History VideoGame / Uninvited

* {{Yandere}}: A possible explanation for the Southern Belle's actions. [[spoiler:Reinforced in the Japanese NES version, where she claims that the player betrayed her before killing them, then supposedly starts crying as they die.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: As was then commonplace, Nintendo had a few things watered down for the American NES conversion: crosses, pentagrams, and the number 666 were omitted, a ghost that on other platforms carried its head in one hand wore an intact head on its shoulders (a preview screenshot in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' showed the original ghost, as it was covering the Japanese version), and the zombie had its hanging eyeball removed in its death scene.

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: A strange example: [[spoiler: You can defeat a single zombie by using the power of the pendant, but the pendant won't work on a whole horde of zombies. At the same time, you can't escape the lone zombies, yet you can escape the zombie hordes by simply ignoring them. [[GuideDangIt Of course, newer players wouldn't know to do this.]] ]]

** The Maze or Labyrinth, normally if you go through it, things are fine, but there is a small chance that you might hear a dog barking and it scares you to the next screen of where you were going, this is normally harmless on it’s own but if it causes you to run into a group of zombies or past a lone zombie, they will eat you and you will die. The chance is remote, but it is still possible for you to lose by something that is not your fault by random bad luck.

-> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-2Q3jBgWs You reach the end of the page]]. Finding indexes, you continue to click and click, forgetting time. Soon, you realize that you have missed an important appointment, which causes you to lose your job, your love, and everything. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Your life is in ruins, all because of your addiction to this site]].

* ShoutOut: You can find the graves of both ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' protagonist Ace Harding and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' BigBad Talimar in the maze. Talking to either of them as zombies will have them give a brief description about themselves when they were alive. The phonograph also plays a (horribly off-key) tune from ''Shadowgate''.

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Like ''VideoGame/DejaVu'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'', this game has a few rather obtuse solutions that the player would never figure out without a few game overs.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Unlike ''Shadowgate'', this game likes DESCRIBING to you just what it is that's biting and gnawing and ripping your flesh off. The NES tones most of them down, but it still manages to have some haunting lines of its own.

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[[caption-width-right:256:[[SchmuckBait Oh, hello, lady. Mind if you tell me what's with this house --]] '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUXaYxWynk8 AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!]]''']]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The red tomato-monster thing that [[spoiler: you need to uncage the hawk for]]. Even the narrative text [[GivingUpOnLogic gives up trying to make sense of the event]].

* {{Bowdlerise}}: As was then commonplace, Nintendo had a few things watered down for the American NES conversion: crosses, pentagrams, and the number 666 were omitted a ghost that on other platforms carried its head in one hand wore an intact head on its shoulders (A preview screenshot in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' showed the original ghost, as it was covering the Japanese version.), a the zombie had its hanging eyeball removed in its death scene.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Dogs?]]

* ExploringTheEvilLair: The entire game.
* FaceRevealingTurn: Scarlett O'Hara.

* ForbiddenFruit: The greenhouse contains the most literal example.
* GameOverMan: A skull.

** [[spoiler: Likewise the demon that's the TrueFinalBoss. The diaries all make Dracan out as the primary malefactor, and the revelation that there's another greater evil at work in the house kind of comes out of nowhere.]]

** [[spoiler: Likewise the demon that's the true final boss. The diaries all make Dracan out as the primary malefactor, and the revelation that there's another greater evil at work in the house kind of comes out of nowhere.]]

* GenderFlip: The Kemco/Seika NES port changes your younger brother into an older sister. Since the port was originally Japanese, maybe they figured saving an older sister would appeal more to that market?

* {{Yandere}}: A possible explanation for the Southern Belle's actions. [[spoiler: Reinforced in the Japanese NES version, where she claims that the player betrayed her before killing them, then supposedly starts crying as they die.]]

A 1986 AdventureGame by Creator/ICOMSimulations for UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh, later ported to the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} among other systems. Known for its NightmareFuel involving TheManyDeathsOfYou.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Unlike ''Shadowgate'', this game likes DESCRIBING to you just what it is that's biting and gnawing and ripping your flesh off. The NES tones most of them down, but it still manages to have some haunting lines of its own.

* ArtifactOfDeath: The ruby in the NES version, where holding it causes you to slowly become possessed. All the other versions don't have this item because as you are put under a TimeLimit to finish the game before your mind is taken over. The ruby somewhat puts that back in as the time limit was removed in the NES port.

* {{Yandere}}: A possible explanation for the Southern Belle's actions. {{Reinforced in the Japanese NES version, where she claims that the player betrayed her before killing them, then supposedly starts crying as they die.}}

* {{Bowdlerise}}: As was then commonplace, Nintendo had a few things watered down for the NES conversion: crosses, pentagrams, and the number 666 were omitted, and a ghost that on other platforms carried its head in one hand wore an intact head on its shoulders. (A preview screenshot in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' showed the original ghost, as it was covering the Japanese version.)

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