...And closes a window.
god opens the door
is a short freeware horror game by vvyrmwood, released for Halloween 2020, in which you flush a mother down the toilet. It's far less humorous than it sounds.Tropes:
- Abortion Fallout Drama: The whole game is about the fallout from the mother self-aborting the boy's baby sister and flushing the remains down the toilet, which the boy saw by peeking into the bathroom.
- Abusive Parents: The boy's mother is The Alcoholic, and has locked the boy in his room. As the boy carries away individual pieces, he describes her arms at never holding him, her eyes as only seeing scorn, and her heart as "a thing of muscle and blood. Nothing less, nothing more". Whether or not this behavior began after her abortion and the boy going mad is unclear.
- Addressing the Player: Towards the end of the game, the narration suddenly states that you don't have to keep playing, as you can just restart and return the boy to his coffin of a room, but you're probably compelled to see things through to the end.
- The Alcoholic: The boy's mother, as evidenced with empty and broken bottles scattered across the house.
- Book Ends: The game begins with the boy moving a box in order to open a window and escape from his room. The very last task of the game is to move a box in order to close a window.
- Driven to Suicide: Towards the end of the game, the boy says he plans to join his dead sister and mother in the toilet tomorrow.
- Key Under the Doormat: After escaping his room by opening a window, the boy has to go back into his home by finding a housekey under a rock near the front door.
- Matricide: In order to flush the mother down the toilet, the boy obtains a knife and carves them into pieces.
- Multiple Endings: There are two endings to the game: one for completing it, and one for stepping on enough broken glass bottles to die from your wounds.
- Slipping a Mickey: The boy gains access to his mother's room by slipping bathroom medication into one of her bottles and passing it to her through a crack in the door.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: The latter half of the game. As he makes repeated trips to his mother's bedroom to gather her chunks and flush them, the world keeps shifting, with the toilet moving to the woods outside or the attic. In the closing narration, it's also mentioned that the reason he was locked in his room is because he started defecating elsewhere in the house after he started hearing his dead little sister's voice coming out of the toilet.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: After killing his mother, the boy's white shirt and face become progressively redder from bloodstains as he carries her remains to the toilet and sink further into madness.
