History Videogame / Omori

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: A likely unintentional example. The game was originally released on PC without an ESRB rating, but upon getting a console release on the Switch, it was rated M for 17 and up. Though the game's subject matter is rather dark, it's also likely it wouldn't have warranted more than a T rating if not for the single, randomized, instance of the word "fucking"; one of the Humphreys will randomly say "I fucking love air conditioning" rather than their normal line gushing about ACs.

** You can leave Sunny's house on the first day but lock yourself back on the Hikikomori route by not leaving on the 2nd day. If you check the photo album, [[spoiler: Sunny will have vandalized it, much like he did in the backstory.]]

** [[spoiler: There's an entire secret route of the game, which is accessed by refusing to open the door for any of your friends in the real world; doing this unlocks different parts of the Dream World, such as extra keyboard keys and proper boss fights against Something. Unfortunately, doing this also locks you out of the good ending -- staying home the whole time means Sunny's not really facing any of his problems, after all.]]

* IHaveNoSon: In one of the hangman key holes, you can find a man chopping down a tree. Approaching him causes him to say "Stay away. You are not my son." [[spoiler: This can be interpreted as him rejecting Sunny as his son after Mari's death, or literally meaning that Sunny is not Omori.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: When [[HelloInsertNameHere naming Sunny]] after he wakes up for the first time, [[spoiler: you understandably cannot name him "Aubrey", "Kel", or "Hero" but you also cannot name him "Omori". This may be your first indication that Sunny and Omori are not the same entity.]]

* MeaningfulName: Omori, on two fronts: Hikik'''omori''', and [[spoiler: Mement'''o mori''', as in ''remember death'', which is Sunny's entire struggle over the entire game.]]

** While most of the game consists of sprites and drawings, some things use photos for stylistic effect. For example, the battle backgrounds are all heavily-edited stock images, the Rabbit? and Chicken? enemies in Dino’s Dig are actual photos of rabbits and chickens, and the [[spoiler: Throne of Hands in Red Space is made of edited photos of actual arms]].

** The console ports add an extended Boss Rush for Omori and Basil that ends with a fight against a clone of Headspace Mari of all people. She's harmless and does nothing but smile and heal the party, though the way she dulls Omori's and Basil's emotions on every turn can be read as part of Sunny's subconscious resentment for her. After [[ZeroEffortBoss beating her up]] for a while, [[spoiler:the situation becomes all too familiar and she abruptly transforms into "Something in the Wind", Mari's hanged corpse. Sunny is dragged out of Omori against his will, but remains unable to confront the truth and Basil becomes frozen in fear. This goes on for a few turns until the text boxes stop loading, after which the corpse turns into "Hellmari" and [[JumpScare lunges into the screen]]]]. The scene then cuts back to outside of the boss rush room as if nothing happened, as Omori already erased everyone's memories of the incident.

* MovingAwayEnding: [[spoiler: The good/neutral hikikomori route endings have Sunny moving away after confessing to his friends the truth about Mari's death and Sunny moving away without ever reconciling with his friends, respectively]].

** [[NonStandardGameOver "Neutral" Endings]]: [[spoiler: Basil will commit suicide if he isn't confronted at the end, with Sunny being able to see the corpse and his distraught friends if he went back to sleep at Basil's rather than just leaving. Once home, the player is required to sleep and then wake up to trigger one of two endings -- picking up a knife in the kitchen will cause Sunny to commit suicide after Omori stabs himself in the dream world, and not picking it up will make him move out with his family the next day while still wracked with guilt over everything as Something follows him.]]

** [[BittersweetEnding Good Ending]]: [[spoiler: Gotten by selecting "Yes" on the retry screen after dying to Omori. Sunny stops Omori by remembering the good times he had with his friends, and wakes up in the hospital after his fight with Basil. He then visits Basil's room and is implied to explain what really happened with Mari.]]

* OffModel: Looking in a mirror in the real world shows that Sunny has his eyeshines [[spoiler: before it is determined if Omori or Sunny will disappear.]]

*** [[spoiler: [[FinalBoss The final fight against Omori]] is [[HopelessBossFight unwinnable]], with each phase of the fight steadily reducing your options for fighting him. Beginning with his fifth phase, Omori's Erase attack will inflict the Afraid emotion, forcing you to use Calm Down to remove it; after a certain point in the phase, however, Calm Down will be disabled as well, after which point the player is expected to die. If you manage to survive long enough to defeat his fifth phase despite this, Omori's final phase will spam an Erase attack that inflicts Afraid and lowers defense every turn, making it effectively impossible to defeat. The only way to actually defeat Omori is to [[FissionMailed choose to continue on the Game Over screen]], at which point Sunny can play his duet with Mari to finally placate him.]]

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: As a rule of thumb, if you see a picnic basket and a health restoring point, but no Mari, there may be trouble brewing ahead. Examples: the tunnel before the Sweetheart fight, the elevator to Mr. Jawsum's office, just before the corridor leading to the Slime Girls' rooms, just before the boss room in Breaven, in the piano room of the Lost Library ([[spoiler: where you fight the phobia bosses on the Hikkikomori Route]]), and so on.

** [[spoiler: A rare [[PlayedForHorror non-humorous]] example occurs in Black Space. Omori rescues Basil multiple times only for him to die in some horrific manner shortly after. This repeats several times in Black Space and is done to keep Basil from spilling the AwfulTruth to Sunny.]]

** A minor character named Berly is really proud of her headbutt skills, which she uses to play tetherball. Contrary to the expectations, she doesn't actually fight even when she formally "joins the party", and just tags along instead. However, she then teaches headbutting to Aubrey once you find her lost tetherball, and she gives you all a "Butt Certificate" to mark the occasion as well. [[spoiler: Kel then sticks it on a flagpole to mark them getting to the otherworld, in spite of Aubrey's protests.]]

* YearX: A very subtle example. The game is very vague about what the exact year and date is in ''Omori'', with context clues hinting that it takes place in the mid-2000s at the latest to the late 90s at the earliest. One of the biggest hints is when [[spoiler: Hero is promoted to CEO of the Last Resort, where his timeframe of owning it is 199X, hinting that, at least in Headspace, the year is set around the 90s.]]

* YouBastard: The console-exclusive version of the BossRush in the [[spoiler:Hikkikomori route]] is topped off with [[spoiler:a [[ZeroEffortBoss "fight"]] against Mari, or a projection thereof. Mari does nothing to harm Omori and Basil and in fact heals them every so often. Your "reward" for killing her is Sunny and Basil being suddenly faced with her hanging corpse, too terrified to move, followed by a JumpScare of a Mari-like apparition charging the screen, as if the game is taunting you for expecting a reward out of killing Sunny's harmless and beloved sister.]]

*** [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope The very first one can be lost]], if you do not Calm Down within 10 turns, you will take 143 damage and get the Game Over screen.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: It's clear that Sunny is struggling with deppression and anxiety that no one is really helping him with. This just makes the lack of therapists in the modern real world even more jarring, as the source of the trauma had a domino effect that shattered Sunny's friend circle and even their families. One halfway-competent therapist or [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist social worker]] would've made things a lot less complicated... [[JustEatGilligan but then there wouldn't be a story]].

On November 2023, [[https://twitter.com/OMORI_GAME/status/1727341175911198780 an official manga adaptation]] was announced and it will be serialized on Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine by Nui Konoito.

** Interacting with a bookshelf in Grandma's house first makes Omori sneeze due to all the dust, and then causes an aggressive Dust Bunny to emerge. While he looks cute, he's actually capable of "exploding", which hurts both itself and the entire party for 20 damage (roughly half of their starting [=HP=]).

* InterfaceSpoiler: When [[HelloInsertNameHere naming Sunny]] after he wakes up for the first time, [[spoiler: you understandably cannot name him "Aubrey", "Kel", or "Hero" but you also cannot name him "Omori". This may be your first indication that Sunny and Omori are different people]].

* CensoredForComedy: When [[spoiler:Sweetheart and Space Boyfriend]] kiss, there is a small censor bar that shows up over their lips.

** [[spoiler: There's an entire secret route of the game, which is accessed by refusing to open the door for any of your friends in the real world; doing this unlocks different parts of the Dream World, such as extra keyboard keys and proper boss fights against Something. Unfortunately, doing this also locks you out the good ending -- staying home the whole time means Sunny's not really facing any of his problems, after all.]]
** [[spoiler:Completing every sidequest in Faraway Town during the course of three days is a gigantic pain in the ass. Not only the [=NPCs=] do not have the [[NoticeThis lightbulb icon]], but you must check for new quests or opportunities to progress ''in every period of the day: morning and evening, for each of the three days'' before you decide to end the day.]]

* RandomNumberGod: A very interesting example: certain events and secrets can happen at random within each new playthrough, to make sure not every playthrough feels the same. This is due to the WTF value hidden in the game. When you start a new game and help Aubrey get unstuck from the stump in the prologue, the game will choose a number from 1 to 13. Said number includes a certain event that will happen during that playthrough and only that playthrough. Said number can also be modified so that players can see every event at their own leisure, kinda like the "Fun" value in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''.
* RealityEnsues: If you attack Aubrey with Sunny’s knife, you’ll get called out for it and the battle will immediately end.

-->''Don't worry... Everything is going to be okay...''

''[[https://www.omori-game.com/en OMORI]]'' is an adventure [[PsychologicalHorror psychological]]/[[SurrealHorror surreal horror]] RPG from artist Omocat, based off of her [[Webcomic/{{Omoriboy}} comic of the same name]]. It tells the story of a young {{hikikomori}} named [[PunnyName Omori]], as he goes about his daily life living in an [[WhiteVoidRoom enormous white expanse]], called White Space. A depressed individual, he rarely gets out of bed, and when he does, it's only to go on the internet or to grab a tissue to dry his tears. His eccentric and fun-loving neighbors, on the other hand, rarely sleep, and their [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs technicolor dreamworld]] repulses Omori… though he admits to liking them, somewhat. One day, he finally works up the courage to try to experience their way of life. He meets the plucky Aubrey, the brotherly Hero, the mischievous Kel, the sisterly Mari, and the adorable Basil. Together they go on adventures and have fun in the strange, colorful realm of Headspace.

But one day, Basil goes missing, and it is up to Omori and friends to find him. As Omori continues on through the vibrant and the mundane, searching for his friend, he begins to uncover a forgotten past, as well as confront his deep-seated fears, the darkest secrets of his subconscious, and a mysterious shadowy EldritchAbomination known only as [[BigBad Something]], the culprit seemingly behind Basil's disappearance. When the time comes will Omori be able to confront the truth… or will it break him further?

Developed and launched on Website/{{Kickstarter}}, Omori takes heavy references from other [=RPGs=], most notably ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}''. It was fully funded with several of its stretch goals met, including a full Japanese localization. The game was released on December 25, 2020 for PC systems, with UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne versions released on June 17, 2022 with additional new content. Music by [[http://spaceboyfriend.bandcamp.com/ Space Boyfriend]], [[http://slimegirls.bandcamp.com/ Slime Girls]], Pedro Silva and Music/BoEn, with additional tracks by Creator/TobyFox, bansheebeat, James Roach, Lumena-tan, Madeleine Glenn, Omniboi, Samm Neiland, Shirpower, Music/{{Tofie}}, and Voia.

See also ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'', ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'', and ''VideoGame/{{Annventure}}'', other ''[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 EarthBound]]''-inspired [=RPGs=] with dark atmospheres.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Than Omocat's previous works -- more specifically, her webcomics, like ''Pretty Boy'' and her old ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' fan comics. While her old work is far more reliant on lighthearted humor, ''Omori'' has themes of suicide, death, depression, anxiety, and self-isolation. As the game progresses, the tone gets gradually worse and worse. And that's not even mentioning the [[spoiler:Hikkikomori Route]].

** '''Happy / Ecstatic / Manic:''' [[CriticalHitClass Increases Luck and Speed, but lowers Hit Rate.]] Increased damage to the Angry line.
** '''Sad / Depressed / Miserable:''' [[MightyGlacier Increases Defense and sacrifices some Juice to reduce damage, but lowers Speed.]] Increased damage against the Happy line.
** '''Angry / Enraged / Furious:''' [[GlassCannon Increases Attack, but lowers Defense.]] Increased damage against the Sad line.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Interacting with the laptop after the tutorial section will bring the desktop. For a very split second, you can see Something appearing onscreen before it changes to the Hangman screen. [[spoiler:The laptop becomes a portal to Black Space in the Hikikomori Route, where Something resides. Additionally, the association with Hangman foreshadows Something's true nature as an abstract representation of Mari's hanged body.]]
** Very early on, you are given an Emotion Chart as a reminder of how the emotion system works. The chart has cute drawings of your party members as examples, with Omori as Neutral/no emotion, Kel as Happy, Aubrey as Angry, and Hero as Sad. This arrangement doesn't quite fit their in-game abilities, [[spoiler:but is ''very'' reminiscent of how their real-world selves tried to cope. It also, by omission, links Basil to the Afraid status, which is also quite accurate to his situation]].
** One random EasterEgg that can occur is [[https://youtu.be/0hC3V7pWZLk if you return to Whitespace early]]. Omori can run around and chase sprites of [[spoiler:Mari, who inevitably vanish every time he gets close. After several times, Mari turns into Something and vanishes, accompanied by the Something ScareChord. It hints that the Something ''is'' Mari, which is a hint towards the truth]].
** There's an unspoken rule that only bosses have 3-Stage Emotions, as your party members only have 2. Omori, however, is the only playable character to have 3, despite seeming to be emotionless. [[spoiler:This foreshadows his status as the FinalBoss of the Sunny route, though ironically, he doesn't use any emotions during his fight.]]
** Similarly to above, on the Hikikomori route, [[spoiler:[[GuestStarPartyMember Basil]] also has 3-Stage Emotions in his playable appearance for the console version of the BossRush, foreshadowing how his real world counterpart serves as the penultimate boss of the Sunny route]].
** The first playable section as Sunny involves descending down a staircase at night, leading to an encounter with Something. [[spoiler:This hints at the staircase's involvement in the events leading to the creation of Something. This Something's attack is also "[shoving]" Sunny, further tying into the events]].
** Likewise, when you're returning to your room on "Three Days Left" and are forced to confront your fear of spiders, you approach the long staircase from the bottom up. This time, there's a strange black mass obscuring the bottom that vanishes the moment you interact with it. [[spoiler:You'll be shown what that means, exactly, when you confront the truth in Black Space.]]
** On the second Sunny day segment, his mother's voicemail has her ask him if there's anything he wants to keep in the downstairs closet since she'll be throwing out anything left in there. Yet one cannot find said downstairs closet. [[spoiler:Likely because Sunny is pretending he can't see it because of what said closet contains. The closet door notably reappears during the phobia segments of the game, where Sunny loses control of his repressed emotions.]]
** Kite Kid will mention that he's spotting a dark void in the sky more frequently in the past few days. [[spoiler:It foreshadows Black Space seeping into Headspace.]]
** When you spot Something in Vast Forest, it'll be standing beside a tire swing before disappearing. [[spoiler:There's a good reason for that.]]
** After defeating Space Ex-Boyfriend and having no idea what happened, Captain Spaceboy explains to the group that his SplitPersonality took over before Omori and his friends defeated him. [[spoiler:Guess what Omori [[SplitPersonalityTakeover wants to do with Sunny]] during the final day.]] The eyepatch Space Ex-Boyfriend wears [[spoiler:also mirrors the eyepatch Sunny wears [[EyeScream as a result of]] his fight with Basil]].
** Early in the game, Kel and Aubrey get into an argument which knocks Basil over. The others are shocked, but Basil brushes it off saying "Accidents happen." [[spoiler:In the endgame we discover the whole story was kicked off by two people arguing and someone being knocked over, except [[StaircaseTumble this time]] [[DeathByFallingOver it was fatal]] and Basil was definitely ''[[FreakOut not]]'' okay with it.]]
** Mari only joins your party once, when everyone else has gone missing and she wants to take you to the water. If you run, she chides you because her bad knee means that she can't keep up. Doing it a second time causes her to raise her voice for the only time. [[spoiler:It's hinted that Mari's bad knee is why she was unable to cushion her fall when Sunny pushed her in a fit of anger.]]
** The boss battle with [[spoiler:Humphrey]] involves a [[spoiler:GeniusLoci]] that looks cheerful on the surface, but gradually becomes more dangerous and hides horrors that you discover the further you descend. [[spoiler:Not unlike Omori himself, who is actually the DimensionLord of Headspace and grows increasingly twisted and hostile as Sunny inches closer to the truth.]]
** During the "One Day Left" in the Main Route, the old man in the graveyard tells [[spoiler:Sunny]] that someone will grieve that night. [[spoiler:At the night of the same day, Basil commits suicide if you don't confront him after waking up, locking you out of the Good/Bad Endings.]]
** During the Prologue, you can see a funeral photo of someone in the Neighbour's Room and in the Junkyard. There's a random chance that, after interacting with the photo in the Junkyard, Something will appear and disappear for a split second. [[spoiler:Take a guess why.]]
** In one of the hidden areas in Pyrefly Forest, you can see Something standing over a tree stump before disappearing. [[spoiler:It becomes fully relevant when you finally enter Sunny's backyard on One Day Left.]]
** Completing the Arrow Maze in the optional Orange Oasis area congratulating you with a "You did it!" poster with a smily face on it, and an inconspicuous jump rope lying on the ground. [[spoiler:It becomes a lot darker in light of the truth: the jump rope was used by Sunny and Basil to fake Mari's suicide, and "You did it!" becomes a lot more accusatory, as in "You killed Mari!"]]
** The titles of the two non-spoiler achievements, "Good Morning" and "Oyasumi", reference the main words of the themes of the good and bad endings respectively.
** In Faraway Town, Basil says it's nice to see Sunny even if it's just for a little bit and gives him his prized photo album... all before he even knows Sunny is moving away. [[spoiler: This heavily points toward Basil planning to commit suicide, as people giving away their prized possessions is a sign of suicidal behavior.]]
** In Faraway Town, a [[SavePoint picnic basket]] can be found inside Basil's house. While this could be there just so there's a save point roughly on every east-west road in Faraway Town (one at Faraway Park two blocks up, two at Sunny's house one block up (and one block to the left)), [[spoiler:Basil's house is where some very critical plot developments occur on One Day Left; when spending the night at his house, saving before going to sleep both times is very crucial as once you go to sleep, you will have a lengthy set of narrative sequences in the Spaces with major plot developments and very few save points.]]
** When discussing the Three Great Creatures, the Branch Coral tells you the Oldest has lived for so long he has ImmortalityImmorality. [[spoiler:It's a warning about Humphrey's [[FauxAffablyEvil true nature.]]]]
** If you squint your eyes a bit, [[spoiler: the Mari apparition]] in the Prologue looks almost like [[spoiler: Something]].
** In the beginning of the game, Basil is captured by [[LovingBully Boss]]. [[spoiler:Basil's capture and banishment to Black Space is Omori's doing, hinting that Omori is the {{final| Boss}} ''boss''.]]

* EmptyLevels: Everyone stops learning new skills past level 30, so everything up to level 50 is just extra stats, Heart, and Juice. Omori himself gets his final skill at level 35, and the only remaining abilities past that point are gained with new equipment or events. [[spoiler:That's because level 30 to 35 is about the range where you're expected to defeat Humphrey; from that point onwards, if you're on the Main Route, Headspace gives way completely to Black Space and Sunny's confrontation with the truth, and your stats are completely irrelevant at that point.]]