Amanda the Adventurer

In Amanda the Adventurer, you play Riley Park, who recently inherited their deceased Aunt Kate's house. Exploring the attic, Riley discovers the mysterious VHS tapes of "Amanda the Adventurer," which gradually reveal darker secrets lurking beneath the surface of the seemingly innocent show. Play through the VHS tapes, solve puzzles, and answer the questions the right way, and you might just survive.

• Release date: 04-08-2022
• Developer: Mangledmaw Games, Arcadim, & SinisterCid
• Publisher: Mangledmaw Games, Arcadim, & SinisterCid
• Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Windows PC

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Arachnids

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  A cartoony image of one is shown in the "What is a Family" segment and can't be avoided, but if you click on it Amanda will refuse to go look at the spiders. Also, a spider will crawl out of the spinning weather toy when doing the puzzle for the "What Is A Family?" tape.

  • Can't be avoided

• Birds

  Hens, chicks, roosters

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  A mother hen eats one of her chicks in "What is a Family" and Amanda reacts with joy.

  • Can't be avoided

• Cats

  Kitten

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  You can choose to help the lonely kitten or not. If you do choose to help it, Amanda seems to be shocked that anyone would help another being.

  • Can't be avoided

• Fictional Creatures

  Some of the appliances and other inanimate objects throughout the game are anthropomorphic, having eyes & eyebrows

  • Can't be avoided

• Insects

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Animals & Critters

  Wooly the sheep, pigs

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  At the Petting Zoo, Amanda makes an oink noises and a real-life pig flashes onto the screen with a blood red overlay.

  • Can't be avoided

• Rodents

  The Hameln production company's logo is a rat or a mouse and is shown during each video

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  In order to get a tape, the player has to personally put cheese in a rat trap, wait until the rat is killed (it squeaks), and cook it into a pie.

  • Can't be avoided

• Snakes

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  In the tape "What's a Family?" there are signs that indicate directions to specific animals, complete with cartoony pictures. One sign points toward the snakes. If you click on it Amanda will react with disgust and refuse to go. Clicking on it enough times will cause the snake's image to come alive and slither offscreen.

  • Can't be avoided

Crime

• Being Held Against Will

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  Amanda restrains Wooly as she's trying to cut into him.

  • Can't be avoided

• Explosions & Bombs

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  To get the good ending, you will have to throw a brick into the TV when prompted, causing it to explode.

  • Can't be avoided

• Guns & Shooting

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  When discussing what killed the fox

  • Can't be avoided

• Kidnapping

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  Rebecca may have been kidnapped by Hameln entertainment.

  • Can't be avoided

• Murder

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  Riley can die in two separate endings. Wooly dies in multiple endings. END GAME SPOILERS: 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. In one of the bad endings, you end up hanging in the butcher shop with the rest of the meat.

  • Can't be avoided

• Torture

  • Can't be avoided

Death & Loss

• Abandonment

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  Hameln accuses Sam of abandoning Rebecca when he goes missing

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Child

  Depending on interpretation

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  Rebecca may have been murdered by Hameln

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Friend

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  Wooly dies in multiple endings

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Loved One

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  Riley's Aunt Kate has passed away prior to the start of the game

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Parent

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  Sam, was murdered by Hameln, though this is reported as a missing person's case

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Wild Animal

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  In order to get a tape, the player has to put cheese in a rat trap, wait until the rat is killed (it squeaks), and cook it into a pie.

  • Can't be avoided

• Loss of Parent (non-death)

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  Rebecca is the child Amanda is based on. At one point in the narrative, her father has gone missing

  • Can't be avoided

• Missing Person(s)

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  Rebecca is the child Amanda is based on. At one point in the narrative, her father Sam has gone missing Children who watched Amanda The Adventurer went missing, as seen in some of the video tapes. Two of these children are named (Jordan & Lauren).

  • Can't be avoided

• Single Parenting

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  Sam was a single adoptive parent to Rebecca

  • Can't be avoided

Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Clicking Sounds

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  While changing clock times or completing other tasks

  • Can't be avoided

• Distorted Music

  • Can't be avoided

• Distorted Voices

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Eerie Noises

  Banging sounds, floor creaking

  • Can't be avoided

• Screams

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  The doll will scream when you cut off her head

  • Can't be avoided

• Sirens & Alarms

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  Clock alarm, noises during weather-related segments

  • Can't be avoided

• Wet Sounds

  Squelching

  • Can't be avoided

Drugs & Alcohol

• Forced Drug Use

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  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

  • Can't be avoided

Gore

• Animal Violence

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  We see a dead fox in a bush, and Amanda prompts the viewer to figure out how he died, guessing through a gun, knife, or poison berries. She then reveals he was killed in a bear trap, and "never saw it coming." The fox corpse is bloodied. In order to get a tape, the player has to personally put cheese in a rat trap, wait until the rat is killed (it squeaks), and cook it into a pie.

  • Can't be avoided

• Beheading

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  Some routes require you to remove two different toys' heads in order to proceed. One is a ragdoll that you slice the head off of to get batteries hidden inside her, the other is a toy robot whose head flies off once you splash it with water to make it malfunction. Amanda also attacks Wooly with sharp objects in the second version of "Oh No! Accidents!" that could involve decapitation (open to interpretation)

  • Can't be avoided

• Blood

  • Can't be avoided

• Body Horror

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  The tape "Everything Rots!" has Amanda mentioning that sometimes she feels like she's rotting "but far away." Amanda feels Rebecca's murdered body rotting. Amanda's demon form is a tall, spindly grey creature with long arms and legs, multiple eyes, and sharp teeth. A few sequences show Amanda's body distorting in glitchy ways, particularly when she gets upset. If you answer incorrectly on certain tapes, Amanda replaces the 'incorrect' answers with semi-realistic images of organs.

  • Can't be avoided

• Cannibalism

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  A mother hen eats one of her chicks in "What is a Family" and Amanda reacts with joy. It's implied that the meat in the butcher shop is made from real people that were kidnapped by the show; Amanda is heavily distressed by the idea of going inside on two separate occasions, and one ending has you become one of the pieces of meat after going through the trap door.

  • Can't be avoided

• Guts

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  Organs such as hearts are visible in some videos if you answer Amanda incorrectly

  • Can't be avoided

Horror Themes

• Demons & Devils

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  The tapes are haunted by Amanda, who is herself heavily implied to be a traumatized child's ghost and a demon combined into one entity. A hidden tape has someone shooting footage outside the recording booth with Rebecca (the traumatized child in question) saying 'bye yell,' 'pie man,' and 'baa lamb' repeatedly, which are often noted to be the phonetic pronunciations of the demons 'Bael,' 'Paimon,' and 'Balam.' This means that Hameln was likely using demonology, which explains Amanda's demonic form and the general supernatural events that occur over the course of the game.

  • Can't be avoided

• Ghosts & Hauntings

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  The tapes are haunted by Amanda, who is herself heavily implied to be a traumatized child's ghost and a demon combined into one entity.

  • Can't be avoided

• Jump Scares

  • Can't be avoided

• Monsters

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  In some endings, you hear a banging sound, realizing it's coming from behind you. 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.

  • Can't be avoided

• Psychological Horror

  • Can't be avoided

Mental Health

• Eating Disorders

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  Sam makes a joke about 'gaining 50 pounds' from eating cookies in one of the hidden tapes, which is contextually just him wholesomely complimenting a local talkshow host's baking. However, this might be a trigger for those affected by talk of weight gain.

  • Can't be avoided

• Grief

  • Can't be avoided

• Hallucinations

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  There are multiple segments in videos where seemingly normal items or scenes change for a few seconds to something sinister and back again. This happens in the second video, where the bakery turns into a butcher shop before being restored.

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Mental Health

  Guilt

  • Can't be avoided

• Panic Attack

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  Amanda has breakdowns which can read as panic attacks in 2 in-game segments

  • Can't be avoided

Natural Events

• Storms

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  There is a storm happening outside during gameplay that will clear up if you get the right ending. During the "What's a Family" tape, you will need to pause at each of the weather-related warnings to interact with a weather machine (thunderstorm, tornado, flood, blizzard).

  • Can't be avoided

Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Assault

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  In the first version of the tape "Oh No! Accidents!" Wooly gets an injury to his knee, implicitly because he was acting against Amanda's wishes (although she says Wooly tripped and fell while playing, her first appearance in the tape has her scowling at him before noticing the audience). The bone is visible. All this implies that Amanda specifically broke his knee.

  • Can't be avoided

• Bullying

  • Can't be avoided

• Child Abuse

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  Rebecca was kidnapped, abused, and possibly killed by Hameln studios. It's also implied that she was in an abusive home before Sam adopted her.

  • Can't be avoided

• Child Endangerment

  • Can't be avoided

• Emotional Abuse

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  Amanda to Wooly and you regularly

  • Can't be avoided

• Gaslighting

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  Amanda to Wooly regularly. For example, Amanda claims Wooly tripped while they were playing. But, she pushed him.

  • Can't be avoided

• Harassment

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  Amanda to Wooly and you regularly

  • Can't be avoided

• Manipulation

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  Amanda to Wooly and you regularly. If you answer Amanda's questions incorrectly, she will repeat herself until you get it right OR she forces you to pick the right answer by eliminating all other possibilities. In later episodes, she reacts with increasing hostility to wrong answers.

  • Can't be avoided

• Stalking

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  Someone sending a letter to Aunt Kate says they fear they're being watched (can be avoided by not reading the letters or items that show up on the bulletin board in the attic)

  • Is avoidable

Phobias

• Agliophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Arachnophobia

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  A cartoony image of one is shown in the "What is a Family" segment and can't be avoided, but if you click on it Amanda will refuse to go look at the spiders. Also, a spider will crawl out of the spinning weather toy when doing the puzzle for the "What Is A Family?" tape.

  • Can't be avoided

• Automatonophobia

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  There is a ragdoll and a robot in the attic that you have to interact with.

  • Can't be avoided

• Claustrophobia

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  The TV screen is quite small and can make it seem like Amanda and Wooly are in a small room. The attic is quite crowded with Aunt Kate's items.

  • Can't be avoided

• Emetophobia

  No but close

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  There are a couple scenes where Amanda/Wooly cover their mouth/nose with their hands where it looks like they might vomit, but they never do

  • Can't be avoided

• Hemophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Merinthophobia

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  Amanda restrains Wooly as she's trying to cut into him.

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Phobias

  Decidophobia (Fear of making decisions)

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  Alektrophobia (Fear of chickens or hens), Anthrophobia (Fear of flowers), Astraphobia (fear of storms), Carnophobia (Fear of meat), Demonophobia (Fear of demons), Felinophobia (Fear of cats), Iophobia (Fear of poison), Keraunophobia (Fear of thunder and lightning), Musophobia (fear of mice or rats), Ornithophobia (Fear of birds), Pediophobia (fear of dolls), Pedophobia (Fear of children), Phasmophobia (fear of ghosts or phantoms), Pyrophobia (Fear of fire)

  • Can't be avoided

• Necrophobia

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  There are outlines of bodies on the sidewalks in the town. There is a dead fox in the "Everything Rots" video.

  • Can't be avoided

• Ommetaphobia

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  It’s not holes but it’s like a bunch of small bulbous eyes clustered together on a face of a monster which can trigger both ommetaphobia & trypophobia. When you disobey Amanda and choose the wrong options too many times on the tapes it jump scares you.

  • Can't be avoided

• Traumatophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Trypophobia

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  It’s not holes but it’s like a bunch of small bulbous eyes clustered together on a face of a monster which can trigger both ommetaphobia & trypophobia. When you disobey Amanda and choose the wrong options too many times on the tapes it jump scares you.

  • Can't be avoided

Physical Health & Body Issues

• Hospitalization

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  There's a hospital hallway and doctor's office shown in "Uh Oh Accidents" and a much dingier one is shown when Amanda performs surgery on Wooly.

  • Can't be avoided

• Pain & Physical Suffering

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  In the first version of the tape "Oh No! Accidents!" Wooly gets an injury to his knee, implicitly because he was acting against Amanda's wishes (although she says Wooly tripped and fell while playing, her first appearance in the tape has her scowling at him before noticing the audience). The bone is visible. All this implies that Amanda specifically broke his knee.

  • Can't be avoided

Religion & Sects

• Cults

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  In the purple secret tape, Hameln has Rebecca chant Bael, Paimon, and Balam.

  • Can't be avoided

Traumatic Events

• Structure Fire

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  One route has you pause 'In the Kitchen,' set the toy oven to the highest temperature, then return. It'll show Amanda and Wooly freaking out because the in-show oven is on fire. In another video, you see the aftermath of structure fires on shops in the town.

  • Can't be avoided

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