History VideoGame / WorldsEndClub

''World's End Club'', originally announced as ''Death March Club'', is a game developed by Creator/TooKyoGames that features a mix of puzzle and VisualNovel gameplay. It was given a partial release on September 4, 2020 for UsefulNotes/AppleArcade, with the complete game and a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version with English voiceover released on May 28, 2021.

''World's End Club'', originally announced as ''Death March Club'', is a game developed by Creator/TooKyoGames that features a mix of puzzle and VisualNovel gameplay. It was given a partial release on September 4, 2020 for Apple Arcade, with the complete game and a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version with English voiceover released on May 28, 2021.

* SadisticChoice: The Go-Getters Club end up facing the option to either become Shepherds or let everyone’s Nanomachinces in their brains explode.

* ExactWords: "Vanilla has gone to Heaven" turns out to refer to a place called Heaven, specifically a secret research facility.

** During the DeadlyGame, Reycho has Vanilla's task on his bracelet, which was to "Eat a Marshmallow". Unlike everyone else's task it doesn't relate to any of the other Club members nor does it have anything to do with the Amusement Park environment. It's also potentially straight-up impossible since there's nowhere to even ''get'' a marshmallow. This foreshadows that Vanilla is the odd one out/a ghost, because her being unable to complete her task guarantees at least a living member of the club can win. It also foreshadows that she's the Mastermind, because anyone else whose task becomes impossible is sludged immediately.

** Vanilla is the only Club member aside from Reycho to not get captured at the end of the DeadlyGame, despite the fact that he already completed his task and her own task was likely impossible to begin with.

** Aniki, especially during the DeadlyGame due to brainwashing. He's not much better afterwards, being very cold and distant to the others and not entertaining the notion that Reycho, Pai, and Pochi are seeing his sister's ghost. {{Justified}} due to blaming himself for Vanilla's death.

* VisualInnuendo: Early in the game, the group comes across a large that reads, "pachinko" in Japanese characters (パチンコ). You are required to knock down the sign with Reycho's buddy skill in order to progress. However if you only knock down the first character of "pachinko", "pa" (パ), you are left with a sign that reads "chinko" (チンコ). "Chinko" is Japanese for "dick" or "penis". This also counts as a {{BilingualBonus}} for people playing the game outside of Japan.

** During the DeadlyGame, it is possible to fail Reycho's task by waiting 50 minutes in real time. [[UnwinnableByInsanity It's near impossible to do so by playing normally]], but if you do, then [[NonStandardGameOver a unique scene with Pielope plays]]. Additionally, out of the tasks that need to be done within a time limit, Reycho is given the least time to do so, preventing any other character from completing their task before the aforementioned scene appears.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Tattsun's Buddy Skill allows him to transform into the antihero, Electro Ranger Black. While in this form he is condescending and frequently insults people, friend and foe alike. He is also takes risks that he normally wouldn't take like firing a blast at Pielope that would've potentially killed two of his friends if Pielope didn't dodge it.

* DeadlyGame: A variant is played as the game's prologue. The characters all have to complete a Task, and the first one to do so gets a Magic Key that opens the only exit. (In actuality, no one actually dies.)

* TheFaceless: Those at the religious cult in Ehime that warship MAIK wear masks that cover their faces.

** After Pielope's last defeat, she reveals herself as a sub-personality of MAIK, Yuki for a brief moment gets an worried expression. This is due to being aware that she is also a sub-personality that originated from MAIK.

* TheNineties: The game's set in the time period, with the opening movie setting it in July of 1995, with the rest of the game taking place a year later in July of 1996. This is neatly depicted through many of the character designs, many of which resemble trends with Japanese children of the time.
* AProtagonistShallLeadThem: Reycho is given position of the Go Getters Club’s leader from Kansai. This later goes to Pochi after Reycho is destroyed and was revealed to be a robot.

** The main catalyst that causes each of the Go Getters Club members to unlock each of their Buddy Skills.

** Another examples comes during a flashback, when it's revealed that Vanilla didn't run out into the street carelessly. She knowingly threw herself in front of a speeding truck to ensure the safety of her friends. This was when she unknowingly awoken to her Buddy Skill, Ultra Soul.

* InterfaceScrew: In the first playthrough of the train level, when another choice selection occurs. Just as the choices appear, an unknown force suddenly prevents the "emergency stop button" option from being selected. Its only after viewing "Ending 1" can the option be chosen.

* QuicksandSucks: Non Quicksand example: A game over involves Reycho Vanilla and Pochi slowly sinking into pink coloured water at one point.

* SadisticChoice: The Go Getters Club end up facing the option to either become Shepherds or let everyone’s Nanomachinces in their brains explode.

* TakeTheThirdOption: What the Go Getters Club ultimately try when confronted with MAIK’s decision.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Chuko gives a scathing one to Kansai if the group goes to Osaka, which Kansai was pushing for, the reason being that Kansai is not a very good group leader, having been making reckless and selfish decisions that affects the rest of the group. Kansai initially denies it, even kicking Chuko out of the group temporarily, but later acknowledges it to be true, giving his leader badge to Reycho, seeing him to be a better leader.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: After the Go Getters Club finally defeat Pielope, they find out MAIK was not in the location they thought he was and that Pielope actually tricked them.

Soon, the students encounters a robotic clown creature named Pielope, who tells them that they are now in a game of death where they will have to kill each other in order to win. Soon, the Go-Getters Club finds themselves embroiled in a game where they will have to fight for their lives, as mysterious powers awaken in them...and the world above starts to undergo some shocking changes of its own.

* ArtStyleDissonance: The art-style is decidedly cartoonish and exaggerated...which would make it all the more horrifying if the death game portions of the story were actually relevant.

* SadisticChoice: The Go Getters Club are faced with the option to either become Shepherds or let everyone’s Nanomachinces in their brains explode.