History VideoGame / AloneInTheDark2024

* SubtitlesAreSuperfluous: While most of the game has subtitles, the actual audio that accompanies any documents/items the player picks up isn't even when it goes far from the written text. (For instance, a document found early on mentions "A Goat without horns" without context on the text but the voice over makes it clear the writer overheard it as well as including an entirely unsubtitled conversation by the writer and a store clerk.)

-> [[spoiler:'''Carnby:''' No, Emily. I get it now! [The Horned Goat] needed me to break the pact. She needed ''me'' to bring her Grace! I did ''[[SuddenlyShouting everything for her!]] I just realized I belong here!'' '''''I'm one of her YOOOOUNG!''''']]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Breaking the Pact between Jeremy and the Dark Man frees Jeremy from his curse, but opens the way for the other Derceto residents, who are all Shub-Niggurath cultists, to sacrifice Grace to the Black Goat. When Carnby and Emily interfere by preventing Grace from being sacrificed, this escalates things even further by summoning an avatar of the Black Goat itself into the world.]]

** [[spoiler:[[{{PlayedWith|Trope}} Played with]] regarding [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Shub-Niggurath]]'s in-game depiction. The current-day cultists only ever refer to their patron Outer God as the Black Goat, while documents indicate previous iterations of the cult have called her by her true name.]]

* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: [[spoiler:When Jeremy is pressed on the identity of the Dark Man, he reveals it to be [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]], only to ramble off his full OverlyLongName. Regardless of whether Carnby or Emily is the player character, both will agree it's better for Nyarlathotep to continue be referenced as the Dark Man.]]

* JokeEnding: By completing the "All The World's A Stage" Lagniappes set [[spoiler: you'll get the option to give Grace "something to play with" before the final boss, doing so cuts to her playing with the toy talisman while Carnby and Emily leave a play that was the events of the game,with it suddenly turning out they're Grace's parents and then leaving while Carnby says the play left him "Alone in the Dark" and Emily proceeds to say the play should have had a hedgemaze and pirates, two of the most infamously derided parts of the second game.]]

** Melee weapons only degrade if they actually hit the enemy so hitting them against walls won't damage them though they'll still take damage hitting dead enemies.

* FantasticNoir: As shown in the spotlight preview, the game sees hard-boiled detective Carnby and his client Emily work to solve a noir-esque mystery with a jazz soundtrack... while occasionally battling monsters.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Jeremy's pact with the Dark Man was this, allowing the Dark Man to take his soul for eternity but prevent the Black Goat from escaping Derceto.]]

** ''Radical Acceptance'' [[spoiler: which is triggered by collecting the ''Dying with Dignity'' set and then moving the movement controls down and then right when Emily is about to commit suicide will cause her to wake up inside the Dark Man's temple with a bunch of cultists as well as Grace and Ruth both wearing their paper mache masks as Dr Grey asks her what she sees, she says she sees the Temple everytime she closes her eyes and that she's "not afraid..not anymore."]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Whoever you didn't pick at the start will show up with their handgun and a Molotov Cocktail to interrupt the Black Goat's ritual, saving Grace from being hanged and preemptively injuring the Black Goat with the Molotov.]]

** Taken even further in [[spoiler: Carnby's bad ending where he claims that him breaking the pact was the Black Goats plan all along as he joins the cult and lets Grace be sacrificed resulting in TheBadGuyWins.]]