History VideoGame / CatInTheBox

''Cat in the Box'' is an UsefulNotes/RPGMaker horror game released May 2020, and the sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Stygian}}''. It is available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, created by Gustav (the creator of ''VideoGame/{{Leave}}'' and ''VideoGame/TideUp'') and published by [=PsychoFlux=] Entertainment. It is available in Korean, English and Simplified Chinese.

''Cat in the Box'' is an UsefulNotes/RPGMaker horror game released May 2020, and the sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Stygian}}''. It is available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, created by Gustav and published by [=PsychoFlux=] Entertainment. It is available in Korean, English and Simplified Chinese.

* ApocalypticLog: You can find notes written by cult members and hidden audio tapes about a police officer infiltrating the cult to gather evidence and uncover what they're up to. You can also find a note telling you to get out or else become cursed [[spoiler:which is heavily implied to have been written by another version of the Girl]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:The stranger always has a bandaged eye, which is either from when she gouges the girl's eye out to coerce you into the ritual or from the manor's corruption causing her to possibly scratch it out from itchiness. It gets worse when tentacles start erupting from her socket.]]
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Completing the ritual requires sacrificing some part of yourself. In most cases, it's a finger amputated by a bolt cutter. Either the girl or the stranger will have her finger chopped off.]]
* FisherKingdom: [[spoiler:Staying in the manor for too long eventually turns people into some sort of tentacle monster.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The girl has a specific brand of chocolate as her TrademarkFavoritFood. [[spoiler:So does the stranger, who asks you for some twice. This hints at the stranger being an alternate self of the girl.]]

->"This is a story I came across in a book from my sister's shelf. It goes like this. [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat There is a cat inside a completely sealed box that one cannot see through. After an hour, there is a 50% chance that the cat will die.]] There is no way to know whether the cat is dead or alive until you open the box. After one hour, in what state would you find the [[TitleDrop cat inside the box]]?

-->"This is a story I came across in a book from my sister's shelf. It goes like this. [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat There is a cat inside a completely sealed box that one cannot see through. After an hour, there is a 50% chance that the cat will die.]] There is no way to know whether the cat is dead or alive until you open the box. After one hour, in what state would you find the [[TitleDrop cat inside the box]]?
--->-''Intro DictionaryOpening''

* WhamShot: Two in rapid succession in the endings. If the girl refuses to do [[spoiler:the ritual]], then the stranger will finally come out of the shadows, revealing [[spoiler:the same SackheadSlasher that had been chasing the girl during the early part of the game (though they are actually two alternate selves of each other), and then she removes the sack to show the exact same face as the girl, revealing that the stranger and the killer are two alternate versions of the girl]].