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* ApocalypticLog: You'll find a few of these on the various laptops scattered throughout the station that once belonged to the researchers. They provide some clues to the nature of the Black Snow that give you an idea of what may have happened, but not enough for anything concrete.
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* ImmuneToFire: A document on one of the researchers' laptops notes that the Black Snow is resistant to heat and this ring true. Dropping a flare only causes the fungus to shrink in repulsion of the light, but otherwise remains unharmed.
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* ImmuneToFire: A document on one of the researchers' laptops notes that the Black Snow is resistant to heat and this ring rings true. Dropping a flare only causes the fungus to shrink in repulsion of the light, but otherwise remains unharmed.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The Black Snow, despite its seemingly fungal properties, produces strange, ghostly-sounding whispers that further elevates the creep factor. One could make the argument that the voices are in Matsuda's head, as certain species of fungi can induce hallucinations, but since the game takes place through Matsuda's head cam, which also picks up the whispers, it is entirely possible that the Black Snow possesses supernatural qualities.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is a very aggressive, very contagious, parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light. That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end, why objects such as a wheel chair and the dead bodies of your crew can be moved without any external source, and why ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies. It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is a very aggressive, very highly contagious, parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light. That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end, why objects such as a wheel chair and the dead bodies of your crew can be moved without any external source, and why ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies. It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* TheVirus: The Black Snow functions like one, being highly contagious and pathogenic, similar to a fungus. One of the researchers presumes the infection is transmitted through spores, implying it could be airborne. Good thing you brought those gas masks.
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* ImmuneToFire: A document on one of the researchers' laptops notes that the Black Snow is resistant to heat and this ring true. Dropping a flare only causes the fungus to shrink in repulsion of the light, but otherwise remains unharmed.
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* KillEmAll: By the end of the game, the researchers, the assessment team, and very likely Matsuda himself have all perished.
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* FirstPersonGhost: Matsuda has no discernible character model, though it can be safely assumed his attire would be similar to that of his teammates.
* FreewareGame: The mod is completely free of charge, the only requirement being ownership of the ''Half-Life 2'' base game, which most downloaders are likely to have anyway.
* FreewareGame: The mod is completely free of charge, the only requirement being ownership of the ''Half-Life 2'' base game, which most downloaders are likely to have anyway.
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* DarkIsEvil: Whatever's lurking in the dark can only stay there. It turns out that the fungus actively avoids all light sources.
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* DarkIsEvil: Whatever's lurking DarknessEqualsDeath: Typically, you'll want to avoid staying in the dark for long periods of time as the Black Snow thrives in dark environments and can only stay there. It turns out that the fungus actively avoids cut through your health within a few hits. Naturally, it's adverse to any and all light sources.
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** Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
** Despite the game being presented as a found footage, [[spoiler:the player can experience a hallucination of a man watching you from a hill, and the camera somehow captures this]].
** Despite the game being presented as a found footage, [[spoiler:the player can experience a hallucination of a man watching you from a hill, and the camera somehow captures this]].
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** Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
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** Despite the game being presented as a found footage,[[spoiler:the the player can experience a hallucination of a man watching you from a hill, and the camera somehow captures this]].this.
** Despite the game being presented as a found footage,
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up, throwing him through the window, and he lands through the roof of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up, throwing him through the window, and he lands through the roof of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
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** [[spoiler:The ending displays the faces of what appears to be the researchers the Black Snow consumed as Matsuda's feed cuts out.]]
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** [[spoiler:The The ending displays the faces of what appears to be the researchers the Black Snow consumed as Matsuda's feed cuts out.]]
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* DarkIsEvil: Whatever's lurking in the dark can only stay there. [[spoiler:It turns out that the fungus actively avoids all light sources.]]
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* DarkIsEvil: Whatever's lurking in the dark can only stay there. [[spoiler:It It turns out that the fungus actively avoids all light sources.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light]]. That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] why objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the dead bodies of your crew]] can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies]]. It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
* LateToTheTragedy: The researchers are long dead by the time Matsuda's team reaches the station at the start of the game, meaning they're completely unprepared and easy pickings for the Black Snow.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is[[spoiler:a a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light]]. light. That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] end, why objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the the dead bodies of your crew]] crew can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies]].dies. It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
* LateToTheTragedy: The researchers are long dead by the time Matsuda's team reaches the station at the start of the game, meaning they're completely unprepared and easy pickings for the Black Snow.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is
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* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Matsuda finally makes it to the communications tower, but the place is rigged with C4 before he can do anything, and he's blasted out a window. As he apparently dies, an aurora forms over him — which would be beautiful if [[NightmareFace the faces of the victims]] and caves didn't flash on the camera before the feed cuts out for real. The C4 was presumably rigged by a shadowy figure that's been tracking Matsuda... but the developers keep mum on the issue.]]
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* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Matsuda Matsuda finally makes it to the communications tower, but the place is rigged with C4 before he can do anything, and he's blasted out a window. As he apparently dies, an aurora forms over him — which would be beautiful if [[NightmareFace the faces of the victims]] and caves didn't flash on the camera before the feed cuts out for real. The C4 was presumably rigged by a shadowy figure that's been tracking Matsuda... but the developers keep mum on the issue.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The ghost-like beings known as the Black Snow are apparently a species of predatory fungus, yet do seem to possess seemingly paranormal abilities. They thrive in the dark, but fear light.]]
* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma. [[spoiler:The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and seemingly killing Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]
* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma. [[spoiler:The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and seemingly killing Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The The ghost-like beings known as the Black Snow are apparently a species of predatory fungus, yet do seem to possess seemingly paranormal abilities. They thrive in the dark, but fear light.]]
* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
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* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma.[[spoiler:The The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and seemingly killing Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]nowhere.
* RedShirt: Matsuda's entire team. They don't receive much characterization and are all unceremoniously killed by the Black Snow before the game starts proper.
* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma.
* RedShirt: Matsuda's entire team. They don't receive much characterization and are all unceremoniously killed by the Black Snow before the game starts proper.
* SnowedIn: The blizzard and below-zero temperatures bar Matsuda from leaving the station, and he will start freezing to death if he stays out too long.
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* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The game in a nutshell. Matsuda can either freeze to death in the cold or brave the hostile fungus that's taken over the station and actively trying to kill him.
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* DroneOfDread: The game makes effective use of one to keep up the atmosphere and tension, even when the player isn't actively being chased.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Matsuda is apparently killed by C4 rigged in the communications tower that blows him through the window and onto the roof of the station, which collapses in on itself. The game ends before it can truly confirm if Matsuda died, but chances of his survival are very slim.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Matsuda is apparently killed by C4 rigged in the communications tower that blows him through the window and onto the roof of the station, which collapses in on itself. The game ends before it can truly confirm if Matsuda died, but chances of his survival are very slim.
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* ImpededCommunication: The primary impetus behind the game's plot. When the research station goes dark, Matsuda's team is sent to investigate, then everything goes to hell.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The fate of Matsuda's squad leader, the implication being that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to avoid being killed by the Black Snow.
* BlobMonster: The black fungus Matsuda encounters throughout the station is extremely harmful to the touch, but is otherwise stationary and easily avoided. The one that lurks in the dark, on the other hand...
* BlobMonster: The black fungus Matsuda encounters throughout the station is extremely harmful to the touch, but is otherwise stationary and easily avoided. The one that lurks in the dark, on the other hand...
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* ClosedCircle: Nightfall and the below-zero temperatures make it impossible for Matsuda to leave the station without getting lost and freezing to death, and with the comms still down, he can't radio for help, either, and is effectively trapped with the hostile lifeform that has overrun the station.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Black Snow is the hostile fungus that killed off the researchers and Matsuda's team, and terrorizes Matsuda as he makes his way through the station.
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* SilentProtagonist: John Matsuda, the protagonist and PlayerCharacter, never says a word. The most the player can get out of him is his observations when interacting with objects.
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: Guess how well ''that'' goes!
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: Matsuda's job in a nutshell was to investigate a communications failure at the research station. Guess how well ''that'' goes!
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* TemptingFate: At the start of the game, as Matsuda's team is making their sweep of the Amaluuk Research Station, one of his teammates remarks, "What's the worst that can happen?" Cue the entire team, sans Matsuda, getting slaughtered by the entity mere hours later.
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* EerieArcticResearchStation: Your player character John Matsuda is an IT specialist being chugged out to the Amaluuk Research Station in Greenland with several other "IT specialists" to investigate why the station's gone dark a week ago.
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* EerieArcticResearchStation: Your player character John Matsuda is an IT specialist being chugged out to the Amaluuk Research Station in Greenland with several other "IT specialists" to investigate why the station's gone dark a week ago. What's supposed to be a routine service leaves all of your coworkers separated, dead, or worse, and, as nightfall and below-zero temperatures take over the station, leaves you to find out what's happened.
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It's been a week since the Amaluuk Research Station's gone dark. It might just be a severed landline - it ''is'' in the middle of snow-battered nowhere, somewhere in Greenland - or it just might be the death of you.
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It's been a week since the Amaluuk Research Station's gone dark. It might just be a severed landline - — it ''is'' in the middle of snow-battered nowhere, somewhere in Greenland - — or [[DarknessEqualsDeath it just might be the death of you.
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: There are a few logical inconsistancies ranging from the in game mechanics and story.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up throwing him through the window, and he lands through the roof of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
* CameraAbuse: Played with, in-universe. Everything the player sees is really Matsuda's head-mounted camera. The intro has a skewed, wobbly, panicked angle - which fits the fact Matsuda just saw several men get devoured by darkness.
* CameraAbuse: Played with, in-universe. Everything the player sees is really Matsuda's head-mounted camera. The intro has a skewed, wobbly, panicked angle - which fits the fact Matsuda just saw several men get devoured by darkness.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up up, throwing him through the window, and he lands through the roof of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
* CameraAbuse: Played with, in-universe. Everything the player sees is really Matsuda's head-mounted camera. The intro has a skewed, wobbly, panicked angle- — which fits the fact that Matsuda just saw several men get devoured by darkness.
* CameraAbuse: Played with, in-universe. Everything the player sees is really Matsuda's head-mounted camera. The intro has a skewed, wobbly, panicked angle
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* DrivenToSuicide: Matsuda finds several people - his squad leader, most notably - appearing to have committed suicide, but in the case of his squad leader, he sees a gunshot wound, but no gun, and one body that he surmises to have committed suicide has no exterior trauma.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Matsuda finds several people - — his squad leader, most notably - — appearing to have committed suicide, but in the case of his squad leader, he sees a gunshot wound, but no gun, and one body that he surmises to have committed suicide has no exterior trauma.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] why objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the dead bodies of your crew]] can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies.]] It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] light]]. That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] why objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the dead bodies of your crew]] can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies.]] dies]]. It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Matsuda finally makes it to the communications tower, but the place is rigged with C4 before he can do anything, and he's blasted out a window. As he apparently dies, an aurora forms over him - — which would be beautiful if [[NightmareFace the faces of the victims]] and caves didn't flash on the camera before the feed cuts out for real. The C4 was presumably rigged by a shadowy figure that's been tracking Matsuda... but the developers keep mum on the issue.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The ghost like beings known as the Black Snow are apparently a species of predatory fungus, yet do seem to possess seemingly paranormal abilities. They thrive in the dark, but fear light.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The ghost like [[spoiler:The ghost-like beings known as the Black Snow are apparently a species of predatory fungus, yet do seem to possess seemingly paranormal abilities. They thrive in the dark, but fear light.]]
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod was made '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update. A patch was released in December 2015, though its stability is somewhat contested.
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod was made '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update. A patch was released in December 2015, though its stability is somewhat contested.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] why a objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the dead bodies of your crew]] can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies.]] It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] why a objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the dead bodies of your crew]] can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies.]] It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod is '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update, and the developers have [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow/news/the-future5 publicly stated]] that they have [[AbandonWare no intention of fixing it any time soon]].
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod is was made '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update, and the developers have [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow/news/the-future5 publicly stated]] that they have [[AbandonWare no intention of fixing it any time soon]].
update. A patch was released in December 2015, though its stability is somewhat contested.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up throwing him through the window, and he lands through the rough of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up throwing him through the window, and he lands through the rough roof of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up throwing him through the window, and he lands through the rough of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up throwing him through the window, and he lands through the rough of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The ending is hardly an ending at all, as it simply ends with Matsuda making it to the communications tower, only to find the place rigged with C4. The tower blows up throwing him through the window, and he lands through the rough of a building. Mortally wounded, he looks at the sky to see an aurora, and the camera soon cuts to several flashy scenes before going dark. Matsuda's true fate is unknown, although it seems quite unlikely that he survived.
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* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma. [[spoiler:The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and kill Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]
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* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma. [[spoiler:The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and kill seemingly killing Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: There are a few logical inconsistancies ranging from the in game mechanics and story.
** Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
** Despite the game being presented as a found footage, [[spoiler:the player can experience a hallucination of a man watching you from a hill, and the camera somehow captures this.]]
** Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
** Despite the game being presented as a found footage, [[spoiler:the player can experience a hallucination of a man watching you from a hill, and the camera somehow captures this.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda dies.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] why a objects such as a wheel chair and [[spoiler:the dead bodies of your crew]] can be moved without any external source, and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda apparently dies.]]]] It is entirely possible that a paranormal element is at play here.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The ghost like beings known as the Black Snow are apparently a species of predatory fungus, yet do seem to possess seemingly paranormal abilities. They thrive in the dark, but fear light.]]
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod us '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update, and the developers have [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow/news/the-future5 publicly stated]] that they have [[AbandonWare no intention of fixing it any time soon]].
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod us is '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update, and the developers have [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow/news/the-future5 publicly stated]] that they have [[AbandonWare no intention of fixing it any time soon]].
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Instead of a trope, I put the Abandonware info in the description
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]].
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A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]]. Please note that as of August 1st 2013, the mod us '''unplayable''' following a steamPipe update, and the developers have [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow/news/the-future5 publicly stated]] that they have [[AbandonWare no intention of fixing it any time soon]].
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It's been a week since the Amaluuk Research Station's gone dark. It might just be a severed landline - it ''is'' in the middle of snow-battered nowhere, somewhere in Greenland - or it just might be the death of you.
You're John Matsuda, an IT specialist being chugged out to the Amaluuk Research Station with several other "IT specialists" to investigate why the station's gone dark. What's supposed to be a routine service leaves all of your coworkers separated, dead, or worse, and, as nightfall and below-zero temperatures take over the station, leaves you to find out what's happened.
A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]].
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
* AirVentPassageway: Used to break into a barricaded dormitory room.
* CameraAbuse: Played with, in-universe. Everything the player sees is really Matsuda's head-mounted camera. The intro has a skewed, wobbly, panicked angle - which fits the fact Matsuda just saw several men get devoured by darkness.
** [[spoiler:The ending displays the faces of what appears to be the researchers the Black Snow consumed as Matsuda's feed cuts out.]]
** Each time the player dies, it's technically this: the camera spits out a "missing track" or "corrupted data" error.
* DarkIsEvil: Whatever's lurking in the dark can only stay there. [[spoiler:It turns out that the fungus actively avoids all light sources.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Matsuda finds several people - his squad leader, most notably - appearing to have committed suicide, but in the case of his squad leader, he sees a gunshot wound, but no gun, and one body that he surmises to have committed suicide has no exterior trauma.
* FridgeLogic: In-universe: one of Matsuda's teammates grumps about supposed "IT technicians" being equipped with firearms, military gear, and hazmat suits on the way to the research station.
* FoundFootage: The entire game is this: you're viewing the footage obtained by the player character.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda dies.]]
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Whoever embedded an ice vehicle's key in a cinder brick and put the code to the communication tower on various X-Rays with creepy euphemisms for each shown organ or bone really needs therapy.
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Matsuda finally makes it to the communications tower, but the place is rigged with C4 before he can do anything, and he's blasted out a window. As he apparently dies, an aurora forms over him - which would be beautiful if [[NightmareFace the faces of the victims]] and caves didn't flash on the camera before the feed cuts out for real. The C4 was presumably rigged by a shadowy figure that's been tracking Matsuda... but the developers keep mum on the issue.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the game is utterly empty, beyond the dark, oppressive nature of the station and its remoteness. Even the enemies themselves aren't ''anything'' but roiling clouds of wispy smoke.
* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma. [[spoiler:The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and kill Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Guess how well ''that'' goes!
* ShoutOut: The dog kennel is a perfect recreation of the one from ''Film/TheThing1982''. Given that said movie was one of the major influences...
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You're John Matsuda, an IT specialist being chugged out to the Amaluuk Research Station with several other "IT specialists" to investigate why the station's gone dark. What's supposed to be a routine service leaves all of your coworkers separated, dead, or worse, and, as nightfall and below-zero temperatures take over the station, leaves you to find out what's happened.
A ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' game mod, you can download it [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-snow here]].
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Heat heals everything. [[spoiler:Even what's basically animated darkness choking and freezing you to death in an attempt to use your body as a food source.]]
* AirVentPassageway: Used to break into a barricaded dormitory room.
* CameraAbuse: Played with, in-universe. Everything the player sees is really Matsuda's head-mounted camera. The intro has a skewed, wobbly, panicked angle - which fits the fact Matsuda just saw several men get devoured by darkness.
** [[spoiler:The ending displays the faces of what appears to be the researchers the Black Snow consumed as Matsuda's feed cuts out.]]
** Each time the player dies, it's technically this: the camera spits out a "missing track" or "corrupted data" error.
* DarkIsEvil: Whatever's lurking in the dark can only stay there. [[spoiler:It turns out that the fungus actively avoids all light sources.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Matsuda finds several people - his squad leader, most notably - appearing to have committed suicide, but in the case of his squad leader, he sees a gunshot wound, but no gun, and one body that he surmises to have committed suicide has no exterior trauma.
* FridgeLogic: In-universe: one of Matsuda's teammates grumps about supposed "IT technicians" being equipped with firearms, military gear, and hazmat suits on the way to the research station.
* FoundFootage: The entire game is this: you're viewing the footage obtained by the player character.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Black Snow is [[spoiler:a very aggressive, very contagious, and very parasitic fungal spore that flourishes in dark environments of any sort, but is repelled by any visible light.]] That doesn't, however, explain the ghostly voices and noises it makes, the groan it emits as it attacks, why it actively follows you, why its presence as a Slenderman-like figure appeared in the psyche of several research team members prior to it being dug up, [[spoiler:why said figure watches you from a laptop's wallpaper and in a hallucination, and seems to lead you into a trap at the end,]] and why [[spoiler:ghostly faces and images of a cave splash past at certain points, most notably when Matsuda dies.]]
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Whoever embedded an ice vehicle's key in a cinder brick and put the code to the communication tower on various X-Rays with creepy euphemisms for each shown organ or bone really needs therapy.
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Matsuda finally makes it to the communications tower, but the place is rigged with C4 before he can do anything, and he's blasted out a window. As he apparently dies, an aurora forms over him - which would be beautiful if [[NightmareFace the faces of the victims]] and caves didn't flash on the camera before the feed cuts out for real. The C4 was presumably rigged by a shadowy figure that's been tracking Matsuda... but the developers keep mum on the issue.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the game is utterly empty, beyond the dark, oppressive nature of the station and its remoteness. Even the enemies themselves aren't ''anything'' but roiling clouds of wispy smoke.
* JitterCam: The intro, reflecting Matsuda blindly fleeing whatever the hell just ate his teammates. It goes away after that, thankfully.
* RedHerring: ''Loads'' of them. Early on, the site AI comments it's only operating at 30% power, possibly hinting at there being a task to get the generators online so it can fill you in on the details it can't at the time you meet it. Additionally, there's one computer that has its access locked, and another which has seemingly had all information wiped clean from it. You can interact with both of these, but in no meaningful way. You also find quite a few corpses smelling strongly of vinegar or with no obvious external trauma. [[spoiler:The presence of someone watching you and planting C4 in the end to destroy the communication tower and kill Matsuda also really leads nowhere.]]
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Guess how well ''that'' goes!
* ShoutOut: The dog kennel is a perfect recreation of the one from ''Film/TheThing1982''. Given that said movie was one of the major influences...
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