History VideoGame / NightmareRealm

* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:Jeff]] to [[spoiler:Philip]] and [[spoiler:Philip]] to [[spoiler:Kjuu]].

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[[caption-width-right:350: This could get ugly.]]

!This HOG provides several examples of:

* ShoutOut: There is one origami in the shape of Felix the Fish, the mascot for Big Fish Games.

* WitchDoctor

A [[HiddenObjectGame point and click adventure]], this is the first in the Nightmare Realm series. The premise starts with a healthy amount of parental worries where you race to find your daughter, Emily, who has been spirited away by [[MadeOfAir a dark shadow]] [[ParanoiaFuel who had been following your family]] [[UpToEleven for the past 6 years]] [[InescapableHorror to accomplish said aforementioned goal]].

A [[HiddenObjectGame point and click adventure]], this is the first in the Nightmare Realm series. The premise starts with a healthy amount of AdultFear where you race to find your daughter, Emily, who has been spirited away by [[MadeOfAir a dark shadow]] [[ParanoiaFuel who had been following your family]] [[UpToEleven for the past 6 years]] [[InescapableHorror to accomplish said aforementioned goal]].

* AdultFear: Have a list!
** A dark shadowy THING keeps watching your family.... [[ParanoiaFuel for]] [[UpToEleven 6 years.]]
** Rock slide on a cliff side
*** Oh, and your husband is still in the car.
*** Did we mention that the car is barely on the cliffside?
** Your daughter is kidnapped by a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Dark Shadowy Thing of Unknown Evil]].
** Your daughter will likely be turned into a [[spoiler: doll replica of herself.]]
* BackStory: All of the tutorial is this.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Philip and Jeff, in different moment.]]
* BitterSweetEnding: Both games.

* BadassNormal: Peter. Your character counts as well.
* ButThouMust: A staple among hidden object games.
* CameBackWrong: See Unfinished Business

* CliffHanger: Literally and figuratively!

* DrivenToMadness: The Factory Master
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Philip and Jeff]] to Emily.

* {{Adorkable}}: Kjuu, even at the old age he's still one.

* [[HundredPercentCompletion 100% Completion]]: While you can't fail, there is an unlockable game that can only be obtained by finding all 33 origami pieces hidden in the game.

* BodyToJewel / SwissArmyTears: While it doesn't heal per se, the stone Spirit cries amber tears which you need to collect for a quest after the Witchdoctor [[spoiler: is murdered.]]

* [[spoiler: MemoryWipingCrew]]: The Extractors could be considered this, since
** it is the only way to save a child from sure [[spoiler: doll]] doom and
** it's also hinted that the process of extracting [[spoiler: creative]] energy results in this.

* PlotTwist: You know that Extractor who's been following you and making life an emotional hell? [[spoiler: That's your husband.]]

* TakeYourTime: Honestly. It's an [[HiddenObjectGame HOG]]. Even in the end where, the Extractor [[spoiler: is chasing you and gets closer, and closer. He never really catches you because the game automatically loads up the next screen. ]]
* UnfinishedBusiness: Turns out, [[spoiler: David hung around for 6 years so he could tell Emily that even if she grew up, she wouldn't forget him.]]

* ThePowerOfLove: In the first game, its family love that saved Emily from her fate.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Wait. But if [[spoiler: David was the one who kidnapped Emily.... then ''who'' killed David?]]
** Apparently, one of the other extractors or maybe even [[spoiler:Philip himself.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: All Kjuu wanted is to go home, [[spoiler: a huge TearJerker when you knew that he can never do..]]

* [[spoiler:BlondesAreEvil: Philip]]

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Averted. You play as Emily's mother, Katherine.

* LeffHanging: Was [[spoiler:Jeff]] just [[spoiler:Philip's imaginary friend who assisted/manipulated him?]] Or was he [[spoiler:was once a misguided real boy?]]

* FateWorseThanDead: [[spoiler:Mary]]'s fate for breaking the laws of Dark City is to watch [[spoiler:her son imprisoned forever in the golden sarcophagus.]]

* BlondIsEvil: [[spoiler:Philip]]

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Averted. You play as Emily's mother.

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Philip has been [[AbusiveParent abused and abandoned by his mother]] for entire life and Jeff just [[IJustWantToBeSpecial wants to be special]], fueling them for hating "family warmth" and "special people" respectively]]

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Philip has been [[AbusiveParent abused and abandoned by his mother]] for entire life and Jeff just [[IWanttoBeSpecial wants to be special]], fueling them for hating "family warmth" and "special people" respectively]]

* MamaBear: As Emily's mother, you are traversing through the hellish realm in order to find and save your daughter.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Philip]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Emily.

* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: Peter. Although, to be fair, the archway collapsed by the time we got there.* TakeYourTime: Honestly. It's an [[HiddenObjectGame HOG]]. Even in the end where, the Extractor [[spoiler: is chasing you and gets closer, and closer. He never really catches you because the game automatically loads up the next screen. ]]

* CoolUncle: Peter.

* JumpScare: In the beginning. It's annoying because you were expecting it, ''but it still managed to catch you off guard.''

* [[MissingMom Missing Dad]]: David.
* TakeYourTime: Honestly. It's an [[HiddenObjectGame HOG]]. Even in the end where, the Extractor [[spoiler: is chasing you and gets closer, and closer. He never really catches you because the game automatically loads up the next screen. ]]

* CreepyDoll: You see the picture of your daughter turn into this. Complete with [[RuleOfScary a scrawled 'Help me']] on the frame. Then, once your reach the final cutscenes, it turns out that the Extractor that took your daughter[[spoiler: is trying to turn her into a doll to harvest her creative energy.]]
* WitchDoctor

* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: Peter. Although, to be fair, the archway collapsed by the time we got there.

* CameBackWrong: See Unfinished Business
* ShoutOut: There is one origami in the shape of Felix the Fish, the mascot for Big Fish Games.

* PlotTwist: You know that Extractor who's been following you and making life an emotional hell? [[spoiler: That's your husband.]]
* MindScrew: If the plot twist wasn't one, this troper doesn't know what is.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Apparently everyone past the age of [[RuleOfSeven seven]].
* [[spoiler: MemoryWipingCrew]]: The Extractors could be considered this, since
** it is the only way to save a child from sure [[spoiler: doll]] doom and
** it's also hinted that the process of extracting [[spoiler: creative]] energy results in this.

* SceneryPorn: Once you fix the Spirit's heart.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Were you expecting anything less?