Sacra Terra Angelic Night is a horror based hidden object game by Alawar Games. You wake up in an abandoned sanitorium, only to discover it has been overrun by hundreds of demons, led by the Seven Deadly Sins. Protected and guided by an angel named Angel, you must piece together what happened on Sacra Terra and send the demons back to Hell.
The game provides examples of:
- Abandoned Hospital Awakening: How the game opens. A lack of people in this place is the least of your worries.
- The Alcoholic: Wrath inhabits the body of a hospital orderly who is also a violent drunk. His drinking problem combined with his anger leads to him being trapped in a magic mirror that amplifies emotions.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: How you defeat Envy. Simply give her the magical wings she covets from Angel. Said wings can only be used by the pure of heart. Because Avidus/Envy is rotten to the core, the wings turn her to stone and send her plummeting to the ground.
- Betty and Veronica: It's heavily implied both Maria de la Croix and Miralda Avidus were attracted to Vito Morbile. Although Maria is the prettier one, she's actually the Betty, being a loving wife and mother right until her death. Avidus, although frumpier, is the Veronica as getting together with someone envious enough to commit murder is definitely not a safe decision.
- Big "NO!": Greed, when he realises the flames on the bag of money he's trying to save contains the Eternal Flame and you've locked the gate behind him.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Miralda Avidus in spades. On the outside she is a respectable doctor and co-runs the Morbile hospital. On the inside she's jealous to the point she will murder her business partner's wife and child, and then sabotage the full moon ritual and rapidly increase the number of demons on Sacra Terra.
- Black Magic: How the sins are defeated (save for Pride). Methods include toxic potions, magic mirrors, videotaped rituals and summoning a succubus.
- Book Ends: The game opens with you waking up in an abandoned hospital ward that looks like it's straight out of a horror movie, with an angel's feather floating down to free you from your restraints. The game ends with you waking up in a clean and pleasant hospital, with an angel's feather floating out of the window and across the hospital courtyard.
- Chekhov's Gun: The golden, jewelled comb Avidus placed on Angel's grave. It was laced with a Creeping Death potion and is what killed the girl.
- Demonic Possession: The main seven demons all inhabit bodies of those who were consumed by their sins. Morbile becomes Pride because the success of his hospital went to his head and killed his compassion. Avidus became Envy because her jealousy of the love Morbile had for his family led her to murder them.
- Despair Event Horizon: Sloth is a personification of this. His color scheme is made up of sombre blues and greys, he resembles a sad clown and the protagonist remarks on how heavy the air feels when he manifests in the living room.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Lust, naturally. He cannot resist the succubus you summon so ends up dragged back to Hell.
- Ethereal White Dress: Angel wears all white and not only guides you around Sacra Terra, but protects you from demonic influence with her Heavenly aura.
- Fauns and Satyrs: Lust's appearance is that of a satyr.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: The demons have them, and the game states looking into them causes people to succomb to the sin they embody. This doesn't happen to the protagonist because he's under Angel's holy protection.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The full moon ritual was meant to exorcise demons from Sacra Terra and cleanse everyone of their sins. Thanks to Avidus, it did the exact opposite.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Avidus. There isn't a single member of Morbile's family she isn't jealous of. She envies Morbile's success and recognition, Maria's beauty and the love everyone has for Angel. She murders the latter two and is responsible for the full moon ritual going horribly wrong. It's little wonder she becomes possessed by Envy.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Each demon is defeated by turning the sin it embodies on itself. For example, you must defeat Gluttony by feeding him a poisoned cake that literally gives him explosive gas.
- Holy Burns Evil: The Eternal Flame destroys any evil that touches it. It's the main weapon you use against Greed.
- Lazy Bum: Sloth, naturally. You encounter him in the hospital's living room, laid on the couch with a pizza box on the floor nearby. You defeat him with a videotaped ritual designed to trap him because he's too lazy to even fight back.
- Light Is Good: Angel is surrounded by white light. Said light protects you from the influence of the demons.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Greed wears a mask like Pucinello.
- Meaningful Name: Morbile's wife is called Maria, and her maiden name is De La Croix. Fitting given all the Catholic imagery within the game.
- Monster Clown: Gluttony and Wrath both resemble court jesters and are definitely monstrous in appearance. It's downplayed for Sloth who is more pitiful than frightening and is the easiest one to defeat as he's too lazy to do anything.
- Mundane Solution: Six out of the seven demons require magic to defeat. Pride is the exception as all it takes is firing a cannonball at Morbile's statue, causing it to fall and shatter. This results in Pride becoming stone and falling to pieces.
- Pajama-Clad Hero: The player character wanders around an abandoned and rundown mental hospital in nothing but a hospital gown. It's particularly galling at the end where he has no problem walking past tons of broken glass in bare feet.
- Plot Coupons: The fourteen runes that must be placed in the ritual circle in the chapel to seal all the demons away.
- Taken for Granite: Pride/Morbile and Envy/Avidus. The former turns to stone when his statue is toppled by a cannonball while the latter attempts to use magical wings to fly, only for them to turn her to stone, causing her to plummet to her death.
- Wicked Stepmother: Avidus killed Angel with a poisoned comb. It's heavily implied that her envy of Angel's ability to fly is why Angel cannot properly ascend to Heaven as her stepmother is holding her down.
- Would Hurt a Child: Avidus murders Angel via a poisoned comb. Angel is no older than her early teens.
