I Fell From Grace is an
Adventure Game released for PC on December 20, 2017. It depicts a week in the life of Harry, a man working for a pharmaceutical company that's given the opportunity to test an experimental new treatment on his terminally ill wife, and must deal with the consequences. Notably,
every single character in the game speaks in rhyme, though this can be turned off in the game's settings.
Tropes, recorded by Dopes:
- But Thou Must!: If Harry declines to give untested medication to his wife Grace, and instead has to make a deal with a local pharmacist in order to obtain regular painkillers, he'll find out the next morning that Grace still took one of the untested pills overnight because the painkillers were ineffective.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Harry, the main protagonist; even if you avoid choices that have him commit adultery or murder, or willingly using his wife as a guinea pig for a new medicine, he still commits abhorrent acts like breaking into company records and associating with drug dealers.
- A Deadly Affair: If Harry chooses to continue an affair, he'll ultimately end it by killing the other woman.
- Disposable Vagrant: Throughout the week, Harry can hear rumors about the city's mysteriously vanishing homeless population. In the True Ending, Harry himself is using the corpses of vagrants to try and "cure" his dead wife.
- Find the Cure!: Harry's wife Grace is suffering from terminal illness, and Harry's main motivation is trying to cure her...at least, until it turns out the cure may be far, far worse.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: At the end of the game, a mutated Grace reveals that she's been forcing Harry to repeat the last week of his life for over a thousand years, just for her amusement.
- Harmful Healing: The untested pills end up mutating Grace into a psychic monster that causes an apocalypse.
- Ironic Hell: At the end of the game, Grace reveals that Harry is in one; the reason every single character, including Harry, speaks in rhyme is to reflect how much he disliked high art when Grace first threw him in a Groundhog Day Loop.
- Multiple Endings: There are endings for dying early, endings for reaching the end of the week, and a True Ending for finding Grace's missing locket before the end of the week.
- Police Brutality: In the True Ending, when the police officers ordering Harry out of his house see that he's delusional and carrying his wife's corpse in both arms, the lead detective states "that's enough of this" and decides to just shoot Harry in the head instead of arresting him.
- Rhymes on a Dime: By default, every single character interaction rhymes, which nobody acknowledges until the ending where Grace reveals it's part of Harry's Ironic Hell.
- The Ending Changes Everything: The True Ending contains a twist that completely clashes with the rest of the story: everything was just a part of a massive delusion that Harry was having following the real Grace's death.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: In the True Ending, the entire game turns out to be a massive delusion Harry is having; it flickers between a rhyming and clean Harry curing his wife and leaving the house to celebrate, and a non-rhyming and disheveled Harry injecting the corpse of his wife with another corpse's blood to "cure" her before leaving the house when the police arrive.
- Tragic Stillbirth: Despite Grace being sick, Harry partially resents his wife for a past miscarriage, as it was caused when she had attempted to move heavy furniture by herself while pregnant and tumbled down the stairs.
