History VideoGame / TormentedSouls

* ShamefulStrip: Before Caroline finds herself missing an eye, she wakes up naked in a bathtub.

* SaveGameLimits: As per one of the game's inspirations, the game only allows saving at tape recorders found in few places, and they require a SaveToken, specifically a consumable 7-inch tape reel.

* TapOnTheHead: How Caroline gets knocked down soon after entering the mansion before waking up in the bathtub. [[spoiler: William did it to her, not realizing she's one of his own twin daughters he hasn't seen in years.]]

* SaveGameLimits: As per one of the game's inspirations, the game only allows saving at tape recorders found in few places, and they require a consumable 7-inch tape reel.

* AdultFear: On display after analyzing the diaries. [[spoiler: William Wildberger marries a woman who happens to be the daughter of a cult leader, who then decades later proceeds to abduct his twin daughters for a twisted ritual, with one of them barely escaping with their mother and the other one being alone in the dark for many years]].

''Tormented Souls'' is a third-person SurvivalHorror game developed by Dual Effect and published by [=PQube=], released in August 2021 for Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The game is a homage to classic survival horror series such as ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill'', and ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark''.

* AbandonedHospital: The main setting is a hospital of this kind with a variety of mutated creatures in it.

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Late in the game Caroline has to access the bunker, which is locked with two retinal scanners so the door is intended to be accessed by a pair of twins at once. [[spoiler: Caroline finds a way around this by finding and entering into the VHS tape from the day she was unconscious in the bath tub and ''[[EyeScream taking out her own eye]]'']].

* MetaphoricallyTrue: When Caroline meets the reverend [[spoiler: Noah]] for the first time, he claims "they have met before", which Caroline denies. But then she [[spoiler: ends up traveling few days back in time through a VHS projector, and meets up with Noah before most of the game's events happen]].
** Not to mention [[spoiler: those two have definitely met 14 years before]].

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Even in the form of two pipe pieces cobbled together, the shotgun is cappable of one-shotting most of the lower-tier mooks.

* TapOnTheHead: How Caroline gets knocked down soon after entering the mansion before waking up in the bath tub. [[spoiler: William did it to her, not realizing she's one of his own twin daughters he hasn't seen in years.]]

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: One of the later diary logs reveal [[spoiler: it was William who snuck up to Caroline and knocked her out at the begining of the game, [[DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild never realizing]] the "young and reckless woman" was in fact her daughter Emma, whom he hasn't seen in years. The guy doesn't even realize Noah has taken the daughters before passing away after tasting the poisoned wine.]]

* BeautyMark: Caroline has a mole, lower left off her lips.

* TimeyWimeyBall: The VHS tapes you can find work as time machines, allowing you to travel back to the past and change history. Whatever happens in the tapes' world will affect both the past and the present. For example, [[spoiler:Caroline waking up at the beginning of the game without her eye is the result of her traveling back to the past through the Dentist tape and cutting her own eye out herself to solve a puzzle. However, in one of the game's endings, Caroline takes Anna with her to the present, essentially erasing her from the past, but for some reason, this action does ''not'' change the past nor cause any repercussions in the present]].

* FingerlessGloves: Caroline wears these.

* AchievementMockery: There's one achievement for "[[DarknessEqualsDeath letting the shadows consume you]]".

* AbusiveParents: The first entry of Maria Wildberger's diary states she was whipped a lot by her father [[spoiler:Noah]] and things [[{{Understatement}} do not improve at all]] when it comes to his treatment to her daughters.

* AbusiveParents: The first entry of Maria Wildberger's diary states she was whipped a lot by her father [[spoiler:Noah]] and things do not improve at all when it comes to his treatment on her daughters.

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Late in the game Caroline has to access the bunker, which is locked with two retinal scanners so the door is intended to be accessed by two people at once. [[spoiler: Caroline finds a way around this by finding and entering into the VHS tape from the day she was unconscious in the bath tub and ''[[EyeScream taking out her own eye]]'']].

* ChekhovsGun: After solving the very first padlock puzzle, Caroline gets to keep the padlock for later use [[spoiler: once she reaches the bunker to connect both rings in order to open a door]].

* DarkWorld: The game features a literal MirrorWorld Caroline traverses through to solve some puzzles, many of which have an effect to the 'real' world.

** First off, Young, sultry Caroline Walker who dresses like a BikerBabe, gets a scene where she is naked in a bathtub. That is, in a creepy mansion, with some kind of invasive tube stuck down her throat and she nearly vomits pulling it out. ''Then'' she finds out her right eye has been cut out, and you're even treated to a GrossUpCloseUp of the cavity!

* MagicFloppyDisk: The game features a puzzle involving a floppy disc, [[spoiler: that contains a clue behind the shutter that states you'd have to add and subtract letters from a number of names for the correct password]]. Don't forget to slide the write protection tab off.

* MonkeyMoralityPose: One of the puzzles is themed around this. [[spoiler: You'd have to find a hammer and a parchment containing a story about a monkey thief getting tried and executed, and arrange the dial to correspond how the story goes. Solving this nets you a staple gun, key for healing Noah's wounded arm.]]

** [[BittersweetEnding Forgetfulness]] - [[spoiler: Caroline gets the antidote by solving the seemingly-infinite room puzzle, and injects it to mutated Anna, who gets her humanity restored but also [[MercyKill dies soon after]]. Caroline laments about not being able to change the past]].
** [[GoldenEnding Adoption]] - [[spoiler: Caroline injects the antidote to Anna like in Forgetfulness ending, takes the bolt cutters, then on the way to outside travels herself back to 1980 via VHS projector, frees the young Anna with the bolt cutters and brings her to the present day.]]

* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler: The only boss in the entire game. Shoot it to weaken the tentacles that wrap around the machines you'd have to operate in order to loosen the screws holding a giant drill on top of the abomination]].
* {{Safecracking}}: The game has quite a spin of this. Late in the game Caroline stumbles upon a safe and a diary note with the combination, but the dial is missing. [[spoiler: Caroline has to enter the nearby MirrorWorld - that happens to resemble her own home room - ]].

Caroline Walker travels to Wildberger Hospital, built inside an abandoned mansion on the remote Winterlake island, in search of a pair of twins whose photograph was mailed to her a week earlier. At some point, she loses consciousness and wakes up in a bathtub hooked up to an old ventilator, with one of her eyes having been surgically removed. Now she must find a way to uncover the mystery of the mansion as well as survive and escape.

!! Tropes in this game

* DarknessEqualsDeath: You die instantly if you enter a completely dark area, because the "shadows" are hunting you (which is never further explained at all), so you need to have your lighter equipped when entering such areas. You also can't have a weapon equipped when holding the lighter.
* EyeScream: As the game begins, Caroline quickly learns that one of her eyes has been surgically removed.
* FanDisservice: Young, sultry Caroline Walker who dresses like a BikerBabe, gets a scene where she is naked in a bathtub. That is, in a creepy mansion, with some kind of invasive tube stuck down her throat and she nearly vomits pulling it out. ''Then'' she finds out her right eye has been cut out, and you're even treated to a GrossUpCloseUp of the cavity!

* SexyWalk: Caroline has a rather noticeable swing to her hips as she walks, both in her slow and speedier walking animations.
* TimeRewindMechanic: Caroline has to go back in time to solve some puzzles.
* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler: The Reverend, the only living supporting character you encounter in the mansion, turns out to be the game's BigBad]].

Caroline Walker travels to Wildberger Hospital, built inside the abandoned Winterlake mansion, in search of a pair of twins whose photograph was mailed to her a week earlier. At some point, she loses consciousness and wakes up in a bathtub hooked up to an old ventilator, with one of her eyes having been surgically removed. Now she must find a way to uncover the mystery of the mansion as well as survive and escape.

''Tormented Souls'' is a third-person SurvivalHorror game developed by Dual Effect and published by [=PQube=], released
in August 2021 for Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The game is a homage to classic survival horror series such as ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill'', and ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark''.

''Tormented Souls'' is a SurvivalHorror game developed by Dual Effect and published by [=PQube=], scheduled for release in August 2021.

Caroline Walker wakes up in a bathtub in an abandoned hospital and has to puzzle her way out.

* EyeScream: Caroline loses an eye early in the game.
* GenreThrowback: The game is made in the style of old-school SurvivalHorror games with fixed cameras like the early ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/SilentHill'' titles, but with modern graphics. It even includes TankControls as an optional manner of playing.

* NailEm: The first ranged weapon Caroline gets is a nailgun from the reverend.

* BlandNameProduct: One of the items to be collected is a can of "WE-40" lubricating oil, as opposed to the actual product of [[WD-40 https://www.wd40.com]].

* GenreThrowback: The game is made in the style of old-school SurvivalHorror games with fixed cameras like the early ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/SilentHill'' titles, but with modern graphics.

Caroline Walker wakes up in a bathtub in an abandoned hospital, and has to puzzle her way out.

* AbandonedHospital: The main setting.

* EyeScream: The trailers show that Caroline loses an eye.
* GenreThrowback: The game is made in the style of old-school SurvivalHorror games with fixed cameras like the early ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/SilentHill'' titles, but with modern graphics.

''Tormented Souls' is a SurvivalHorror game developed by Dual Effect and published by [=PQube=], scheduled for release in August 2021.