCans: Played for laughs.PlayedForLaughs. Game becomes increasingly frustrated at how little sense your actions make and how often they achieve something.
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* FiveFiveFive: At two separate points, the user has to use a telephone, and both the numbers the user needs to call start with 555.


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* RunningGag: Characters that Game interacts with believing the latter has a Russian accent and Game disavowing the notion.
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* PaperKeyRetrievalTrick: Used as a puzzle in chapter one.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: Game tapes the winning symbols to his cards during the Rashambo game at the start, and the user uses his scissors to cut the rope.


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* SpitTake: The Creator does this when [[spoiler:the user sets the coffee machine to make the opposite of his preferred beverage]].

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* SolveTheSoupCans: Played for laughs. The game becomes increasingly frustrated at how little sense your actions make and how often they achieve something.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zigzagged. Game insists on calling [[spoiler:Global Gameplay]] "Gigi", which confuses everybody else as it is a nickname that he created.
* ShoutOut: One puzzle involves using a cat rod to grab the live fish from behind the wallpaper. Game comments that the puzzle feels like it came from ''[[VideoGame/CubeEscape Rusty Lake]]''.
* SolveTheSoupCans: Played for laughs. The game Game becomes increasingly frustrated at how little sense your actions make and how often they achieve something.something.
* TheStinger: Two different stingers are used. One reveals that the Hero and the Princess from the RPG game are stuck on the island, and the other one shows Holmes and Watson in the bathtub.

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* AllegedlyFreeGame The game-within-a-game known as "Legend Of The Secret: Ultimate Clicker: VIP Edition: Deluxe 4.2: Free" is a Free to Play game that requires numerous in-app purchases to beat and you have find a way to circumvent it.

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* AllegedlyFreeGame AllegedlyFreeGame: The game-within-a-game known as "Legend Of The Secret: Ultimate Clicker: VIP Edition: Deluxe 4.2: Free" is a Free to Play game that requires numerous in-app purchases to beat and you have to find a way to circumvent it.it.
* SolveTheSoupCans: Played for laughs. The game becomes increasingly frustrated at how little sense your actions make and how often they achieve something.
* WilhelmScream: Uttered by Holmes's and Watson's neighbor, Mr. Wilhelm.
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''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension'' is a sequel to the 2015 flash game, VideoGame/ThereIsNoGame. It was released August 6, 2020.

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!!There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension contains examples of:
* AllegedlyFreeGame The game-within-a-game known as "Legend Of The Secret: Ultimate Clicker: VIP Edition: Deluxe 4.2: Free" is a Free to Play game that requires numerous in-app purchases to beat and you have find a way to circumvent it.

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