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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anna_valley.png]]
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3''Anna'' is a horror adventure game for Microsoft Windows, published in 2012 by the independent Italian studio Dreampainters.
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5Allegedly based on an ancient Italian legend, the game features a nameless and faceless protagonist, who is haunted by nightmares about a house he has never been to. It seems, though, that those dreams have something to do with some woman from his past named Anna. As if she's calling out to him.
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7Finally he finds an abandoned, dilapidated house from his nightmares, breaks in... and that's where things take a turn to ''really, really'' creepy and ''really, really'' weird.
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9It was released again in 2013 as an 'extended edition' that features completely retooled puzzles, a new inventory system, 5 new endings, some changes to the scare system, and some redone translation work. It was given for free to original customers. This version of the game is available on Platform/{{Steam}} and other places.
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11[[SimilarlyNamedWorks No relation]] to the 2019 Creator/LucBesson [[Film/{{Anna}} film]].
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13'''Warning: spoilers ahead.'''
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16!!''Anna'' includes examples of:
17* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The protagonist, in the "best" ending. He takes it pretty well, though.]]
18* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The protagonist]] is this... quite literally.
19* BeatStillMyHeart: [[spoiler:Even the protagonist has a freak out at this part.]]
20* ButForMeItWasTuesday:
21--> [[spoiler:'''The protagonist:''']] ''Back then, I think, I was engaged already. I can't even remember to whom''.
22* CerebusSyndrome: Much less of it than other examples out there, but the contrast between a peaceful landscape outside of the house and the absolutely terrifying interior is rather off-putting.
23* CosmicHorrorStory: Could be if the man isn't hallucinating it all. It's ambiguous either he's just insane or something bigger is going on.
24* CreepyDoll: [[spoiler:Subverted with Anna, if the protagonist is just insane. The statue is pretty, but it is ambiguous if it is possessed or not.]] The other dolls and statue are just freaky besides maybe the fertility dolls.
25* DemonicPossession: Or should it be [[spoiler:Divine]] Possession?
26--> [[spoiler:'''The protagonist:''' ''I'm hers. Corrupted in body and mind.'']]
27* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: [[spoiler:The protagonist and the girl in the forest, if you stick to the theory that the girl is an incarnation of Anna.]]
28* EyesDoNotBelongThere: On walls, on a child's stomach, floating in the sky in pictures, embedded in stone. Basically anywhere there can be eyes, there will be eyes.
29* FeaturelessProtagonist: The only thing that we know about him is that he's male, and even that is established in his "flashbacks".
30** In the extended version, he carries a journal that has more information about what his life was like before coming to the sawmill. One of the documents received in the "truth" ending even reveals his name.
31* FreudWasRight: The protagonist calls Anna his beloved ''and'' his mother.
32* GoldenEnding: A DoubleSubversion of this trope. The ending which requires you to do the most work is both the most horrifying ''and'' the most sensible out of three.
33* GuideDangIt: The most common criticism is that the game's puzzles are difficult to figure out.
34* HauntedHouse: You have no idea…
35* HearingVoices: The narrative of the game.
36* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:''Children'' sacrifice, too.]]
37* JumpScare: In a few instances, yes. One of the main ones is if you spend too much time wandering around, the game will start throwing cans at you.
38* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Apparently]], happened to the protagonist before the beginning of the game.]]
39* LoveMakesYouCrazy[=/=]LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Guess, this is what you get for falling in love with Mother Nature herself.]]
40* LouisCypher: [[spoiler:"The Whole Truth" ending seems to imply that 'Anna' is a Louis Cypher-version of 'Angra Mainyu,' the destructive spirit in {{Zoroastrianism}}. Which opens a whole new can of theological and linguistic worms…]]
41* MotherNature: [[spoiler:Apparently, Anna.]]
42* MeaningfulEcho: ''"Forever and ever"''.
43* MindScrew: Very intentionally so. Among other things, one wall has the words "What if none of this is real?" written on it.
44* MultipleEndings: Three of them in the original, eight in the extended version.
45* OminousLatinChanting: ''"Miserere mei... Miserere mei..."'' "Have mercy on me" or "Have mercy upon me."
46* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: To an extent; the scary elements are randomly placed.
47* RefusalOfTheCall: One of the endings has you [[spoiler:walking out of the house, horrified by what you've learned, never to return again]].
48* SanitySlippage
49* SceneryGorn[=/=]SceneryPorn: Once you go inside the house. The outside of the house is very nice.
50* ShoutOut: The statue (which was originally intended to portray the penitent Mary Magdalene for display in a church, but stuff happened) looks very similar to [[http://ec-dejavu.ru/images/m-2/magdalene-8.jpg an actual sculpture of the same saint by Antonio Canova.]]
51* SoundtrackDissonance: Most of the soundtrack is rather serene and peaceful.
52* StoryBreadcrumbs: [[MindScrew I guess, you could put it that way…]]
53* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler:The protagonist is so in love with Anna that he performs a horrifying version of this involving child sacrifice.]]
54* SurrealHorror
55* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
56* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:It's up to interpretation whether the protagonist is a despicable {{Yandere}} who was always an unsympathetic monster, or a TragicVillain who was seduced by a fickle goddess and tricked/driven into doing terrible things because of his love for her.]]
57* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The protagonist.]]
58* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:The protagonist]], and, if two out of three endings are anything to go by, even [[spoiler:Nature Goddess herself]] is not immune to this trope.
59* YouAreWorthHell: [[spoiler:One ending involves the player being trapped in a dark room for eternity, which he's fine with because he'll have "Anna" with him.]]

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