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
- 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
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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
- Can't be avoided
Death & Loss
Abandonment
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Hameln accuses Sam of abandoning Rebecca when he goes missing
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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
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- Can't be avoided
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Can't be avoided
Emotional Abuse
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Amanda to Wooly and you regularly
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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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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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