Despite the fact that these games are classified as "drama-comedy", you'd be surprised as to how many creepy moments they have.
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To the Moon
- At first, the sight of all of those origami rabbits can be a little unsettling even though this later turns into a Tear Jerker.
- When we first meet Johnny's mom, something is off about her. She calls Johnny "Joey" and Johnny seems put-off by her. Later, we find out her deal- when Johnny's twin brother died, she forced Johnny to take beta blockers, which wiped out his memories of the last few years, and she proceeded to pretend Johnny was Joey. This is a Tear Jerker, but it's also kind of creepy that a mother would use her other child as a replacement for her dead child, who she clearly favored over the other one.
- When the scientists get to the last memory that is roadblocked. There's something disturbing about seeing parts of a person's memory break up into white nothingness.
- The fate of Joey, Johnny's long deceased twin brother. He wasn't watching where he was going and his own mother ends up running him over by accident! Seeing this happen and then seeing his lifeless body just lying there in the street afterwards is gut-wrenching, to say the least.
- The sequence when Eva is altering Johnny's memory. The memories become a wild mess as creepy music plays until the music eventually stops. At one point, Joey's corpse seemingly talks with Johnny's line.
Minisodes
- The second minisode has two very creepy moments that hint at something dark happening behind the scenes:
- The first moment is when Eva is talking to her sister on the phone and she's heading over to her place when she suddenly slams on the brakes. Her sister is confused and concerned and asks if something's wrong, but a wide-eyed Eva doesn't respond... because another Eva is walking around outside before blinking out of existence! What makes this especially nerve-wrecking is how Eva seems to have forgotten what just happened as soon as the other Eva vanishes and her sister also seems to have been almost "reset" in a way as the scene continues as it had before and then Eva just leaves with no further incident. The music doesn't help matters much, either.
- And then, right at the very end after the credits have rolled, everyone's leaving and Eva is about to ask her sister for a lift because Neil needs the company car, but then it suddenly goes to Eva in a dark room with one of the memory machines on her head! She briefly opens her eyes before closing them and once again, the scene continues as normal. Shortly afterwards, the minisode ends.
Finding Paradise
- Throughout the game, there is a shadowy figure watching Colin and his family. This is implied to be Faye, but it's still creepy to see someone watching without being able to see who...
- Speaking of shadowy figures: Neil goes outside to get some painkillers from the car. As he does, he notices someone on a bike staring at him, their face concealed by their helmet. A moment later, that bicyclist suddenly leaves. At first you come to believe it's Faye again, but once you learn about Faye's true origin, suddenly the bicyclist's identity becomes a mystery.
- Once Faye's true nature as an Imaginary Friend is revealed to Neil, Faye suddenly attacks him. She overheard Neil and Eva talking about possibly removing her from Colin's memories, and Faye's not too happy about that. Her imagery also morphs, turning her into some sort of god-like entity with wings. And since she's a creation of Colin's mind, and we're inside Colin's mind, she has near-complete control of her surroundings and a one-up against Neil.Neil: Dammit! This isn't even the freakin' genre of patient I signed up for!
Impostor Factory
- The beginning of the game is extremely terrifying, and with a different tonal change than we're used to in the series. It all comes tumbling down when Quincy first discovers the dead bodies of the hosts of the party. It keeps happening to him over and over again until at the end he sees clones upon clones of corpses. One has to wonder how that affected his mental state.
- Quincy's situation in the game is the pinnacle of Existential Horror. He starts out believing he is a reporter sent to witness a scientific breakthrough announced during a dinner party, and he eventually finds out that he is actually a digital construct created by using Lynri's memory of her ex-husband as a base. The entire ambient and people he is interacting with are fake as well, and he is aware of this fact just because he is the only entity able to remember the resets Lynri is executing because of a series of malfunctionings that are causing the hosts of the party to die over and over again without an apparent reason. Thankfully for Lynri, Quincy takes the news better than most people would and still offers her his cooperation to solve the problem.
- When Lynri attempts to discover why the memory of the machine demonstration always goes wrong, she sends Quincy down to watch what happens to the mainframe when the demonstration occurs. After an already-unnerving sequence where the hallway to the mainframe room extends infinitely, he finally arrives and sees huge black tentacles burst into the room through the air vents and smash the mainframe, before coalescing into a shadowy silhouette.
