YMMV / Duskwood

• Base-Breaking Character: Lilly. Her constant accusations towards the main character and later Jake, earned her the ire of players. Some of them were willing to forgive her after she helped redeem herself, while others maintained their hatred for her.
• Estrogen Brigade: Jake gets this a lot in the fandom. You'd be hard-pressed not to find a girl gushing over him and then there's the option to romance him...
• Fandom-Specific Plot: A lot of fanfiction revolves around the player character physically coming to Duskwood and goes from there. There's also a good chance for them to meet Jake in person.
• I Knew It!: A lot of people were proven correct in their assumption that Richy faked his death and was the Big Bad kidnapper all along.
• Informed Wrongness: The game really pushes the idea that Thomas' reaction to the police finding a woman's corpse in the woods is suspicious; no matter how gently or harshly you break it to Thomas, he immediately signs off and ghosts for a while, and the entire group discusses how insanely questionable that is. Meanwhile, some players may find that Thomas' reaction (signing off due to shock and denial, and ceasing to text for a while due to devastation) is a perfectly reasonable response to believing that one's girlfriend was found dead.
• Memetic Badass: Dan, especially after the final episode where he proved to be capable of holding his own against the kidnapper, even while he's in a wheelchair.
• Memetic Loser: The fans love subjecting Thomas to this treatment.
• Narm: Everyone is notoriously bad at using contractions, e.g. writing “I am” instead of “I’m” every single time. It makes the conversations seem awkwardly formal for a bunch of 20-somethings.
  • When the Faceless Man appears in his hiding place just as Thomas and Jessy are there and they both try to hide while Thomas' cell phone screen manage to shows us the Faceless Man getting into. The problem is: Thomas seems to be holding his cell phone in a position that would be pretty easy for him to be noticed and worse is when Faceless Man walks like he didn't saw a thing looking like he has serious problems of vision.
  • Some people also think that Richy's and Jessy's crying in their final phone call at the end could've been more believable.
• One True Pairing: Jake x MC (especially female) is by far the most popular ship in the fandom, due to the game having a large female fanbase.
• The Scrappy: Thomas is the least popular character in the game as a whole, due to players finding him whiny and annoying. Him disrupting the investigation by taking Hannah's phone didn't help matters.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The mini games that you have to beat in order to progress the story are unanimously agreed to be the weakest part of the game in the fandom due to them majorly being a Luck-Based Mission that could take ages to beat.

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