History Main / EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace

* DeadSpace2:You wake up in insane asylum, things get worse.

* {{MS Paint Adventures}}' Jail Break starts out like this, causing a [[FollowTheLeader spawn of fan adventures]] to adopt the general idea. The OntologicalMystery of the mental hospital is an extremely easy setting to pull off, though, which means most of the fanworks are, uh, [[SturgeonsLaw uneven in quality]].

The EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace is an effective {{horror}} setting, but it can also be played for laughs. Escaping usually requires undertaking TheGreatRepair on a damaged vehicle.

* ''RubyQuest''. [[FunnyAnimal Endearing,]] [[NightmareFuel disturbing,]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming,]] [[TearJerker heartwrenching,]] [[GrotesqueCute cute, cuddly, dark and bloody.]] A GirlInABox wakes up to find herself in an underwater lab; a boy is imprisoned in the floor below. Employing her wits, she frees the boy, makes a friend, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and decapitates a zombie.]] This sets the tone for an adventure full of mystery, madness, sweetness and HighPressureBlood. And BodyHorror. Lots and lots of Body Horror. [[spoiler: Stitches (the zombie) is first encountered as a head attached to a bloody, snakelike mess of bones and organs, and his head itself splits open to reveal a gaping maw full of teeth. And Daisy, originally a sweet little puppy-girl, is mutated beyond recognition and serves as the story's first real boss fight. ([[IGotBetter She gets better, though...]][[OrIsIt Maybe.]])]]

You step out of the prominently-marked [[{{Oubliette}} Quarantine Room]] and decide to take a stroll around. Something's not quite right about this place. [[RoomFullOfCrazy There's cryptic writing on the walls in what looks like blood,]] [[EverybodysDeadDave the halls are strewn with corpses]], the only other people you find are either [[AxCrazy trying to kill everybody else]] [[KillEmAll or getting slaughtered]], and the people in charge are either [[TheNeidermeyer completely out of touch with reality,]] [[PointyHairedBoss utterly incompetent]] or [[DyingLikeAnimals helpless]] to fix a situation [[ItGotWorse gone horribly]], [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly out of control]].

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]]]!!'' [[YouWakeUpInARoom You wake up]] bright, early and refreshed in...hmm. Where ''[[OntologicalMystery are]]'' you? [[LaserGuidedAmnesia You can't quite recall much of anything,]] but judging by the decor, you might be tempted to call it [[AbandonedHospital a woefully understaffed hospital of some kind]]. Maybe you're here for your own good, what with your amnesia and all. At any rate, [[TemptingFate surely it can't hurt to look for some answers?]]

You step out of the prominently-marked [[TailorMadePrison Quarantine Room]] and decide to take a stroll around. Something's not quite right about this place. [[RoomFullOfCrazy There's cryptic writing on the walls in what looks like blood,]] [[EverybodysDeadDave the halls are strewn with corpses]], the only other people you find are either [[AxCrazy trying to kill everybody else]] [[KillEmAll or getting slaughtered]], and the people in charge are either [[TheNeidermeyer completely out of touch with reality,]] [[PointyHairedBoss utterly incompetent]] or [[DyingLikeAnimals helpless]] to fix a situation [[ItGotWorse gone horribly]], [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly out of control]].

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Good morning, ''[[AC:[[HelloInsertNameHere [Insert Name Here[=]=]]]]]!!'' [[YouWakeUpInARoom You wake up]] bright, early and refreshed in...hmm. Where ''[[OntologicalMystery are]]'' you? [[LaserGuidedAmnesia You can't quite recall much of anything,]] but judging by the decor, you might be tempted to call it [[AbandonedHospital a woefully understaffed hospital of some kind]]. Maybe you're here for your own good, what with your amnesia and all. At any rate, [[TemptingFate surely it can't hurt to look for some answers?]]

You step out of the prominently-marked [[{{Oubliette}} Quarantine Room]] and decide to take a stroll around. Something's not quite right about this place. [[RoomFullOfCrazy There's cryptic writing on the walls in what looks like blood,]] [[EverybodysDeadDave the halls are strewn with corpses]], the only other people you find are either [[AxCrazy trying to kill everybody else]] [[KillEmAll or getting slaughtered]], and the people in charge are either [[TheNeidermeyer completely out of touch with reality,]] [[PointyHairedBoss utterly incompetent]] or [[DyingLikeAnimals helpless]] to fix a situation [[ItGotWorse gone horribly]], [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly out of control]].

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* The CG anime ''GregoryHorrorShow'' starts off with an everyman lost in the woods who happens upon a mysterious hotel in the middle of nowhere; he gets not only a room for the night, but the experience of his life as he tries to escape from Gregory House ([[{{House}} not that one]]) and all its crazy inhabitants. [[spoiler: In the end, he confronts his own feelings and manages to escape...only for him to realize how crushingly dull his life is and return to the House, not as its prisoner but as its willing guest.]] The second season has a woman going through much the same ordeal, [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding but instead of solving her personal problems and escaping, she is consumed by them and becomes a permanent resident]]]].

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You step out of the prominently-marked [[{{Oubliette}} Quarantine Room]] and decide to take a stroll around. [[{{Understatement}} Something's not quite right about this place.]] [[RoomFullOfCrazy There's cryptic writing on the walls in what looks like blood,]] [[EverybodysDeadDave the halls are strewn with corpses]], the only other people you find are either [[AxCrazy trying to kill everybody else]] [[KillEmAll or getting slaughtered]], and the people in charge are either [[TheNeidermeyer completely out of touch with reality,]] [[PointyHairedBoss utterly incompetent]] or [[DyingLikeAnimals helpless]] to fix a situation [[ItGotWorse gone horribly]], [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly out of control]].

* ''LimboOfTheLost'' begins with the main character awakening in a cell. Most players will likely be clamouring to escape their own little Crazy Place with Alt-F4 about five minutes later.

* ''{{Portal}}'' puts the player in control of a protagonist with no past, no personality, and no way forward except to do as the [[strike:half-]][[AIIsACrapshoot crazed computer]] running the so-called [[MaximumFunChamber "Enrichment Center"]] commands. This involves running through death courses armed with only your wits and an unorthodox {{BFG}} which makes holes in the fabric of space-time that you can use in new and interesting ways. [[spoiler: Eventually, you discover that [[MemeticMutation the cake is a lie]] and you make a bid for freedom through a part of the Center you were never supposed to see, destroying the computer and finally escaping...only for the ending to hint that this, too, [[XanatosFuneral was part of its plan.]]]]

The EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace is an effective {{horror}} setting, but it can also be played for laughs.

* The CG anime ''Gregory Horror Show'' starts off with an everyman lost in the woods who happens upon a mysterious hotel in the middle of nowhere; he gets not only a room for the night, but the experience of his life as he tries to escape from Gregory House ([[{{House}} not that one]]) and all its crazy inhabitants. [[spoiler: In the end, he confronts his own feelings and manages to escape...only for him to realize how crushingly dull his life is and return to the House, not as its prisoner but as its willing guest.]] The second season has a woman going through much the same ordeal, [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding but instead of solving her personal problems and escaping, she is consumed by them and becomes a permanent resident]]]].

* ''RubyQuest''. [[FunnyAnimal Endearing,]] [[NightmareFuel disturbing,]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming,]] [[TearJerker heartwrenching,]] [[GrotesqueCute cute, cuddly, dark and bloody.]] A GirlInABox wakes up to find herself in an underwater lab; a boy is imprisoned in the floor below. Employing her wits, she frees the boy, makes a friend, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and decapitates a zombie.]] This sets the tone for an adventure full of mystery, madness, sweetness and HighPressureBlood. And BodyHorror. Lots and lots of Body Horror. [[spoiler: Stitches is first encountered as a head attached to a bloody, snakelike mess of bones and organs, and his head itself splits open to reveal a gaping maw full of teeth. And Daisy, originally a sweet little puppy-girl, is mutated beyond recognition and serves as the story's first real boss fight. ([[IGotBetter She gets better, though...]][[OrIsIt Maybe.]])]]

* ''TheWhiteChamber'' details a game describing the events of a girl who has just woken up on a space station and with a missing crew that has a weird habit of shifting into a DarkWorld. Your goal is to discover what is going on, where everyone is, and why you seem to be unable to remember how you got here.

A subtrope of ClosedCircle.

An EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace ensues when you have a protagonist trapped in a bottled WorldGoneMad: it might be a hospital suffering an outbreak of the HatePlague, [[RunningTheAsylum an insane asylum taken over by its own inmates]], an underground CityInABottle, a [[GenerationShip Generation]] spaceship [[ZombieApocalypse under attack by zombifying parasites]] or generally any setting where a once-orderly (and sealed-off) environment has fallen completely into chaos and the protagonist, who is (or has good reason to believe themselves to be) the OnlySaneMan, is tasked with escaping (usually with the lingering risk of releasing the craziness upon the world at large in the process). Frequently, the protagonist finds fellow survivors; less frequently do these escape, let alone remain sane. Worst-case scenario, [[EvilVersusEvil everyone is out for themselves,]] [[HumansAreBastards and the depths of depravity will be plumbed as the survivors eat each other.]] [[ImAHumanitarian Possibly literally.]]

An EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace ensues when you have a protagonist trapped in a bottled WorldGoneMad: it might be a hospital suffering an outbreak of the HatePlague, [[RunningTheAsylum an insane asylum taken over by its own inmates]], an underground CityInABottle, a [[GenerationSpaceship Generation]] spaceship [[ZombieApocalypse under attack by zombifying parasites]] or generally any setting where a once-orderly (and sealed-off) environment has fallen completely into chaos and the protagonist, who is (or has good reason to believe themselves to be) the OnlySaneMan, is tasked with escaping (usually with the lingering risk of releasing the craziness upon the world at large in the process). Frequently, the protagonist finds fellow survivors; less frequently do these escape, let alone remain sane. Worst-case scenario, [[EvilVersusEvil everyone is out for themselves,]] [[HumansAreBastards and the depths of depravity will be plumbed as the survivors eat each other.]] [[ImAHumanitarian Possibly literally.]]

An EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace ensues when you have a protagonist trapped in a bottled WorldGoneMad: it might be a hospital suffering an outbreak of the HatePlague, [[RunningTheAsylum an insane asylum taken over by its own inmates]], a spaceship [[ZombieApocalypse under attack by zombifying parasites]] or generally any setting where a once-orderly (and sealed-off) environment has fallen completely into chaos and the protagonist, who is (or has good reason to believe themselves to be) the OnlySaneMan, is tasked with escaping (usually with the lingering risk of releasing the craziness upon the world at large in the process). Frequently, the protagonist finds fellow survivors; less frequently do these escape, let alone remain sane. Worst-case scenario, [[EvilVersusEvil everyone is out for themselves,]] [[HumansAreBastards and the depths of depravity will be plumbed as the survivors eat each other.]] [[ImAHumanitarian Possibly literally.]]

Good morning, ''[[HelloInsertNameHere <<Insert Name Here>>]]!!'' [[YouWakeUpInARoom You wake up]] bright, early and refreshed in...hmm. Where ''[[OntologicalMystery are]]'' you? [[LaserGuidedAmnesia You can't quite recall much of anything,]] but judging by the decor, you might be tempted to call it [[AbandonedHospital a woefully understaffed hospital of some kind]]. Maybe you're here for your own good, what with your amnesia and all. At any rate, [[TemptingFate surely it can't hurt to look for some answers?]]

* ''RubyQuest''. [[FunnyAnimal Endearing,]] [[NightmareFuel disturbing,]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming,]] [[TearJerker heartwrenching,]] [[GrotesqueCute cute, cuddly, dark and bloody.]] A GirlInABox wakes up to find herself in an underwater lab; a boy is imprisoned in the floor below. Employing her wits, she frees the boy, makes a friend, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and decapitates a zombie.]] This sets the tone for an adventure full of mystery, madness, sweetness and HighPressureBlood. And BodyHorror. Lots and lots of Body Horror. [[spoiler: Stitches is first encountered as a head attached to a bloody, snakelike mess of bones and organs, and his head itself splits open to reveal a gaping maw full of teeth. And Daisy, originally a sweet little puppy-girl, is mutated beyond recognition and serves as the story's first real boss fight. ([[IGotBetter She gets better, though...]][[OrIsIt Maybe.]])]]