History VideoGame / Tattletail

''Tattletail'' is an indie "virtual pet horror" game from Waygetter Electronics, created by Ben Esposito, Geneva Hodgson, and Tom Astle. It was released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on December 28th, 2016.

* PresentDayPast:

* AuthorAvatar: Waygetter Electronics, the company that made the game, is also the in-universe creator of the Tattletail toys.

* AdorableAbomination: Who'd have thought that a Furby {{Expy}} would be a monster capable of [[spoiler:leading a ritual used to destroy the only monster that's truly evil]]? Besides everyone that owned a Furby in the 90's, that is.

* AdorableAbomination: Who'd have thought that a Furby {{Expy}} would be a monster capable of [[spoiler:leading a ritual used to destroy the only monster that's truly evil]]. Besides everyone that owned a Furby in the 90's.

* MechanicalAbomination: Though Mama Tattletail has the appearance of an oversized Tattletail doll, she's actually a monstrous, murderous supernatural entity inhabiting a mechanical vessel. Her presence is accompanied by {{OminousVisualGlitch}}es and the whirring, grinding sound of her casetophone, and [[spoiler:the closest thing she has to a true form is the VHS tape that you banish in the end]]. Besides her [[VillainTeleportation teleportation]] abilities, the "Kaleidoscope" expansion reveals that [[spoiler:she can also [[FakeMemories modify memories]]]].

* {{Adorkable}}: A lot of love went into making purple Tattletail, and it shows. The little toy loves the child.

* CandlelitRitual: On the final night, you must bring the Tattletails candles to [[spoiler:help them perform a ritual to destroy [[TokenEvilTeammate Mama Tattletail]].]]

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The update's titular Kaleidoscope is a distorted realm were physics doesn't behave like normal, where all memories are allegedly held, and where your vision looks like it's filtered through...well...a kaleidoscope]].

** Tattletail's eyes are the most expressive part of its face, allowing it to say things with a lidded, potentially sardonic look or glance left and right furtively yet robotically. [[spoiler:Starting on Christmas Eve, it begins to show its [[GlamourFailure true nature]] by rolling its eyes as it assures the player that its Tattletail and it loves them, and glancing down to the side worriedly as it says it likes to play with them.]]

* FakeMemories: In the "Kaleidoscope" expansion, [[spoiler:the player discovers that their memories of the main game's events have been modified so that they now remember the main Tattletail as a boring educational toy and Mama as good.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: On night 1, if you decide to answer the phone after returning Tattletail to his box, you can hear [[spoiler: Mama Tattletail's casetophone grinding among all the static. On night 2, once you get the flashlight and head to the main basement, lights go out and you can see her red eyes. She can't do anything to you beyond giving you a minor jumpscare, but still serves to herald her debut during the following night.]]

* GlamourFailure: Tattletail [[spoiler:initially pretends it can only move its eyes left and right or raise and lower its eyelids, to appear more toylike. As the nights go on, it lets some emotion slip through the charade.]]

* HauntedTechnology: Unlike the AI Tattletails, Mama, specifically her VHS tape, [[spoiler:has no artificial sentience but is instead a monstrous, murderous supernatural entity. You have to work with the Tattletails to banish and destroy her if you hope to live to see Christmas Day.]]

* MultipleEndings: There are two endings you can get, the Normal Ending (which you get by playing through the game normally) and the GoldenEnding, which you can get by [[spoiler:finding all the Easter Eggs hidden throughout the game.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: It's implied [[spoiler:the Tattletails take]] a distinct issue with Mama because she [[spoiler:keeps killing people who just want to play with them]].

* NonMaliciousMonster: [[spoiler:Mama Tattletail is the only one that actually wants to kill you. The rest just want to play, even to the point where they perform a ritual to banish her]].

* TheEndOrIsIt: The regular ending. On Christmas Day, you open your present... [[spoiler:and it's just an empty box; Tattletail is gone. Then you're treated to the JumpScare that plays when Mama Tattletail catches you. [[GainaxEnding Then the game abruptly ends]].]]
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: [[spoiler:While the Tattletails are performing the ritual, the song from their commercial plays in the background]].

** Christmas Eve. The "party" Tattletail and his friends throw in the basement turns into [[spoiler:some kind of terrifying arcane ritual, complete with a pentagram drawn in Christmas lights, intended to banish the... ''thing'' that is Mama Tattletail.]]

''Tattletail'' is an indie "virtual pet horror" game from Waygetter Electronics, created by Ben Esposito, Geneva Hodgson, and Tom Astle. It was released on Steam in late December of 2016.

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* BrokenRecord: In the Kaleidoscope update, the VHS tape you find has a few audio glitches near the end, where is constantly repeats "BABY TALKING TATTLE-" until the end of the commercial.

* Foreshadowing: On night 1, if you decide to answer the phone after returning Tattletail to his box, you can hear [[spoiler: Mama Tattletail's casetophone grinding among all the static. On night 2, once you get the flashlight and head to the main basement, lights go out and you can see her red eyes. She can't do anything to you beyond giving you a minor jumpscare, but still serves to herald her debut during the following night.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Me Tattletail! Me love you!]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: [[spoiler:Getting the GoldenEnding rewards you with the Golden Flashlight, a flashlight that never runs out of batteries, making subsequent playthroughs much easier.]]

* MadnessMantra: On the final night, [[spoiler:the Tattletails start shouting "NO MORE MAMA!" as they cast their "ritual".]]

* MyBelovedSmother: [[spoiler:It's implied the Tattletails take a distinct issue with Mama because she keeps killing people who just want to play with them.]]
* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler:If you get the GoldenEnding, you are rewarded with the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Golden Flashlight]], which is a flashlight that never runs out of power. This carries over to subsequent playthroughs of the game.]]

* PresentDayPast: The game is set in 1998 and your flashlight is a shake light. Shake lights only came to the market in 2002.
** The Tattletail gets power from a charging cradle, rechargeable alkaline batteries weren't that common in children's toys in the late 90s and would have been more likely to use regular AA or AAA batteries like the original Furby did.