History Videogame / SouthOfReal

%%* MultipleEndings

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Alex is the only one of his adopted family that is still alive, with the possible exception of [[AmbiguousSituation Dr. Luis.]]]]

%%* ActionSurvivor

%%* ApocalypticLog: The tomes.

%%* EldritchAbomination: The stars [[KillAllHumans are coming to destroy humanity]].
%%* HauntedHouse

%%* LivingShadow

* PetTheDog: Dr. Luis let Alex leave in the backstory. [[spoiler:This was, unfortunately, after everyone else was dead.]]

%%* {{Tykebomb}}

The stars have come to reap, and [[ActionSurvivor Alex ]] is out of time. Some unspeakable horror has come to earth, and Alex is certain that the key to survival lies within their childhood home. Unfortunately, there are ''other'' things that remain in Alex's childhood home. Angry things. Hurting things. Things that are desperate for a little extra company. After all, they've been alone for so very, very long...

%%* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: One interpretation of the "Leave" ending.]]

%%* EldritchAbomination: The stars.

* HumanoidAbomination: The shadows.[[spoiler: You too, if you want to join them.]]

%%* SurrealHorror

%%* CreepyChangingPainting
* CosmicHorrorStory: According to Dr. Luis, the stars are actually godlike beings that have toyed with humanity as if they were chess pieces, and are coming to “[[KillAllHumans pick up the pieces.]]”

%%* PayEvilUntoEvil: An option in the endgame.

%%* CosmicHorrorStory

%%* AbusiveParents

* AbusiveParents

* ActionSurvivor
* AdventureGame

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: An easily-missable log reveals that Alex is short for Alexandra.

* ApocalypticLog: The tomes.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: One interpretation of the "Leave" ending.]]
* CreepyChangingPainting
* CosmicHorrorStory

* EldritchAbomination: The stars.
* HauntedHouse

* LivingShadow
* MindScrew

* MultipleEndings
* PayEvilUntoEvil: An option in the endgame.

* SurrealHorror
* SurvivalHorror
* SurvivorGuilt
* {{Tykebomb}}

* KickTheSonOfABitch: An option for the player towards the end of the game.

''South of Real'' is a short horror game by indie developer Matthew B. Hare. The current version was released in summer of 2016, and can be [[https://mattdb.itch.io/southofreal downloaded for free on Itchio]]

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: It's an option.]]

''South of Real'' is a short horror game by indie developer Matthew B. Hare. The current version was released in summer of 2016, and can be downloaded for free on Itchio.

See also ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' and ''VideoGame/AoOni'', two popular indie horror pieces in the same vein.

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* CosmicHorrorStory: Maybe.

The stars have come to reap, and [[ActionSurvivor Alex ]] is out of time. Some unspeakable horror has come to earth, and Alex is certain that the key to survival lies within his childhood home. Unfortunately, there are ''other'' things that remain in Alex's childhood home. Angry things. Hurting things. Things that are desperate for a little extra company. After all, they've been alone for so very, very long...

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[[caption-width-right:358:[[Music/ModestMouse All the stars are projectors here.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:358:Things are going to get [[ColorMotif red]].]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the six kids (Katrin) is unaccounted for.

[[caption-width-right:358:Things are going to get [[red ColorMotif]].]]

The stars have come to reap, and [[Alex ActionSurvivor]] is out of time. Some unspeakable horror has come to earth, and Alex is certain that the key to survival lies within his childhood home. Unfortunately, there are ''other'' things that remain in Alex's childhood home. Angry things. Hurting things. Things that are desperate for a little extra company. After all, they've been alone for so long...and they're long overdue for a family reunion.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Knife effect. It is especially true since Madotsuki is able to kill (almost) anything by stabbing it once.
* AcidTripDimension: her dream world certainly qualifies
* AlienBlood: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]: when Madotsuki stabs a [[OurMonstersAreWeird creature]] it doesn't matter what it is --a bird girl, a giant foot-Martian who cries green tears, a poop monster, a horrified face on the wall-- they will always bleed red blood.
* AllJustADream: The entirety of Madotsuki's adventures. Of course, this is no secret.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mainly the people in the Mall, but there are strangely colored people in other areas too, like Shitai.
* AmbidextrousSprite: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the Knife effect. Madotsuki always holds the knife in one particular hand regardless of what direction she's facing. You can change the hand she holds the knife in by pressing '1'.
* AmbiguousSituation: There's no dialogue of any kind, nor anything that might even pass for an InfoDump. All the player is given is a series of surreal, disjointed open worlds to explore and a set of effects they can use to interact with those worlds. Naturally, fan interpretations of every little thing abound.
* AnIcePerson: The "Yuki-Onna" effect gives Madotsuki the ability to start a snowstorm.
* ArtShift: Pretty much the whole game. Most areas have different styles, like Number/Neon world, the forests, the wildernesses... though the 8-bit-area is the only one where the player's sprite changes to match the style. In many others Madotsuki looks out of place.
* BarefootSuicide: Some shoes can be found around where [[spoiler:Madotsuki jumps off the side of a building, before the credits roll with a blood splatter in the middle of the screen. While she doesn't actively take them off, the shoes being present from the beginning of the game hint that it's been planned for a while, at least before the beginning of the game.]]

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->''[[color:red:i've always been here, haven't i? it's always been here in my head. thoughts and feelings laid out in four directions, coded according to dr. luis, always under his direction. left the old house and for two years lived askew, never here and never there. south of real.]]''

You--that is, Alex--left home two years ago. The air reeks of dust, chemicals, and blood. Memories crawl wormlike under every surface. This was a mistake, perhaps, but you've come back. If you do not find something--anything at all--to stop the reaping, this is where you'll die.

No place like home.

South of Real is a {{freeware}] psychological horror game created in RPG Maker VX Ace engine by indie developer [[http://matthewbhare.tumblr.com/ Matthew B. Hare.]]

''[=SouthOfReal=]'' is a short horror game that follows the story of Ness, a seemingly normal boy who lives in {{Eagleland}}. Late one night, a meteorite landing outside town awakens Ness. The meteorite brings with it a bee ([[IAmNotWeasel or not]]) from the future, who tells Ness of [[ApocalypseHow its devastation]] at the hands of an indestructible being called [[EldritchAbomination Giygas]] -- a being Ness is destined to defeat. Ness's journey to stop Giygas will take him through time and space to meet the remainder of the [[TheChosenMany Chosen Four]] (Paula, Jeff, and Poo) and collect the Eight Melodies for his SoundStone to unite the power of the Earth as his own.

''[=EarthBound=]'' is the second of a series of Japanese role playing games known as ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'', an experiment in storytelling in a different medium by Japanese essayist Creator/ShigesatoItoi. ''MOTHER 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushū'' (or ''[[RevengeOfTheSequel Gyiyg Strikes Back]]'', as it's called in Japanese) serves as a loose sequel to ''[[VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings MOTHER]]'', since the two games share the same essential setting ([[{{Eagleland}} an affectionate homage]] to idealized America). Of the three games in the ''MOTHER'' series, only ''[=EarthBound=]'' ever received a physical release in North America (as Nintendo has eventually digitally released the unproduced localization of the first game and has [[NoExportForYou not currently released an official English translation]] of ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'').

On the 17th of April 2013, Nintendo confirmed that it would release ''[=EarthBound=]'' for the WiiU Virtual Console in North America. It also announced a similar release for the game in Europe, marking the first release of ''[=EarthBound=]'' in that region. While fans waited for the Virtual Console release, they had to content themselves with a [=ROM=] of the game '''or''' track down an original cartridge -- which, due to intense demand and limited supply, usually didn't (and still don't) go for less than $200 outside of garage sales and such. (That price usually means '''the cartridge itself''', too.) On the 19th of July 2013, Nintendo finally re-released the game via Virtual Console (in both Europe and the US) at the far-lower-than-[=eBay=]-auctions price point of $9.99; to round out the package, it also [[http://earthbound.nintendo.com/playersguide/ digitized the original Player's Guide]] that it bundled with the SNES release and offered it up for free (so that gamers could read the guide in a browser, including using the Wii U's browser on the [=GamePad=]). Nintendo also re-released the game on the New Nintendo 3DS and the New Nintendo 3DS XL handheld systems as a part of their Super Nintendo Virtual Console in early March 2016 [[note]]this excludes the original Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL and Nintendo 2DS[[/note]].

As a side note: Ness and Lucas (the protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'') [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros are probably best known to Western audiences via their appearances]] in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games.[[note]]Until this game's release on the Virtual Console, Ness was only known this way outside Japan and North America.[[/note]]

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->''"The stars are coming to reap, and you are out of time."''
-->-- '''Tagline'''

''[=EarthBound=]'' is a {{SNES}} RPG that follows the story of Ness, a seemingly normal boy who lives in {{Eagleland}}. Late one night, a meteorite landing outside town awakens Ness. The meteorite brings with it a bee ([[IAmNotWeasel or not]]) from the future, who tells Ness of [[ApocalypseHow its devastation]] at the hands of an indestructible being called [[EldritchAbomination Giygas]] -- a being Ness is destined to defeat. Ness's journey to stop Giygas will take him through time and space to meet the remainder of the [[TheChosenMany Chosen Four]] (Paula, Jeff, and Poo) and collect the Eight Melodies for his SoundStone to unite the power of the Earth as his own.