History VideoGame / VoidStranger

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: If you die too many times in the same room after being Voided, Gray or Lillie will fall to their knees and the screen will dim. They will then appear in an empty screen of darkness. If you mash buttons, they will regain resolve and stand back up. Should you start tapping and then give up, she too will give up and eventually transform into a Void Egg. This is treated as an ending as if you exit out of the game, [[TearJerker the title screen will show their petrified form]].

* MultipleEndings: There are numerous endings to the game, each with their own credits sequence and title screen change. There's giving up and becoming a Void Egg as Gray or Lillie, reach the bottom floor while in VOID state as Gray, reach the bottom floor as Lillie or regular Gray, rescuing Bee as Cif, confronting Lev on Floor 000 as Cif, witness the Dr. Lily scene in the abyss, and the "True Ending" of reaching the heart of DIS as Gray or Lillie.

* WasOnceAMan: The large round eggs seen throughout the Void turn out to be other people that ventured into the VOID and did not have the determination to reach the end, succumbing to despair. During Lilith mode, Lillie is trapped in a room with another person that turns into one after closing and reloading the game, and Lillie almost turns into one herself at the final floor due to Bee's goading and desire to eat her before Bee is stopped and punished.

* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: One floor contains a giant SnakePerson who states that her appearance shifts to match the beloved of whoever gazes upon her. In Gray's mode, their upper body resembles Princess Lily, while in Lillie and Cif's modes, her true self of a three-eyed snake head is shown, due to respectively Lillie not having a beloved and Cif being a fellow denizen of the VOID.

** During a different dream flashback, Gray tries picking a fight with Bee, one of the demons Johann bargained with, to prevent them from taking Princess Lily's soul as part of Johann's deal with them. Trying to attack Bee just causes Gray to take counter damage, and if she stalls by defending or checking the demon's status, Bee will quickly become bored and attack for over a thousand damage.

* MinusWorld: On a "rest" floor, it's possible to swap the tiles of the user interface without getting forced to a DeadEndRoom. By swapping the amount of Locusts you have with the last two digits of the Floor, it teleports you to that floor. Do this to warp to Floor 00, and you're sent to a special room before the game's beginning where Gray or Lillie (but not Cif) can obtain a more powerful rod that can store multiple tiles at once.

** If Gray ends up in the void due to messing with the HUD, then it is possible for her to find a giant broken sphere that triggers an ending where a scientist is busted by some kind of police force, only for some creatures from ''VideoGame/ZeroRanger'' suddenly busting through a tear in reality, ending the game.

* JumpScare: Should Gray end up in the void from messing with the HUD, then one of the possible ways for it to end is that some kind of creature suddenly jumping out of nowhere, snagging her and crashing the game. It happens so suddenly that it is sure to scare those unprepared.

** After reaching the bottom of the Void, Gray decides which soul to take back with her, and the credits roll. The game then closes, and booting it back up cuts to years later, where Gray's adoptive daughter searches their house for a birth certificate before seeing a demon and falling into the Void... unlocking the brand for Lilith mode, in which the daughter must now reach the bottom of an even ''harder'' version of the game.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: If you die too many times in the same room after being Voided, Grey or Lillie will fall to their knees and the screen will dim. They will then appear in an empty screen of darkness. If you mash buttons, they will regain resolve and stand back up. Should you start tapping and then give up, she too will give up and eventually transform into a Void Egg. This is treated as an ending as if you exit out of the game, [[TearJerker the title screen will show their petrified form]].

** And just when you think Grey's runthrough is hard enough, Lillie has to traverse [[RemixedLevel the same dungeon, but this time littered with even harder puzzles]]!

* NoGearLevel: At some point, Grey will encounter a young treasure hunter who takes interest in her staff. Before she can answer, the woman rips the staff from her hands, forcing you to chase her down and solve several floors without your primary tool for interacting with the Void. The thief will actively sabotage your efforts to pursue her by stepping on glass tiles and covering her tracks, forcing you to take dangerous detours.

!! ''Void Stranger'' features examples of the following tropes:

* MinusWorld: On a "rest" floor, it's possible to swap the tiles of the user interface without getting forced to a DeadEndRoom. By swapping the amount of Locusts you have with the last two digits of the Floor, it teleports you to that floor. Do this to warp to Floor 00, and you're sent to a special room before the game's beginning where Gray (but not Lillie) can obtain a more powerful rod that can store multiple tiles at once.

** In Lilith mode, upon reaching the bottommost floors, Lillie is almost turned into a fruit by Bee before being rescued. Lillie is then given a vision of flying through space and crashing onto the planet, where she ends up right next to what appears to be Gray laying flowers at a gravestone. After a moment of shock, Lillie starts laying into Gray about her insecurities and her fear that Gray only saw her as a replacement for Lily, only to be interrupted by Gray hugging her and stating how proud she is of Lillie.

* WasOnceAMan: The large round fruits seen throughout the Void turn out to be other people that ventured into the VOID and did not have the determination to reach the end, succumbing to despair. During Lilith mode, Lillie is trapped in a room with another person that turns into one after closing and reloading the game, and Lillie almost turns into one herself at the final floor due to Bee's goading and desire to eat her before Bee is stopped and punished.

* EducationMama: In Lilith mode, some of Lillie's dreams show that Gray became one while raising Lillie, telling her to focus on education and acceptance into the military while forbidding her from taking a trip with friends even after Lillie saved the money for it and got the approval of others. It's what led to Lillie growing up into a rebellious WellDoneDaughterGirl who's convinced that Gray wanted her to be someone that she's not.

** Besides the puzzles themselves, another thing that makes the game very hard is that it can be extremely punishing due to the way some of its mechanics interact. One wrong move can result in the player having to restart a whole run, which is itself a rather complex an unintuitive process.

Presented in a monochrome pixel graphic style reminiscent of the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, the game sees the protagonist entering a deep dungeon seemingly in search of something important to her. Her only piece of equipment is a strange rod she finds at the start of the game. From here on out, movement is tile- and turn-based; time only moves when the player moves, and movement can be done only one tile at a time. The rod's main ability is to pick up one floor tile at a time and then replace it wherever a free space is available (including the same space that was vacated). Along the way, the player will encounter all manners of enemies with their own movement patterns, tile types that can help or hinder progress, and various treasure items. Some puzzles have multiple ways to solve them, while others have solutions that must be followed to the exact step to succeed. The game auto-saves after every floor completed, ''but'' floor progression is one-way and therefore the player will sometimes have to decide between solving an exceptionally difficult puzzle to get a desired item, or just give up and move on.

** After Lillie reaches the bottom of the Void at the end of Lilith mode, Bee encourages her to succumb to despair, but is punished before Lillie fully succumbs. Lillie is then granted her own boon, and as all she wants is for her parents to be proud of her, she's allowed to return home with Lily's freed soul alongside her. As the family returns home and discuss their fond memories of Gray, it cuts to the demons observing them, with Cif asking their leader some questions about what DIS actually is (a research facility) and why their leader took an interest in Lily's life (she reminded her of an old friend). When the leader departs, Cif then realizes that she forgot about Bee...unlocking the brand for ''Cif mode'' as she goes back to retrieve her.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In some floors, you can create a path down to the HUD at the bottom, which you can walk on. Beware picking out the HUD though, as you might perform a literal break of the fourth wall: Picking out text or icons may cause [[OminousVisualGlitch visual "glitches"]], crash the game, or dump you into an unending void!

* WellDoneDaughterGirl: At the end of Lilith Mode, Lillie is forced to confront the fact that, for all of Gray's restrictive parenting and Lillie's rebelling in turn, all she really wants is for her mothers to know that she's proud to have been their daughter.

* TheStarscream: In Cif mode, after their boss has left and while traversing the VOID to find where Bee was sealed away to, she learns that Mon, the demon that exchanges hints for Locust Idols, has also been traversing the floors. Once she catches up to Mon, she discovers that he and some of the other demons have decided to take the place over for themselves, leading her to fight against their more monstrous transformations.