History YMMV / NightInTheWoods

* CrackShip: Surprisingly there is a certain niche of fans whom ship Casey x Steven, [[http://t3f3r.tumblr.com/tagged/casey-x-scriggins an artist named: "t3f3r" might be partly to blame for this.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: Mae/Bea became this almost instantly and it is still the most shipped couple in the fandom. They were friends since childhood, but estranged after Mae dropped out of college, with Bea being angry at Mae for [[spoiler:treating college as something so trivial when Bea never got the chance of going there, since her dad is too poor to afford it and also chronically ill, so she's stuck taking care of him]]. Going through Bea's story, they grow closer, with Bea acting as a StraightMan to Mae's antics, one of them even [[WhenSheSmiles making her laugh]]. Later, Mae [[HasAType describes her perfect partner as someone "tough who can take care of themselves"]], which pretty much describes Bea perfectly. Even with Mae/"Bombshell" as a [[UnresolvedSexualTension genuine possibility]], Mae/Bea greatly took off by comparison.

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Due to Mae being pansexual (which was confirmed by the creators), the Playable Character, ''and'' being able to interact with a ''lot'' of people, Mae's been shipped with several members of the cast. The most common ones being [[FanPreferredCouple Bea]], Selmers, Bombshell, and Casey. There's a few strange or rare ones like Cole, Lori M., or even Germ Warfare and Scriggins. But not only that, then there's some fans that actually go out of their way to ship her with Gregg, despite their IncompatibleOrientation (she's pan, but he's gay as sunshine).

* {{Narm}}: At one point, Bea suddenly says "U" instead of "You" and "Rite" instead of "Right"... and not during a conversation on the laptop, either. It's somewhat jarring to see her suddenly speak SMS-talk out of nowhere.
** That being said, given that it comes in response to an "Amirite?" from Mae, it can be seen as a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky reply]] to Mae's own cringey use of Internet slang in spoken conversation.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets:
** The backstory is full of exploitive mine owners and foremen getting their just desserts. Notably, in the Weird Autumn Edition, Mae can hear the story of how her Grandpa wrecked the car of an abusive boss and got clean away with it. [[spoiler: He was also (possibly) part of a secret society of unionists who identified themselves with a tooth taken from the skull of an abusive foreman. If Mae finds it, she can give it to her dad to encourage him to follow in his footsteps and unionise the Ham Panther.]]
** In Bea's last hangout, we're introduced to her friend Jackie loudly expressing her distaste for fascists.
** [[spoiler:Then we have the villains, who've been murdering people who "won't be missed" in the hope it'll appease a dark god and revive the town as they remember it. They believe the town is drying up and dying because of too many mining regulations, kids not wanting to stay where they were born, and the government giving their tax money to immigrants and "lazy people". Mae calls them "a cult of conservative uncles."]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Cultist:''']] In those days it was the end of the world. Jobs gone. Our kids were leaving. Government didn't care, only wanted our votes. Just puttin' in more regulations, sendin' our jobs overseas, spendin' our taxes on lazy people 'n immigrants while we worked ourselves to death.\\
'''Bea:''' Ugh here we go. Goddamn I hate this crap. You old dipshits.

* CriticalResearchFailure: One of the signs of Possum Springs' decline is that less people are going to Video Outpost "Too" to rent, instead preferring to stream their movies. Rural towns like Possum Springs were exactly what kept video stores afloat as streaming became more prominent, as they rarely had Internet speeds good enough to be conducive to streaming -- a situation that ought to be even more pronounced in Possum Springs, since it's so isolated it doesn't even get cell reception. Even if the store is struggling, "more people are streaming" is one of the least likely reasons for that.

** In Bae's last hangout, we're introduced to her friend Jackie loudly expressing her distaste for fascists.

* IdiotPlot: At the end of the game, Mae and her friends [[spoiler:discover a group of cloaked figures at the mines, who violently punish one of their own. They are discovered, chased, and shot at, with Mae falling into a coma and being hospitalized. She then returns to her friends, still clearly debilitated, and later secretly ventures out to the mines again in a desperate effort to deal with her mental suffering. Her friends stop her, shooting one of the figures, but then go with her to search the mines, assuming only the one figure will be there. They are expectedly discovered by the group and held at gunpoint, only being allowed to leave by the cult's group decision, and narrowly escape with their lives from the one shot.]]

* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: After the game's release, there was debate over what Gregg was supposed to be, ranging from a wolf, a fox, and a dog, to a [[SeldomSeenSpecies water]] [[EpilepticTrees deer]]. The creators eventually confirmed that he was a fox.