History VideoGame / SpookysJumpScareMansion

* DaylightHorror: Just before level 550 you're transported to a well lit forest area. Too bad you're still inside the house.

* 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 [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-173]] he moves very quickly while your back is turned, at which point he kills you with a shiv.

** The Unknown Specimens you encounter in Endless Mode share this theme, as they are, in order: A [[Videogame/{{Imscared}} familiar pixelated face]], an [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys animatronic Otter]], a seemingly unscary BedsheetGhost, a [[AdorableAbomination seemingly adorably anime-like forest spirit]] and [[VideoGame/SilentHills a demonic woman from an abandoned horror game]], unlike the rest, who actually have a history in-game.

** One randomly generated room features [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys a desk with a fan on it and an answering machine that plays a message from a nervous sounding woman should you choose to listen to it.]]

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

** Otto the Otter is a JokeCharacter clearly aimed at ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''. Or rather, all the fans who kept pestering the development team to add an animatronic specimen to the game.

* SurpriseCreepy: At a surface glance the game looks very cute, and for the first 50 rooms it's a silly AffectionateParody of common horror tropes. However, the game doesn't stay too cute for long.

** The Unknown Specimens you encounter in Endless Mode share this theme, as they are, in order: A [[Videogame/{{Imscared}} familiar pixelated face]], an [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys 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.

* DefangedHorrors: The game certainly seems to be this... at least for the first 50 rooms. [[SurpriseCreepy Then the fangs grow back.]]

* FourIsDeath: Presumably why Specimen 4 is Japanese.

** Inside the school rooms are drawings of a character similar to ''Music/HatsuneMiku'', along with a leek.

While it initially seems harmless, the game quickly goes from cartoonish, playful, and silly to [[SurpriseCreepy genuinely frightening]] with very real dangers for the nameless protagonist in the form of the Specimens, bizarre entities of various kinds captured by the sinister, ''Website/SCPFoundation''-esque GL Labs. With the notes of previous victims scattered throughout the mansion, the journey becomes a genuine nightmare... 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 and discover her true plans.

''Hello, I am Spooky! Welcome to my home. Can you, humble player, make it through one thousand rooms? Or will you perish? Only you can find out. Surely I am the one who can spook you! Get it? Cause I'm Spooky? My name says I spook?''

[[DontExplainTheJoke Yes that's enough now, Spooky.]] [[note]] Last part not in game.[[/note]]

*** [[spoiler:[[EasyModeMockery Joke Ending]]]]: Unlocked by reaching the 1000th room while [[spoiler:having Specimens disabled in the settings]]. [[spoiler:The Protagonist enters the 1000th room to find a room filled with balloons and a party banner with a staircase in the background. Spooky appears and gives an unconvincing congrats to the Protagonist, before the latter ascends the staircase and leaves the mansion. Text describes the Protagonist telling people of their "adventure", and how the mansion is just large and empty, but nobody believes them.]]

*** [[spoiler:[[GotVolunteered Good Ending]]]]: Unlocked by defeating the FinalBoss while having [[spoiler:only used [[AnAxeToGrind the axe]] only 20 times at most]]. [[spoiler:After defeating Specimen 9, the roof caves in and [[TheHeroDies kills the Protagonist]]. They then become the last ghost Spooky needed for her ghost army to be large enough to fight humanity.]]
*** [[spoiler:[[InsaneEqualsViolent Bad Ending]]]]: Unlocked by defeating the FinalBoss while having [[spoiler:used [[AnAxeToGrind the axe]] more than 20 times]]. [[spoiler:After defeating Specimen 9, the Protagonist [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill keeps swinging at its corpse]] on their own. Eventually, Spooky arrives and declares that the Protagonist will make a fine specimen. The game then displays an image of a human-like silhouette with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] dragging a bloody axe behind them.]]

* HorrorComedy: The game ostensibly begins as an AffectionateParody of shallow horror video games reliant on cheesy {{Jump Scare}}s... and then quickly develops with ''actual'' scares of its own once it becomes clear that not all the scares are harmless. Even past that point, however, there's still a mix of lightheartedness and deliberate absurdity to keep it from becoming a full-blown horror game, largely thanks to [[CuteGhostGirl Spooky herself]] being a mix of [[LaughablyEvil adorably snarky and genuinely unsettling]].

* 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 [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-173]] he moves very quickly while your back is turned, at which point he kills you with a shiv.

* InfiniteSupplies: Spooky is behind the creation of a massive underground base with [[MobileMaze rooms that can rearrange themselves]] (and this seems to be technological rather than supernatural), as well as an organization that may rival the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' in influence and is capable of capturing and containing {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Spooky is also the ghost of a 12 year-old girl, so exactly how she has acquired such reality-warping wealth and resources is completely unknown.

* AnAxeToGrind: In room 554, you acquire an axe which 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 Specimens - most notably, it knocks out Specimen 6 with a single hit.
** Specimen 9 would be unbeatable without that axe to reflect its fireballs and damage it.

** 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/FiveNightsAtFreddys 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 you can find it here on [[http://www.indiedb.com/games/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/downloads IndieDB]] or [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/356670/ Steam]]. On December 18th of the same year, the DLC ''Karamari Hospital'' debuted, in which the protagonist is tasked by Spooky to explore the titular AbandonedHospital lying at the bottom of the mansion and discover what happens there. 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 new Specimens called Monsters and other strange things. You can find the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8k23znC73E here]].

While it initially seems harmless, the game quickly goes from cartoonish, playful, and silly to [[SurpriseCreepy genuinely frightening]] with very real dangers for the nameless protagonist in the form of the Specimens, bizarre entities of of various kinds captured by the sinister, ''Website/SCPFoundation''-esque GL Labs. With the notes of previous victims scattered throughout the mansion, the journey becomes a genuine nightmare... 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 and discover her true plans.

The full first release was issued on July 21, 2015, and you can find it here on [[http://www.indiedb.com/games/spookys-house-of-jump-scares/downloads IndieDB]] or [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/356670/ Steam]]. 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]].

On October 2nd, 2020, a new DLC was released, entitled The Doll House. The pre-release trailer for the DLC can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6i9ZYdc1Rg here]].

While it initially seems harmless, the game quickly goes from cartoonish, playful, and silly to [[SurpriseCreepy 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.