History VisualNovel / JohnDoe

* LaceratingLoveLanguage: [[spoiler: In the 2nd ending, John Doe shows his love for Hou... by stabbing You over and over again... and kissing Your bloody body.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: John Doe himself. He looks like a very disheveled and pale human man with long messy hair, and has a constant smile on his face. His shirt also somehow changes depending on his mood, he's attracted to your scent, and has [[spoiler: [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the ability to break the fourth wall to affect your decisions and make you follow what he wants.]] He also ends up transporting you to his house/pocket dimension while you are completely unaware, and he can apparently remember decisions from other routes.]]
** ''John Doe Plus'' also gives him [[spoiler: the ability to change himself into [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith a cuter form]] to win you over. When he reverts to his original self, the cute art style exclusive to ''Plus'' changes back to its surreal AI-generated backgrounds, implying that ''whatever'' John is, he has the ability (unconsciously or not) to manipulate reality.]]

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: John wears all black, has long black hair, with a bright red smiley face on his shirt, which stands out even more since he's an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette. While it's unclear if John is necessarily ''evil'', he's still a creepy AmbiguouslyHuman stalker whose not afraid to harm you, and his appearance is an indicator that [[ObviouslyEvil what you see is what you get.]]
* PervertedSniffing: Implied with John. When you don't shower in a run, he mentions that you smell good.
* PerpetualSmiler: John is the insane variant. He has a constant manic grin that never goes away, even when he's saying or doing something incredibly frightening or doesn't like your responses.

* AmnesiacHero: Invoked. [[spoiler: The protagonist is in a temporarily loop of getting introduced to John Doe over and over again. On each of these introductions, they do not remember who John Doe is.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Played With. [[spoiler: When John Doe first appears in a more human-like appearance at the begining of the 5th, 6th, and 7th ending routes, he's got some pretty heavy MorphicResonance. You even comments that he looks familar during their ride at the train station. However, You doesn't initially pick up on the disguise because they had lost their memory of the previous day.]]

''John Doe'' is a surreal horror visual novel/dating sim-style game made by Fox (who also made ''[[VideoGame/PurpleRPG Purple]]''). The game is quite short, with 6 endings which can all be achieved in about 15 minutes.

** Ending 1, Doe Loved You [[spoiler: When you accept only some of John's requests and don't let him follow you home. He breaks in and proclaims his love for you against your will. This then leads you into ending 4.]]
** Ending 2, Doe Really Loved You: [[spoiler: When you don't take a shower and accept all of John's requests, he breaks into your home and murders you while proclaiming his love.]]
** Ending 3, Doe Lost Interest: [[spoiler: In this ending, when you refuse all of John's advances and take a shower, you discover a disgusting "gift" that he left in your home, but he otherwise loses interest and leaves you alone.]]
** Ending 4, "YES" [[spoiler: The entire route has your behavior altered to accept all of John's requests against your will, and he remembers everything from Ending 1. It ends with you trapped in his distorted pocket dimension against your will.]]

*** Ending 5, "Personal Time", You go home with a much more normal looking John Doe, with only small hints at his true nature. [[spoiler: when you take him home and watch TV together, he reverts back to his old self and is implied to keep you trapped with him forever.]]
*** Ending 6, "Abandoned", [[spoiler: ends with John reverting back to his real form and insisting that he can be whatever you want. You reject him, and the scene ends with John begging to not be left alone, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou implying that he is aware he's inside of a game,]] and becoming a [[DownerEnding sad, crying mess as the game ends.]]]]
*** Ending 7, "Dream Come True," [[spoiler: it plays out like ending 5, but You agrees that they love John, though not when he's pretending to be something he isn't. Both characters acknowledge that they are stuck in a time loop, [[SexyDiscretionShot and might as well see what happens, with John looking up at the player with hearts in his eyes before it cuts to black.]]]]

** Ending 3, Doe Lost Interest: [[spoiler: In this ending, when you refuse all of John's advances and take a shower, you discover a disgusting "gift" that he left in you home, but he otherwise loses interest and leaves you alone.]]

*** Ending 5, "Personal Time", You go home with a much more normal looking John Doe, with only small hints at his true nature. [[spoiler: when you take him home and watch tv together, he reverts back to his old self and is implied to keep you trapped with him forever.]]

** ''John Doe Plus'' and its extra endings clear this up a bit, with John's redesign giving him a far more approachable appearance and personality and more insight into his thoughts. [[spoiler: His earlier pushiness and invasiveness can be somewhat explained by his awareness that he's inside of a game and has met You over and over again, and his amicability is yet another way to win you over. It's still unclear on whether he's a human or not, or whether his outbursts into eldritch madness come from frustration or losing his ability to maintain the illusion.]]

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: John gains the ability to alter your decision making heavily in Ending 4, making you agree to all of his creepy requests. It's heavily implied that because you took the compariatively "amicable" route with him in Ending 1 and he manages to get into your house, that he takes it as an invite to do it again.]]
** ''John Doe Plus'' goes even further with this with [[spoiler: the reveal that John is aware that he's in a game and that his interactions with You are repeating over and over again. In ending 7, You acknowledges this too and decides to stay and love John.]]

** Ending 5, "Personal Time", You go home with a much more normal looking John Doe, with only small hints at his true nature. [[spoiler: when you take him home and watch tv together, he reverts back to his old self and is implied to keep you trapped with him forever.]]
** Ending 6, "Abandoned", [[spoiler: ends with John reverting back to his real form and insisting that he can be whatever you want. You reject him, and the scene ends with John begging to not be left alone, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou implying that he is aware he's inside of a game,]] and becoming a [[DownerEnding sad, crying mess as the game ends.]]]]
* Ending 7, "Dream Come True," [[spoiler: it plays out like ending 5, but You agrees that they love John, though not when he's pretending to be something he isn't. Both characters acknowledge that they are stuck in a time loop, [[SexyDiscretionShot and might as well see what happens, with John looking up at the player with hearts in his eyes before it cuts to black.]]]]

** ''John Doe Plus'' tones this down and makes him far less blatantly creepy in both appearance and personality, giving John a far more amicable and nicer appearance and personality [[spoiler: at first. Bits of his otherworldliness start to peek through on occasion, before he fully reverts to his old horrific self.]]

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: John gains the ability to alter your decision making heavily in Ending 4, making you agree to all of his creepy requests. It's heavily implied that because you took the compariatively "amicable" route with him in Ending 1 and he manages to get into your house, that he takes it as an invite to do it again.]]

** John Doe Plus tones this down and makes him far less blatantly creepy, giving John a far more amicable and nicer appearance and personality [[spoiler: at first.]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: John seems to have this. He comes off as creepy, pushy, and invasive, as he comments on your body odor, follows you around despite your insistence otherwise, and has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. However, given his HumanoidAbomination status, it's unclear how malicious his intentions actually are. He does claim to "love" the player, and whether the player [[spoiler: dies, gets trapped, or is left alone]] is based on arbitrary small actions and responses to his weirdness, including whether you've ''showered'' that day. It's never specified if John is some malicious creature, an EldritchAbomination with no grasp on how to healthily express love, or some monster that conflates love with horrific actions and behaviors.

-->'''You [[spoiler: (when John controls your dialogue options)]]:''' YES I DO, PLEASE SCARE ME MORE.

* NoSocialSkills: John is incredibly pushy when you first meet him, insisting that the two of you are best friends simply because you know each other's names. He's also quite invasive and loves giving you unwarranted compliments about your scent. That being said, while most of John's awkwardness seems unintentional, he is fully aware that you are unsettled by him and notably ''enjoys'' making you scared. Strangely enough, [[NightmareFetishist he wants You to enjoy being scared by him.]]

-->'''John:''' That's definitely one of the names I've heard.

-->'''You (when John controls your dialogue options):''' YES I DO, PLEASE SCARE ME MORE.

TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: John gains the ability to alter your decision making heavily in Ending 4, making you agree to all of his creepy requests. It's heavily implied that because you took the compariatively "amicable" route with him in Ending 1 and he manages to get into your house, that he takes it as an invite to do it again.]]

''John Doe'' is a surreal horror visual novel/dating sim-style game made by Fox. The game is quite short, with 4 endings which can all be achieved in about 15 minutes.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: John seems to have this. He comes off as creepy, pushy, and invasive, as he comments on your body odor, follows you around despite your insistence otherwise, and has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace. However, given his HumanoidAbomination status, it's unclear how malicious his intentions actually are. He does claim to "love" the player, and whether the player [[spoiler: dies, gets trapped, or is left alone]] is based on arbitrary small actions and responses to his weirdness, including whether you've ''showered'' that day. It's never specified if John is some malicious creature, an EldritchAbomination with no grasp on how to healthily express love, or some monster that conflates love with horrific actions.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: John wears all black, has long black hair, with a bright red smiley face on his shirt, which stands out even more since he's an EeryPaleSkinnedBrunette. While it's unclear if John is necessarily ''evil'', he's still a creepy AmbiguouslyHuman stalker whose not afraid to harm you.

* MeaningfulName: The name "John" is an incredibly simplistic and generic English name for men, which contrasts heavily with the creepy weirdo who spends the game stalking you. However, the full alias "John Doe" is often a term used for unidentified corpses in police investigations, which give a deeply sinister meaning to John's existence.

** Ending 4, "YES" [[spoiler: The entire route has your behavior altered to accept all of the John's requests against your will, and he remembers everything from Ending 1. It ends with you trapped in his distorted pocket dimension against your will.]]

* StylisticSuck: A rare horror example. The backgrounds you and John inhabit are all created by Neuralblender, an AI software, rather than being drawn images or stock photos. As a result, the backgrounds look dreamy and confusing, with familiar textures that give hints to what it's ''supposed'' to resemble but still looking very obviously ''wrong.''

''John Doe'' is a surreal horror visual novel/dating sim style atmospheric game made by Fox. The game is very short, with 4 endings which can all be achieved in about 15 minutes.

You play [[RealJokeName You,]] a cashier at a gas station. On your way to work, you meet John Doe, a strange fellow with an unsettling aura and weird habits. At this point, it's up to you whether you decide to romance him or not... at your own risk, of course.