History VideoGame / TitanicAdventureOutOfTime

** ''[[NukeEm Nazi Conquest]]'': [[spoiler:Vlad leaves without Black Hand funding, both Painting and Notebook are lost. World War 1 is averted, and the Russian Revolution is quashed. The Western Powers enjoy an odd peace, and thus grow complacent. The Nazis spring up and, completely unapposed, soar ahead in terms of technology and warfare, nuclear armamants included. A World War breaks out, and nukes are unleashed upon Europe. Frank is obliterated in his home by such a nucelar strike. Considered the worst ending.]]

* MultipleEndings: The best ending is a perfect future without World War 1, 2 or the Russian Revolution. The worst ending is you drowning with the ship. With every other ending in between, [[spoiler:you will die in your apartment from either the Blitz ([[StableTimeLoop again]]), Nazis (either their execution squads or one of their atomic bombs being dropped on London), Soviets, or CommieNazis]].

The game was relatively obscure until it [[ColbertBump enjoyed a surge in popularity]] due to renewed public interest in the ''Titanic'' in the wake of Creator/JamesCameron's [[Film/Titanic1997 film]] the following year, even though the two works were completely unrelated beyond their subject matter.

''Titanic: Adventure Out of Time'' is a somewhat obscure point-click adventure game from 1996 set on the ''Titanic''. You begin the game as Frank Carlson, a disgraced British ex-secret agent currently not enjoying retirement during the London Blitz of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, having been fired over failing his duty to uncover a conspiracy upon the ''Titanic'' thirty years ago. As he wistfully ponders upon his failure, his apartment is hit by the blitz, and he burns to death. Oh, well.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Each of the endings apart from Frank finding all of the items and getting off the ship. One ending has Frank unable to get into a lifeboat and thus going down with the ship. Failing to find any of the items results in history as it was, and Frank dies in the bombing not knowing that the Nazis will be defeated in just over three years. Any combination of not finding one of the items will result in Europe and possibly even the rest of the world in the grips of either fascism or communism. One of them even has the Nazis '''''dropping a nuclear bomb on London'''''.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Even though it’s not immediately obvious, it’s arguable that [[spoiler: the so-called “worst” ending - I.E, where Frank utterly fails to get anything from the Titanic and history ends up proceeding as it actually did - is actually one of these. In real life, the old monarchies were overthrown, the Nazis were defeated, and the USSR eventually collapsed. Every other ending results in most of Europe in the grip of Fascism or Communism. One of them even has the Nazis '''''dropping a nuclear bomb on London'''''.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Each of the endings apart from Frank finding all of the items and getting off the ship. One ending has Frank unable to get into a lifeboat and thus going down with the ship. Failing to find any of the items results in history as it was, and Frank dies in the bombing not knowing that the Nazis will be defeated in just over three years. Any combination of not finding one of the items will result in Europe and possibly even the rest of the world in the grips of either fascism or communism.]]

** Carlson's secondary target, the troop movement plans. [[spoiler:If the painting survives the sinking, Carlson will mention that the plans hidden within it would prove useless anyway because they were scrapped to cut costs shortly afterwards.]]

** The sinking portion of the game is not actually RealTime. Time advances as the player moves around the ship, meaning every motion must count.

* NPCRoadblock: The three unnamed crewman will bar Frank's access to the bridge, the engine room, and the cargo hold unless he gains permission to enter those areas. During the sinking, they seal off the lower decks as the ship starts to flood.

* NoSwastikas: In the German release, [[spoilers:references to Adolf Hitler were removed. This proved difficult as Hitler turns out to be a crucial plot point, and several of the endings involve the Nazis conquering Europe.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Even though it’s not immediately obvious, it’s arguable that [[spoiler: the so-called “worst” ending - I.E, where Frank utterly fails to get anything from the Titanic and history ends up proceeding as it actually did - is actually one of these. In real life, the old monarchies were overthrown, the Nazis were defeated, and the USSR eventually collapsed. Every other ending results in the entirety of Europe in the grip of Fascism or Communism. One of the even has the Nazis '''''dropping a nuclear bomb on London'''''.]]

** Two of the bad endings, namely [[spoiler: the "Nuclear Germany" and the "Communist Germany"]].
*** [[spoiler: In the [[StupidJetpackHitler Nuclear Germany]] ending, WWI never happens but Hitler still takes power in Germany after launching a successful coup against the Kaiser, and developing nuclear weapons. This is extremely implausible because without WWI Hitler would not have gone into politics, and even if he did develop his worldviews, the conservative factions and the army would stop him dead in his tracks if the Nazis tried to coup the German Monarchy.]]
*** [[spoiler: The [[CommieNazis Communist Germany]] ending envisions a scenario where the Spartacists took power in Germany in a world where neither Nazism or USSR came into existence after World War I. However, it is highly unlikely that the Spartacists had a chance at taking power, and without the aftershocks of the Russian Revolution, they might have even less chance of success]].
** The painting [[spoiler:is a real one that Hitler made...in 1914, two years after the sinking.]]
** The notebook containing [[spoiler: the names of top Bolshevik leaders is also a case of this. The Russian government at the time was already very much aware of who Lenin and Trotsky were, and as a result they were both in exile abroad during the sinking of Titanic. Stalin, meanwhile, was only a minor party official who wouldn't rise to prominence until after the Revolution. In addition, the individual in the photograph identified as Trotsky is actually Mikhail Kalinin. Finally, the picture of a supposed Russian revolutionary being killed is actually of a ''Volkssturm'' officer from the end of World War II.]]

* KilledOffForReal: Aside from everybody who [[CaptainObvious went down with the ship]], two people don't even get that far: