History VideoGame / LostInVivo

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In the non canon Midnight Mode, the demon swordsperson (possibly a woman, if the portrait is a portrait of them) can kill [[spoiler: the two invincible EldritchAbomination antagonists from the main story, Shoggoth and Bayagototh. {{Though it's ultimately {{Subverted}} in the case of Bayagototh, in which it's made explicitly clear through it's boss title (''Mirage'' of the Starving God), that the protagainst has only managed to defeat an illusion of the Elder God.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In the non canon Midnight Mode, the demon swordsperson (possibly a woman, if the portrait is a portrait of them) can kill [[spoiler: the two invincible EldritchAbomination antagonists from the main story, Shoggoth and Bayagototh]]

* WholePlotReference: Is essentially a ''slightly'' more surreal one to ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]''. The game's supernatural events are proceeded by entering a ominous sewer grate with ''"[[{{Hell}} Abandon all hope ye who enter here]]"'' in graffiti, is set BeneathTheEarth it's a continuous downward (figuratively and literally) spiral through increasingly grotesque, nightmarish locales inhabited by tortured souls and nameless horrors, and the protagonists guide is a mysterious character named Virgil.

* WholePlotReference: Is essentially a ''slightly'' more surreal one to ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]''. The game's supernatural events are proceeded by entering a omnibus sewer grate with ''"[[{{Hell}} Abandon all hope ye who enter here]]"'' in graffiti, is set BeneathTheEarth it's a continuous downward (figuratively and literally) spiral through increasingly grotesque, nightmarish locales inhabited by tortured souls and nameless horrors, and the protagonists guide is a mysterious character named Virgil.

Lost in Vivo is a horror FirstPersonShooter inspired by classic UsefulNotes/PlayStation horror games. Players control an unnamed claustrophobic as they descend into a nightmare world of tunnels and tight spaces. As they get deeper and deeper into this strange underground world, reality itself seems to break down. The already arduous journey soon becomes a spiraling nightmare in which the protagonist must fight for his life against warped otherworldly horrors.

* AmbiguousGender: Nothing is stated about the protagonists gender, but when they cough and vomit a male voice is used.

* AnimalTesting: the tests in Nezumi Labs. Dr. Bowers, the author of the notes, argued to his colleagues that what they were doing had absolutely no practical applications in medicine or the military and seemed to be sadism for its own sake. He was ignored but he and the other objectors were unable to leave due to how classified it was. Eventually their testing resulted in scientific impossibilities, but these were also useless to any sane person. [[spoiler: Dr. Piccini, one of the objectors, eventually went mad and created something that could save the rats (and himself) from the science team, the result being Sotiris]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: in the non canon Midnight Mode, the demon swordsperson (possibly a woman, if the portrait is a portrait of them) can kill [[spoiler: the two invincible EldritchAbomination antagonists from the main story, Shoggoth and Bayagototh]]

** [[spoiler: a second woman, the author of the Grand Bulim notes, would later take her own life years later in the same stretch of subway over her guilt about terminating her pregnancy due to her self image issues]]

** [[spoiler: Bayagototh, the eldritch forest god featured in many of Kiras works, appears here as well. Lost Tape #3 is an artifact of his, and Sotiris is implied to be another of his children like Specimen 8 from Spookys. He’s associated with woodlands and the animals within, and many of his children seem to be a form of divine vengeance against humanity whom he despises.]]

* EyeScream: the homeless man in the sewer area gouged out his own eyes to appease a “red thing” that was watching him sleep. His model is, obviously, missing them.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: in lost tape #3, look carefully at the sky through the chapel window, and you’ll see something is staring back.

* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler: any encounter with Shoggoth the Eel King outside of Midnight Mode. The first fight, and the only unavoidable one, results in a FissionMailed, the rest you get a game over]]

* MysteriousWatcher: a character referred to only as Virgil in the game files observes you throughout the game. He also intervenes several times, never in your favor. [[spoiler: that being said, WordOfGod says he is also the power behind the save rooms which is why the statues look like him. This only makes his motives even more obscure.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: [[spoiler: the ghost girl is said to only be blindly lashing out, and holds no actual ill will towards you. Accordingly she’s also the only one of the major ghosts who actually gets a happy ending, as she’s able to pass on peacefully once she accepts your help.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler: the last level is the same tunnel you entered from, only even more warped than when you entered. You even escape through the same tunnel you came in through]]

%% * BodyHorror: Some of the monsters with copious MindScrew.

%% * DownTheDrain: Some of the levels.

Lost in Vivo is a horror FirstPersonShooter inspired by classic Playstation/UsefulNotes horror games. Players control an unnamed claustrophobic as they descend into a nightmare world of tunnels and tight spaces. As they get deeper and deeper into this strange underground world, reality itself seems to break down. The already arduous journey soon becomes a spiraling nightmare in which the protagonist must fight for his life against warped otherworldly horrors.

Lost in Vivo is a horror FirstPersonShooter inspired by classic UsefulNotes/Playstation horror games. Players control an unnamed claustrophobic as they descend into a nightmare world of tunnels and tight spaces. As they get deeper and deeper into this strange underground world, reality itself seems to break down. The already arduous journey soon becomes a spiraling nightmare in which the protagonist must fight for his life against warped otherworldly horrors.

** In the nightmare ending [[spoiler: you summon the EldritchAbomination Bayagototh in the tunnels. When you arrive at the surface the entire world now looks the way the tunnels did. You look up in time to see the sky become a solid living membrane and begin yo smother the entire world. A claustrophobics literal nightmare come true]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: Tons. In vivo exposure therapy, from which the game takes its name, is also called “flooding”. A flood is what starts the events of the game.

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: In contras to the authors other works, this one isn’t cute or eerily elegant, but instead looks like an oversized mummified fetus with filthy matted hair. It seems to take a more traditional form normally, as the station master didn’t describe it as the horrific form players see, but just as a girl who was in the station at time she shouldn’t have been, in areas she shouldn’t have been in.

* ArcVillain: Each of the major sections uses a single overarching figure to menace the player. The subway uses the [[spoiler: Suicidal Ghost]] to haunt the player in the darkness, and [[spoiler: helping her get over her body-image and abortion guilt issues is the key to escaping.]] The mines has [[spoiler: the dog mimic pursue you viciously, trying to fake you out multiple times.]] The labs has [[spoiler: Sotiris, with his LeaningOnTheFourthWall influence causing him to really mess with the player]]. This continues on until the end of the game.

* BedlamHouse: one of the lost tapes is set in one. Considering the ambiguous link between the protagonist and the tapes, it’s either based on their memory of one, what they fear one to be like having never been in one, or something else entirely.

* CentralTheme: Claustrophobia. The vast majority of the game takes place in crushingly small spaces and the protagonists journey takes them ''deep'' underground. In addition, most of the major areas deal with some kind of crushing ''social'' terror as well- the subway talks about body image issues that are causing the afflicted person a great amount of anxiety, while the laboratory [[is themed around DemonicPosessesion.]]

* {{Hellhound}}: One of the enemies has the appearance of a dog. [[spoiler:Specifically, yours.]]

* MultipleEndings: they range from happy, to depressing, to absolutely nightmarish.
** In the good ending [[spoiler: you face your fears and are reunited with your dog. It is ambiguous whether your journey was a psychotic break or a real experience, but either way you’ve grown so much as a person that for the first time in your life your claustrophobia has retreated]]
** In one bad ending [[spoiler: you simply turn around and leave in the first area. Your claustrophobia gets worse and you never see your dog again]]

* MundaneHorror: the secret Dark Mode scenario. [[spoiler: driving home isn’t normally scary, right? But what about driving home while vividly disassociating?]]

** Lost Tapes #2 and #3 end just as shit hits the fan in both of them, leaving it up to the player to fill in the blanks. In the former, [[spoiler: the character escapes the asylum only to end up trapped in a room with strange beings]] and in the later [[spoiler: the character burns an idol of Bayagototh while the forest lord is watching]]. Neither have their fates expanded upon.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: in the non canon Midnight Mode, the demon swordsman can kill [[spoiler: the two invincible EldritchAbomination antagonists from the main story, Shogoth and Bayagototh]]

* FoundFootage: The premise of all of the Lost Tapes but especially The Cabin, The Hotel, and The Wolf.

Lost in Vivo is a horror FirstPersonShooter inspired by classic PlayStationOne horror games. Players control an unnamed claustrophobic as they descend into a nightmare world of tunnels and tight spaces. As they get deeper and deeper into this strange underground world, reality itself seems to break down. The already arduous journey soon becomes a spiraling nightmare in which the protagonist must fight for his life against warped otherworldly horrors.

* AbnormalAmmo: The shotgun found in the Metro System fires rock-salt shells.

* BeneathTheEarth: The whole game is subterranean other than the brief intro. All areas are archetypal closed in tunnels of various kinds (Sewers, subways, secret bunkers, etc)

* BossOnlyLevel: [[spoiler: the mine is pretty much just a cat and mouse game with you as the mouse and the mimic as the cat.]]
** [[spoiler: the first train station is a one on one fight against the Ghost Girl, who appears in the dark and very quickly respawns every time she’s killed]]
* CrazyHomelessPeople: the first enemy of the game is a homeless man who gouged out his own eyes to appease a “red thing” that came into his room when it thought he was asleep. Judging by some of his journal pages he was already pretty crazy (such as breaking open a television and filling it with rotting meat, then treating the bugs as live programming) even before the tunnels influenced his mind.

* CursedItem: Lost Tape #3 is said to cause serious harm to viewers, and turns others slavishly loyal to the unseen Bayagototh, an EldritchAbomination mentioned accross Kiras games. It’s implied to only work on the Neurotypical, as the protagonist and the note writing professor the professor (who is heavily implied to have post traumatic stress disorder from performing tests on animals) were unaffected while Dr. Piccinini started to build Sotiris after watching it.

* FissionMailed: [[spoiler: the first fight against Shoggoth the Eel King is both unavoidable and unwinnable. You get a fake game over and the game pretends your save was corrupted, before you’re dropped into a save room with your progress preserved]]

** Almost all the ads in the subway deal with food, fitting for an area haunted by 1-2 (left ambiguous whether both ghosts are different manifestations of the same women) ghosts who suffered from severe body dysmorphia.

* ShoutOut: Many subtle ones to SilentHill, of course. It does have other references of course.

** An ad featuring Spooky from SpookysHouseOfJumpscares is in the subway. Both games were made by the same people.

** Lost Tape #4 is a long reference to [[spoiler: Franz Kafka’s TheMetamorphisis. Your character wakes up progressively more and more of a cockroach. Unlike the story it references, you are killed by a disgusted human rather than how Gregor killed himself]]
**

%% * SurrealHorror: Full of it.

* AmbiguousGender: nothing is stated about the protagonists gender, but when they cough and vomit a male voice is used.

* CursedItem: Lost Tape #3 is said to cause serious harm to viewers, and turns others slavishly loyal to the unseen Yaldabagoth, an EldritchAbomination mentioned accross Kiras games. It’s implied to only work on the Neurotypical, as the protagonist and the note writing professor the professor (who is heavily implied to have post traumatic stress disorder from performing tests on animals) were unaffected while Dr. Piccinini started to build Sotiris after watching it.

** [[spoiler: Yaldabagoth, the eldritch forest god featured in many of Kiras works, appears here as well. Lost Tape #3 is an artifact of his, and Sotiris is implied to be another of his children like Specimen 8 from Spookys. He’s associated with woodlands and the animals within, and many of his children seem to be a form of divine vengeance against humanity whom he despises.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Yaldabagoth is potentially responsible for what the underground contains, since in the ending where you empower him with a ritual the surface becomes indistinguishable from the nightmarish tunnels]]

** In the nightmare ending [[spoiler: you summon an EldritchAbomination in the tunnels. When you arrive at the surface the entire world now looks the way the tunnels did. You look up in time to see the sky become a solid living membrane and begin yo smother the entire world. A claustrophobics literal nightmare come true]]

** Lost Tapes #2 and #3 end just as shit hits the fan in both of them, leaving it up to the player to fill in the blanks. In the former, [[spoiler: the character escapes the asylum only to end up trapped in a room with strange beings]] and in the later [[spoiler: the character burns an idol of Yaldabagoth while the forest lord is watching]]. Neither have their fates expanded upon.

* AnimalTesting: the tests in Nezumi Labs seemed to be this for absolutely no reason. Dr. Bowers, the author of the notes, argued to his colleagues that what they were doing had absolutely no practical applications in medicine or the military and seemed to be sadism for its own sake. He was ignored but he and the other objectors were unable to leave due to how classified it was. Eventually their testing resulted in scientific impossibilities, but these were also useless to any sane person. [[spoiler: Dr. Piccini, one of the objectors, eventually went mad and created something that could save the rats (and himself) from the science team, the result being Sotiris]]

* FissionMailed: [[spoiler: the first fight against Shoggoth the Eel King is both unavoidable and unwinnable]]

->''"You can feel it every you go. The walls getting closer, the sky dropping further down every day. With labored breath your world is shrinking; like a snake constricting its prey, or several layers of cellophane wrapped on someone's mouth. You can't scream, and you can't breath."''