Falsehoods
Other (objects, etc.) concept
A collection of specific occurrences of non-truth.
This is a container group; its children are:
False advertising | Promotional material for the game near or post release show things that are not in the game or use other advertising material not present in the game in similar form. Or otherwise use misleading advertising. | 1992 / 2013 | 7 games |
False Credits | Game where the [i]official[/i] credits are purposefully inaccurate for various reasons. (too short) | 1 game | |
False ending | The story builds up for conclusion, but instead there's a plot twist or something else that causes the story to continue on. | 1985 / 2017 | 58 games |
False gods | Some things are worshipped, attributed, or otherwise recognized as gods by the populace, but player is given enough evidence to claim that they're not that. Regardless if anything is done about it. | 2001 / 2019 | 3 games |
False history | History as you know it is a lie. (too short) | 2007 / 2011 | 11 games |
Falsely accused | The protagonist is falsely accused of committing some (likely horrible) crime and much of the story involves proving that you didn't do it, simply running away from the law, or otherwise attempting to cope with it. | 1981 / 2017 | 66 games |
False protagonist | A character is initially made to appear as the protagonist but is later proven false, usually by that character dying without accomplishing anything significant and the story continuing with the real protagonist. | 1993 / 2018 | 30 games |
False Hardware Specifications | The game materials, perhaps even the configuration options, claim support for hardware, but it doesn't actually work or is simply false. | 1990 / 2019 | 4 games |
Inaccurate information | The game itself provides inaccurate, false, or even contradictory information in areas where it's not supposed to give such under any circumstances. | 1983 / 2011 | 21 games |
Non-choices | Player is given options to choose from but same thing happens regardless of what the choice was, even when this is a series of choices. | 2001 / 2016 | 13 games |