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* ExactTimeToFailure: When the game encrypts your files, you are given exactly 30 minutes and 30 seconds to recover them with a keycode, and each wrong answer will take a large chunk of time from it. Of course, since you don’t know the code [[spoiler:and there is no right code]], all you can do is speed the time up.
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* ExactTimeToFailure: When the game encrypts your files, you are given exactly 30 minutes and 30 seconds to recover them with a keycode, and each wrong answer will take a large chunk of time from it. Of course, since you don’t know the code [[spoiler:and there is no right code]], all you can do is speed the time timer up.
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* OminousMultipleScreens: [[spoiler:During the ending of the game, Mama Wolf]] will illustrate their reach with an array of monitors that feature single eyes surrounded by static.
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* WingdingEyes: [[spoiler: At the end of the second playthrough, the [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]] are now crossed out with red Xs.]]
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* WingdingEyes: [[spoiler: At the end of the second playthrough, the [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]] are now crossed out with red Xs.]]]]
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* ButThouMust: The chat room sections of the game allows you to type in whatever you want in response to what the other characters say, but the conversations will go the same way, every time.
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* ButThouMust: The chat room sections of the game allows allow you to type in whatever you want in response to what the other characters say, but the conversations will go the same way, every time.
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--> ''"O-o-o-n-n-n-e-e-e! T-w-w-o-o-o! T-hr-e-e-e-e!"''
* TitleConfusion: The Steam version is titled ''Tusker’s Number Adventure [Malware Detected]'', despite the fact that the Apple version and every official mention of the game just uses ''Tusker’s Number Adventure''.
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--> ''"O-o-o-n-n-n-e-e-e! T-w-w-o-o-o! T-hr-e-e-e-e!"''
T-h-r-e-e-e-e!"''
* TitleConfusion: The Steam version is titled ''Tusker’s Number Adventure [MalwareDetected]'', Detected]'' despite the fact that the Apple version and every official mention of the game (including in the Steam game description) just uses ''Tusker’s Number Adventure''.
* TitleConfusion: The Steam version is titled ''Tusker’s Number Adventure [Malware
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After stealing your data and having you go through several tests, Mama Wolf [[spoiler: recruits you to their organization]], telling you that you will be contacted in the real world at a random point to do their bidding.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After stealing your data and having you go through several tests, Mama [[spoiler:Mama Wolf [[spoiler: recruits you to their organization]], telling you that you will be contacted in the real world at a random point to do their bidding.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As a [[spoiler: new recruit]], you’ll be contacted by Mama Wolf at any point, and you’ll either do what they tell you or be forced to.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Mama Wolf knows you and has all of your information and tells you that you will be contacted at [[ParanoiaFuel any point in the future]]. Since you don’t know exactly when, you’ll be on edge for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Until you go through the second playthrough, anyway.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Mama Wolf has these during the ending scene. Could also extend to their [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]].
* {{Gaslighting}}: Mama Wolf knows you and has all of your information and tells you that you will be contacted at [[ParanoiaFuel any point in the future]]. Since you don’t know exactly when, you’ll be on edge for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Until you go through the second playthrough, anyway.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Mama Wolf has these during the ending scene. Could also extend to their [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]].
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As a [[spoiler: new recruit]], you’ll be contacted by Mama Wolf [[spoiler:Mama Wolf]] at any point, and you’ll either do what they tell you or be forced to.
*{{Gaslighting}}: Mama Wolf knows you and has all of your information and tells you that you will be contacted at [[ParanoiaFuel any point in the future]]. Since you don’t know exactly when, you’ll be on edge for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Until you go through the second playthrough, anyway.]]
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* OminousMultipleScreens: During [[spoiler:During the ending of the game, Mama Wolf Wolf]] will illustrate their reach with an array of monitors that feature single eyes surrounded by static.
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* {{Padding}}: You can do three playthroughs of this game, with only the dialogue being changed while the gameplay and puzzle remain exactly the same. [[spoiler: Technically, the third playthrough is cut short by Mama Wolf, but the part of the game you do play is still the same.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: The ending implies that Mama Wolf will come for you at any point, anywhere, so in a blind playthrough that might give someone a bit of worry for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Unless they play the game a second time, where Mama Wolf takes it all back.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: The ending implies that Mama Wolf will come for you at any point, anywhere, so in a blind playthrough that might give someone a bit of worry for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Unless they play the game a second time, where Mama Wolf takes it all back.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300: [[BlatantLies I AM NOT MALWARE]] ]]
''Tusker’s Number Adventure'' is an Adventure Puzzle game made by PHB Media Ltd, released on August 26th, 2019.
The game starts out with Tusker, an elephant with a love of counting, helping Mama Wolf bake a pie by gathering ingredients as they are counted out. Things soon take a dark turn when the game begins to glitch out and files become corrupted, with the implication that [[ParanoiaFuel your personal data has been stolen]]. As you continue through the game and more malicious software becomes apparent, you will find out who is behind this malware within a children’s game and what they are trying to accomplish.
Gameplay starts out as more of an exploration adventure game, then later includes more puzzles and horror elements as the game progresses.
Available on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063240/Tuskers_Number_Adventure_Malware_Detected/ Steam]] and the [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tuskers-number-adventure/id1533424511 Apple App store]]
'''It is recommended that you play the game first, as there are major spoilers below. You've been warned.'''
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!! This game provides examples of the following tropes:
* AddressingThePlayer: The game will directly inform you that your personal files have been stolen, and the chat room sections will have in-game characters speak directly to you.
* AlliterativeName: The names of the villagers: '''M'''illy '''M'''onkey, '''G'''eorgie '''G'''iraffe, '''L'''arry '''L'''ion, and '''F'''rankie '''F'''lamingo.
* ArtShift: "Tusker 1984" has graphics and music similar to that of the [[UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum ZX Spectrum]] as opposed to the more Flash-based art style the rest of the game has.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Malicious software meant for [[spoiler: recruiting people to an unknown organization]] in the guise of a [[NeverTrustATitle children’s learning game]].
* BlatantLies: The game is very insistent that it isn’t malware right off the bat. [[spoiler: And that it has no replay value.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After stealing your data and having you go through several tests, Mama Wolf [[spoiler: recruits you to their organization]], telling you that you will be contacted in the real world at a random point to do their bidding.
* ButThouMust: The chat room sections of the game allows you to type in whatever you want in response to what the other characters say, but the conversations will go the same way, every time.
* ExactTimeToFailure: When the game encrypts your files, you are given exactly 30 minutes and 30 seconds to recover them with a keycode, and each wrong answer will take a large chunk of time from it. Of course, since you don’t know the code [[spoiler:and there is no right code]], all you can do is speed the time up.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As a [[spoiler: new recruit]], you’ll be contacted by Mama Wolf at any point, and you’ll either do what they tell you or be forced to.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Mama Wolf knows you and has all of your information and tells you that you will be contacted at [[ParanoiaFuel any point in the future]]. Since you don’t know exactly when, you’ll be on edge for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Until you go through the second playthrough, anyway.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Mama Wolf has these during the ending scene. Could also extend to their [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]].
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Tusker and most of the animal villagers wear only pants (or an apron, in Mama Wolf’s case). The only exceptions to this are Georgie Giraffe and [[Main/AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Frankie Flamingo]].
* NeverTrustATitle: ''Tusker’s Number Adventure'' sounds like your typical preschool learning game and not at all like malware. The Steam title undoes this, [[TitleConfusion as it adds [Malware Detected] after it]], which makes the game that much more obvious.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Whenever the game gets corrupted, which is often.
* {{Padding}}: You can do three playthroughs of this game, with only the dialogue being changed while the gameplay and puzzle remain exactly the same. [[spoiler: Technically, the third playthrough is cut short by Mama Wolf, but the part of the game you do play is still the same.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: The ending implies that Mama Wolf will come for you at any point, anywhere, so in a blind playthrough that might give someone a bit of worry for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Unless they play the game a second time, where Mama Wolf takes it all back.]]
* ProgrammingGame: Sort of. When the game files become corrupted, fixing them involves dragging the “patch files” onto the corrupted ones in a certain order to fix them.
* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: Once the game reboots after being corrupted, the voices of the counting children glitch out like this.
--> ''"O-o-o-n-n-n-e-e-e! T-w-w-o-o-o! T-hr-e-e-e-e!"''
* TitleConfusion: The Steam version is titled ''Tusker’s Number Adventure [Malware Detected]'', despite the fact that the Apple version and every official mention of the game just uses ''Tusker’s Number Adventure''.
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: A third playthrough will not be tolerated by Mama Wolf.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"STOP WASTING MY TIME!"'']]
* TheReveal: The ending of the game reveals the true nature of the game and who’s behind it: [[spoiler: it’s a recruitment tool for Mama Wolf’s organization, and Mama Wolf’s “true form” is far more realistic than their chat room avatar.]]
* SensoryAbuse: The chorus of counting children at the beginning of the game are surprisingly loud, although that might be to simulate the illusion of a child audience. Meanwhile, the glitch sound effects are perhaps even louder, though it’s justified as they are used for jump scares and atmosphere in certain sections of the game.
* SimonSaysMiniGame: Patching the corrupted files in the Test Environment will require you to activate them in a certain order, which is revealed by switching the code view and waiting for the files to light up in sequence.
* StockFemurBone: During "Tusker 1984", Rex the Dog will block the way to the woods until you give him one of these.
* OminousMultipleScreens: During the ending of the game, Mama Wolf will illustrate their reach with an array of monitors that feature single eyes surrounded by static.
* WingdingEyes: [[spoiler: At the end of the second playthrough, the [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]] are now crossed out with red Xs.]]
[[caption-width-right:300: [[BlatantLies I AM NOT MALWARE]] ]]
''Tusker’s Number Adventure'' is an Adventure Puzzle game made by PHB Media Ltd, released on August 26th, 2019.
The game starts out with Tusker, an elephant with a love of counting, helping Mama Wolf bake a pie by gathering ingredients as they are counted out. Things soon take a dark turn when the game begins to glitch out and files become corrupted, with the implication that [[ParanoiaFuel your personal data has been stolen]]. As you continue through the game and more malicious software becomes apparent, you will find out who is behind this malware within a children’s game and what they are trying to accomplish.
Gameplay starts out as more of an exploration adventure game, then later includes more puzzles and horror elements as the game progresses.
Available on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063240/Tuskers_Number_Adventure_Malware_Detected/ Steam]] and the [[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tuskers-number-adventure/id1533424511 Apple App store]]
'''It is recommended that you play the game first, as there are major spoilers below. You've been warned.'''
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!! This game provides examples of the following tropes:
* AddressingThePlayer: The game will directly inform you that your personal files have been stolen, and the chat room sections will have in-game characters speak directly to you.
* AlliterativeName: The names of the villagers: '''M'''illy '''M'''onkey, '''G'''eorgie '''G'''iraffe, '''L'''arry '''L'''ion, and '''F'''rankie '''F'''lamingo.
* ArtShift: "Tusker 1984" has graphics and music similar to that of the [[UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum ZX Spectrum]] as opposed to the more Flash-based art style the rest of the game has.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Malicious software meant for [[spoiler: recruiting people to an unknown organization]] in the guise of a [[NeverTrustATitle children’s learning game]].
* BlatantLies: The game is very insistent that it isn’t malware right off the bat. [[spoiler: And that it has no replay value.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After stealing your data and having you go through several tests, Mama Wolf [[spoiler: recruits you to their organization]], telling you that you will be contacted in the real world at a random point to do their bidding.
* ButThouMust: The chat room sections of the game allows you to type in whatever you want in response to what the other characters say, but the conversations will go the same way, every time.
* ExactTimeToFailure: When the game encrypts your files, you are given exactly 30 minutes and 30 seconds to recover them with a keycode, and each wrong answer will take a large chunk of time from it. Of course, since you don’t know the code [[spoiler:and there is no right code]], all you can do is speed the time up.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As a [[spoiler: new recruit]], you’ll be contacted by Mama Wolf at any point, and you’ll either do what they tell you or be forced to.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Mama Wolf knows you and has all of your information and tells you that you will be contacted at [[ParanoiaFuel any point in the future]]. Since you don’t know exactly when, you’ll be on edge for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Until you go through the second playthrough, anyway.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Mama Wolf has these during the ending scene. Could also extend to their [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]].
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Tusker and most of the animal villagers wear only pants (or an apron, in Mama Wolf’s case). The only exceptions to this are Georgie Giraffe and [[Main/AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Frankie Flamingo]].
* NeverTrustATitle: ''Tusker’s Number Adventure'' sounds like your typical preschool learning game and not at all like malware. The Steam title undoes this, [[TitleConfusion as it adds [Malware Detected] after it]], which makes the game that much more obvious.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Whenever the game gets corrupted, which is often.
* {{Padding}}: You can do three playthroughs of this game, with only the dialogue being changed while the gameplay and puzzle remain exactly the same. [[spoiler: Technically, the third playthrough is cut short by Mama Wolf, but the part of the game you do play is still the same.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: The ending implies that Mama Wolf will come for you at any point, anywhere, so in a blind playthrough that might give someone a bit of worry for at least a little while. [[spoiler: Unless they play the game a second time, where Mama Wolf takes it all back.]]
* ProgrammingGame: Sort of. When the game files become corrupted, fixing them involves dragging the “patch files” onto the corrupted ones in a certain order to fix them.
* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: Once the game reboots after being corrupted, the voices of the counting children glitch out like this.
--> ''"O-o-o-n-n-n-e-e-e! T-w-w-o-o-o! T-hr-e-e-e-e!"''
* TitleConfusion: The Steam version is titled ''Tusker’s Number Adventure [Malware Detected]'', despite the fact that the Apple version and every official mention of the game just uses ''Tusker’s Number Adventure''.
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: A third playthrough will not be tolerated by Mama Wolf.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"STOP WASTING MY TIME!"'']]
* TheReveal: The ending of the game reveals the true nature of the game and who’s behind it: [[spoiler: it’s a recruitment tool for Mama Wolf’s organization, and Mama Wolf’s “true form” is far more realistic than their chat room avatar.]]
* SensoryAbuse: The chorus of counting children at the beginning of the game are surprisingly loud, although that might be to simulate the illusion of a child audience. Meanwhile, the glitch sound effects are perhaps even louder, though it’s justified as they are used for jump scares and atmosphere in certain sections of the game.
* SimonSaysMiniGame: Patching the corrupted files in the Test Environment will require you to activate them in a certain order, which is revealed by switching the code view and waiting for the files to light up in sequence.
* StockFemurBone: During "Tusker 1984", Rex the Dog will block the way to the woods until you give him one of these.
* OminousMultipleScreens: During the ending of the game, Mama Wolf will illustrate their reach with an array of monitors that feature single eyes surrounded by static.
* WingdingEyes: [[spoiler: At the end of the second playthrough, the [[OminousMultipleScreens wall of eyes]] are now crossed out with red Xs.]]
