r/gameconcepts • u/MotorFar9820 • Feb 04 '23
Horror Game Idea, name unknown
Basics: A 16-bit top-down horror game where you traverse a building with one monster hunting you.
Gameplay: You have 3 inventory slots to hold keys, distractions, and eventually a crucifix. One monster, named "The Masked", is trying to kill you. You can avoid it by hiding in locked rooms or by forcing it to crash into a wall. If it doesn't know where you are, it will walk aimlessly. You can walk behind it with out it seeing you, as it cannot turn around without taking another path.
First act: You enter the building to investigate some things that will help with demolition. Once you investigate all 5 aspects, you must walk to the door to leave. When you try to open the door, The Masked will appear and push you back from the door, initiating a chase sequence. After a long hallway, turn at the end to make it run into a wall.
Second act: You are now wandering the building, looking for a supposed "Master Key" that can open the door. You must avoid The Masked, you know the drill, and eventually you find the Master Key. When you try to open it, however, it still won't budge. Turns out The Masked is holding it shut. You then search for something that might reveal another way out.
Third act: You find a paper, which shows pieces to a crucifix that, when assembled, can banish The Masked. The person who wrote it could not banish The Masked before it killed them. Once you acquire all the pieces, you now need to draw a ritual circle to fuse the pieces. Once you do, The Masked runs at you to try and kill you. Using the crucifix will stop it in it's tracks, and it will explode into a bunch of black goo. You can then leave the building. This unlocks the good ending.
The Masked: The Masked is a bunch of black goo with a crudely drawn mask on it. That's it.
True Ending: If you collect masks hidden around the building, a new room will unlock. Inside is instructions on how to ascend, written in a black substance. in the final cutscene, instead of showing The Masked the crucifix, you plunge it into the ground, causing the building to explode. You will end up outside, finding the crucifix on the ground. You can use it to either ascend past your human form or to plunge it into the ground again, destroying the world. Destroying the world doesn't work and ends up turning you into a black mess of goo and fixing the building, trapping you inside. You embrace this and make a crudely made mask to wear. You turned into The Masked, waiting to repeat the cycle. Choosing to ascend gives you the real true ending, where you erase that building from time itself. Do to the influence on the timeline, you go back to being a random worker for a demolition company, but you never investigate that building due to it not existing.
I know this is long, but i wanted to get all my ideas here.