Follow TV Tropes

This is based on opinion. Please don't list it on a work's trope example list.

Following

Nightmare Fuel / Accounting

Go To

For an obscure VR game about virtual realities within virtual realities, Accounting can become surprisingly horrific whenever it so pleases.


  • As a method to prove how bad you are to the gang in order to let you join, you have to pick up a brick and throw it at a nearby window. The gang's reaction to this is one of complete and utter terror, which ends up being somewhat justified as the police respond by summoning the entire police force to chase after them while opening fire.
    • Try holding the brick for a long while without throwing it or putting it down. The brick will start talking to you, trying to convince you to throw it... and he manages to sound genuinely threatening.
  • You are forced to kill the King of VR by rather gruesomely cutting his stomach open with a knife, and then rip out his heart (which is a literal VR headset) to enter the next level, which takes place inside his stomach.
    • Imagine you're the King in this scenario. You are quite possibly a very lonely person stuck in this dank dungeon, when suddenly someone who might be the first legitimate person who could help you out appears and proceeds to murder you so they can progress through the game.
  • In terms of advancing in the stomach level, you can pick your poison: either exit the current layer of VR by pouring stomach acid on yourself, or use a coin to enter a secret level where you assist two teenagers in summoning Satan. The latter then proceeds to kill all three of you without hesitation.
    • Even better, if in the latter you decide to bail and reset back to the main menu, you'll discover that Clovis' level loader is now bleeding, with the word HELP being printed out from the machine. Not even Clovis knows what the fuck is going on, either.
  • In the Car Chase scene you can watch your gang buddies get shot by cops and die right in front of your eyes (literally).
  • Taking the apple-headset in the "burning tree world"-level will take you to the room of the "biggest fan", which is scary experience for a variety of reasons. On one hand, the "fan" is a very tall, bald and skinny figure sitting in the dark and fixating you with lidless eyes. On the other hand, the room is completely out of proportion: The computer, the chair and the items laying on the ground are too small. However, the head of the "fan" almost touches the ceiling. Thus, this level is a claustrophobic nightmare.
    • Before an update, taking the Fan's VR goggles just led you back to the first level - except that instead of the normal phone calls, you received creepy calls from the Fan. After the update? You go through a creepy and dark version of the game:
      • The office seems glitched, with objects appearing much bigger or much smaller than normal. All the posters have been altered to display depressing or threatening messages.
      • The forest is littered with batteries and trash left by the Fan. The angry ghost that usually insults you? He's now the Fan's "roommate", and he's so scared of him that he can't say anything.
      • The dungeon is completely devoid of its regular occupants and paintings. In return, you can just look up to see a gigantic Fan staring at you from the darkness. Instead of proceeding to the "stomach" level, you exit the dungeon and go to...
      • ...A desert, where you can somehow hear the sound of water. The only things here besides you are a deformed, wheezing thing; and a baby carriage, where a baby is apparently crying. Looking into the carriage reveals... a battery. Except that now, the cry has been replaced by a heartbeat. Take out the battery, and you'll hear a soft ripping sound, the heartbeat will stop, and you'll discover that the bloated entity has disappeared while you weren't looking. Then the game resets. None of this is explained.

Top