Amanda the Adventurer is a horror game trilogy releasing from 2023 - 2025 on Steam. Originally a shorter game made in 2022 by jpgamedesign for a "Found Footage" Game Jam, after that version's fourth update, jpgamedesign/MANGLEDjaw announced they partnered with DreadXP to make a proper full release of the game in 2023. The full version of the game was released on Steam on April 25th of that year, and at later dates for home consoles such as the Nintendo Switch on the eShop.
The Game Jam version, later dubbed the Pilot Episode, sees the player watching a series of VHS tapes of an old cartoon named Amanda The Adventurer. As the tapes go on, it becomes clear it's more than just a simple kid's show...
Said full game has a bit more backstory to it: you play as Riley Park, exploring the house of their deceased Aunt Kate after inheriting it. Riley discovers a set of VHS tapes in the attic of an old 2000's show called Amanda the Adventurer, starring a brave little girl named Amanda and her trusty if shy friend Wooly. As Riley continues watching, they realize there are darker things lurking under Amanda's world, and are drawn to dive in further... whether they want to or not.
Pilot Episode can be played here
, and the Steam page for the full release can be found here.
A sequel, simply named Amanda the Adventurer 2, was officially announced to be in development with a teaser trailer on October 19th, 2023. A playable demo was released on June 10th, 2024, with the full game being released on October 22nd, 2024.
Another similarly named sequel, Amanda the Adventurer 3, was officially announced on April 25th, 2025, with a teaser trailer. A playable demo was released on June 19th, 2025, with the full game released on November 6th of the same year. It serves as the Grand Finale of the trilogy.
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All the games contain the following tropes:
All Game Tropes
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- Any tapes you've already watched can be fast-forwarded to the key choices to save the player time.
- Likewise, after obtaining any secret tape, they will be placed onto a shelf next to the TV or in another easily-accessible spot for future playthroughs.
- Speaking of those secret tapes, however you obtain them, they will always be obtained in the same order to prevent players from missing anything crucial early on.
- For the console ports (like for Nintendo Switch), due to the lack of ability to type in-game, the verbal answer sections instead have different options presented for the player to select from.
- Contrasting Sequel Setting: Each game takes place in different settings to make the gameplay unique. The first game is in a cramped dark attic, the second is a public library, and the final game is placed in the abandoned Hameln facility.
- Creepy Child: Amanda, to disturbing levels.
- Death Glare: Amanda will give you a very intimidating one if you keep giving her wrong answers, or if Wooly is getting on her nerves. Wooly himself is shown in the final game to not be afraid of giving some towards you himself.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: In some routes, the only way you have to succeed in getting to the end is by dying to the Colton Anomaly or the Shephard, depending on the game.
- Eldritch Abomination: Amanda seems to be able to control the reality inside the tapes so she can railroad the viewer. Furthermore, she has the Colton Anomaly, a spindly-armed, multi-eyed monstrous version of herself, as an enforcer that attacks on her command.
- Extremely Short Timespan: It's indicated that the entire trilogy, save the prologue in 3, takes place over a single night. About an hour to watch the tapes in the attic, a drive to the library and another hour to watch the tapes there and another hour for the tapes in the facility. This does serve a point, Amanda's human counterpart Rebecca is near death and when she is saved she is barely able to walk.
- Fairytale Motif: The in-universe production company for Amanda the Adventurer is Hameln, whose logo is a mouse or rat with the slogan 'Follow us to fun!' This seems to reference the story The Pied Piper of Hamelin, which was about a piper luring away rats with music, then doing the same to the town's children when their parents didn't pay up. Quite fitting for a company who lures children away from their families for nefarious purposes.
- Fake Interactivity: Played with in all of the games outside of Pilot Episode. Outside of the tapes, the player can explore the locations they are in, which is needed to solve puzzles to advance the game. Amanda is still a bit restricting of the player's choices sometimes.
- Featureless Protagonist: Riley Park. The gender-neutral name doesn't help clarify anything either.
- Multiple Endings: There are seven endings in the first game and three in the other two, depending on the tapes you find and in a few answers you give to Amanda.
- Running Gag: In each of the secret tapes containing news reports, after more serious reports about Hameln's shady practices, the news report scheduled after the break shifts straight to a much less serious topic, like a talking gerbil in the first game.
- Secret Test of Character: Ultimately what Amanda is doing to see if Riley is trust-worthy enough to help her return to being Rebecca.
- Thematic Sequel Logo Change: Each sequel makes the apple in the title logo more rotten. In the first game it is a healthy apple, a half rotten apple in 2 and by 3, the apple has completely rotted. It also shows off Amanda and Wooly's mental states, both looking happy in the first two games. But the third breaks the facade to reveal Amanda in pain and Wooly pushed to his breaking point because of meddlers like the possum and Riley.
Each game contains the following tropes:
Amanda the Adventurer Tropes
- Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Water buckets usually take a while to fill up from a small leak from a ceiling. Using it as part of one of the puzzles makes it fill up a lot faster, mainly to ensure the player doesn't need to wait a long time to utilise it.
- Adaptational Personality Change: It's much more subtle than the other example, but in the pilot, Woolie was desperate to let you know something was wrong. Here Wooly wants to keep everything as normal as possible, taking over for Amanda as the guide in the second "In Your Neighborhood", and stating "Nothing is rotten here!" You sure about that, Wooly?
- Adaptational Heroism: There's hints that the consciousness of Rebecca Colton is somehow attached to Amanda as opposed to simply being a demon who wants your soul, and in the here she gets upset when you go to the butcher, the exact opposite of her pilot self.
- Adaptational Nice Girl: Amanda's still mean to Wooly at parts, but she doesn't brush off his apple allergy and her motives, while still questionable and involve trapping the player in the TV, seem overall less sinister and more tragic.
- Adapted Out: The siblings in the pilot and the vegetarian grandma aren't mentioned or seen here.
Word of God stated that the siblings were planned to have a role in this game, but they were dropped at some point between the pilot and the full game. - Animation Bump: Between Pilot Episode and the full game, the animation has clearly undergone some vast improvements, with the environments and even Amanda and Wooly's models.
- Art Evolution: Amanda and Wooly's looks have been improved somewhat compared to the Pilot version, mostly in lighting. Most notably, Wooly now has distinct ears. The logo also looks more professionally made as well.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: If you choose to help the supposedly lonely kitten, which could possibly be a representation of Amanda, she stands still in stunned silence as the tape statics and is eventually removed. This could be out of surprise that Riley is nice enough to help the kitten (her) and doesn’t know how to react.
- Bilingual Bonus: Once Amanda pulls out the knife during "In the Kitchen"'s demo version, the player can catch sight of some cipher code on the fridge. This is replaced with an image hinting at the oven in the full version.
- Blatant Lies: Amanda claims that Wooly tripped as they were playing, right after she pushed him.Wooly: I-I didn't-
- Break the Cutie: The theme of the game really.
- Breather Episode: In-universe for Amanda's show. One secret tape depicts nothing but Wooly sitting at a table, staring off into space and occasionally stretching or yawning. It's never stated what the tape would have been used for, but the title at the beginning seems to imply some sort of spin-off or mini-segment within Amanda.
- But Thou Must!:
- Like Pilot Episode, Amanda forces you to select the correct answer by erasing the other options if you get it wrong one too many times. She also does this with typed responses; typing in the wrong response or nothing at all enough times during prompts will have you be forced to type in the correct response depending on the situation.
- In the alternate "In the Neighborhood!" tape, after selecting the candy store, every store on the street suddenly changes into the butcher's shop. You're given no choice but to click on the buildings even as Amanda begs you to stop. She forces herself back out of the situation via burning all the shops down, deeply upset by what happened.
- During the final sequence, the player must throw the brick at the television. Nothing happens upon waiting, and there's no actions that the player can do besides throw the brick.
- The Cameo: Skip and Chip from Chip's Tips appear at the end of one of the secret tapes.
- Cliffhanger: The demo ends with the player trying to watch the second tape, but it's heavily corrupted. They hear a banging sound, but they brush it off at first; they the sound again and realize it's coming from behind them as something is trying to break into the attic. The attic door swings open as a long, grey, clawed hand reaches inside and grabs the air, followed by a scream before cutting to black.
- In the canon ending, you defeat the entity, but hear a noise behind you. Turning around reveals the Masked Woman before the screen abruptly cuts to black and credits roll.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of the tapes have different colours depending on their significance. All the tapes that have animations on are black, while the secret tapes have several different colors.
- Orange = A Missing Child incident related to the show.
- Light blue = A recording of Rebecca alongside two members of Hameln Entertainment.
- Red = A news report concerning the disappearance of Sam Colton and the direction Amanda the Adventurer was going in since.
- Lime = An episode of Coffee Break interviewing Sam Colton and info on his show.
- Purple = An unknown person eavesdropping on the dodgy things going on in Hameln Entertainment concerning their direction of the show.
- Dark blue = A unused tape that depicts Wooly sitting at table, and making some poses for 10 minutes.
- Cruelty Is the Only Option: Gret-chan the doll, who proves herself to be openly friendly, must have her head cut off to get the battery for Blabbot and begin the route to the game's Daybreak ending.
- Cue the Sun: In the good ending, after Riley bricks the television, the storm outside the window clears up and the sun comes out.
- Decay Is Necessary: One of the tapes is called “Everything Rots”. After seeing a sandwich filled with mold, she starts talking about how everything rots, including trees and animals.
- Double Take: Amanda is seen glaring angrily at Wooly in the Accidents tape before noticing Riley and acting like Wooly just had an accident that she had no part in.
- Do You Trust Me?: At the beginning of the alternate "Oh no! Accidents!" tape, Wooly asks this question to Riley while he's alone, and the input for word answers is provided. However, Riley gets no time to answer before Amanda shows up.
- Easter Egg:
- Typing in "lamb" or "mutton" when Amanda asks to state your favorite kind of pie will cause Wooly to express shock, but this doesn't affect anything else. He also does this if you get disturbing with your favorite pie type, like "hearts" or "people". Also, typing "colton" causes the tape to switch to the final one where Amanda tries sharing her secret.
- Interacting with key elements when you're not meant to can uncover new routes to the game, and even uncover a set of secret tapes related to real-life happenings.
- When Amanda and Wooly are in the butcher's during the alternate "In My Neighborhood", clicking on Wooly will have him simply remark "That's not funny!".
- When Amanda asks "What's the daddy [chicken] called?" in the "What's A Family" tape, type in "Sam". Doing so will make Amanda stammer and ask where you heard that name, while the other characters (Wooly, the chickens and even the barn) turn to stare at you in shock. One of the secret tapes is also unlocked as a result.
- Typing in "lamb" or "mutton" when Amanda asks to state your favorite kind of pie will cause Wooly to express shock, but this doesn't affect anything else. He also does this if you get disturbing with your favorite pie type, like "hearts" or "people". Also, typing "colton" causes the tape to switch to the final one
- Emergency Broadcast: Several emergency warnings for flooding, a tornado, and a thunderstorm pop up in the "What's a Family" tape. If the player wants to continue, they must pause at each of these alerts and then interact with the weather machine on the table.
- Expy: Besides Amanda being a reference to Dora and Wooly to Boots, in "Everything Rots" Amanda shows you some things that are rotting: a rotten sandwich, a dead tree stump, and a dead fox, which Amanda takes great pleasure in pointing out his being dead and even draws a crayon picture of him later. It may take you a moment to realize that the devs might be referring to Swiper. "Swiper, no swiping" indeed...
- Foreshadowing: If the player types "lamb" or "mutton" when Amanda asks them their favorite pie type, her tone becomes slightly lower (if not sinister) as she says that sounds delicious while looking at Wooly, who looks scared.
- In the Coffee Break interview, when Sam Colton says: "They want to turn Amanda into a cartoon."
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the We Can Share tape, Amanda hesitates before introducing herself as Amanda, something she's never done before. this happens just before Amanda confirms what the game's been building up to: she's a real person whose consciousness is simultaneously in the TV, and "out there, somewhere".
- Furry Confusion: The "Petting Zoo" episode has a sheep enclosure full of regular sheep. Wooly, an anthropomorphic sheep, tries to prevent Amanda from going there. By the time they do, Wooly has turned into a regular sheep.
- Goody Two-Shoes: Wooly is characterized as a friendly but disruptive worrywart that constantly tries to divert Amanda's attention onto happy subjects and get her to follow rules, such as safety standards. Amanda tolerates him at best and outright hates him at worst, especially when he's trying to assert his own viewpoint over her's. For instance, one tape in the second game involves him telling a very straightforward, cliche fantasy story about a knight slaying a dragon to Save the Princess, and is insistent about how the story should go, getting annoyed at Amanda's complaining and snapping if the player screws up. If the player chooses to follow Amanda's version of the story instead (where the princess is turned into the dragon and slain by the unknowing knight), he becomes deeply irritated and attempts to wrestle control of the plot back. His bossy, overly safe nature implies that his true identity is either Amanda's father or a Hameln employee, trying in either case to keep Amanda on track and minimize her aggression and self-awareness.
- Interface Spoiler: Averted in the end credits. Any live-action videos that are not watched will have the people enacting them covered up until those tapes have been watched.
- Invisible Parents: During the "In the Kitchen" tape, Wooly mentions twice that he and Amanda shouldn't be doing the pie-baking themselves, and to ask a parent for help. Amanda does let it slip that she isn't sure where they are at present, meaning they may have a plot role later. While, in the full game, they're never mentioned again, it doesn't mean there aren't other parents present in the plot...
- Jumpscare: In the The End and The End? routes, after Amanda tells you her secret, we get this as the TV set goes berserk with flashes of red and random images appearing on it. Almost like whatever’s in the tape is trying to break out.
- Madness Mantra: "WON'T YOU HELP THE LONELY KITTEN?!"
- Meaningful Name: The entertainment company Hameln has a mouse as their logo. Or maybe it's a rat?
- The first bad ending and the True Ending are both this. "Everything rots!" the subject is death and nearly every outcome results in a game over. We Can Share, the bittersweet golden ending, is much more pleasant and optimistic by comparison.
- Minimalist Cast: Has a larger one then the demo, but everyone who isn't Amanda, Wooly, and Riley never shows up in person.
- Medium Blending: Whilst the game is normally animated, the secret tapes all use live-action footage.
- Mood Whiplash: At the end of the third secret tape, the news reporter, after discussing the disappearance of Sam Colton and the unsettling direction Amanda the Adventurer is going in because of it, mentions that after the break, they'll be discussing about Zappo the talking gerbil, and right after that is a snippet from a commercial by Skip and Chip. The tape ends right afterwards.
- Morton's Fork: At the end of Tape 4, "Everything Rots," Amanda is trying to work out whether or not everything rots, with Wooly telling the viewer that this isn't a mandatory question. If the player answers "no," Amanda simply looks to the side, saddened while Wooly tries to reassure her; if you say "yes," Amanda will respond in a dejected tone as Wooly looks down; if you refuse to answer enough times, she throws a fit and makes Wooly disappear and forces you to answer "yes," sadly responding that it "might be too late." After this the Anomaly bursts in to attack, no matter which answer you give.
- Multiple Endings: There are seven endings in total, depending on the tapes you find and in a few answers you give to Amanda.
- Mythology Gag: The "mashup" tapes start with a clip from one of the Pilot Episode tapes
- Named by the Adaptation: The player went unnamed in Pilot Episode. They go by "Riley Park" in the full game.
- Ominous Knocking: The player hears a knocking sound as they try to watch the second tape, and turn around to see something bursting through the attic hatch right as the demo ends.
- Offing the Offspring: At the petting zoo, shortly after Amanda says "Some mommies eat their babies!" A mother hen suddenly swallows a chick.
- Player Nudge: Entering the first code into Blabbot if the required tape isn't playing prompts him to instead say "Yes, but where did you get that?" Prompting the player to have the code visible on the TV before entering it in.
- Quote Mine: A couple of tapes leading to the best ending consist largely of spliced clips from the episodes, arranged to form new codes and puzzles.
- Retcon: The room from Pilot Episode shows creepy red scribbling of what is implied to be Amanda's past victims, clearly stating that there was no cast and crew, the tapes simply appeared out of nowhere. In this version, however, the creation of the show is clearly documented - and absolutely crucial to Amanda/Rebecca's backstory.
- Rule of Symbolism: For most of the game, the windows to the outside is dark and stormy. After listening to Amanda's secret and destroying the TV, the rain tapers off and the first light of early morning can be seen - a clue that the good ending has been achieved.
- Sadistic Choice: At the end of the alternate "Oh No! Accidents!" tape, Amanda tries to make you choose between helping her or helping Wooly during their struggle against one another. Regardless of your choice, Wooly will get killed anyway.
- Sanity Slippage: The show seems like your average kids show affair at first with a few minor blips, but it quickly becomes clear that everything is not as it seems.
- Shoot the Television: The good ending has Riley put a stop to all the madness by smashing a brick right through the television that played the tapes.
- Sibling Team: Wooly and Amanda are essentially this.
- Slipping a Mickey: In the alternative version of the "Oh No! Accidents!" tape, Amanda gives Wooly a spiked drink that causes him to pass out upon drinking it, where he later wakes up inside a surgery room where Amanda plans to kill him.
- Shout-Out:
- The achievement you get when baking the apple pie is named "Pie Flavored."
- The secret tape of a news report about Sam's disappearance is followed by a few seconds of another show featuring a live-action man and his dog in a simplistic animated world.
- The final tape replaces the Show Within a Show's usual theme tune with Amanda humming part of the theme to Happy Tree Friends.
- Smash to Black: The demo ends like this right as a long, monstrous arm breaks through the attic door, followed by screaming.
- Summoning Ritual: Possibly: In the purple secret tape, Hameln has Rebecca chant: Bye-yell, Pie-man, and Baa-lamb. Or is that Bael, Paimon, and Balam?
- To Be Continued: The demo ends with the second tape all glitched out and incomplete. Then the player hears something banging close by. Cue the attic door opening, a sudden scream, and a Smash to Black, before the demo concludes. Possibly in the full release as well, if the hint that Amanda is out there, somewhere, is any indication...and that a detective might be looking for her.
- Unwinnable by Design: If you play the tape "Everything Rots!" you are going to die. Downplayed in that, while playing the tape leads to a no-win scenario, this is actually one of the game's endings.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential:
- While the apple pie is needed to advance the game properly, making a meat pie instead generates a version that goes Off the Rails, surprisingly FAR more than even Amanda is okay with.
- To get the good ending and defeat the entity, you have to throw water on the robot, all the while him begging you not to do it.
- Weather-Control Machine: One of the toys created by Hameln, which resembles a See-And-Say, allows its users to change the weather of their current position.
- Wham Line: The final ending of the game. After you complete the incredibly lengthy process of unlocking the chest and getting the final tape, Amanda offers to tell you her biggest secret. Her secret? She’s out there. Somewhere…As a bonus, throughout this point, her voice actually becomes increasingly clear as if she really is speaking to Riley.
- If you refuse the secret, she will respond with a What the Hell, Hero? before the tape cuts out. This causes an altered ending with all of the furniture gone, with only a note bluntly stating "LEAVE."Amanda: Oh...I thought you were different.
- A secret tape in the game shows a mother and father trying to get their daughter, Lauren, away from the tv with birthday cake and her favorite ice cream, mint chocolate chip. At the tape's end, it looks like the little girl wandered outside and the parents go looking for her. But then Amanda says....Amanda: Mmmm. I love mint chocolate chip!
- If you refuse the secret, she will respond with a What the Hell, Hero? before the tape cuts out. This causes an altered ending with all of the furniture gone, with only a note bluntly stating "LEAVE."
Amanda the Adventurer 2 Tropes (Unmarked spoilers for the first game)
- All Myths Are True: Hameln's cult believes a variant of this, where they apparently worship all the evil/trickster/deceiver figures in world religions.
- Artistic License – Law: One secret tape has a Hameln employee inform Sam Colton that they are fully allowed to hold him prisoner and perform experiments on Rebecca because he signed a contract giving his permission to do so. Needless to say, kidnapping and holding a man against his will and performing inhumane experiments on his daughter and claiming it was legal because of a contract would be seen as utterly laughable in a proper court of law, to say nothing of the eyebrows such a clause would've raised during the signing process. Of course, given Hameln's other activities, its likely that they don't give a damn about legality anyway.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Wendy Wyrm, the library's personal assistant. She's a perky little wyrm (limbless dragon) who presumably loves to read.
- Cliffhanger: In the Good and True endings, Riley escapes via an underground starcase while Masked Woman sacrifices herself to hold off their demonic pursuer.
- Cathartic Scream: Subverted. Tell Amanda you scream when you feel bad and she'll give it a try. But it doesn't make her feel better.
- Cute Mute: Wendy doesn't speak aside from preprogrammed dialogue on her computer screen, combined with her cute design.
- Expy: Multiple cases:
- While Mr. Fox from the last game shares his species, the opossum from this game has Swiper's role as a troublemaker. However, unsettlingly, it's hinted that he actually isn't part of the proper in-universe ATA show - Amanda genuinely has no idea who he is and has never seen him until this point.
- Fractured Fairy Tale: In the sequel, in the tape When You're Feeling Bad, Wooly tries to cheer Amanda up by telling a straight fairy tale where a knight is tasked by a wizard with rescuing a princess and killing the dragon. However, the player can rewrite the fairy tale - and this is the correct end to the tape - by making it so that the princess meets the wizard, turns into a dragon, and goes to meet her lover, the knight, who accidentally kills the princess's dragon form.
- "Getting Ready for Bed" Plot: One of the tapes has an episode titled "Goodnight!", where the viewer is tasked with helping Amanda herself get ready for bed. First by putting away the toys, brushing her teeth or washing her face, picking out pajamas, and optionally put on a night light (outside of the show itself).
- Gonk: Mrs. Mama Cat has seen better days. Amanda seems to like her, though.
- Hourglass Plot: In "We Can Fix It!", Amanda starts firmly believing that everything can be fixed while Wooly doesn't believe in it. By the episode's tailend, when it comes to a butterfly and Amanda's heart, Wooly became convinced on the idea of everything being fixable while Amanda realizes not everything can be fixed.
- Horrifying the Horror: After getting the good end in the When You're Feeling Bad tape, giving the Anomaly the Wooly doll looks like it placates it for a moment, then it tears the doll apart and looks ready to attack Riley, when a noise attracts it and even seems to make it afraid. In the true ending, a new demon known as the Shepherd, which is seemingly based on Wooly, appears and viciously kills Joanne with far more ferocity than the Anomaly would use, suggesting that is what it was afraid of.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Amanda is right that the cats who want to eat the birds that she and Wooly built a bird house for need to eat too.
- Minimalist Cast: Everyone who isn't Amanda, Wooly, Riley, and the Masked Woman never shows up in person.
- Morton's Fork: No matter what ending you get, Joanne will be attacked by the demonic entity.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Wendy Wyrm, a cute little mascot of the library scanning system, is clearly a dragon, or rather, a wyrm, as the computer calls her. However, she has no limbs, like a worm.
- Shout-Out: The cat seen in the "Let's Practice Patience!" tape is designed after a cat in a viral video from 2018.
- Toilet Humor: When Amanda wants Riley's help finding her toothpaste, one of the options for Riley to suggest Amanda's toothpaste is in the toilet.
- Uncertain Doom: The demo implies that Amanda might have done something to remove Wooly from the tapes permanently, as the title sequence to the travel tape has his silhouette completely blacked out. Saying that you would like to go to Wooly will prompt Amanda to give an ominous giggle and dare the player to find him. Wooly does finally come back in the full game release, although it takes until the third tape for him to re-appear and Amanda clearly wasn't expecting him.
- Un-person: Downplayed with Wooly. While there is a poster of him in the kids' section of the library and a sticker showing him in the main room, Wooly appears to have been completely removed from the Amanda the Adventurer show. In the "Let's go on a trip!" tape, his silhouette is blacked out in the title picture, and Amanda never even mentions him—unless the player tells her that they want to go to Wooly, to which Amanda just laughs and tells you that it would require finding him first. He does however appear in the show in the full game, it just takes a few tapes.
- Wham Line: In Do You Feel Safe, telling Amanda Wooly is someone you trust will have her sadly remark "I felt that way a long time ago, too." While fans did predict Wooly was untrustworthy, this is the first time the game outright confirms Amanda is acting out against him not just because she's angry about her situation, but because she doesn't trust him.
- Also in "Do You Feel Safe," if Joanne contacts Riley when watching the tape, the Opossum will scramble up to the scream, only to be jumped by Amanda and Wooly. If Riley does nothing to help Amanda and Wooly (which is required to get the game's 'True Ending'), the Opossum suddenly yells "Jo-jo...Joh! JOH!" before being knocked to the ground. The implication is that the Opossum is Joanne's missing brother, Jordan, reacting to his sister's voice.
- Wham Shot:
- While watching the When You're Feeling Bad tape, Riley is nearly attacked by the Anomaly before Amanda convinces the creature not to attack and be on stand-by.
- In the Do You Feel Safe? tape, the Opossum responds to the Masked Woman's voice and tries to force itself through the screen while trying to utter a name: apparently trying to say is "Joanne", the Masked Woman's true identity.
- In the Good Ending, Joanne is attacked by the Anomaly in response to smashing one of the video tapes.
- In the True Ending, Joanne is mauled to death by the Shepherd, a giant, demonic version of Wooly with the same features as the Anomaly.
- What the Hell, Hero?: If Riley doesn't help Amanda and Wooly against the Opossum in the final tape, both of them will call Riley out on their inaction and want nothing to do with them anymore for betraying their trust in them. Tragically, this is required to get the true ending.
- Strangely, even before we get to the point where we can choose whether or not to help them with the Opossum, Wooly will call Riley out for "letting this STRANGER mess with [them]", despite there being no indication that Riley did anything to allow the Opossum in.
Amanda the Adventurer 3 Tropes (Unmarked spoilers for both previous games)
- Adaptational Context Change: In the Pilot Episode, Wooly turning on Amanda to save the player is portrayed as a victim standing up to his abuser. In Amanda the Adventurer 3, Wooly turning on Amanda AND condemning Riley can be described as a Psychopathic Manchild suffering a meltdown from things not going his way, with the Anomaly being an abused victim lashing out on those that harm it/Amanda.
- Ambiguous Ending: While Riley saves Rebecca and helps defeat the Colton Anomaly once and for all in the Golden Ending, there are certain loose ends left hanging that are left unexplained (such as the Shepherd’s fate and whether or not it was destroyed when Wooly had a breakdown). It just simply ends with Riley dragging Rebecca out of the containment room so whether or not they actually escaped isn’t clear. Though considering the Anomaly was badly injured, it’s likely it took down the Shepherd, which is even worse as it means that despite having been hyped up as a major antagonist, the Shepherd was dealt with offscreen, making his defeat anti-climatic.
- Anti-Frustration Feature: Blabbo the Clown is a toy who can have codes entered into the number pad he holds. If you need a hint for solving a puzzle starting from when he first announces his presence, you just need to dial "91111" (complete with a sticky note telling you this). A Challenge Run achievement tasks you with reaching either the normal or true ending without ever needing these tips.
- Bittersweet Ending:
- The normal ending achieved by getting to the very end without all the secret tapes. Once Riley frees Rebecca from captivity, the Shepherd starts its approach to get them both killed. Without much hesitation, the Colton Anomaly puts itself between the protagonists and the monster, leading to a fight that causes both to plummet to their demise. Though the threat is confirmed to be all but gone here, Rebecca is saddened, considering the Anomaly was part of her Split Personality, and without it being freed at her hands, she'll never be whole again. She then takes Riley's hand, wanting to leave Hameln behind for good.
- The Golden Ending isn't sunshine and rainbows either. While Riley saves Rebecca and the anomaly is freed by her; Sam and Kate are dead, the Shepard killed the other captives, and it's unknown if the Hamelin Director is still out there.
- Dark Is Not Evil: The demon that's been chasing you throughout the games? Yeah, that's not actually a demon - the Colton Anomaly is actually a manifestation of Rebecca's uncontrolled self-preservation instincts given physical form by her unlocked psychic powers due to the tapes.
- A Day in the Limelight: While the game still focuses on Amanda, most of the game focuses on Wooly when his secrets emerge throughout the game as we learn exactly who he truly is.
- Evil All Along: Wooly is revealed to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who only cares about keeping Rebecca contained in the tapes forever. Even killing Jordan Cook out of pure pettiness because things weren’t going his way.
- Golden Ending: Collecting all the secret tapes and freeing Rebecca has the Colton Anomaly shambling up to her and Riley's level after killing the Shepherd. Rebecca takes the final tape from them and uses it to Mercy Kill her otherself, signified by Amanda appearing outside the tapes and fading away. Compared to the Bittersweet Ending variation, Rebecca has finally gained closure before she and Riley leave Hameln's labs behind once and for all. The game finishes on an outtake of the original live-action show to signify Sam's caring nature towards Rebecca and his teasing, but friendly nature to the rest of the crew involved.
- Good All Along: Amanda's demonic form is revealed to not actually be a demon at all but a manifestation of Rebecca’s self preservation instincts due to her unlocked psychic powers.
- Grew a Spine: A negative example in Wooly's case. It turns out that he's actually the avatar of a man named Marcus who was hired to keep Amanda in check as revealed in a secret tape, though we see that even back then, he was a pretty big doormat. Here, he's notably more vocal about his frustrations with Chicken Scratch, even outright killing him via Shepherd later on, and the "Let's Have a Party!" tape has him lash out at Amanda because everything's been changing because of her "stupid friend" (Riley). He's also shown to be equally capable as Amanda of distorting reality within the tapes before his Shepherd self kills Riley in the bad ending.
- It's a Wonderful Failure: Not getting the second "Scavenger Hunt" puzzle correct will guarantee that the Shephard is able to breach into the tape room with Riley at its mercy after killing Jordan, leading to the game's Downer Ending.
- Killed Off for Real: Wooly suffers this in the final tape following his Villainous Breakdown, as do both the Colton Anomaly and the Shephard, though how the latter two die varies on the ending - the Anomaly pulls an Heroic Sacrifice to save Riley and Rebecca in the normal ending, while it manages to get the Shephard Killed Offscreen before being Mercy Killed by Rebecca in the true ending.
- Master Actor: Wooly is revealed to be one, which is natural as he is a TV character and someone assigned to keep a little girl in check. This also completely recontextualizes Amanda's butcher shop melt down in one. Given there's an alternative scene where Wooly is smiling rather then looking concerned at Amanda about to vomit when the butcher shop briefly appears, it's possible Wooly had more to do with them going to the butcher's then initially appeared. Not to mention the coloring book with increasingly angry "YOU TOOK ME" scrawled all over it. He reveals himself to be this after giving the player a Death Glare and a threat, before immediately swapping into his cheery personality on a dime. This actually recontextualizes every scene with Wooly in it after you know how good he is at portraying a facade.
- Mood Whiplash: In the first tape, after Wooly's finished letting out his anger, he suddenly cheers up despite insisting he still isn't alright. The subtitles even mention that he's "suddenly cheery". This could perhaps be because Wooly is simply pretending to have recovered so as not to alienate Riley, as he's realized the full extent of his tantrum and wants to regain control of the situation.
- Notice This: In this game, the Pause button lights up whenever a hint comes up that needs to be made use of in the facility. Chicken Scratch also exploits this to point to objects you need to notice to get the correct solution for the second "Scavenger Hunt" watch.
- Point of No Return: Once you start the "Scavenger Hunt" tape as Riley, they can't backtrack to any rooms past the child capsules, thanks to the Shepherd on the other side attempting to get itself inside after them, and if they escape, it's a one-way trip down to the chapel of Hameln's labs. Fortunately, Blabbo shows up down there to continue providing tips and audio recordings, and any secret tapes you collected on the main floor will be placed under the television if you wish to watch them again.
- Prequel: The very first part of the game focused on puts the player in the perspective of someone working alongside Kate 10 years prior to the series' events as they breach Hameln's facility.
- Previously on…: Clicking on the "Recap" option on the main menu has a movie play out that sums up everything that's happened in the first two games, right up to Riley's most recent escape from the Shepherd.
- Pun:
- Entering a code solely consisting of five of a single number has Blabbo make a pun related to the number in question, one for all 10 digits.
- In one tape, Amanda asks Riley what they want to be if they grow up. If the player writes that they want to be a police officer, it quickly cuts to a scene of a pig.
- Regained Memories Sequence: The major driving point of the game is helping Amanda regain her memories from when she was once Rebecca, ultimately culminating in Riley freeing a now-adult Rebecca from containment.
- The Reveal:
- Hameln didn’t kill Sam Colton - the Colton Anomaly did, unintentionally, when he tried to break his daughter out of the facility.
- Wooly turns out to be another human like Rebecca whose soul is trapped in the tape: Hameln employee Marcus Moutman. This paints everything he has done in the previous games as trying to keep Rebecca trapped in the tape, especially since his body has long been dead while hers is barely still alive.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Discussed. While applying makeup to a doll in the "When I'm Grown Up" tape, Amanda mentions Sloane cutting her hair in Jasper's Harbor and how everyone was blown away by her new look.
- Shout-Out: To JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. While at the beach, Amanda briefly mimics the pose of Josuke Higashikata. The true nature of the Anomaly and the Shepherd as psychic manifestations makes them akin to Stands.
- Stylistic Suck: "Amusement Park (WIP)" serves as this, with the 3D models of Amanda, Wooly and Chicken Scratch being more choppy in animation and the background assets being hand-drawn sketches that have yet to be made 3D themselves.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Wooly is a lot less nice in this game than in the last 2 games, outright calling the Opossum a freak as well as calling Riley Amanda’s "stupid friend". Justified as he turned out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing the entire time and Riley's meddling have started to push him over the edge.
- Troubled Abuser: Marcus is manipulative and controlling of Rebecca and emotionally and verbally abusive to Jordan, but is very troubled (being implied to have a Friendless Background and all that). However, this only makes him more detestable since he knowingly and shamelessly inflicted all of his troubles on Rebecca to make himself feel better. Wishing to be a child again isn't bad on its own, but stealing someone's childhood to relive your own is something else entirely. And unlike the cultists, who have either been groomed through generations of Hameln's twisted religion, or are completely out of their minds to believe their weird darkness fixation, Marcus doesn't seem to actually believe in the cult - he simply willingly joined in on their terrible behavior in order to live out his fantasy of getting his childhood back, including cutting Rebecca's own childhood short.
- Turn the Other Cheek: Amanda, when noticing the Possum's return in Riley's first tape, notices it looks saddened and eases up on it after the annoyances it caused her in the previous game, relating to feeling lost at this point in time. But Wooly isn't as eager to let it off the hook so easily. Cue the Shepherd murdering Jordan Cook to kill the possum off.
- Wham Episode: The entire game is this as Riley enters the actual Hameln facility and we learn the answers about the main mysteries of the series.
- You Can't Fight Fate: A The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You variant. Wooly aggressively mocks Riley behind Amanda's back in the rewatch of the "Scavenger Hunt" episode, claiming that, in spite of what he has seen them do, they can't change anything. He's wrong.Wooly: I know what you've been doing out there, and it's not going to- [...] You can't change... anything.