History VideoGame / DrownedGod

* AdaptedOut: Set and Nephthys are ignored and not mentioned by anyone else, which is strange since the reinterpretation of the Osiris myth makes up a large chunk of the backstory. Set is listed in what looks to be a family tree in the book in Binah along with other figures like Baphomet, Anubis, and Merlin, among others, but Nephthys is not.

The plot itself revolves around your character inheriting a mysterious device called the Bequest Globe, and upon entering your name you are shown several of your past lives and are assigned a number between 1 and 9 as well as a planetary symbol. The disembodied voice of your benefactor cryptically tells you to use the Globe's Cryptowheel to travel through time and discover the secret of the Drowned God.

''Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages'' (1996) is the brainchild of political cartoonist/children's book author/illustrator/musician Harry Horse (real name Richard Horne), and is the result of a creator being inspired by the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'' to collaborate with the short-lived British publisher Inscape and release a point-and-click adventure game based off a forged manuscript Horse created in the 80's that he previously passed off as the work of a real poet named Richard Horne (who coincidentally happened to share his birth name).

The plot itself revolves around your character inheriting a mysterious device called the Bequest Globe, and upon entering your name you are shown several of your past lives and are assigned a number between 1 and 9 as well as a planetary symbol. The disembodied voice of your benefactor cryptically tells you to use the Globe to travel through time and discover the secret of the Drowned God.

* CircusOfFear: Part of Din takes place in a 19th century/early 20th century carnival where you speak to UsefulNotes/CarlJung and a demented Creator/AleisterCrowley in a jack-in-the-box. There’s also a very creepy pair of large marble child statues.

* CreatorCameo: Richard Horne provides a few voices such as one of King Arthur's knights, a few of the radio transmissions, and the MJ12 messenger in Binah, the latter of which is depicted as a video of his mouth. And those are the ones that are obvious, it's possible that he voiced other characters, though it's hard to tell since the game doesn't list who voiced which characters.

->’’Welcome, my friend, to the Bequest Globe, my gift to you. I have waited a long time for your return to this place. Many times have you lived before; now, step across the threshold and the boundaries of this locked door that separates this life from those before, and go amid the realms behind. A word of warning, and then I go: Trust too deeply, and you’ll know the wickedness in men’s hearts. As above, so below… ''As above, so below…'' This is the secret of the [[TitleDrop Drowned God]].’’

Should you decide to play ''Drowned God'', [[NintendoHard you may need to keep a walkthrough handy,]] and if you search it up online be sure to use the full title given at the top of the page so you won’t get as many Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire results for their Drowned God. If you’re curious, there’s a behind-the-scenes promotional documentary that you can watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a6gotyso_g here.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Horus claims that he is the last of his kind, with the other aliens either having died during their civil war or during their time on Earth. [[spoiler: He's wrong.]]

* [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar The Knights Templar]]: Another one of the secret societies who protect the hidden knowledge of history. A drunk Templar guards the Holy Grail, and it is said that famous luminaries like Creator/LeonardoDaVinci and [[UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton Isaac Newton]] were members.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: In case you still thought Kether was trustworthy, at the end of the game he goes on a temporarily rant, raving about how there are no real conspiracies, and that the world is governed by chaos, but the entire story leading up to this point has shown that these are BlatantLies. He manages to compose himself soon after, but any remaining doubts you might have had about him are thrown out the window.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Going through the channels on the radio in Chokmah reveals a potential future in 1999, three years after the game’s release, where there are riots breaking out across America, the Star Wars project is still operational, a sinister corporation called Arcadia has wormed its way into many facets of life and culture, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bill Gates is a senator]].

* AllThereInTheManual: As detailed in BigLippedAlligatorMoment below, the Relic Hunter's presence in the game comes across as inexplicable. The [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BMhT-7X_gR5nw5egfKrD65MJieuU8ZZp/view manual]] details his backstory that he, like your player character, was once chosen to retrieve the relics from the realms, but that he failed at the task. The manual also provides a glossary for much of the people, places, and things that are namedropped throughout.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:

** When you return to the guy in the diving suit in the Din subway, he pulls a lever which produces a red mist that covers your vision, leading to an ArtShift of a 2-D/3-D vision of some kind showing yourself(?) going through an alien probing where they tell you to forget what happened. It’s ambiguous if this vision was your character remembering something that occurred in the past, if this was a vision of the future, or if the mist transported you to the probing and then put you right back where you were when it was over.

** Also in Din, there’s the elderly Relic Hunter who leads you around while babbling incoherently before getting killed by his doppelganger (or he kills the doppelganger?) who then acts like nothing happened, and then you receive Osiris’s missing hand.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game drops you in front of the Bequest Globe, and besides being chosen for the task of retrieving the artifacts, not much is told to you about who your player is supposed to be and why you’re there. The [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BMhT-7X_gR5nw5egfKrD65MJieuU8ZZp/view manual]] reveals that your player character is actually from the 19th century, and that the Bequest Globe was part of an inheritance received from an unknown person. It provides a loose summary of the game’s events told through your character writing letters to a friend, while also hinting at their fate which isn’t shown in the game, although it’s uncertain if this retelling is supposed to be the “canon” version since a few details are different. The manual also provides a glossary for much of the people, places, and things that are namedropped throughout.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: You fail to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant, and regardless of which ending you choose, humanity is probably screwed. Two of the endings plunge the world into submission under either the Illuminati or the Nephilim Lodge, and the third, which is probably the canonical ending and doesn’t have the Earth immediately dominated, has a promise that the Legion will arrive someday, but they have already been shown to have collaborated with various world governments to influence modern history. As a final kicker, if the game manual is meant to be canon, your character ends up as a FishOutOfTemporalWater in the then-present day, where they are viewed by psychiatrists as a crazy person trying to make a hoax out of their stories.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: The game drops you in front of the Bequest Globe, and besides being chosen for the task of retrieving the artifacts, not much is told to you about who your player is supposed to be and why you’re there. The manual reveals that your player character is actually from the 19th century, and that the Bequest Globe was part of an inheritance received from an unknown person. It provides a loose summary of the game’s events told through your character writing letters to a friend, while also hinting at their fate which isn’t shown in the game, although it’s uncertain if this retelling is supposed to be the “canon” version since a few details are different. The manual also provides a glossary for much of the people, places, and things that are namedropped throughout.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game drops you in front of the Bequest Globe, and besides being chosen for the task of retrieving the artifacts, not much is told to you about who your player is supposed to be and why you’re there. The [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BMhT-7X_gR5nw5egfKrD65MJieuU8ZZp/view manual]] reveals that your player character is actually from the 19th century, and that the Bequest Globe was part of an inheritance received from an unknown person. It provides a loose summary of the game’s events told through your character writing letters to a friend, while also hinting at their fate which isn’t shown in the game, although it’s uncertain if this retelling is supposed to be the “canon” version since a few details are different. The manual also provides a glossary for much of the people, places, and things that are namedropped throughout.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game drops you in front of the Bequest Globe, and besides being chosen for the task of retrieving the artifacts, not much is told to you about who your player is supposed to be and why you’re there. The manual reveals that your player character is actually from the 19th century, and that the Bequest Globe was part of an inheritance received from an unknown person. It provides a loose summary of the game’s events told through your character writing letters to a friend, while also hinting at their fate which isn’t shown in the game, although it’s uncertain if this retelling is supposed to be the “canon” version since a few details are different. The manual also provides a glossary for much of the people, places, and things that are namedropped throughout.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game drops you in front of the Bequest Globe, and besides being chosen for the task of retrieving the artifacts, not much is told to you about who your player is supposed to be and why you’re there. The [[http://myabandonware.unblocked.how/download/kbm-drowned-god-conspiracy-of-the-ages manual]] reveals that your player character is actually from the 19th century, and that the Bequest Globe was part of an inheritance received from an unknown person. It provides a loose summary of the game’s events told through your character writing letters to a friend, while also hinting at their fate which isn’t shown in the game, although it’s uncertain if this retelling is supposed to be the “canon” version since a few details are different. The manual also provides a glossary for much of the people, places, and things that are namedropped throughout.

** [[spoiler: The secret governmental organization Majestic Twelve were the ones to send The Man in Black to stop you from gathering all the artifacts, hoping to use it for their own purposes.]]

** Chokmah: Fire. Takes place in the arid southwest region of America, the sky is an apocalyptic shade of orange, and there's talk that the world is about to come to an end.

* WhoShotJFK: A CovertGroup of the U.S. government had him taken out for planning to reveal that they maintained a liaison with the alien visitors in the wake of Roswell.

Afterwards, you meet with two mysterious figures represented by floating masks called [[TheIlluminati Kether]] and [[MysteryCult Malchut]] who are opposed to each other, and each ask you to travel to four realms named Binah, Chesed, Din, and Chokmah that blend the historical with the fantastical, from Stonehenge to Area 51 to locations unique to this game. Each realm contains a powerful ancient relic that could change the world which Kether and Malchut implore you to retrieve for their side, but as your benefactor warned you, can you trust what anyone tells you?

** [[spoiler: The actual reveal involving the aliens is that there were other enclaves of aliens who call themselves Legion still remaining in outer space after the civil war which destroyed their original planet, and that the U.S. government managed to contact them after Roswell to make a sinister deal.]]

* MaleFrontalNudity: Osiris’s naked tattooed body is stored within the NOAH machine, and [[{{Squick}} his head and right hand are gone]].

* MaleFrontalNudity: Osiris’s naked tattooed body is stored within the NOAH machine, and, reminder, [[{{Squick}} his head and right hand are gone]].

Afterwards, you meet with two mysterious figures represented by floating masks called [[TheIlluminati Kether]] and [[MysteryCult Malchut]] who are opposed to each other, and each ask you to travel to four realms named Binah, Chesed, Din, and Chokmah that blend the historical with the fantastical, from Stonehenge to Area 51 to locations unique to this game. Each realm contains a powerful ancient relic that could change the world which Kether and Malchut implore you to retrieve for their side, but as your ancestor warned you, can you trust what anyone tells you?

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Looking past the Myst-style gameplay, ''Drowned God'' is definitely a product of the 90’s fascination with aliens and conspiracy theories alongside shows like ''Series/TheXFiles'' and movies like ''Film/IndependenceDay''. References are also made to then-contemporary cults including Aum Shinrikyo and The Order of the Solar Temple. It’s a downplayed example, however, as many of the ideas this game holds still hold weight or became even more popular in the conspiracy theory world later on, and the references to contemporary pop culture and history are minimal.

* TheUnintelligible: An unfortunately unintentional example, as one of the main problems with ‘’Drowned God’’ since its release is that inconsistent audio mixing renders half the dialogue extremely difficult if not impossible to understand, with no options for subtitles or changing the volume of the BGM, making an already hard-to-follow game even HARDER.