History VideoGame / Uninvited

* HauntedHouse

* TheMaze
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Seriously, how would you know that a ghost servant [[spoiled:would be afraid of spiders]]?

** Also the guard dogs outside the chapel.

* AwesomeButImpractical: There's a large, wicked looking battleaxe that you can pick up very early on. Too bad the only thing it's good for is killing YOURSELF (justified somewhat, as the house is full of ghosts). [[spoiler:You'll later use it to break open a particularly stubborn cookie jar. And the axe breaks in the process.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Unlike ''Shadowgate'', this game likes SHOWING you just what it is that's biting and gnawing and ripping your flesh off.

* MoonLogicPuzzle

* SouthernBelle: Ha...hahahaha...

* TrialAndErrorGameplay

* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: What's become of your sibling by the time you reunite.]]

** Of the six spells you find in the game, you'll only ever need five, and each only in one occasion (DollDoll for the gypsy doll, Thundede for the dogs, O Sesame for the statue head, Telemaze for exiting the maze, and Stillini for the GiantSpider; at least in the NES version).

** When you open one of the doors on the first floor hallway, you encounter a SouthernBelle that is dressed like Scarlett O'Hara from ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. [[spoiler:And when you pour the No Ghost onto the belle, she melts away and a message says, "You now feel like [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] [[AndYourLittleDogToo (and her little dog, too)]]" (in any version excluding the NES version.]]

* RedHerring: and HOW! Pretty much 80% of all the items you find throughout the mansion can be picked up, attempted to be interacted with, and are completely unnecessary to proceed in the game, though they'll clutter up your inventory (you can hold anything you find, but having to turn the notebook pages to find a specific item becomes tedious) and, if you aren't using a guide, you won't even know which ones to throw away once you find a place to do so.

** Of the six spells you find in the game, you'll only ever need four, and each only in one occasion.

* ShoutOut: You can find the graves of both ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' {{Protagonist}} Ace Harding and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' BigBad Talimar in the maze. The phonograph also plays a (horribly off-key) tune from ''Shadowgate''.

[[caption-width-right:256:[[SchmuckBait Oh, hello, lady.]] [[TooDumbToLive Mind if you tell me what's with this house]] [[HellIsThatNoise --]] '''[[NightmareFuel AAAAAAAAAA]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCRSUN69yQ HHHH!!!]]''']]

Not to be confused with the [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters'', or that horror movie with the rat parasite that climbs out of a cat's mouth.

Not to be confused with the [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters'', or that horror movie with the rat parasite the climbs out of a cat's mouth.

* RedHerring: and HOW! Pretty much 80% of all the items you find throughout the mansion can be picked up, attempted to be interacted with, and are completely unnecessary to proceed in the game, though they'll clutter up your inventory (you can hold anything you find, but having to turn the notebook pages to find a specific item becomes tedious) and, if you aren't using a guide, you won't eve know which ones to throw away once you find a place to do so.

Compare ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'', also by ICOM.

A 1986 AdventureGame for {{Macintosh}}, later ported to the {{NES}} among other systems. Known for its NightmareFuel involving TheManyDeathsOfYou.

Not to be confused with the [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of ''Film/ATaleOfTwoSisters''.

* DistressedDude / DistressedDamsel: Your main reason for braving the hellhouse is to locate your sibling.

Not to be confused with the [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of ''ATaleOfTwoSisters''.

* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. There are ''three'' rifles hanging on the wall, but you can't even take them down, let alone fire them.

* CreatorCameo -- In the About box, the developers' heads rise from graves Whac-A-Mole style and "dance" to Beethoven's Fifth.

The setting is a sinister mansion, into which you and your sibling [[note]]a younger brother or older sister, depending on the port[[/note]] stumble after escaping the wreck of your car. Satanic rites have turned the home into a magnet for occult evil, and you'll need to exorcise the heart of that evil before it takes root in one or both of your minds.

The setting is a sinister mansion, into which you and your sibling [[note]]a younger brother or older sister, depending on the port[[/note]] stumble after surviving a car crash on [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight A Dark and Stormy Night]]. Satanic rites have turned the home into a magnet for occult evil, and you'll need to exorcise the heart of that evil before it takes root in one or both of your minds.

* ChekhovsGun: The cross (chalice in the NES version).

* TheDayTheMusicLied: Upbeat tone while meeting a Scarlett O'Hara lookalike from the back? Ooh, very ni--'''[[NightmareFuel AAAAAAAA]][[HellIsThatNoise HHHHHH!!!!]]'''

A 1986 AdventureGame for the {{Macintosh}}, later ported to the {{NES}} among other systems. Known for its NightmareFuel involving TheManyDeathsOfYou.

The setting is a sinister mansion, into which you and your sibling [[note]]a younger brother or older sister, depending on the port[[/note]] stumble after surviving a car crash on [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight A Dark and Stormy Night]]. Arcane rites have turned the home into a magnet for occult evil, and you'll need to exorcise the heart of that evil before it takes root in one or both of your minds.

* {{Yandere}}: A possible explanation for the SouthernBelle's actions.

An AdventureGame for the Mac OS ported to the {{NES}}, sister game to ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' but taking place in a haunted house instead of a castle. Has much of the same [[TheManyDeathsOfYou gameplay]] and much of the same NightmareFuel.

Compare to ''{{Deja Vu}}'', also by the same developer.

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* AngryGuardDog: Two of em, guarding the church. Very, very mean dogs.
* AwesomeButImpractical: There's a large, wicked looking battleaxe that you can pick up very early on. Too bad the only thing it's good for is killing YOURSELF (Justified somewhat, as the house is full of ghosts). [[spoiler:You'll later use it to break open a particularly stubborn cookie jar. And the axe breaks in the process.]]

* {{Butterface}}: [[spoiler:The Scarlet O'Hara lookalike.]]

* TheCorruption: What happens to you if you don't get rid of that damn ruby.
** That's on the NES version. In all other versions, just entering the mansion subjects you with it, so you better act REALLY quick or you die. Fortunately, the mansion itself doesn't kill you nearly as quick as the ruby did in the NES version.

* TheDayTheMusicLied: Upbeat tone while meeting a Scarlet O'Hara lookalike from the back? Ooh, very ni--'''[[NightmareFuel AAAAAAAA]][[HellIsThatNoise HHHHHH!!!!]]'''
* DistressedDamsel: Your main reason for being in the hellhouse is to locate your sister, and prevent her from becoming a DeadLittleSister.
** Only in the NES versions. In all other versions it's your little ''[[DistressedDude brother]]'' that's missing.
* DrowningPit: The bathroom quickly turns into one, if you're silly enough to turn on the sink. [[spoiler:Though this turns out to be the only way to get into the final room.]]

* FalseReassurance: "Thank you for coming back for me, my love. You will be mine forever..." [[spoiler:She's dead, and you soon will be if you see this line...]]

* GenderFlip: The original [=MacVenture=] version had you braving the house to rescue your younger ''brother''.
** A quite likely explanation is that, since the NES port was originally Japanese, they figured saving an older sister would appeal more to the gaming audience at the time.
** Which, when combined with her [[BrotherSisterIncest flirtatious gestures]] upon being rescued, just raises more questions about that [[ValuesDissonance Japanese target audience]].
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Unlike Shadowgate, this game likes SHOWING you just what it is that's biting and gnawing and ripping your flesh off.
** Although there were things that were toned down. I remember a preproduction screenshot in Nintendo Power that showed a ghost that carried his head in one hand (the one that appears in the attic cell). In the actual game his head is on top of his shoulders.
*** He's carrying his head in most other versions.
* GhostButler: The front door, of course, refuses to let you out once you're inside. [[spoiler:There's another one upstairs, that proves a little more fatal if you're silly enough to use it.]]

** How to deal with the ghost butler upstairs.
** What the hell keeps killing you for no apparent reason (the ruby).
*** If you examine the ruby, you'll get a pretty good hint that it's something you don't want. Also, this is only in the NES game. In all other versions, this happens whether you have the ruby (a star in all other versions) or not. Fortunately it takes much, MUCH longer in other versions, essentially giving the whole game a time limit.
** How do you get to [[spoiler: the room above the bathroom]].
* MalevolentArchitecture

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "This phantasm must have come from the valley of death. It stares at you malisciously."
* SchmuckBait: Two of them: [[spoiler: the prison cell at the top of the ladder, and the giant spider in the tunnel. A lesser known one is that you can crawl inside the coffin in the maze (often accidentally by going east) and you die.]]

* ShoutOut: You can find the graves of both Ace Harding from ''{{Deja Vu}}'', and of Talimar, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' inside of the maze. Also, the phonograph in the house proper plays a (horribly off-key) tune from Shadowgate.

* {{Yandere}}: A possible explanation of the actions of the SouthernBelle.

-> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-2Q3jBgWs You reached the end of the page]]. Finding indexes, you continue to click and click, forgetting time. Shortly after, you realize that you missed your important appointment, which caused you to lose your job, love and everything. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Your life was ruined all because of the addiction with this site]].

-> Your quest is over.[[hottip:*:'''[[HellIsThatNoise I've got you...]]''']]

** Only in the NES versions. In all other versions it's your little ''brother'' that's missing.

[[caption-width-right:256:[[SchmuckBait Oh, hello, lady.]] [[TooDumbToLive Mind if you tell me what's with this house]] [[HellIsThatNoise --]] '''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel AAAAAAAAAA]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCRSUN69yQ HHHH!!!]]''']]

An AdventureGame for the Mac OS ported to the {{NES}}, sister game to ''{{Shadowgate}}'' but taking place in a haunted house instead of a castle. Has much of the same [[TheManyDeathsOfYou gameplay]] and much of the same HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

* TheDayTheMusicLied: Upbeat tone while meeting a Scarlet O'Hara lookalike from the back? Ooh, very ni--'''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel AAAAAAAA]][[HellIsThatNoise HHHHHH!!!!]]'''

* ShoutOut: You can find the graves of both Ace Harding from ''{{Deja Vu}}'', and of Talimar, the BigBad of ''{{Shadowgate}}'' inside of the maze. Also, the phonograph in the house proper plays a (horribly off-key) tune from Shadowgate.