is a 2020 survival horror game by Isolation Interactive based on the Trevor Henderson Mythos.The player controls Freddy Anderson, a high schooler who goes on a camping trip with his friends. Sirenhead promptly picks them off one-by-one.
The game provides examples of:
- The '70s: Heavily implied to be the setting. Freddy is an Atari gamer and modern technology like smartphones are nowhere to be seen.
- Action Survivor: Unlike most horror games, the player can actually defend themselves. Freddy picks up a rifle in the guard tower and can use it to scare Sirenhead off.
- Adaptational Villainy: The creators of this game must’ve taken some of the pages from Slender: The Arrival. Sirenhead in the original mythos is a simple predator with a Blue-and-Orange Morality. Here? He's straight up a jerkass monster who psychologically abuses Freddy as he walks through the woods.
- Antagonist Title: Sirenhead is not only the title character, but the monster the player must survive a night against.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Sirenhead is a 40-foot tall monster. He actually takes advantage of this in his kill animation. All he has to do to kill Freddy is pick him up and let him go.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Southpoint has two disembodied hearts placed on two altars within the village. Destroying these hearts would kill Sirenhead itself, which Freddy accomplishes in the good ending.
- Ax-Crazy: Sirenhead is a Serial Killer instead of a predator, and prefers to kill in pretty gruesome ways.
- Big Bad: Sirenhead of course, being the titular entity terrorizing Freddy after killing his friends and the "god" worhsiped by the Southpoint village/cult. It has been causing terror and misery well before Freddy and his friends got involved.
- Bittersweet Ending: In the full release, we are given a "good" ending, with Freddy ultimately escaping the park. Not only that, but Freddy faces and seemingly kills Sirenhead itself. However, his friends are still dead and the very ending shows there are other anomalies in Southpoint besides Sirenhead.
- But Thou Must!: In order destroy Sirenhead's hearts, Freddy must find and read all four letters revealing the town's past. Attempting to destroy the hearts beforehand will do fuck all.
- Dark and Troubled Past: The village of Southpoint has one, having fallen into worship of what would become Sirenhead. We are told the details of four lore pieces, which reveal that human sacrifice was so commonly practiced, that over the centuries, the villagers severely decreased. It's also stated while the cult leaders flourished, their followers were disillusioned by their state, and lived in constant fear of their deity.
- Despair Event Horizon: The player can optionally go through this by pressing Z and willingly letting Sirenhead kill them.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In the Golden Ending, Freddy uncovers a way to put Sirenhead down, seemingly for good, by destroying it's two hearts.
- Disney Villain Death: Sirenhead gives this to the player in his kill animation, snatching them up and dropping them to their deaths.
- Don't Go Into the Woods: South Point Meadows, the setting of the game. It's a dark, gothic countryside out in the middle of nowhere, being patrolled by Sirenhead. Freddy and his friends really shouldn't have camped there.
- Easter Egg: Randomly, Sirenhead might make an early appearance where he's wandering the woods. His sirens might be lit too. This form of him is known as "Lamphead".
- Eldritch Abomination: Sirenhead is portrayed as a "deity" worshiped by the Southpoint village, and aside from its usual appearance and powers, virtually nothing is known of where it came from. Its only weakness is two disembodied but still beating hearts hidden within the Southpoint village.
- Faux Affably Evil: Sirenhead's news broadcaster voice talks in a calm and professional manner, but it’s filled with sadistic, smug condescension.
- Flaying Alive: When Freddy finds Sarah's corpse, it's skinned and mangled beyond recognition.
- Hell Is That Noise: Sirenhead's sirens emit all sorts of creepy noises, the most infamous and iconic of which being the Modulator's "Alternate Wail" (aka: Hi-Lo Wail) and the EAS sound.
- Hope Spot: At first, it seems like the cop over the radio will be Freddy's savior. However, it's just Sirenhead's voice mimicry.
- Horrible Camping Trip: The premise. It doesn't get much horrible than getting collectively mauled by Sirenhead.
- Invincible Villain: No matter how many bullets you unload into him, it's impossible to kill Sirenhead, only scare him off temporarily. Only destroying his hearts will kill him for good.
- Jerkass: Sirenhead, uniquely so. In most interpretations of him, he's a silent, mindless monster with Blue-and-Orange Morality, but in this game, he's a spiteful asshole that actively taunts the player.
- Large-Ham Announcer: The game is essentially narrated by a cheesy, clearly P.T.-inspired radio announcer voice reporting on the game's events (disappearances, search parties, etc). However, it's revealed that it was actually Sirenhead pretending to be a radio announcer all along.
- Lured into a Trap:
- Sirenhead tricks Freddy into wandering out in the open by mimicking the voice of a police officer.
- Most or all of the screams the player hears are implied to be from Sirenhead as well, trying to lure Freddy out.
- Multiple Endings: Freddy can either submit to Sirenhead by literally laying down and dying, or resist him and try to escape. Either way, Sirenhead kills him.
- Nerd Action Hero: Freddy. The whole reason his social circle is camping in the first place is because he's a gamer nerd and they think he needs some sunshine. And he becomes an Action Survivor by the end of the game.
- Retraux: In reality, Sirenhead is a normal 3D game, but given a pixelized filter to give the superficial illusion of being retro.
- Sadist: Unlike most interpretations, this version of Sirenhead takes sadistic glee in messing with Freddy's mind and prolonging his suffering.
- The Scream: The player will hear absolutely visceral, bloodcurdling ones all throughout the game. You would at first assume it's Sarah being attacked by Sirenhead, but it's heavily implied to actually Sirenhead himself playing stock sounds over his sirens and trying to lure Freddy out. Either that, or it's playing recordings of the screams Sarah made when she died..
- Spell My Name With An S: Usually, his name is spelled "Siren Head", but in this game, it's one word.
- Voice Changeling: Sirenhead mimics a radio announcer to taunt the player and a police officer to lure the player into a trap.
- Wendigo: The last surviving cultist is referred to as one during the credits, but never within the game itself. While he takes the appearance of pop culture depictions, this portrayal has next to nothing to do with the folkloric entity.
