- "In many ways GTH is a very dark story – but we are a company that designs for ages 10 and up. Our goal in this particular game was to design a game that would engage the younger players, but really scare the older players. That’s why you have to connect some of the dots on your own as a player."— Word of God explaining
why they only hint at what happened in Clara's childhood.
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Game Series
The Haunted Carousel
- The Game Over scene where Elliot catches Nancy. He walks up to her with his arms outstretched wearing a terrifying Slasher Smile as the screen fades to black."You're toast now, Nancy..."
Danger on Deception Island
- The option to poison Katie with tainted sandwich ingredients. You get a Game Over sequence if this happens, but that won't necessarily stop you from doing it again.
- "Say goodnight, Nancy..."
Haunting of Castle Malloy
- The bar, which Nancy comments is a place to relax "over your favorite combination of fruit juices." The bar which you are asked to mix drinks for. Drinks that are obviously alcoholic.
Ghost of Thornton Hall
- The developers never explicitly say that the Thorntons made their money through slavery (for reasons mentioned in the quote source above) but the sheer number of ways they hint at it must be seen to be believed.
- The game takes place on an old plantation in the deep south of Georgia, and it's mentioned that the Thorntons have a "long and bloody history." Even if slavery is never mentioned outright, judging by the setting alone, the implications are pretty clear.
- There is a room filled with all manner of farming implements, one explicitly made for processing cotton. According to the EMF reader, it is more haunted than any other spot on Blackrock Island. Added to that is the loosely secured scythe that hangs from its rafters, which will kill you if you try to enter Harper's passageway too early.
- Most of the graveyard houses members of the Thornton family, but there's one overgrown tombstone that simply reads "54 souls." This was placed after an incident where the Thorntons did not provide their workers with proper lodgings and heat sources during winter, and, in doing so, accidentally gassed them to death. One is reminded unpleasantly of mass graves.
- The fact that we never find out who Clara's father is and the fact that it is such a touchy subject with her is enough to raise eyebrows. Harper expecting Clara to cry when you ask her about him is even more suspicious. And then Word of God refused to say why exactly no one talks about Jackson Thornton - but did say that Clara envied Charlotte's "happy childhood." The possibilities are dark.
The Silent Spy
- When Moira comes back after her kidnapping, Nancy asks, what was happening to her when she was gone. And Moira says: "Maybe, I don't want to tell. Maybe, it's personal". That... does sound a bit suggestive.
Labyrinth of Lies
- In one of the audio files in the computer, you can hear Xenia telling Thanos to "Go to Hades!", which is the Greek mythology version of Hell.
Book Series
(Nothing as of yet but here just in case.)
