History VideoGame / Dusk

* SecretLevel: One per episode. [[spoiler:The entrance to The Dim Slough is located in E1M2 (Down On The Farm) , while the entrance to The Foundry is in E2M4 (The Infernal Machine)]].

!! The town of Dusk contains the following:

** The very first level is named "Head Cheese", which is the original name given to ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacre''. The level itself is reminiscent of the movie, being an isolated house full of HillbillyHorrors.

** An enemy found in Episode 2 is a female cyborg with a rocket launcher. [[VideoGame/Quake2 Iron Maidens, anyone?]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to Dusk. Population: A lot of [[AxCrazy crazed]] chainsaw-wielding madmen.]]

* AxCrazy: Everyone in the town. If the bagheaded, chainsaw wielding madman aren't a tipoff, then perhaps the floating, fireball chucking cultists will be?

* CerebusSyndrome: The first episode is a badass brawl against a town full of madmen, ending in your victory. The second episode takes place in military complexes in a much more intense fight for survival, and the locations get darker and darker over time, such as you descending into a massive [[spoiler: HumanResources harvesting plant called the Thresher.]]

* InvisibleMonsters: The Banshees, introduced in the second episode.

* ScareChord: Plays when you reveal a Banshee.

* EternalEngine: [=E2M4=], The Infernal Machine, takes place in one. Namely, the "Thresher" you got into in the previous level.

* BuffySpeak: The powerup that lets you climb walls is literally called "the climbing thing".

* ShortRangeShotgun: Averted with the lever action shotgun, which is decent at medium range, but played completely with the double barrel Super Shotgun, which utterly annihilates enemies at point blank range but can't hit the broad side of a barn at a few feet.

* AlienGeometries: In full effect in [=E2M5=], The Escher Labs.

The plot [[ExcusePlot (what little there is)]] is essentially thus: your FirstPersonGhost player character named "Dusk Dude" is a treasure hunter by trade. After learning of a "hidden treasure" hidden below the abandoned town of [[TitleDrop Dusk]], he sets out to see what he can find- only to be knocked out and hung up on meat-hooks by an [[HillbillyHorrors insane hillbilly]]. After wrenching himself free and fending off his attackers, Dusk Dude slowly learns of a more serious threat- something from [[EldritchAbomination beyond the pale of our reality]] has touched the redneck residents of Dusk, and it is driving them to do horrible things to each other. Armed with an arsenal of old-fashioned guns, incredible physical abilities, and a whole lotta moxie, Dusk Dude sets out to stop the cultists the only way he knows how: with the business end of a shotgun.

* AlienGeometries: In full effect in E2M5, The Escher Labs.

* GunTwirling: The "R" key does this instead of reloading. This also doubles as a weak melee attack if the gun hits an enemy.

* {{Retraux}}: The art style closely emulates early 3D first-person shooters of the 1990's, especially those that used the ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' engine. Options are available for retro purists to turn off texture filtering and enable a low-resolution mode for an authentic 90's look.

* ScareChord: Plays one when you reveal a Banshee.

** The effects of the serum powerup introduced in Episode 2 is one to ''VideoGame/{{Superhot}}''.

* {{Badass}}: Dusk Dude lives up to the reputation of his inspiration by ''tearing himself off of meathooks'' as his first in-game action, and then he uses said meathooks to butcher his captors.

* {{Badass}}: Dusk Dude lives up to the reputation of his inspiration by ''tearing himself off of meathooks'' as his first in-game action, and then he uses said meathooks to butcher his captives.