History VideoGame / WhispersOfAMachine

* AirVentPassageway: Vera sneaks into the [[spoiler:EPOS headquarters via its duct system]].

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: While in jail at the police station, Vera trick the guard with her [[spoiler:HealingFactor.]]
* HealingFactor: Vera's final ability is Regeneration. [[spoiler:It allows her to survive the fall from a great height and to bring Katarina out of her coma by hooking herself up to Katarina's IV.]]

* WidowWoman: Vera recently lost her husband Alex and still appears to be in mourning. [[spoiler:In at least one ending, she finally comes to terms with his passing and moves on.]]

''Whispers of a Machine'' is a 2019 point-and-click AdventureGame, developed by Clifftop Games and Faravid Interactive and published by Raw Fury. It's a sci-fi NordicNoir with heavy CyberPunk elements, set in a post-apocalyptic future.

* AirventPassageway: Vera sneaks into the [[spoiler:EPOS headquarters via its duct system]].

* TheNotLoveInterest: Averted. Some players may expect Vera to end up with the handsome local cop Gabriel, but she still hasn't recovered from the recent loss of her husband Alex.

* ImTakingHimHomeWithMe: [[spoiler:Vera can potentially choose this for Karl and Katarina's infant son. Katarina accepts it, considering that she is going to be in jail year for several years for her involvement with a terrorist organisation, and she wants her son to have a better future.]]

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* Myth/NorseMythology: Justified, given the NordicNoir setting. [[spoiler:Maja calls her AI "Huldra", which is a forest spirit in Nordic mythology, while her protocol to wipe all data is called "Fenrir", after the monstrous wolf that will help start Ragnarok.]]

* Myth/NorseMythology: Justified, given the NordicNoir setting. [[spoiler:Maja calls her AI "Huldra", which is a forest spirit in Nordic mythology, while her protocol to wipe all data is called "Fenrir", after the monstrous wolf that will help start Ragnarok.]]

* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place 82 years after an event only known as "the Collapse". Very few details are revealed. All we know is that anti-[=AI=] groups, fearing the approaching singularity, managed to ban the [=AIs=], and the old civilization collapsed as a result. Also, the Collapse was helped along by vicious fighting and terrorist activity from both pro-[=AI=] and anti-[=AI=] groups. In the post-Collapse world, most advanced tech is banned, which includes even basic computers. Based on some of the items in Nordsund's museum, it can be concluded that the pre-Collapse world had {{Flying Car}}s and {{Robot Soldier}}s, as well as many kinds of household robots. Even the remote town of Nordsund is located atop a giant stone or metal disc-shaped pedestal that requires an elevator to access.

* AIIsACrapshoot: This is what most post-Collapse people believe. The only exception is the Conduit, a group of fanatics, who believe that [=AIs=] have the potential to become gods and must be brought back. They are classified as terrorists and typically find themselves coming to blows with the Church of EPOS, who are just as fanatically against anything resembling an AI.

* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:As soon as Vera returns to Nordsund, after being thrown off the platform by Stina Rooth, she is arrested by either Gabriel or Anderson (depending on previous player choices). Stina convinced Gabriel/Anderson that Vera is the murderer, forcing Vera to flee custody and try to prove her innocence.]]

* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:Stina Rooth, being an experienced former agent of the Central Bureau, occasionally offers advice on the investigation to Vera, who is still somewhat of a rookie. Stina, however, turns out to have long gone off the deep end in fighting TheConspiracy.]]

* ImTakingHimHomeWithMe: [[spoiler:Vera can potentially choose this for Karl and Katarina's infant son. Katarina accepts it, considering that she is going to be in jail year for several years for her involvement with a terrorist organisation, and she wants her son to have a better future.]]

* LoveInterest: Averted. Some players may expect Vera to end up with the handsome local cop Gabriel, but she still hasn't recovered from the recent loss of her husband Alex.

* Myth/NorseMythology: Justified, given the NordicNoir setting. [[spoiler:Maja calls her AI "Huldra", which is a forest spirit in Nordic mythology, while her protocol to wipe all data is called "Fenrir", after the monstrous wolf that will help start Ragnarok.]]

** Commissary Kurt Anderson is the chief of Nordsund's police. He is reasonable and cooperative with Vera, understanding that his department is not equipped to handle a murder case, considering how incredibly rare they are in this quiet town. [[spoiler: In the empathetic route, Stina manages to force him to step down through political manoeuvring, and has him replaced with the somewhat less reasonable Gabriel, in order to enable her frameup of Vera to go more smoothly.]]

* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:As soon as Vera returns to Nordsund, after being thrown off the platform by Stina Rooth, she is arrested by Gabriel, who has been appointed the new chief of police, after Stina forced Commissary Anderson to step down. Stina convinced Gabriel that Vera is the murderer, forcing Vera to flee custody and try to prove her innocence.]]

* LivingLieDetector: The Biometric Analyzer power allows Vera to scan another person's heartbeat. This can be used to catch someone in a lie by detecting anomalies in the pulse. It's generally a good idea to keep it on when talking to pretty much everyone. [[spoiler:Vera also uses it to determine the child's health in the tank.]]

* {{Ventriloquism}}: Valter, the proprietor of the Robot Shop, likes to engage in this using his robot Nisse. When questioned, he admits that none of his robots have microchips (which would have been highly illegal), so it's just a trick. He frequently visits the hospital to entertain the children with Nisse.

* GiveHimANormalLife: [[spoiler:If Vera chooses to not go through with uploading Huldra to Karl and Katarina's son, the question becomes what is to become of the child. Katarina, realizing that she is going to serve a long sentence in jail and therefore is not going to be able to take care of him, instead chooses to give up any claim to him, asking Vera to see to it that he gets a normal life. Vera can choose to do this by putting him up for adaption or choosing to take care of him herself.]]

* GiveHimANormalLife: [[spoiler:If Vera chooses to not go through with uploading Huldra to Karl and Katarina's son, the question becomes what is to become of the child. Katarina, realizing that she is going to serve a long sentence in jail and therefore is not going to be able to take care of him, instead chooses gives up any claim to him, asking Vera to see to it that he gets a normal life. Vera can choose to do this by putting him up for adaption or choosing to take care of him herself.]]

** Commissary Kurt Anderson is the chief of Nordsund's police. He is reasonable and cooperative with Vera, understanding that his department is not equipped to handle a murder case, considering how incredibly rare they are in this quiet town. [[spoiler: In some routes, Stina manages to force him to step down through political manoeuvring, and has him replaced with the somewhat less reasonable Gabriel, in order to enable her frameup of Vera to go more smoothly.]]

* ShoutOut: A scene sees Vera walking up to Dr. Persson and greeting him, while he has his back turned. Persson emits a yelp and tells Vera "not to sneak up on [him] like that", in a sly reference to the intro scene of ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland''.

* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place an unspecified number of years after an event only known as "the Collapse". Very few details are revealed, only that it involved [=AIs=] and a fight against them. It's implied that it was a religious anti-AI group that started it, though. In the post-Collapse world, most advanced tech is banned, which includes even basic computers. Based on some of the items in Nordsund's museum, it can be concluded that the pre-Collapse world had {{Flying Car}}s and {{Robot Soldier}}s, as well as many kinds of household robots. Even the remote town of Nordsund is located atop a giant stone or metal disc-shaped pedestal that requires an elevator to access.
* TheAlcoholic. [[spoiler:Stina's apartment has several discarded or half-empty booze and beer bottles lying around, suggesting that she has quite the habit.]]

* AlternativeCalendar: The only dates mentioned use the abbreviation "AR", which says absolutely nothing about when the new calendar was implemented (presumably, some time after the Collapse).

** Commissary Kurt Anderson is the chief of Nordsund's police. He is reasonable and cooperative with Vera, understanding that his department is not equipped to handle a murder case, considering how incredibly rare they are in this quiet town. [[spoiler:Stina manages to force him to step down through political manoeuvring, and has him replaced with the somewhat less reasonable Gabriel, in order to enable her frameup of Vera to go more smoothly.]]