History VideoGame / SpookysJumpScareMansion

* PerversePuppet: The Puppet. As long as he's being watched, he can't move aside from turning his head to look at you, but like the [[Characters/DoctorWhoAliensAndMonsters Weeping Angels]] or[[VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach SCP-173]] he moves very quickly while your back is turned, at which point he kills you with a shiv.

* Otto the Otter, is this as he is a TakeThat to the fans, is obviously a reference [[Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys a certain game with animal-based animotronics]]. Doubly so is the fact that his JumpScare is similar to (if nor exactly like) the Jumpscares of said game.

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The [[HauntedHouse house on the hill]] has been there as long as anyone can remember, to the point that its origins are lost and forgotten. As an amateur historian, you decide to make the trek up the mountain to learn what you can, only to find yourself challenged by a CuteGhostGirl, Spooky, to make it through all 1000 rooms, and find what lies at the end. [[note]] Or is there an end? She doesn't really know.[[/note]]

The full first release was issued on July 21, 2015. On December 18th of the same year, the DLC ''Karamari Hospital'' debuted. Unlike most sections of the main game, which only is a small collection of rooms, ''Karamari Hospital'' seems to be much more complex, with multiple Specimens and other strange things. You can find the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8k23znC73E here]].

In early 2016, the game's name was changed from ''Spooky's House of Jump Scares'' to ''Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion'' after German company "Spooky House Studios" put forth a cease and desist because they're attempting to trademark the name "Spooky House". The change is noted in game by [[ClumsyCopyrightCensorship the new name simply being written on tape and pasted over the old logo.]]
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** Oh, and the ones in Endless Mode are each based off something different, they are, in order: A [[Videogame/{{Imscared}} familiar pixelated face]], an [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddies animatronic Otter]], a seemingly unscary BedsheetGhost, a [[AdorableAbomination seemingly adorably anime-like forest spirit]] and [[VideoGame/SilentHills a demonic woman from a abandoned horror game]], unlike the rest, who actually have a history in-game.

** Oh, and the ones in Endless Mode are each based off something different, they are, in order: A [[Videogame/{{Imscared}} familiar pixelated face]], an [[Videogame/FiveNight'sAtFreddies animatronic Otter]], a seemingly unscary BedsheetGhost, a [[AdorableAbomination seemingly adorably anime-like forest spirit]] and [VideoGame/SilentHills a demonic woman from a abandoned horror game]], unlike the rest, who actually have a history in-game.

The full first release was issued on July 21, 2015, and can be downloaded [[http://www.desura.com/games/spookys-house-of-jump-scares here]]. On December 18th of the same year, the DLC ''Karamari Hospital'' debuted. Unlike most sections of the main game, which only is a small collection of rooms, ''Karamari Hospital'' seems to be much more complex, with multiple Specimens and other strange things. You can find the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8k23znC73E here]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Unlike the ghosts in the other games, who have a unique backstory in-universe, the monsters in Endless Mode are completely unique... and strange. Either they are a refrence to other horror games, adorable, or surprising. They are, in order: A [[Videogame/{{Imscared}} familiar pixelated face]], an [[Videogame/FiveNight'sAtFreddies animatronic Otter]], a seemingly unscary BedsheetGhost, a [[AdorableAbomination seemingly adorably anime-like forest spirit]] and [VideoGame/SilentHills a demonic woman from a abandoned horror game]] You can see them (in order):
[[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/a/ae/White_face.gif White Head]],
[[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/9/97/Beaver.gif Otto the Otter]],
[[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/a/a7/Spooper.png Spooper (normal form)]],
[[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/1/13/SpooperFinal.png/revision/latest?cb=20160706174247 Spooper (damaged form)]],
[[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/a/a3/Mutant.gif Spooper (True Form)]],
[[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/7/76/TirsiakChase.gif Tirsaik]],
and [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/images/5/59/Lisa.png Lisa]].

* PerversePuppet: The Puppet. As long as he's being watched, he can't move aside from turning his head to look at you, but like the [[Characters/DoctorWhoAliensAndMonsters Weeping Angels]] or [[VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach SCP-173]] he moves very quickly while your back is turned, at which point he kills you with a shiv.

** Specimen 2 makes choking noise as if it's trying to let out a scream.

In early 2016, the game's name was changed from ''Spooky's House of Jump Scares'' to ''Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion'' after German company "Spooky House Studios" put forth a cease and desist because they're attempting to trademark the name "Spooky House". The change is noted in game by [[FunnyMoments the new name simply being written on tape and pasted over the old logo.]]

In early 2016, the game's name was changed to ''Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion'' after German company "Spooky House Studios" put forth a cease and desist because they're attempting to trademark the name "Spooky House". The change is noted in game by [[FunnyMoments the new name simply being written on tape and pasted over the old logo.]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The usual tactic against Specimens is to run away from them as fast as possible. Then the House throws an oddball at you in the form of Specimen 10: putting too much distance between you and it, and it'll assume a weaker, but ''much'' faster form to keep up with you. You pretty much get damaged at every mistake.
** The Troper Victim's notes were basically made to take the piss out of this very website.

* {{Expy}}: Possibly unintentional, but Specimen 8, the Deer God, is reminiscent of a 4chan greentext creepypasta about a soldier and his experiences with a deer/goat-man monster that attacks his squad while training. It can be found [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/channel/morbid-channel/Deerman/BdTaLOq here.]]

* TheMaze: A randomly-spawning room of the game, which requires trial-and-error and a little memorization to find the right path.

** The manner in which you evade Specimen 12's host inside the mansion (hiding in closets until they leave) is very similar to how the player evades the titular monster of VideoGame/AoOni.

* UnexpectedCharacter: For a game that is a love-letter to horror tropes and games, nobody expected it to have an actual GuestFighter since the specimen are instead [[{{Expy expies}}]]. Enter [[VideoGame/{{Imscared}} White Face]] in Endless Mode.

* DownerEnding: Neither of the [[MultipleEndings endings]] are particularly good.
** In the "good" ending, the ceiling collapses and kills the player after they defeat Specimen 9, turning them into a ghost. Spooky immediately drafts the player into her ghost army and prepares the army to TakeOverTheWorld.
** In the "bad" ending, Spooky [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie says that the player will make a fine Specimen and presumably makes them one]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the "good" ending, right after the player defeats Specimen 9, the ceiling collapses and crushes the player. Spooky then tells them that they died in a tragic enough way to become a ghost.

** One of the randomly generated rooms [[http://spookys-house-of-jump-scares.wikia.com/wiki/File:Maproom.gif provides you with a map]]. Some of the rooms move on their own.

* WhamShot: Putting the correct code into one of the otherwise unused arcade machines will activate a brief secret involving multiple wham shots. [[spoiler: Spooky as a normal kid happily holding her dad's hand. An adult in a ghost costume condescendingly patting her head while she sits on a porch in her reaper costume on Halloween, looking frustrated & depressed instead of perpetually happy. The inside of her bag which contains firecrackers & a tube of fake blood instead of candy. A look of horror in a stranger's eye & a spent bullet casing on the ground.]] [[spoiler: All followed by this line in text. "I just wanted to be taken seriously. I just wanted to scare people. But I don't blame them. At least I finally scared someone."]]

The [[HauntedHouse house on the hill]] has been there as long as anyone remembers, to the point that its origins are lost and unremembered. As an amateur historian, you decide to make the trek up the mountain to learn what you can, only to find yourself challenged by a CuteGhostGirl, Spooky, to make it through all 1000 rooms, and find what lies at the end. [[note]] Or is there an end? She doesn't really know.[[/note]]

While initially harmless-seeming, the game quickly goes from cartoonish, playful, and silly to genuinely frightening with very real dangers for the nameless protagonist... while still retaining the cartoonish and playful elements throughout to give it a strange flavor all its own as you go deeper into the depths of Spooky's house.

The game has gotten its first full release on July 21st, 2015 with most bugs promised to be fixed and new material added. Spooky's House of Jump Scares can be downloaded [[http://www.desura.com/games/spookys-house-of-jump-scares here]].

On December 18th, 2015, the first DLC, Karamari Hospital, was revealed. Unlike most sections of the main game, which only is a small collection of rooms, Karamari Hospital seems to be a much more complex local with multiple Specimens and other strange things. You can find the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8k23znC73E here]].

As of May 20th, the game's name was changed to "Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion" after German company "Spooky House Studios" put forth a cease and desist because they're attempting to trademark the name "Spooky House". The change is noted in game by [[FunnyMoments the new name simply being written on tape and pasted over the old logo.]]

As of May 20th, the game's name was changed to "Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion" after German company "Spooky House Studios" put forth a cease and desist because they're attempting to trademark the name "Spooky House". The change is noted in game by [[FunnyMoments the new name simply being written on tape and pasted overtop the old logo.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: In room 554, you acquire an axe that can be used to chop down Specimen 1 whenever it shows up, or fight back against the [[AnimalisticAbomination killer deer]].
** It's also slightly effective against a few Specimen - most notably, it knocks out Specimen 6 with a single hit.
** Specimen 9 would have been unbeatable if you didn't have that axe handy to reflect its fireballs and damage it.

** The full update adds a few more, one during Specimen 12's area where the victim stuck there is trying to hide from his persuer while contemplating the true nature of the mansion, the one in Specimen 13's lair details a group of scientists studying mysterious death of whales when suddenly their lab floods and a mysterious creature starts killing the lab members. There is also a new overarching log of another [[HeroOfAnotherStory traveler who thinks he is the main character leaving notes, culminating in the final note being at the last save point]].

* FantasyKitchenSink: Many of the scripted areas and the monsters that accompany them seem to be based around some sort of horror element or genre, with little rhyme or reason. For example, one area is a run down lab where you have to escape from an experiment GoneHorriblyRight, while the next is a Japanese high school where you have to escape from a ghost girl, who unlike [[CuteGhostGirl Spooky]] is ''not'' cute and resembles something from a Japanese horror. Justified in-universe as Spooky and GL Labs searching for and finding these anomalies to make the house more dangerous.

* FinalBoss: Surprisingly enough, there is a boss you have to fight at the end of the house. It's Specimen 9 in its true humanoid form, which you have to use your axe to bounce back it's fireballs and attack it.

** Specimen 6's is something that wouldn't be out of place in VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Each of the Specimen (with the exception of some) have their own methods of killing you, which are either [[HaveANiceDeath described in word]] or visually shown on screen, ranging from being EatenAlive to EyeScream. No matter what, [[FateWorseThanDeath your soul will be trapped in the house.]]

* NeverSleepAgain: The ApocalypticLog you find in the restaurant details a worker who had strange occurrings at this job. And after eating the meat there, had dreams of being chased in a PocketDimension by a demon. Naturally this demon turns out to be Specimen 11 and the player can experience this when they are killed by it.

* ScareChord: Plays every time an instance of Specimen 1 pops up. There's a few different ones for the game to choose from to keep it fresh.

** One part of the house bears a striking resemblance to the school from the first SilentHill game and Specimen 5 looks like a creature from the series. There is also a small amount of lore similar to the sacrifices from the first game.
*** The SilentHill resemblances continue on into Karamari Hospital, focusing more on the PsychologicalHorror aspects.

** In Specimen 4's area, you might find a picture on a wall that has several line arts of anime girls, one of which has very long GirlishPigtails and a leek next to her. [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} It reminds of a certain music programm's most popular character.]]
** In one of the notes, the writer mentions not to pick up the notes, since it summons "[[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the tall man]]".
** Specimen 9 bears several similarities to Red from Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta. Even more-so with its humanoid form.

** Specimen 6 also counts now, though originally being a boss very easy to avoid due to how you can just stare at him and wait for your health to regen, he now randomly dissappears if you look at him too long and teleports somewhere where you're not looking, which could be right behind you, [[OhCrap between the doors]].

* YourHeadASplode: How some enemies die in Mall of the Spook.

As of May 20th, the game's name was changed to "Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion" after German company "Spooky House Studios" put forth a cease and desist because they're attempting to copyright the name "Spooky House". The change is noted in game by [[FunnyMoments the new name simply being written on tape and pasted overtop the old logo.]]