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** In Chapter 10, when Sam and Mike can encounter a room containing "bodies... a lot of them" and start freaking out over the number of victims there -- which, depending on the player's choices, can be as low as ''one'' person ([[ButThouMust who can't be saved anyhow]]).
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** In Chapter 10, when Sam and Mike can encounter a room containing "bodies... a lot of them" and start freaking out over the number of victims there -- which, depending on the player's choices, can be as low as ''one'' person ([[ButThouMust who can't be saved anyhow]]).
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*** Moreover, [[spoiler:why didn't The Stranger save Hannah? He vsaw where the twins fell, and he knows the mountain like the back of his hand. All he had to do was take an hour out of his day to go check and see if they're alive or not. If he's afraid they'll accuse him of something - which is unlikely, since Hannah and Beth clearly see him trying to save them in the prologue - all he has to do is prove that he was actually saving them from wendigos with the several wendigos he has imprisoned in the sanatorium. And if he assumes they're both dead, which would be incredibly naive and stupid on his part, he would still go check, for the simple fact that he salvages body parts to use as wendigo bait.]]
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*** Moreover, [[spoiler:why didn't The Stranger save Hannah? He vsaw saw where the twins fell, and he knows the mountain like the back of his hand. All he had to do was take an hour out of his day to go check and see if they're alive or not. If he's afraid they'll accuse him of something - -- which is unlikely, since Hannah and Beth clearly see him trying to save them in the prologue - -- all he has to do is prove that he was actually saving them from wendigos with the several wendigos he has imprisoned in the sanatorium. And if he assumes they're both dead, which would be incredibly naive naïve and stupid on his part, he would still go check, for the simple fact that he salvages body parts to use as wendigo bait.]]
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** In some ending interrogation sequences, the characters from one group question whether some from the other group survived or not. For example: Matt and Emily, both will question whether the other one has survived. This leads to the implication that both groups were rescued by different choppers. However, if no one manages to survive the lodge explosion, the chopper who rescued that group will still take sight of the other survivors and pick 'em up.
** In some ending interrogation sequences, the characters from one group question whether some from the other group survived or not. For example: Matt and Emily, both will question whether the other one has survived. This leads to the implication that both groups were rescued by different choppers. However, if no one manages to survive the lodge explosion, the chopper who rescued that group will still take sight of the other survivors and pick 'em up.
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** In some ending interrogation sequences, the characters from one group question whether some from the other group survived or not. For example: Matt and Emily, both will question whether the other one has survived. This leads to the implication that both groups were rescued by different choppers. However, if no one manages to survive the lodge explosion, the chopper who rescued that group will still take sight of the other survivors and pick 'em up.
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** [[spoiler:After retrieving Josh in Chapter 10, Sam offers to climb out of the mine and go back to the lodge to meet up with "the others" -- even if there are no others to meet up with, on account of everyone but Mike, Josh, and herself being dead by that point.]]
** [[spoiler:Mike]] can perform a HeroicSuicide even after dying from NeckSnap in the final sequence.
** [[spoiler:Mike]] can perform a HeroicSuicide even after dying from NeckSnap in the final sequence.
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** [[spoiler:After retrieving Josh in Chapter 10, Sam offers to climb out of the mine and go back to the lodge to meet up with "the others" -- even if there are no others to meet up with, on account of everyone but Mike, Josh, and herself being dead by that point. While Matt's fate is uncertain to her, she has no reason to think he is at the lodge.]]
**[[spoiler:Mike]] can perform The fact that the police were never involved before the events of the game makes no sense. [[spoiler:After the cave-in, where a HeroicSuicide even after dying from NeckSnap dozen miners went cannibalistic on their colleagues and were brought to the sanatorium, most of them turned into wendigos and proceeded to massacre everyone. They killed all the staff and other patients in the final sequence.sanatorium, and then traveled from the sanatorium to the hotel and killed everyone there. This hotel was for wealthy families on vacation -- by all logic, a major public investigation should have began when 100 people were suddenly killed on a remote mountain. And yet, the game does not suggest that there was ever any actual investigation into why everyone in the sanatorium and hotel suddenly died. If the government had investigated, they would have discovered the dead bodies and wendigos and locked the whole mountain down forever. And if they hadn't investigated, that means the friends and families of the 100 people who died there did not say a single word about the sudden mass disappearance.]]
** There is absolutely no way [[spoiler:Josh could have done the pranks/scares that he did without help from someone else. His plan only tracks up until the first saw trap with him and Ashley chained up. After that, Chris and Ashley immediately go back to the lodge to find Sam, pausing for only a few minutes when they talk to Matt and Emily. According to the timestamps, however, over an hour passed after the first saw trap before Chris and Ashley return to the lodge. How is that possible? Did they just stand outside in the snow for an hour doing nothing, giving Josh ample time to sneak back into the lodge, set up balloons everywhere, and chase Sam into the basement? Not only that, but there is no point during the game where Josh could have snuck down to the cable car station to trash it (including painting "DIE" all over the walls) before Matt and Emily got there. That was just impossible for him to do alone, yet the game expects us to think he did.]]
** [[spoiler:Wendigo Hannah does not recognize Josh. The game makes that clear; she only spares him if he tries to communicate with her because Sam told him about Hannah's journal. Wendigos hunt at night, and we know from his intro video that Josh spent time in the cabin at night, so why did Hannah never eat Josh?]]
** How did the search team not find [[spoiler:Hannah? As established when Matt and Emily go there, the cliff where her and Beth fell is only a short walk away from the cable car station. The hole that they fell into is completely visible, even during a snowstorm in the middle of the night. When the search team couldn't find any trace of the twins on the mountain, wouldn't the very accessible mine be the obvious place to look? They're not particularly extensive, since most of the tunnels have been sealed off, and Hannah was crawling around down there the whole time. It just doesn't make sense that she was never found.]]
*** Moreover, [[spoiler:why didn't The Stranger save Hannah? He vsaw where the twins fell, and he knows the mountain like the back of his hand. All he had to do was take an hour out of his day to go check and see if they're alive or not. If he's afraid they'll accuse him of something - which is unlikely, since Hannah and Beth clearly see him trying to save them in the prologue - all he has to do is prove that he was actually saving them from wendigos with the several wendigos he has imprisoned in the sanatorium. And if he assumes they're both dead, which would be incredibly naive and stupid on his part, he would still go check, for the simple fact that he salvages body parts to use as wendigo bait.]]
** [[spoiler:Why are the dozen miner wendigos still wearing miner clothes? They were brought to the sanatorium and treated for weeks. They would obviously have been changed into patient clothes. And even if they weren't, wendigo Hannah's appearance clearly demonstrates that after just a year of being a wendigo, all of a person's clothes disappear. The miner wendigos have been wendigos for decades and their dirty, bloody mining clothes are still intact.]]
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** There is absolutely no way [[spoiler:Josh could have done the pranks/scares that he did without help from someone else. His plan only tracks up until the first saw trap with him and Ashley chained up. After that, Chris and Ashley immediately go back to the lodge to find Sam, pausing for only a few minutes when they talk to Matt and Emily. According to the timestamps, however, over an hour passed after the first saw trap before Chris and Ashley return to the lodge. How is that possible? Did they just stand outside in the snow for an hour doing nothing, giving Josh ample time to sneak back into the lodge, set up balloons everywhere, and chase Sam into the basement? Not only that, but there is no point during the game where Josh could have snuck down to the cable car station to trash it (including painting "DIE" all over the walls) before Matt and Emily got there. That was just impossible for him to do alone, yet the game expects us to think he did.]]
** [[spoiler:Wendigo Hannah does not recognize Josh. The game makes that clear; she only spares him if he tries to communicate with her because Sam told him about Hannah's journal. Wendigos hunt at night, and we know from his intro video that Josh spent time in the cabin at night, so why did Hannah never eat Josh?]]
** How did the search team not find [[spoiler:Hannah? As established when Matt and Emily go there, the cliff where her and Beth fell is only a short walk away from the cable car station. The hole that they fell into is completely visible, even during a snowstorm in the middle of the night. When the search team couldn't find any trace of the twins on the mountain, wouldn't the very accessible mine be the obvious place to look? They're not particularly extensive, since most of the tunnels have been sealed off, and Hannah was crawling around down there the whole time. It just doesn't make sense that she was never found.]]
*** Moreover, [[spoiler:why didn't The Stranger save Hannah? He vsaw where the twins fell, and he knows the mountain like the back of his hand. All he had to do was take an hour out of his day to go check and see if they're alive or not. If he's afraid they'll accuse him of something - which is unlikely, since Hannah and Beth clearly see him trying to save them in the prologue - all he has to do is prove that he was actually saving them from wendigos with the several wendigos he has imprisoned in the sanatorium. And if he assumes they're both dead, which would be incredibly naive and stupid on his part, he would still go check, for the simple fact that he salvages body parts to use as wendigo bait.]]
** [[spoiler:Why are the dozen miner wendigos still wearing miner clothes? They were brought to the sanatorium and treated for weeks. They would obviously have been changed into patient clothes. And even if they weren't, wendigo Hannah's appearance clearly demonstrates that after just a year of being a wendigo, all of a person's clothes disappear. The miner wendigos have been wendigos for decades and their dirty, bloody mining clothes are still intact.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Psycho, [[spoiler:aka Josh, forces Chris to choose between the lives of his best friend and his crush twice, can punch both Chris and Ashley unconscious twice, torments the closest thing he has to a love interest through the image of him being sawn in half and a dramatic chase scene (as well as potentially knocking her unconscious, leaving her tied up in nothing but a towel), and it is safe to assume that he had something planned for Mike and Jessica considering how fast he offered them the guest cabin. However, none of his actions directly lead to another characters death (a trait shared only with Jessica), and when Mike yells that he killed Jessica, he seems genuinely offended and freely admits that despite everything he did, he wouldn’t kill any of them. If anybody does die ans Josh and Mike find their bodies in the Wendigo’s lair, Josh will scream that he didn’t want any of them to die.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Psycho, [[spoiler:aka Josh, forces Chris to choose between the lives of his best friend and his crush twice, can punch both Chris and Ashley unconscious twice, torments the closest thing he has to a love interest through the image of him being sawn sawed in half and a dramatic chase scene (as well as potentially knocking her unconscious, leaving her tied up in nothing but a towel), and it is safe to assume that he had something planned for Mike and Jessica considering how fast he offered them the guest cabin. However, none of his actions directly lead to another characters character's death (a trait shared only with Jessica), and when Mike yells that he killed Jessica, he seems genuinely offended and freely admits that despite everything he did, he wouldn’t kill any of them. If anybody does die ans and Josh and Mike find their bodies in the Wendigo’s lair, Josh will scream that he didn’t want any of them to die.]]
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** A group of teenagers become trapped on a mountain with a madman trying to torture and kill them. Sam, Chris and Ashley in particular are terrified for themselves and for their friends' lives as they attempt to flee from the Psycho. They are forced at one point to see [[spoiler: Josh]]'s brutal murder and can do nothing about it. They later discover that [[spoiler: Josh was the Psycho all along, even faking his death, all the sake of getting revenge and pranking his friends for what they did to his sisters.]] They had not expected to be betrayed by someone they thought they had trusted.
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** A group of teenagers become trapped on a mountain with a madman trying to torture and kill them. Sam, Chris and Ashley in particular are terrified for themselves and for their friends' lives as they attempt to flee from the Psycho. They are forced at one point to see [[spoiler: Josh]]'s brutal murder and can do nothing about it. They later discover that [[spoiler: Josh was the Psycho all along, even faking his death, all for the sake of getting revenge and pranking his friends for what they did to his sisters.]] They had not expected to be betrayed by someone they thought they had trusted.could trust.
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** Due to a prank gone wrong, two sisters disappear and depending if the player finds certain clues, there can be no closure for their family and friends. In fact, [[spoiler:Josh's two canon endings are either him dying or becoming a wendigo, meaning the Washington family is destroyed in the span of one year]].
** A group of teenagers become trapped on a mountain with a madman trying to torture and kill them. Sam, Chris and Ashley in particular are terrified for themselves and for their friends' lives as they attempt to flee from the Psycho. They are forced at one point to see [[spoiler: Josh]]'s brutal murder and can do nothing about it. They later discover that [[spoiler: Josh was the Psycho all along, even faking his death, all the sake of getting revenge and pranking his friends for what they did to his sisters.]] They had not expected to be betrayed by someone they thought they had trusted.
** Hannah's diary revealed she had not known about Josh's depression which had started at a young age and she laments not knowing her own brother. Imagine not knowing a loved one was suffering and how lonely they must have felt.
** Due to a prank gone wrong, two sisters disappear and depending if the player finds certain clues, there can be no closure for their family and friends. In fact, [[spoiler:Josh's two canon endings are either him dying or becoming a wendigo, meaning the Washington family is destroyed in the span of one year]].
** A group of teenagers become trapped on a mountain with a madman trying to torture and kill them. Sam, Chris and Ashley in particular are terrified for themselves and for their friends' lives as they attempt to flee from the Psycho. They are forced at one point to see [[spoiler: Josh]]'s brutal murder and can do nothing about it. They later discover that [[spoiler: Josh was the Psycho all along, even faking his death, all the sake of getting revenge and pranking his friends for what they did to his sisters.]] They had not expected to be betrayed by someone they thought they had trusted.
** Hannah's diary revealed she had not known about Josh's depression which had started at a young age and she laments not knowing her own brother. Imagine not knowing a loved one was suffering and how lonely they must have felt.
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* HiddenVillain: The existence of the [[spoiler: [[BigBad Wendigos]]]] is only revealed later in the game.
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** A group of teenagers become trapped on a mountain with a madman trying to torture and kill them. Sam, Chris and Ashley in particular are terrified for themselves and for their friends' lives as they attempt to flee from the Psycho. They are forced at one point to see [[spoiler: Josh]]'s brutal murder and can do nothing about it. They later discover that [[spoiler: Josh was the Psycho all along, even faking his death, all the sake of getting revenge and pranking his friends for what they did to his sisters.]] They had not expected to be betrayed by someone they thought they had trusted.
** The existence of the [[spoiler: [[BigBad Wendigos]]]] is only revealed later in the
** A group of teenagers become trapped on a mountain with a madman trying to torture and kill them. Sam, Chris and Ashley in particular are terrified for themselves and for their friends' lives as they attempt to flee from the Psycho. They are forced at one point to see [[spoiler: Josh]]'s brutal murder and can do nothing about it. They later discover that [[spoiler: Josh was the Psycho all along, even faking his death, all the sake of getting revenge and pranking his friends for what they did to his sisters.]] They had not expected to be betrayed by someone they thought they had trusted.
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* MissingChild: Due to a prank gone wrong, two sisters disappear and depending if the player finds certain clues, there can be no closure for their family and friends. In fact, [[spoiler:Josh's two canon endings are either him dying or becoming a wendigo, meaning the Washington family is destroyed in the span of one year]].
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted totally, so much so that the current playable character's profile on the pause screen will show off all the cuts, bruises, and filth they've accummulated since the night started, with everyone progressively getting worse as the night goes on. By the end credits, all the survivors are pretty banged up.
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* AbandonedMine: Blackwood Mines, a complex of underground caverns and tunnels which were mined for deposits of tin and radium until [[spoiler:a collapse in 1952 got 30 miners trapped and the mines got abandoned. Later it becomes another hiding place for the Wendigos, along with the Sanatorium.]]
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* AbandonedMine: Blackwood Mines, a complex of underground caverns and tunnels which were mined for deposits of tin and radium until [[spoiler:a collapse in 1952 got 30 miners trapped and the mines got abandoned. Later it becomes another hiding place for the Wendigos, wendigos, along with the Sanatorium.]]
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** Due to a prank gone wrong, two sisters disappear and depending if the player finds certain clues, there can be no closure for their family and friends. In fact, [[spoiler: Josh's two canon endings are either him dying or becoming a Wendigo, meaning in a span of one year, the Washington family can be destroyed.]]
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** Due to a prank gone wrong, two sisters disappear and depending if the player finds certain clues, there can be no closure for their family and friends. In fact, [[spoiler: Josh's [[spoiler:Josh's two canon endings are either him dying or becoming a Wendigo, wendigo, meaning in a span of one year, the Washington family can be destroyed.]]is destroyed in the span of one year]].
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Sam alone with the serial killer. [[spoiler:Downplayed in actuality, since while Josh is absolutely no murderer, he's very much unhinged and brought everyone up for a prank that would be horrifying in its own light.]]
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Sam alone with the serial killer. [[spoiler:Downplayed in actuality, since while Josh is absolutely no murderer, he's very much unhinged and brought everyone up for a prank that would be horrifying in its own light.]]light]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: A quite sizable portion of the fanbase seems to think Until Dawn invented [[spoiler:the Wendigo]]. In fact, it's actually [[OlderThanTheyThink a Native American legend that predates the development of the game by centuries, if not millennia.]]
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: A quite sizable portion of the fanbase seems to think Until Dawn ''Until Dawn'' invented [[spoiler:the Wendigo]]. wendigo]]. In fact, it's actually [[OlderThanTheyThink a Native American legend that predates the development of the game by centuries, if not millennia.]]millennia]], and has appeared in many other works of fiction before.
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* {{Symbolism}}: [[spoiler: During one of Josh's hallucinations with Dr. Hill, when the good doctor disparages Josh's cruelty, he nonetheless gives the mournful young man a handkerchief out of sympathy. Josh tries to reach for it, but the wind blows it out of his reach, as though reflecting that Josh is beyond either help or redemption.]]
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* OldDarkHouse: The Washington family's lodge might not be very old, but it definitely fits the description. The house was built on [[IndianBurialGround Indian Burial Ground]], is isolated atop a wintry mountain, and it even has a [[SecretPath secret room]] [[BookcasePassage behind a bookcase]]!
** Also, the place is bathed in darkness. It makes sense when the teens first arrive and the boiler, generator, and other mechanics are all off. However, in chapter 10 it's revealed that the lights work just fine, meaning that earlier when the teens used the spirit board, Sam took her bath, or Chris and Ashley searched the house, they did each of these activities in complete darkness for no reason.
* OminousTelevision: Sam walks out into the living room in her towel when the power to their cabin cuts out. As she wanders, the tv briefly flashes a scary face as a jump scare. While Sam didn't see it, the player certainly did.
** Also, the place is bathed in darkness. It makes sense when the teens first arrive and the boiler, generator, and other mechanics are all off. However, in chapter 10 it's revealed that the lights work just fine, meaning that earlier when the teens used the spirit board, Sam took her bath, or Chris and Ashley searched the house, they did each of these activities in complete darkness for no reason.
* OminousTelevision: Sam walks out into the living room in her towel when the power to their cabin cuts out. As she wanders, the tv briefly flashes a scary face as a jump scare. While Sam didn't see it, the player certainly did.
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* OldDarkHouse: The Washington family's lodge might not be very old, but it definitely fits the description. The house was built on [[IndianBurialGround Indian Burial Ground]], is isolated atop a wintry mountain, and it even has a [[SecretPath secret room]] [[BookcasePassage behind a bookcase]]!
** Also, the place is bathed in darkness. It makes sense when the teens first arrive and the boiler, generator, and other mechanics are all off. However, in chapter 10 it's revealed that the lights work just fine, meaning that earlier when the teens used the spirit board, Sam took her bath, or Chris and Ashley searched the house, they did each of these activities in complete darkness for no reason.
* OminousTelevision: Sam walks out into the living room in her towel when the power to their cabin cuts out. As she wanders, the tv briefly flashes a scary face as a jump scare. While Sam didn't see it, the player certainly did.
** Also, the place is bathed in darkness. It makes sense when the teens first arrive and the boiler, generator, and other mechanics are all off. However, in chapter 10 it's revealed that the lights work just fine, meaning that earlier when the teens used the spirit board, Sam took her bath, or Chris and Ashley searched the house, they did each of these activities in complete darkness for no reason.
* OminousTelevision: Sam walks out into the living room in her towel when the power to their cabin cuts out. As she wanders, the tv briefly flashes a scary face as a jump scare. While Sam didn't see it, the player certainly did.
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* NeverMyFault: Zigzagged. The characters who were involved in the prank have opportunities to be sympathetic for their actions affecting Beth and Hannah in ways they never expected. They can also say it was the girls’ fault for going into the woods during a snowstorm because Hannah was humiliated from her friends’ cruel prank. It’s up to the player if they want to make the characters be remorseful for their actions or be people who don’t feel sorry at all for setting up a humiliating prank.
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* ForWantOfANail: The game’s main gimmick is small events affecting larger ones.
** The prank at the start of the game. If the characters involved in it didn’t set the prank up, Hannah and Beth would still be alive. Additionally, [[spoiler:Hannah wouldn’t have turned into a Wendigo after cannibalizing her dead twin out of desperation.]]
** If Chris chooses to shoot the squirrel in the shooting range, Sam will be attacked by a raven. This in turn will affect her during the lodge chase where the Psycho will find her in the elevator shaft she can hide in since she is bleeding from the wound obtained earlier.
** The prank at the start of the game. If the characters involved in it didn’t set the prank up, Hannah and Beth would still be alive. Additionally, [[spoiler:Hannah wouldn’t have turned into a Wendigo after cannibalizing her dead twin out of desperation.]]
** If Chris chooses to shoot the squirrel in the shooting range, Sam will be attacked by a raven. This in turn will affect her during the lodge chase where the Psycho will find her in the elevator shaft she can hide in since she is bleeding from the wound obtained earlier.
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* OnlyOneSaveFile: The game allows you to start/restart or continue, but not load another save file. It also autosaves moment-to-moment to prevent SaveScumming. If you mess up, [[DwindlingParty another teenager dies]] and you can either start all-over, or suck it up and move on. Sure, you can immediately quit and relaunch the game in the hopes of beating the autosave, but you can never start a new file without over-writing your progress.
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* CelebrityParadox: The movie posters in the theater room are real movies[[note]]''Film/StakeLand'', ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'', ''Automatons'', ''Bitter Feast'', ''Film/TheInnkeepers'', and ''Hypothermia''[[/note]], all of which Larry Fessenden (who plays the Stranger) wrote, produced, and/or appeared in.
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** In Chapter 7, [[spoiler:the Stranger briefly chases after Emily in the mines.]]
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** In Chapter 7, [[spoiler:the Stranger briefly chases after Emily in the mines.]]]] Another odd example, since [[spoiler:he's chasing Emily in an effort to ''help'' her. She, of course, has no way to know this]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: During the spirit board scene in Chapter 3, a silent female figure goes by in the background behind Ashley and Chris. It's later revealed that Josh has a puppet ghost prop set up to [[JumpScare Jump Scare]] the two of them, but during that scene the figure doesn't draw any attention to itself and Josh doesn't point it out or even seem to notice, leaving the possibility open that it's a real spirit.
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At the 2018 Gamescon, Supermassive Games announced a SpiritualSuccessor called ''VideoGame/TheDarkPicturesAnthology'', a series of standalone horror games beginning with ''VideoGame/ManOfMedan'' which released in 2019 and followed by ''VideoGame/LittleHope'' in 2020.
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** After Mike climbs the mine shaft, fail the QTE to slide under the closing door and he'll have to take an alternate route through a small tunnel. When his lighter's flame goes out, [[spoiler:the player attempting to re-light it gives them a JumpScare of the Wendigo's face. Still obscured in shadow, but far more clear then what you'd get until late-game.]]
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:Early in the game, the main characters unintentionally cause the deaths of Hannah and Beth Washington with a prank and it causes their brother, Josh Washington, to seek medical help to cope with the loss of his two sisters. Josh decides to get revenge on his friends by playing a traumatising prank that involves; creating near-fatal traps, faking his murder, and a fake serial killer who forces them to turn against each other. When the group finds out about Josh's prank; they are rightly pissed off with him, and the psychological manifestation of Dr. Hill berates him for traumatising his friends over what was clearly an accident, something they unwittingly caused and deeply regretted. It's especially true with Chris; who had nothing to do with the prank and Josh used him to get revenge on Ashley for her part in it.]]
-->'''Dr. Alan Hill''': [[spoiler:You have gone too far now. Don't you see?! Huh?! Don't you see that this... torture porn has gone too far?! Now what gives you the right to play God, in these people's lives?! What makes you so special then?! Huh?! You're sick! You're a sick fuck! Now what the hell have you done to them?! Huh?! What the hell have you done to them, you psychopath?! Psychopath!]]
-->'''Dr. Alan Hill''': [[spoiler:You have gone too far now. Don't you see?! Huh?! Don't you see that this... torture porn has gone too far?! Now what gives you the right to play God, in these people's lives?! What makes you so special then?! Huh?! You're sick! You're a sick fuck! Now what the hell have you done to them?! Huh?! What the hell have you done to them, you psychopath?! Psychopath!]]
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* RevengeIsNotJustice: [[spoiler: Early in the game, the main characters unintentionally cause the deaths of Hannah and Beth Washington with a prank and it causes him to seek medical help to cope with the loss of his two sisters. Josh decides to get revenge on his friends by playing a traumatising prank that involves; creating near-fatal traps, faking his murder, and creating a fake serial killer who forces them to turn against each other. When the group finds out about Josh's prank; they are rightly pissed off with him, and the psychological manifestation of Dr. Hill berates him for traumatising his friends over what was clearly an accident, something they unwittingly caused and deeply regretted.]]
-->'''Dr. Alan Hill''': [[spoiler:You have gone too far now. Don't you see?! Huh?! Don't you see that this... torture porn has gone too far?! Now what gives you the right to play God, in these people's lives?! What makes you so special then?! Huh?! You're sick! You're a sick fuck! Now what the hell have you done to them?! Huh?! What the hell have you done to them, you psychopath?! Psychopath!]]
-->'''Dr. Alan Hill''': [[spoiler:You have gone too far now. Don't you see?! Huh?! Don't you see that this... torture porn has gone too far?! Now what gives you the right to play God, in these people's lives?! What makes you so special then?! Huh?! You're sick! You're a sick fuck! Now what the hell have you done to them?! Huh?! What the hell have you done to them, you psychopath?! Psychopath!]]
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* NoPeekingRequest: After Sam frees Mike and finally finds some clothes so she can change out of the ModestyTowel she's been stuck wearing for a while, she walks into the back of the room to change and gestures Mike to turn around so she can change.
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* ConflictBall: [[spoiler: The argument over Emily's Wendigo bite is a particularly egregious example, as everyone suddenly assumes that she's a ZombieInfectee through a [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint blatant misinterpretation]] of the Stranger's words about the curse being caused by eating flesh.]]
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* FamousLastWords: A lot of it varies on the player's choice.
** Beth:
*** "Hold on!" [[spoiler:If she doesn't drop Hannah.]]
*** "I'm so sorry." [[spoiler:If she drops Hannah.]]
** Jessica:
*** "Oh no, [[spoiler:Michael!]]" [[spoiler:If Mike doesn't reach her in time.]]
*** "Fuck!" [[spoiler:If the Wendigo catches her in the mines.]]
** Matt:
*** "Come on, you pieces of shit! You, get back! No!" [[spoiler:If he falls off the cliff by the deer he attacked.]]
*** "LET GO!" [[spoiler:If he tries to save Emily in the mines and doesn't have the flare gun on him or fails to use it. He is then dragged off by the Wendigo to the meat hook.]]
** Emily:
*** "Ok..." [[spoiler:If the Wendigo kills her at the mines.]]
*** "Don-... Don't do this!" [[spoiler:If she's bitten and Mike shoots her.]]
** "We're right out in the open, we gotta GET OUT OF HERE!" [[spoiler:The Stranger. He dies no matter what you do.]]
** Chris:
*** "Oh shit..."/"Yeah! Suck it!"/"Ahh, shit!" [[spoiler:If he gets killed by the Wendigo at any point while searching for Josh with the Stranger.]]
*** "[[spoiler:ASHLEY!]] ARGH!!!" [[spoiler:If he shoots Ashley, leading her to leave him for dead.]]
*** "I'm coming!" [[spoiler:If he's left behind and chooses to investigate the voice in the trapdoor.]]
*** "This can't be real please... just tell me it's not real... oh no no no..." [[spoiler:Like above, but Ashley dies and he finds her hat by the trapdoor.]]
** Ashley:
*** "Oh no, no, no... no." [[spoiler:If she chooses to investigate the voice in the mines and opens the trapdoor.]]
** Josh:
*** "No... you're not... real! No... you're not..." [[spoiler:If Sam did not find Hannah's journal, leading him to not recognize Hannah as a Wendigo.]]
*** [[BigNo "Nooooo! Noooo!"]] [[spoiler:If Sam did find Hannah's journal and told him. He is then dragged by Hannah. Subverted in that he lives, but he becomes a Wendigo by eating the Stranger's corpse.]]
** Mike:
*** "Ha! Ha! How's that feel, you fuck?" [[spoiler:If he's mauled by the Wendigo and Sam's impaled. He sets the cabin on fire to stop the Wendigos.]]
*** "OH MY GOD! NO! NO!" [[spoiler:If Sam fails the first Don't Move QTE in the cabin but succeeds on the others or did nothing. The Wendigo notices him and throws him at the nearest pillar. When Sam uses the lightswitch, he isn't seen getting incinerated.]]
*** "Don't... move... a fucking muscle." [[spoiler:If Sam ignites the cabin without saving him.]]
** Sam:
*** "Hey!" [[spoiler:If she decides to save Mike from the Wendigo, but fails the "Don't Move" segment, being impaled by the Wendigo.]]
** Beth:
*** "Hold on!" [[spoiler:If she doesn't drop Hannah.]]
*** "I'm so sorry." [[spoiler:If she drops Hannah.]]
** Jessica:
*** "Oh no, [[spoiler:Michael!]]" [[spoiler:If Mike doesn't reach her in time.]]
*** "Fuck!" [[spoiler:If the Wendigo catches her in the mines.]]
** Matt:
*** "Come on, you pieces of shit! You, get back! No!" [[spoiler:If he falls off the cliff by the deer he attacked.]]
*** "LET GO!" [[spoiler:If he tries to save Emily in the mines and doesn't have the flare gun on him or fails to use it. He is then dragged off by the Wendigo to the meat hook.]]
** Emily:
*** "Ok..." [[spoiler:If the Wendigo kills her at the mines.]]
*** "Don-... Don't do this!" [[spoiler:If she's bitten and Mike shoots her.]]
** "We're right out in the open, we gotta GET OUT OF HERE!" [[spoiler:The Stranger. He dies no matter what you do.]]
** Chris:
*** "Oh shit..."/"Yeah! Suck it!"/"Ahh, shit!" [[spoiler:If he gets killed by the Wendigo at any point while searching for Josh with the Stranger.]]
*** "[[spoiler:ASHLEY!]] ARGH!!!" [[spoiler:If he shoots Ashley, leading her to leave him for dead.]]
*** "I'm coming!" [[spoiler:If he's left behind and chooses to investigate the voice in the trapdoor.]]
*** "This can't be real please... just tell me it's not real... oh no no no..." [[spoiler:Like above, but Ashley dies and he finds her hat by the trapdoor.]]
** Ashley:
*** "Oh no, no, no... no." [[spoiler:If she chooses to investigate the voice in the mines and opens the trapdoor.]]
** Josh:
*** "No... you're not... real! No... you're not..." [[spoiler:If Sam did not find Hannah's journal, leading him to not recognize Hannah as a Wendigo.]]
*** [[BigNo "Nooooo! Noooo!"]] [[spoiler:If Sam did find Hannah's journal and told him. He is then dragged by Hannah. Subverted in that he lives, but he becomes a Wendigo by eating the Stranger's corpse.]]
** Mike:
*** "Ha! Ha! How's that feel, you fuck?" [[spoiler:If he's mauled by the Wendigo and Sam's impaled. He sets the cabin on fire to stop the Wendigos.]]
*** "OH MY GOD! NO! NO!" [[spoiler:If Sam fails the first Don't Move QTE in the cabin but succeeds on the others or did nothing. The Wendigo notices him and throws him at the nearest pillar. When Sam uses the lightswitch, he isn't seen getting incinerated.]]
*** "Don't... move... a fucking muscle." [[spoiler:If Sam ignites the cabin without saving him.]]
** Sam:
*** "Hey!" [[spoiler:If she decides to save Mike from the Wendigo, but fails the "Don't Move" segment, being impaled by the Wendigo.]]
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* RealityEnsues:
** The end of Matt and Emily's chapter has them cornered by a herd of deer. The next chapter with them promptly defuses the {{Cliffhanger}} by Matt pointing out that they're ''deer'', not predators. He and Emily can just walk through them and they'll scatter out of the way. However deer are also big, strong animals and certainly capable of killing a human [[TooDumbToLive if one was stupid enough to]] [[PressXToDie provoke one]].
** Combined with GenreSavvy. If Sam is one of the survivors, she will outright refuse to tell the police that [[spoiler:the real danger on the mountain is supernatural]] and cryptically tells them to search the mines instead. She ''knows'' telling the police that [[spoiler:wendigos killed her friends]] [[CassandraTruth will lead to her being laughed off or institutionalised]].
** [[spoiler:Jessica]] can be trapped in the mines and chased by [[spoiler:Wendigo!Hannah]]. [[spoiler:If Jess chooses to try outrunning Hannah, she'll be killed, as her multiple cuts and other injuries from the fall plus hours of exposure to the cold leave her too weak to get away quickly.]]
** The end of Matt and Emily's chapter has them cornered by a herd of deer. The next chapter with them promptly defuses the {{Cliffhanger}} by Matt pointing out that they're ''deer'', not predators. He and Emily can just walk through them and they'll scatter out of the way. However deer are also big, strong animals and certainly capable of killing a human [[TooDumbToLive if one was stupid enough to]] [[PressXToDie provoke one]].
** Combined with GenreSavvy. If Sam is one of the survivors, she will outright refuse to tell the police that [[spoiler:the real danger on the mountain is supernatural]] and cryptically tells them to search the mines instead. She ''knows'' telling the police that [[spoiler:wendigos killed her friends]] [[CassandraTruth will lead to her being laughed off or institutionalised]].
** [[spoiler:Jessica]] can be trapped in the mines and chased by [[spoiler:Wendigo!Hannah]]. [[spoiler:If Jess chooses to try outrunning Hannah, she'll be killed, as her multiple cuts and other injuries from the fall plus hours of exposure to the cold leave her too weak to get away quickly.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The end of Matt and Emily's chapter has them cornered by a herd of deer. The next chapter with them promptly defuses the {{Cliffhanger}} by Matt pointing out that they're ''deer'', not predators. He and Emily can just walk through them and they'll scatter out of the way. However deer are also big, strong animals and certainly capable of killing a human [[TooDumbToLive if one was stupid enough to]] [[PressXToDie provoke one]].
** Combined with GenreSavvy. If Sam is one of the survivors, she will outright refuse to tell the police that [[spoiler:the real danger on the mountain is supernatural]] and cryptically tells them to search the mines instead. She ''knows'' telling the police that [[spoiler:wendigos killed her friends]] [[CassandraTruth will lead to her being laughed off or institutionalised]].
** [[spoiler:Jessica]] can be trapped in the mines and chased by [[spoiler:Wendigo!Hannah]]. [[spoiler:If Jess chooses to try outrunning Hannah, she'll be killed, as her multiple cuts and other injuries from the fall plus hours of exposure to the cold leave her too weak to get away quickly.]]
** The end of Matt and Emily's chapter has them cornered by a herd of deer. The next chapter with them promptly defuses the {{Cliffhanger}} by Matt pointing out that they're ''deer'', not predators. He and Emily can just walk through them and they'll scatter out of the way. However deer are also big, strong animals and certainly capable of killing a human [[TooDumbToLive if one was stupid enough to]] [[PressXToDie provoke one]].
** Combined with GenreSavvy. If Sam is one of the survivors, she will outright refuse to tell the police that [[spoiler:the real danger on the mountain is supernatural]] and cryptically tells them to search the mines instead. She ''knows'' telling the police that [[spoiler:wendigos killed her friends]] [[CassandraTruth will lead to her being laughed off or institutionalised]].
** [[spoiler:Jessica]] can be trapped in the mines and chased by [[spoiler:Wendigo!Hannah]]. [[spoiler:If Jess chooses to try outrunning Hannah, she'll be killed, as her multiple cuts and other injuries from the fall plus hours of exposure to the cold leave her too weak to get away quickly.]]
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* OminousTelevision: Sam walks out into the living room in her towel when the power to their cabin cuts out. As she wanders, the tv briefly flashes a scary face as a jump scare. While Sam didn't see it, the player certainly did.
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* MisplacedWildlife: A rat appears in the Sanatorium's morgue, crawling out of an old corpse's mouth. The game is set in Alberta, which is famously the largest rat-free populated area on Earth, and specifically in the Rockies, whose environment is inhospitable to rats.
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* TraitorShot: [[spoiler: While the camera doesn't draw attention to it, when Josh is alone with Sam he visibly stops smiling when her back is turned.]]
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* OnlyOneName: {{Averted}}. Only the Washington siblings and Mike have their full names mentioned in the main game, and the latter is only in passing. However, promotional materials (and later ''Rush of Blood'') reveal the characters' last names as:
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* OnlyOneName: {{Averted}}. Only the Washington siblings and Mike have their full names mentioned in the main game, and the latter is only in passing. However, [[AllThereInTheManual promotional materials materials]] (and later ''Rush of Blood'') reveal the characters' last names as:
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* OnlyOneName: Averted as of ''Rush of Blood'', which reveals the characters' last names as:
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* OnlyOneName: Averted as of {{Averted}}. Only the Washington siblings and Mike have their full names mentioned in the main game, and the latter is only in passing. However, promotional materials (and later ''Rush of Blood'', which reveals Blood'') reveal the characters' last names as:
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* AccompliceByInaction: The game's FramingDevice puts all of the characters in this position - although the prank was only carried out by Mike, Emily, and Jess, the others did not stop it. Ashley gleefully observed the prank, and Matt even filmed it for them. The only characters who are completely innocent in the situation are Josh and Chris, who were both passed out drunk during the scheme. [[spoiler: Because of Josh's mental state following the deaths of his sisters, he views ''all'' of the other characters in this way.]]
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* AccompliceByInaction: The game's FramingDevice puts all of the characters in this position - although the prank was only carried out by Mike, Emily, and Jess, the others did not stop it. Ashley gleefully observed the prank, and Matt even filmed it for them. The only characters who are completely innocent in the situation are Josh and Chris, who were both passed out drunk during the scheme.scheme and Sam who tried to warn Hannah about the prank. [[spoiler: Because of Josh's mental state following the deaths of his sisters, he views ''all'' of the other characters in this way.]]
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** Jess and Matt (or either individually if only one survives) are thrown into their own B-plot that only recurs in a couple of chapters, and doesn't get nearly as much screen time as the rest of the group.
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** Jess and Matt (or either individually if only one survives) are thrown into their own B-plot that only recurs in a couple of chapters, and doesn't get nearly as much screen time as the rest of the group. (Tellingly, if both die, their sub-plot just doesn't happen, and the rest of the story remains all but identical without it.)
