Video Game / The Healing (GmbH & Co.KG.)

For some inexplicable reason, you're added to a mysterious group chat with 7 others you don't know.
While you're figuring out what the group is all about, Dr. Crow – a scary stranger with a plague doctor mask – suddenly appears!
At first you take the situation casually, until suddenly shocking symbols randomly appear at your house that make your blood run cold. You receive creepy video calls and mysterious clues.
What dark secret connects the group members?
Who is behind the scary plague doctor mask?
And who isn't who they pretend to be?!
Now it's up to you! Follow the leads and clues, solve exciting puzzles and uncover secrets! Only you can stop the evil!

The Healing is a Freemium game available for Android developed and published by SponsorAds GmbH & Co.KG.The game puts you through six episodes in the shoes of a Featureless Protagonist who's put in an odd chat group with some strangers, one of whom is a weird person in a Plague Doctor costume who goes by Dr. Crow. No one is allowed to leave the group, and soon things really creepy and horrific.

The Healing provides examples of the following tropes:

• Anti-Villain: Anna only wanted to see the gang suffer, but not die, and she's extremely regretful for putting them in danger.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Anna wished to see the group members suffering so they feel the same pain she did when they accidentally led her parents to die. Only problem is Crow took advantage of her to force these people into deadly traps.
• Big Bad: Dr. Crow is responsible for everything bad happening in the game, and taking her down is the goal of everyone.
• Bystander Syndrome: According to Tim, nobody bothered to try stopping Anna's father from commiting suicide except for him, but he couldn't reach him in time due to the large crowd.
• Contrived Coincidence: How all the people in the chat group came together. They're all living in the same area and thus, all of them were somehow involved in the death of Anna's foster parents, which is her motivation for working with Crow.
• Damsel in Distress: Klara was kidnapped some time prior to the game by Dr. Crow and the protagonist works with Shadow to save her.
• Dead All Along: The real Roxy was killed and Crow impersonated her to blend in with the group.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Shadow prefers to not be called by her given name Nina.
• Driven to Suicide: Anna's foster father committed suicide after his wife died.
• Everybody Did It: With the exception of Tim, everyone in the group was more or less involved in the death of Anna's foster parents, hence why they were all gathered:
  • Bernd was the social worker who approved Anna's abusive, biological parents taking her back.
  • It all started with Roxy sleeping with Anna's father, leading her mother to become depressed.
  • Lucy served some shots to the mother who was drowning her sorrows, then she got into her car and had an accident.
  • Julius was the other driver who crashed into the mother's car, landing her in the hospital.
  • Valentin was working at the hospital when the mother was there and due to neglected, overdosed her on morphine, killing her. This event led to the father committing suicide.
  • Tim was a witness of the father's suicide, but he failed to stop him in time.
• Faking the Dead: Shadow took advantage of everyone thinking she's dead to do some investigating in the background.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Bernd and Anna first met years ago when she was fourteen, he was the social worker who approved her transaction back to her biological parents. Bernd didn't recognize her in the present.
• Good Parents: Anna's foster parents were million times better than her biological ones.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Dr. Crow's father turns out to be Horst Tiefenbrunner, who was infamously known as the Bible Killer. He basically formed Bea into the psychopath she is today by torturing her since childhood, leading to her trying to stab him one day, and thus beginning what would later become the healings.
• Happily Adopted: Anna was adopted by a childless couple after being moved from her abusive household to a foster home. The happiness didn't last for too long, though...
• Happily Married: Anna argues that her foster parents were this, though the MC can point out if the dad cheated on his wife with Roxy, he couldn't have been very happy, leaving the situation ambiguous.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: You can name your MC whatever you want.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's ridiculously hard to see at first, but Julius is a good guy despite his attitude suggesting otherwise. Once he gets onboard with the group stopping Dr. Crow, he proves to be caring and loyal.
• Killed Offscreen: Valentin is killed by J.K Night sometime after he and Bernd went to the police.
• Manipulative Bitch: Dr. Crow, oh so much. She plays everyone like a fiddle to further her goal. You can even call her a manipulative bastard at some point.
• The Mole: Someone in the group is working for Dr. Crow. It was Anna, who got him to torture everyone for their involvement in her parents' death, till it all got out of control.
• Plot-Triggering Death: The death of her foster parents is what drove Anna to seek Dr. Crow to get revenge on everyone she blamed for it.
• Posthumous Character: Anna's foster parents died sometime ago before the game, which is the Inciting Incident of the game.
• Relationship Values: The game has this for every character you chat with, and it can change depending on your responses. Except for Dr. Crow and his workers, which makes sense.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Shadow turns out to have survived the fire Crow tried to kill her with, and the body that was found was actually of a minion of his who got caught in the rubble while fighting Shadow.
• Samus Is a Girl: Both Shadow and Dr. Crow turn out to be females.
• Token Good Teammate: Tim turns out to be the only one completely innocent of Anna's accusations, as he was actually trying to help her suicidal father but failed to reach him in time.
• Walking Spoiler: Anna is the mole. Her foster parents died due to an unintentional combined effort from the others so she turned to Crow for revenge.

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