History VideoGame / LaterAlligator

Released in 2019, the game is [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/966320/Later_Alligator/ available]] on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and on [[https://pillowfight.itch.io/later-alligator itch.io]]. A port for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was released in 2021, including a [[https://www.fangamer.com/collections/later-alligator/products/later-alligator-nintendo-switch-game physical version]] available on Fangamer.

** The Knife is quite clearly just [[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Alligator Goro Majima]].

* FunnyAnimal: The game is set in a world of anthropomorphic alligators.

* TheHerosBirthday: The game takes place on Pat's birthday. Although not the player character, he is the one the story revolves around.

* AntiFrustrationFeature: The update that added Mona and Dad to the family tree also allowed the player to skip the previously-unskippable Pat minigames, replacing them with a phone call that takes up a similar in-game amount of time. [[EasterEgg You can actually scroll through the phone's text logs and see the entire conversation if you don't immediately click it shut after]]. After getting the majority of family tree pictures, you can also just skip to "the Event" at any time by talking to Bub the waiter.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Defied; both Pat and Joanie are mentioned to see therapists weekly. In the TrueEnding, Pat specifically mentions that he's going to be relaying the events of the game to his therapist they next time they meet.

* StylisticSuck: Pat's website looks like a Geocities page from the 90s, complete with poorly animated gifs and broken image links.

* TheUnTwist: The game stacks on pile after pile of foreshadowing, suggesting that [[spoiler:"The Event" is really just a surprise birthday party for Pat.]] By the time you actually reach the climax, the game is all but yodeling it out loud. Derry will even ''tell you directly''. [[spoiler:Sure enough, this turns out to be the case, because the entire set-up was just a distraction from the ''real'' twist.]]

** Tall Jared's phone is full of pictures of alligator anime, including Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure, Anime/{{Free}}, and Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub. His list of game ideas are also references to pre-existing visual novels VisualNovel/WeKnowTheDevil, VisualNovel/HeavenWillBeMine, and VisualNovel/RoseOfWinter.
** Among the games found at the arcade are [[Literature/VampireHunterD Vampire Punter D]], [[Franchise/StreetFighter Street Kiter II]], and [[Film/{{Tron}} Train]].
** Several prizes in the claw game are references to various other works, such as VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, Manga/{{Doraemon}}, Anime/SailorMoon and [[MythologyGag Alex Butera and Lindsay Small's]] own WebAnimation/BamanPiderman.
** Gentle Lorenzo's mini-game is an homage to VideoGame/FlappyBird.

* FakeOutTwist: On NewGamePlus and beyond, an additional plot reveal in a new cutscene shows that [[spoiler:''you'' were a hired hitman planning to kill Pat all along. The GoldenEnding, right after you save Pat from your own attempt to push him off the balcony, reveals that you were after his life because Pat accidentally ordered a hit on ''himself''.]]

** Among the games found at the arcade are [[LightNovel/{{VampireHunterD}} Vampire Punter D]], [[Franchise/{{StreetFighter}} Street Kiter II]], and [[Film/{{Tron}} Train]].

* BraggingRightsReward: Collecting all of the Jigsaw pieces. 1/3 of them are needed to access an area, and 2/3 for one of the family portraits (which is necessary to get the GoldenEnding), but what does collecting all of them get you? [[spoiler:A short video of a dancing Pat.]]

From the minds of Alex Butera and Lindsay Small, the creators of WebAnimation/BamanPiderman, ''Later Alligator'' is a [[PointAndCLickGame point-and-click]] VideoGame where you play as Pat's new friend and investigator into the mystery of who might want Pat dead. The game largely involves playing a variety of minigames to win the favor of Pat's friends and family. Only by helping [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters all thirty-three of the alligators]] can the truth be uncovered.

* AntiFrustrationFeature: The update that added Mona and Dad to the family tree also allowed the player to skip the previously-unskippable Pat minigames, replacing them with a phone call that takes up a similar in-game amount of time. [[EasterEgg You can actually scroll through the phone's text logs and see the entire conversation if you don't immediately click it shut after]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Solve the mystery, before Pat becomes history]]