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* DropTheHammer: Anne pulls out a sledgehammer to defend herself from the birds with, and the player can be given it to wield for themselves.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The Enabler ending has the ensemble cast dead, and the Unnamed transforming into another shrike.]]

* HeyYou: Schmitt almost always refers to the Unnamed as "boy". [[{{Jerkass}} misgendering them to get under their skin]].

* PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration: Of the Controller type, with the Unnamed having enough details (such as HiddenEyes and gender-neutral pronouns, although justified in the latter case) that players can latch onto them in some way. [[spoiler:The Remorse ending however reveals that this is a case of an Advisor example, where the Unnamned confesses to Anne that they're not fully in control of their actions and words, and she recognizes this and aids in freeing them of the player's control.]]

* TitleDrop: The noise that the Unnamned hears after they go outside for a smoke is referred to as the titular outcry, and the games gets a proper drop with the nearby suddenly-talking shrike asking them if they followed or ignored an outcry after making the branching choice. [[spoiler:In the Remorse ending, another title drop occurs when Anne finds the manuscript of the game itself.]]

The game follows a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} nonbinary]] protagonist, known as the Unnamed, who hears a hellish noise after asking around for a smoke and chooses whether to investigate it. Meanwhile, birds are mysteriously flocking around them.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Enabler" path, the Unnamed [[BirdPeople has a beak growing out of their face and the orange eyes of the birds]].]]

* AssholeVictim: Discussed. [[spoiler:In the ignore path, Anne points out that even though Schmitt and Eisen are thoroughly unpleasant, neither of them deserved to die over their behavior. And even if they did, Yildirim was an innocent victim.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The Ursa Minor ending has the Unnamed, Anne, Yildirim, and her children survive. But it's at the cost of [[spoiler:their apartment burning down, the presumed deaths of everyone else inside including Eisen, and with an uncertain future]].

* ColorCodedCharacters: Each of the characters have distinct coloration to them. The Unnamed is purple, Anne is a yellowish green, Mr. Schmidt and Gerturd are a pinkish red, Ms. Yildrim is blue, and the shrikes and Birdness are a darker shade of green-blue.

** As part of their backstory, [[spoiler:the Unnamed recounts how they imagined themselves walking into busy traffic before being able to pull themselves out from that brink]].

* EvilLaugh: Birdness adorns his speech with variants of "keh keh keh" and "kay kay kay".

* GuileHero: In the Follow path, the player is encouraged to withstand attacks and exhaust opponents to make an escape rather than staying to fight them. [[spoiler:And it is how to win the otherwire HopelessBossFight.]]
* HiddenEyes: There are shadows over the Unnamed's eyes in both their overworld sprite and character portraits. [[spoiler:There are a few points where the shadow goes away.]]

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Played straight in the Ignore path regarding Yildrim's children, as [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Anne saves them off-screen]] after they attack the family [[spoiler:whereas nearly everyone else dies in that path]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In comparison to [[{{Jerkass}} Schmitt and Eisen]], it's clear that Ms. Yildrim is trying to be more respectful about the Unnamed's gender-identity, but her lack of knowledge surrounding it can make her fall into this trope.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the end of the "Enabler" path, [[spoiler:Anne rips into the Unnamed hard for being a bystander to the birds killing everyone and no matter how rude the neighbors ever were to them, none of them deserved to die for it]].

* SuddenlyVoiced: The game is text on screen, but partway in the lead bird suddenly begins to speak with proper voice acting.

* FauxAffablyEvil: The shrikes that speak often have an air of pleasantness to their tone when addressing the Unnamned, treating them at times like an old friend. They still mean to kill or convert them, often dropping the affable part when doing so.

* MurderByInaction: In the Ignore path, [[spoiler:the Unnamned allows the other characters to die around them without lifting a finger to help]].

* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:The Unnamned is arguably this in the Ignore path, as they encourage or ignore everyone else to die to the shrikes knowingly or unknowingly. The player can subvert this if they go for the Remorse ending rather than the Enabler path.]]

* ColorCodedCharacters: Each of the characters have distinct coloration to them. The unnamed is purple, Anne is a yellowish green, Mr. Schmidt and Gerturd are a pinkish red, Ms. Yildrim is blue, and the shrikes and Birdness are a darker shade of green-blue.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The unnamed has a doozy of a one involving [[spoiler:being emotionally and sexually abused by their ex Alex, to the point where they were DrivenToSuicide but ended up not going through with it]].
* DeadpanSnarker: The unnamed and Schmitt often go back-to-back on snarking at each other in a less friendly manner, but Anne exudes good-natured sarcasm whenever she invites the unnamed over to her apartment.

* WithholdingTheirName: To the point where the game's narration withholds the main character's name from the player. The unnamed is a shut-in, and it is later revealed that they haven't given their names out to most of their neighbors.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The unnamed has a doozy of a one involving [[spoiler:being emotionally and sexually abused by their then-therapist Alex, to the point where they were DrivenToSuicide but ended up not going through with it]].

* TheNameless: The Unnamed themselves, of course. It is later revealed to be [[spoiler:Aster]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unknown what happens to Schmitt after [[spoiler:he sets fire to the apartment and bails]] in the Follow path, although the bird narrator says that he didn't make it far.

* ActionSurvivor: The Unnamed is clearly out of their wits and are stated to be reluctant to fight at the beginning of every encounter. Still, it is possible for them to make it to the end.

* BittersweetEnding: The Ursa Minor ending has the Unnamed, Anne, and Yildirim and her children survive. But it's at the cost of [[spoiler:their apartment burning down, the presumed deaths of everyone else inside including Eisen, and with an uncertain future]].

* ContentWarnings: The game gives content warnings that the game deals with [[TransTribulations depictions of transphobia]], mental health and suicidal themes, and animal abuse. With the option of opting out on the last one.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: In comparison to [[{{Jerkass}} Schmidt and Gertrude]], it's clear that Ms. Yildrim is trying to be more respectful about the Unnamed's gender-identity, but her lack of knowledge surrounding it can make her fall into this trope at times.

* OneLastSmoke: In the "Enabler" path, [[spoiler:a dying Anne sits next to the Unnamed as she slowly bleeds to death as they smoke together]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Horst Schmitt is a piece of work. Not only does he frequently harass the Unnamed for being nonbinary, but he calls Yildirim a slur in an argument. [[spoiler:It's also possible for him to burn the apartment down at the request of the birds, putting him into villain territory.]]

* TransTribulations: The nonbinary Unnamed faces a lot of tribulation from their neighbors who, intentionally or [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally]], don't understand what they are going through or intentionally misgendering them or deadnaming them to try to provoke a reaction.

* ContentWarnings: The game gives content warnings that the game deals with [[TransTribulations deceptions of transphobia]], mental health and suicidal themes, and animal abuse. With the option of opting out on the last one.

** [[spoiler:The Suicide ending is this as a BetterToDieThanBeKilled example.]]

* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Played with, and deconstructed. [[spoiler:While the Unnamed is nonbinary, they used to have long blue hair with pink highlights until they gave themselves an ImportantHaircut. Because of their demure nature, they were taken advantage of by Alex until they shaved their head, in part to try to get him to less attractive to them.]]

''Don't disappear like the smoke into the night.''

[[caption-width-right:350:''Have a smoke, settle down.'']]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Enabler" path, the Unnamed [[BirdPeople as a beak growing out of their face and the orange eyes of the birds]].]]

* DrivenToSuicide: As part of their backstory, [[spoiler:the Unnamed recounts how they imagined themselves walking into busy traffic before being able to pull themselves out from that brink]].

A demo of the game was featured on the ''Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021'', and the game was fully released on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817470/An_Outcry/ Steam]] and [[https://quinnk.itch.io/an-outcry Itch.io]].

A demo of the game was featured on the ''Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021'', and the game was fully released on Steam and Itch.io.