History VideoGame / AdventureEscape

* AdventuresInComaland: This turns out to be the case in [[spoiler:''Asylum''.]]
* AlwaysMurder: There is always a dead body to investigate in games starring Kate Grey.

* RedH.erringMole: Early in ''Trapmaker'', Kate restores a robot that was reprogrammed to hostile, but the [[InterfaceSpoiler inventory item]] used to do this is the "supposedly fixed" robot brain, implying that the robot's helpful behavior might be an act. Kate mentions not trusting the robot if she examines it after the repair. Nothing comes of this. [[spoiler:The robot even dies saving Kate and Edna from a bomb.]]

* RedHerringMole: Early in ''Trapmaker'', Kate restores a robot that was reprogrammed to hostile, but the [[InterfaceSpoiler inventory item]] used to do this is the "supposedly fixed" robot brain, implying that the robot's helpful behavior might be an act. Kate mentions not trusting the robot if she examines it after the repair. Nothing comes of this. [[spoiler:The robot even dies saving Kate and Edna from a bomb.]]

** {{Klotski}}: Used to get a plug in ''Hidden Ruins''.
*** In it's sequel ''Dark Ruins'', it's an image of the Storm Goddess that needs to be moved to the top.

** QueensPuzzle: One drawer in ''Murder Inn'' is opened by solving the Queens Puzzle with a checkerboard.

* '''The Scottish Castle''': In the 16th-century Scotland, Iona finds herself trapped in a mysterious castle together with her DumbMuscle unwanted suitor Finley.
* '''Murder Manor''': Detective Kate Grey's is trapped at a fancy manor, when someone is killed during a dinner party.
* '''Time Library''': Alice goes to the library to stock up on books, but instead goes on a time travel adventure along with self-proclaimed internet personality Hiro.
* '''Asylum''': Anna wakes up in an asylum without her memories. Unfortunately there's a killer on the loose, and Anna keeps seeing this strange little girl everywhere.
* '''Cult Mystery''': Detective Kate Grey's friend goes missing after apparently getting involved with a strange cult. Now it's up to Kate to rescue her.
* '''Space Crisis''': Commander Morgan is delivering supplies to a space station. Unfortunately there's some unexpected damage, and now she has find a way to return home and rescue any survivors.
* '''Framed for Murder''': Detective Kate Grey gets involved in yet another mystery. This time her mentor has been framed as the killer of a college student that's involved with the local drug ring.

* '''Hidden Ruins''': Archeologist Professor Burns is exploring the ruins left behind the Kumari civilization, who died out despite supposedly having discovered the secret to eternal life. He has to hurry if he wants to find the elixir of eternal life before his unscrupulous rival steals it for herself.

* '''Cluedo''': [[LicensedGame Based on the Hasbro board game]]. Who killed Mr Black? Detective Brown investigates.

* FakingTheDead: The apparent victim in [[spoiler:''Trapmaker'' faked his own death to lure the other characters into a trap.]]

* ActionizedSequel: ''Allied Spies'' has a lot more timing and dexterity based minigames to represent action scenes than most entries in the series.

* DualWorldGameplay: The world appears different to Moira when she's shapeshifts, and several puzzles involve [[VoluntaryShapeshifting switching]] between her human and animal forms.

* NonLinearSequel: Most of the games don't have any influence on each other. Even games starring the same protagonist, such as all the Kate Grey games, can be played in any order. The only exceptions, so far, being the ''Trapmaker'' trilogy and ''Puzzle Pack'' which is a prequel of sorts to ''The Covenant''.

*** A puzzle in ''Murder Inn'' involves pushing blocks on FrictionlessIce to form a staircase.

* UndercoverAsLovers: Ed and Marie's backstory for the mission is that they're newlyweds married two weeks ago.

* SetWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Or, to be exact, [[spoiler:set wrong a future case of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]] in ''Time Library''. Vyra's plan is to prevent [[spoiler:Hiro saving the world via the time machine]] and make sure [[spoiler:the nuclear war begins]].

* AmnesiacHero: Anna
* BadBoss: Otto isn't any kinder to his human staff members than he is to the supernatural creatures he hunts. [[spoiler: He killed several of them to prevent them from revealing his secrets.]]
* BedlamHouse: The setting of ''Asylum''.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Jay's body was never actually recovered from the avalanche that killed him. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's not dead after all.]]

* TechnologicallyBlindElders: The librarian at the beginning of ''Time Library'' talks about how great modern technology is. You can now press buttons on the phone instead of rotating them. [[spoiler: It's just an act, though.]]

* UndercoverAsLovers: Ed and Maries backstory for the mission is that they're newlyweds married two weeks ago.

* '''Scottish Castle''': In the 16th-century Scotland, Iona finds herself trapped in a mysterious castle together with her DumbMuscle unwanted suitor Finley.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Crocodile's provide a reoccurring obstacle in ''Dark Ruins'', although it's justified by one of the protagonists who notes that the storm is bad for the crocodiles and making the desperate.

** ''The Covenant'' has Sam and her friends become trapped in a forest that turns an EldrichLocation when a Lunar Eclipse occurs.

** [[spoiler:One of the group in ''The Covenant'' deliberately set up the events in order to obtain a vision of the future. Who it is is dependant on choices you made in the game.]]

* NonLinearSequel: Most of the games don't have any influence on each other. Even games starring the same protagonist, such as all the Kate Grey games, can be played in any order. The only exceptions, so far, being the ''Trapmaker'' trilogy and the ''Puzzle Pack'' which is a prequel to ''The Covenant''.

* VillainsDyingGrace: The traitor's last act is to save the protagonists from Major Kressler. Marie can acknowledge their dying grace, or point out that they're [[HeelFaceDoorSlam still a traitor.]]

* PortalDoor: There's a chapter in ''Midnight Carnival'' that revolves one. It goes to a different location based on the pattern and color of the buttons are pressed. The buttons are missing and have to be tracked down, in order to reach the final location. In universe, the portal door is probably accomplished by illusions rather than by transporting people to different locations.

* '''The Covenant''': Sam and her classmates are trapped by a EldritchHorror in a forest which demands a sacrifice each night until only one is left.

* ''The Covenant'': Sam and her classmates are trapped by a EldritchHorror in a forest which demands a sacrifice each night until only one is left.

* AdventuresInComaland: This turns out to be the case in [[spoiler: ''Asylum''.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The "good" ending of ''Covenant'' has Sam [[spoiler:learn how to defeat The Hunger for good but her science teacher is dead along with six of her classmates (though one of them planned the events) and an [[StumbledIntoThePlot unfortunate hiker]]. Sam's ramblings after the police discover her having set the forest on fire wind up getting her committed to a mental hospital.]]

* ClosedCircle: In Murder Manor, Kate's car breaks down outside a manor during a thunderstorm.

* TheEndOrIsIt: Trapmaker 3 ends with Trapmaker being caught... [[spoiler: and then thrown into a jail that he designed the security for.]]

* FakingTheDead: The apparent victim in [[spoiler: ''Trapmaker'' faked his own death to lure the other characters into a trap.]]
* GeniusDitz: Hiro initially seems like useless social-media obsessed teen, but he's also [[spoiler: the guy that discovers time travel in the future]].

* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: As and adventure game, it's not too surprising that this is what usually happens if the the protagonist gets captured by a villain.

* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler: The sheriff]] from ''Dark Ruins'' turns out to secretly be a death cultist who wants the Storm Goddess to kill all humans, since humans are terrible.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: The American ambassador]] from ''Allied Spies'' is secretly a traitor, forwarding intel to Major Kressler of the Germans.

* MultipleEndings: There's two outcomes in ''Covenant'' dependant on whether or no Sam accepts the offer at the end. [[spoiler:The person who was behind the events changes based off who you paired up with over the course of the game.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: Jay's body was never actually recovered from the avalanche that killed him. [[spoiler: It turns out that he's not dead after all.]]

* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: [[spoiler: ''Hidden Ruins'' ends with Professor Burns destroying the elixir.]]
* NonLinearSequel: Most of the games don't have any influence on each other. Even games starring the same protagonist, such as all the Kate Grey games, can be played in any order. The only exception being the Trapmaker trilogy.

* RedHerringMole: Early in ''Trapmaker'', Kate restores a robot that was reprogrammed to hostile, but the [[InterfaceSpoiler inventory item]] used to do this is the "supposedly fixed" robot brain, implying that the robot's helpful behavior might be an act. Kate mentions not trusting the robot if she examines it after the repair. Nothing comes of this. [[spoiler: The robot even dies saving Kate and Edna from a bomb.]]

** Due to the rules of old magic, the Storm Goddess needs a sacrifice to stop the storm. [[spoiler: Les]] volunteers, since he'll be dying soon anyways. [[spoiler: However the Storm Goddess counts the villains death as the sacrifice, since she never specified a voluntary death.]]
** The Hunger from ''Covenant'' demands that one of the party be sacrificed to it each night.

** QueensPuzzle: One drawer in ''Murder Inn'' is opened by solving the Queens Puzzle with a checker board.