History VideoGame / SlouchingTowardsBedlam

* HaveANiceDeath: Required for several endings (whether any ending is "good" or "bad" is mostly [[BlueAndOrangeMorality left to the player to decide.)]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Cleve, post-infection... and [[spoiler:you.]]

* MultipleEndings: Five, and which one you get depends on how you dealt with [[spoiler: the Logos, as well as who you infected with it.]]

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: In-universe example, but not part of the game itself. [[spoiler: Check the notes about Cleve "saving" and "restoring".]]

-->''And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?''
--->-- Creator/WilliamButlerYeats, "The Second Coming"

Not to be confused with ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem'', a similarly named essay published in 1968.

* HumanoidAbomination: Cleve, post-infection ... and [[spoiler:you.]]

Not to be confused with ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem'', a similarly named essay published in the 1968.

-->''And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.''
--->--Genesis 11:6 (the Tower of Babel chapter)

* EldritchAbomination: The Logos.

* AbandonedHospital: Some parts of Bedlam.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: One ending's appendix implies that humanity is departing Earth and going elsewhere.

* HaveANiceDeath: [[spoiler:Some of the endings require Dr. Xavier's death.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Cleve and Dr. Xavier.]]
* JustifiedSavePoint: [[spoiler:The Logos exists outside of linear time, justifying Dr. Xavier's miraculous ability to undo actions, save, or restore his game. Cleve can do all of that too.]]
* LovecraftLite: [[spoiler: The Logos ''can'' be stopped. Not without [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu great personal sacrifice on Dr. Xavier's part]], however.]]

* NailsOnABlackboard: Something really doesn't like the sound in Cell 6A. That room seems to be empty, except for an insect chirping; but observing it in the Panopticon triggers a reaction.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Cleve's cell.
* SecondPersonNarration: Averted, unusually for an IF game. The apparent disembodiment of your character is a hint to the game's main mystery.

* TheVirus: The Logos. Notable in that the Logos might not be considered evil.

* CosmicHorrorStory

--->-- WilliamButlerYeats, "The Second Coming"

* SecondPersonPerson: Averted, unusually for an IF game. The apparent disembodiment of your character is a hint to the game's main mystery.

* PressStartToGameOver: You can [[DestinationDefenestration jump out of the window]] in the first room.

* PressStartToGameOver: You can [[DestinationDefenstration jump out of the window]] in the first room.

* NailsOnABlackboard: Something really doesn't like the sound in Cell 6A. That room seems to be empty, except for an insect chirping; but observing it in the Panopticon triggers a reaction.

--->--Genesis 11:6

* MultipleEndings: Five, and which one you get depends on how you dealt with[[spoiler: the Logos, as well as who you infected with it.]]

Set in an alternate universe version of Victorian England, ''Slouching Towards Bedlam'' casts the player as Dr. Thomas Xavier, an employee of Bedlam Asylum. When the game opens, he's dealing with the recent suicide of one of his patients, a severely delusional case named Cleve Anderson who speaks in tongues during his sleep, claims to be [[TheVirus "infected"]] by something that altered the very nature of his being, and has ties to an underground group of mystics. As the game unfolds, he learns that perhaps Cleve is not so delusional after all...

* TheVirus: The Logos. Notable in that the Logos might not be considered evil.

--->-- W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"