Buried Stars
Video Game • 2020 • Mystery
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One of the contestants was pressured into selling her body to a man interested in being her sugar daddy to fund her idol group, but decides against it at the last moment. He publicly badmouths her for supposedly being a gold-digger and ruining his life and no one from the group speaks up, insisting she abandoned them.
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One of the characters was severely neglected and verbally abused by his family.
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Is there domestic violence?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
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Are there jump scares?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
The game has first-person cutscenes that will suddenly pan over to a point of interest in a manner similar to a jumpscare.
The game has first-person cutscenes that will suddenly pan over to a point of interest in a manner similar to a jumpscare.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The game has multiple endings, some of them bad. The first ending in any playthrough is a forced bad end that pulls no punches.
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Are there abusive parents?
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One of the characters was severely neglected and verbally abused by his family. Another was neglected and physically assaulted by her father.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There are flashing TVs with white noise in some of the scenes
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Is there shakey cam?
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In tense moments, the game will switch to a first person perspective and will suddenly turn quickly, much like a head would. Bobbing of the camera to represent walking is also included.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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After the first route, the main character will get a message from someone named PlugHole.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The attacker is implied to have some sort of borderline or hallucinatory disorder, though it only spurs them to violence later on.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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One of the characters was severely neglected and verbally abused by his family.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
One of the characters has a stalker, approaches the police and has the issue downplayed by the studio and police force.
The character with a panic disorder talks about how she was essentially gaslit into believing she was lying about her disorder. Since so many people said she was, she started to become convinced by it.
One of the characters has a stalker, approaches the police and has the issue downplayed by the studio and police force.
The character with a panic disorder talks about how she was essentially gaslit into believing she was lying about her disorder. Since so many people said she was, she started to become convinced by it.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
One of the deaths includes someone being buried under rubble.
One of the deaths includes someone being buried under rubble.
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Is there misophonia?
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On the second message that is recorded on the watch, someone clears their throat. Characters also cough multiple times.
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Is there a hanging?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
You both discover a hanged body and experience a first-person perspective, mentally and visually, of someone hanging themself.
You both discover a hanged body and experience a first-person perspective, mentally and visually, of someone hanging themself.
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Is someone buried alive?
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The premise of the game has all of the main characters buried beneath a collapsed stage. Character deaths also include more local burial and crushing.
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Is someone restrained?
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When one contestant tries to attack another, the rest of the group attempts to stop them, some physically.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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During panic attacks, a character will notably start breathing faster.
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Does a major character die?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
Depending on the choices of the player, every character can die.
Depending on the choices of the player, every character can die.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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One of the main characters has frequent panic attacks. This comes up both in conversation and during the game itself and is discussed at length, sometimes with malice.
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Is someone stalked?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable. The stalker is a major point of the game and comes up regularly.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Someone is found dead in an unavoidable scene with broken bones
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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One of the contestants lost favor in the show after their past was revealed on twitter. They are alledgedly a bully who repeatedly physically assaulted their classmates. This often comes up in conversation.
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Is someone choked?
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In some of the routes, a character will be strangled to death.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The game takes place entirely within the collapsed stage, rotating between a few areas. The enclosed space the contestants find themselves in is a key point of the story.
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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It is heavily implied that there is another person in the building with the contestants who does not reveal themselves until later.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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In some sprites, Inha covers her mouth with her hand.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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In every epilogue, the main character is in the hospital recovering and depending on the outcome of your choices, several characters will come to visit him.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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One of the characters has a panic disorder.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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In a joke ending, one of the characters directly says "it's game over" to the main character, but he's implied to be talking to the player.
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
Multiple characters wander off without saying anything. Sometimes, they are found dead.
Multiple characters wander off without saying anything. Sometimes, they are found dead.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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During the opening scene, the protagonist briefly becomes unconscious
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Is there incarceration?
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One of the characters reported their criminal father to the police and had him arrested.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Ligature marks from strangling.
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Does a family member die?
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One of the contestants is the son of a famous singer-songwriter who passed some time ago. This comes up in conversation regularly. It is optionally revealed that his mother committed suicide via overdosing on insulin.
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Are any hands damaged?
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One of the characters who dies in the common route has a notable wound on their hand upon inspection of the body.
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Does a parent die?
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One of the contestants has a dead mother.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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I'm not confident in saying this given my lack of D.I.D. knowledge, but the mental illness portrayed in this game is as far as I know, not D.I.D.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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In one of the endings, all of the victims will suddenly "revive" after the main character jokingly confesses to being the attacker and the game changes to a jovial tone.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
When under extreme pressure, some characters will go into frantic denial and start ranting or yelling.
When under extreme pressure, some characters will go into frantic denial and start ranting or yelling.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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If you talk about the topic named 'Snob' with Hyesung, he says he'd kill himself if he minded being called names
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Does a head get squashed?
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On one of the avoidable endings, something falls on the protagonist's head and kills him. The only image shown is a screen with a blood splatter. You can avoid this by setting your ringtone to anything other than mute as soon as you're able.
There is an unavoidable scene where a character is found dead with a wound to their head. This is both described and shown on screen.
There is an unavoidable scene where a character is found dead with a wound to their head. This is both described and shown on screen.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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One of the unnamed mental illnesses the cast suffers from can be seen as PTSD.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
The game has multiple instances of sound cues and noises to indicate the building's further collapse.
The game has multiple instances of sound cues and noises to indicate the building's further collapse.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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In the true ending, the main character sacrifices himself to save another character, but doesn't end up dying.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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The cast speaks of their respective abusers with either disdain, disgust or conflicted feelings.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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One of the deaths in the forced bad end involves one of the characters falling off the stage and being impaled on a spike.
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Are there bugs?
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Possible mentions of cockroaches.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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...it depends on who you ask. Do-Yoon and Gyu-Hyuk are heavily queer-coded, basically just short of outright stating it, and Inha and Juyoung can also be read as being attracted to each other. In that sense, no LGBT person technically dies, but it may feel as though they did.
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Are there mannequins?
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One fakeout jumpscare in the common route includes a mannequin.
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Is there hate speech?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
There is no hate speech against any particular group or minority. However, Phater, an app similar to twitter, is very prevalent in the narrative of the game and it is an intensely depraved platform, where the majority of comments are intensely hateful towards the contestants, going so far as to encourage suicide. This includes mocking the character with panic disorders and calling their "bluff".
I have answered this with "yes" because I can't find a more suitable trigger warning to explain this.
There is no hate speech against any particular group or minority. However, Phater, an app similar to twitter, is very prevalent in the narrative of the game and it is an intensely depraved platform, where the majority of comments are intensely hateful towards the contestants, going so far as to encourage suicide. This includes mocking the character with panic disorders and calling their "bluff".
I have answered this with "yes" because I can't find a more suitable trigger warning to explain this.
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Is there a large age gap?
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It's implied that the sugar daddy a contestant was coerced into engaging with is much older than her, but nothing ends up happening.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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One of the contestants was pressured into selling her body to a man interested in being her sugar daddy to fund her idol group, but decides against it at the last moment. He publicly badmouths her for supposedly being a gold-digger and ruining his life and no one from the group speaks up, insisting she abandoned them.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Part of the verbal abuse (mentioned).
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Does someone die?
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This is a part of the forced ending and/or common route and therefore unavoidable.
Every character, including the protagonist, can and will die.
Every character, including the protagonist, can and will die.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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One of the contestants has a mother with diabetes.
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