History VideoGame / StringTyrant

* BleachedUnderpants: The game engine was developed for a re-implementation of a transformation fetish game named ''House of Pandemonium''. The authors have openly referred to String Tyrant as a PG-rated GaidenGame.
** A strong clue is that there are EasterEgg commands which allow you to force an immediate transformation on yourself and to choose which doll type you are transformed into.
** In fact, the transformation fetish community almost pioneer the development of WideOpenSandbox InteractiveFiction games in the modern day, because of the benefits of this structure in creating games where the player and others can assume different forms.

* NeverSplitTheParty: Mary and her friends are big believers in this trope. After finding them again at the start of the game they only split up in front of traps and when Mary goes looking for [[spoiler:a soul jar book]]

* PerspectiveFlip: the game's strange and unique feature; even after losing by being transformed into one of the monsters, you can continue to play as the monster, and even interact with the other monsters and Pygmalie as one of them.

* AllJustADream: Played with in one of the bad endings. [[spoiler: If Mary loses to the Stranger, she becomes convinced that her adventures up to this point were her daydreaming about being... Mary. Now a glass statue, she's convinced she's a spirit that was given a form based on a fictional character she admired and modeled herself on. Lauren and Jessie end up coming to similar beliefs once Mary catches up with them. Given the lack of a proper external frame of reference, it's ambiguous at best whether this is purely a delusion as a result of the transformation, or has somehow ''[[CosmicRetcon become]]'' [[CosmicRetcon true]] as a result.]]

* BigBad: Pygmalie fits this role, having created all of the monsters and being directly antagonistic towards Mary. The fact that she's obviously mad doesn't help her case either.
** ... Until you learn that she's [[spoiler:not the creator of the mansion, is turning people into dolls to reduce the damage that the unnamed devouring entity that created the mansion can do, and is only mad because she cut out a chunk of her own mind to prevent herself being eaten. GoodAllAlong? Maybe.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: A female example. Mary is accompanied by her little brother Lauren and always seeks to protect him. Both Mary and Jessie work from keeping him from realizing the danger they are in.
* BittersweetEnding: Any of the good endings. The nature of the mansion requires someone to be sacrificed if anyone wants to escape. How bitter the ending depends on who the player decides to sacrifice. In addition just getting there requires Mary to be turned into a doll.

* BleachedUnderpants: the game engine was developed for a re-implementation of a transformation fetish game named ''House of Pandemonium''. The authors have openly referred to String Tyrant as a PG-rated GaidenGame.

* CameBackStrong:The stranger's core mechanic as an enemy. Every time you defeat them they come back a bit stronger, eventually they max out at the second strongest enemy in the game.

* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: All over the place. All of the enemies are very happy to be in the mansion, no matter who they used to be. It's also a feature of every game over sequence, Mary has her will taken away.

* GoldenEnding: Ending 10. The game even calls it the best way things can turn out. It's still bittersweet though. [[spoiler: By putting Sarah Ann-Lee back into her body; Pygmalie, and feeding it to the unnamed evil, Lauren and Jessie can escape. However Mary has been turned into an immortal doll, and in effect permanently trapped herself in the mansion until she can figure out a way to defeat the unnamed evil.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Sarah Lee-Anne]] has this reaction when she hears about what Pygmalie has been up to.

*** Going even further, it's heavily implied, especially in a certain optional dialogue with her, [[spoiler:in which you discover that her eye contains a rune whose description is very similar to the appearance of The Hunter's Mark]], that Eileen from this game is [[spoiler: Eileen the Crow from ''Bloodborne'', having somehow ended up at the mansion after her apparent death at the end of her questline in that game, and ultimately ending up as the relatively free-willed doll you eventually meet her as.]]

* SoulJar: You at one point meet a talking book. It turns out to be holding the soul of [[spoiler:Sarah Lee-Anne.]]

* TranshumanTreachery: Two hidden endings require this. A doll Mary with [[spoiler:her mind]] can still use the [[spoiler: "transform" command.]] Dolls are immortal so it might be a blessing. Hope you don't feel too bad about having to [[spoiler:sacrifice Jessie/Lauren.]]

* ApocalypticLog: All over the place, detailing the adventures of previous guest of the mansion. They come in three types and range from fluff to giving hints necessary to complete the game. Most of the them end with the guests transformed.

* RealityEnsues: Claygirl and Rubbery Mary can't talk. Why? Their mouths don't work.

* MythologyGag: Jessie and Lauren are loosely based on characters from an earlier NSFW game.[note]specifically, the predecessor to the game that was remade into the one this spun off from. Whew.[/note] Jessie got a RaceLift compared to her original version, but Lauren got little more than a slight redesign and a change of artstyle. Said game also introduced Pygmalie, though its version of her was much different, [[spoiler:being more of a calm, coolly amoral artiste than the eccentric, scatterbrained mad artist of this game, as well as looking drastically different.]]

* MythologyGag: Jessie and Lauren are loosely based on characters from an earlier NSFW game.[note]specifically, the predecessor to the game that was remade into the one this spun off from. Whew.[/note] Jessie got a RaceLift compared to her original version, but Lauren got little more than a slight redesign and an ArtStyleShift. Said game also introduced Pygmalie, though its version of her was much different, [[spoiler:being more of a calm, coolly amoral artiste than the eccentric, scatterbrained mad artist of this game, as well as looking drastically different.]]