History VideoGame / Daymare1998

* EliteZombie: Three types, all of which first appear as bosses before becoming semi-regular mini-boss enemies. There's the Type-7, a larger, more muscular, and noticeably faster zombie that rather resembles the Tyrant (which is reinforced by the boss room you first fight it in), the Melted Man, which moves slowly but spits toxic phlegm, and the Castor H.A.D.E.S., a very tough and fast zombie created from H.A.D.E.S. soldiers.

* ActionSurvivor: While Liev is a black ops soldier, Sam is just a small town Firewatch lookout and Raven is a helicopter pilot with self-confidence issues and limited combat experience.

* TheChessmaster: The Cleaner, the GreaterScopeVillain and narrator, is a ManipulativeBastard who constantly uses chess metaphors in his story while describing how he secretly manipulated the events of the game.

* DamageSpongeBoss: The Abomination has so much health the game gives you infinite HandCannon rounds when you fight him.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Despite being the first player character, Liev is revealed as the game's main villain after the prologue level and eventually mutates into a powerful monster known as the Abomination. The real protagonists of the game are Sam and Raven.]]

* EvilGloating: Liev is a bit too fond of gloating rather than just getting straight to the point. [[spoiler: This ends up causing Raven to mistakenly believe he was the traitor, because he's too busy bragging about how he's going to execute Sandman to state that he was the traitor. In a later confrontation he once again gloats about getting the better of Sandman instead of just shooting him, and gets his arm torn off for his trouble.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Sandman betrayed Hexacorp and caused the outbreak in the hopes of saving his terminally ill daughter.]]

* NotMeThisTime: Liev is a {{Jerkass}} who's abrasive to his comrades and is a little too sadistic in silencing witnesses to be just a PunchClockVillain, but the end reveals that [[spoiler: it was Sandman who was the real traitor, and Liev was simply wrongly blamed.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Sam raves like an enraged crazy person whenever he interacts with other survivors, which really doesn't help his case when dealing with them. A small part of this might be due to his "Daymare syndrome", but it's made clear it's mostly just him not dealing with the stress of the situation very well [[spoiler: largely due to uncontrollable anger over the death of his wife]].

* DegradedBoss: The game's first boss, an unusually large and muscular zombie somewhat reminiscent of the Tyrant (a comparison reinforced by the room you fight him in), later appears throughout the game as a mini-boss of sorts.

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Despite being the first player character, Liev is revealed as the game's main villain after a couple of chapters and eventually mutates into a powerful monster known as the Abomination. The real protagonists of the game are Sam and Raven.]]

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. You don't reload from your ammo pool, but rather from filled magazines. You need to manually fill magazines in your inventory. This does not pause the game.

* DualBoss: The game's third boss fight is against a pair of boss mutants.

* SuperSoldier: [[spoiler: Pollux, a refined version of the zombie-creating Castor bioweapon, is supposed to create these. Unfortunately, the results are only stable for a limited time before their hormone levels get out of whack, at which point they inevitably mutate uncontrollably until their bodies self-destruct. Sandman seems to be a temporarily successful result, able to remain human long enough to defeat the Abomination hand-to-hand in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome before needing an antidote injection to prevent him from mutating.]]
* SurvivalHorror: Like its Resident Evil counterpart, Liev and the others need to carefully manage their ammo and navigate through the town while avoiding the creatures trying to kill them. Also your inventory size is rather limited, there's no place to store extra items, and at times your ability to backtrack is limited, so you need to decide what you want to keep and what you want to leave behind.

* IDidWhatIHadTo: [[spoiler: Sandman betrayed Hexacorp and caused the outbreak in the hopes of saving his terminally ill daughter.]]

* SurvivalHorror: Like its Resident Evil counterpart, Liev and the others need to carefully manage their ammo and navigate through the town while avoiding the creatures trying to kill them. Your inventory size is rather limited and there's no place to store extra items, so you need to decide what you want to keep and what you want to leave behind.

* AbortedArc: [[spoiler: The remains of an old Imperial Japanese Navy submarine seen in the abandoned Hexacore research facility at the start of the game is not further explored.]]

* AbortedArc: [[spoiler:The remains of an old Imperial Japanese Navy submarine seen in the abandoned Hexacore research facility at the start of the game is not further explored.]]

* SurvivalHorror: Like its Resident Evil counterpart, Liev and the others need to carefully manage their ammo and navigate through the town while avoiding the creatures trying to kill them.

* ZombieApocalypse: The town is swarming with zombies by the times HADES arrives and Liev is on the ground.

* SurvivalHorror: Like its Resident Evil counterpart, Liev and the others need to carefully manage their ammo and navigate through the town while avoiding the creatures trying to kil them.

* MilitariesAreUseless: Idaho National Guard soldiers are massively overwhelmed even if they had initial superior numbers and firepower against the infected.

The game was released on September 17, 2019.

''Daymare 1998'' is a third-person survival horror game with over the shoulder camera, developed in Unreal Engine 4 for Windows PC via Steam, the Playstation 4 and Xbox One by 2019 under Invaders Studios, published by Destructive Creations.

* MilitariesAreUseless: Idaho National Guard soldiers are massively overwhelmed even if they had initial superior numbers and firepowers against the infected.

Involved in the op is a (supposedly) ex-Russian soldier named Liev and chopper pilot Raven, the two being deployed in a HADES op to secure Keen Sight. The last survivor of KS is Samuel, who just so happens to be caught in the middle of the outbreak. He also happens to be medically diagnosed with a condition known as [[TitleDrop Daymare Syndrome]], which causes panic attacks and anxiety with random visions.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Between The U.S Government and Hexacorp.

Involved in the op is a (supposedly) ex-Russian soldier named Liev and chopper pilot Raven, the two being deployed in a HADES op to secure Keen Sight. The two work alongside park ranger Samuel, who just so happens to be caught in the middle of the outbreak. He also happens to be medically diagnosed with a condition known as [[TitleDrop Daymare Syndrome]], which causes panic attacks and anxiety with random visions.

''Daymare 1998'' is an upcoming third-person survival horror game with over the shoulder camera, developed in Unreal Engine 4 for Windows PC via Steam, the Playstation 4 and Xbox One by 2019 under Invaders Studios, published by Destructive Creations.

The game is due for an official release on September 17, 2019.