Tattletail
Tattletail is a story-driven first-person horror game set in 1998, where players must tend to their Baby Talking Tattletail toy while avoiding the attention of Mama Tattletail, who lurks in the darkness. Over five nights leading up to Christmas, players complete tasks to keep their toy happy and quiet, using a flashlight to navigate. As the nights progress, players encounter unsettling events and must evade Mama Tattletail's attacks, culminating in a chilling Christmas Eve séance to thwart Mama's sinister plans. This game has multiple endings. Special thanks to Twitter user SoulziesArt & Tumblr user benchtrio-updates for compiling some of the below information.
- Release date: 12-28-2016
- Developer: Waygetter Electronics
- Publisher: Little Flag Software, LLC
- Platforms: MacOS, Windows PC
- Not rated by: PEGI, ESRB
Triggers for this game
Animals & Wildlife
Fictional Creatures
Tattletail
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A Tattletail is basically a more cat-like version of a Furby. Despite being more feline-ish in appearance, it lays eggs as birds do.
Crime
Kidnapping
Implied
- Can't be avoided
Murder
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The player is a child and can be killed by Mama.
- Can't be avoided
Death & Loss
Death of Child
The player is a child and can be killed by Mama.
- Can't be avoided
Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design
Misc. Eerie Noises
Loud & distorted audio
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Mama's presence is accompanied by Ominous Visual Glitches and the whirring, grinding sound of her casetophone, and the closest thing she has to a true form is a VHS tape.
- Can't be avoided
Gore
Misc. Gore
Audio gore
- Can't be avoided
Horror Themes
Demons & Devils
Supernatural entity
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Though Mama Tattletail has the appearance of an oversized Tattletail doll, she's actually a monstrous, murderous supernatural entity inhabiting a mechanical vessel.
Jump Scares
Some are very loud
- Can't be avoided
Monsters
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A Tattletail is basically a more cat-like version of a Furby. Despite being more feline-ish in appearance, it lays eggs as birds do. Mama Tattletail is a much larger version of the doll.
Possession
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Though Mama Tattletail has the appearance of an oversized Tattletail doll, she's actually a monstrous, murderous supernatural entity inhabiting a mechanical vessel.
- Can't be avoided
Mental Health
Misc. Mental Health
Derealization (main game); false memories (Kaleidoscope DLC)
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Kaleidoscope DLC — The player discovers that their memories of the main game's events have been modified so that they now remember the main Tattletail as a boring educational toy and Mama as good.
- Can't be avoided
Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence
- Can't be avoided
- Can't be avoided
- Can't be avoided
Stalking
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By Mama
- Can't be avoided
Phobias
- Can't be avoided
- Can't be avoided
Automatonophobia
Tattletails
- Can't be avoided
Megalophobia
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Mama Tattletail
- Can't be avoided
Necrophobia
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Death. It's possible to find a dead man's body. However, you only find legs and there is no blood visible.
- Can't be avoided
- Can't be avoided
Ommetaphobia
Main game (trauma mentioned, imagery) & DLC (imagery)
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Main game — 'Mama' was banned for eating someone's eye. A pair of glowing red eyes are the only sign that Mama Tattletail is about in some areas. Kaleidoscope DLC — An eye symbol is apparently the trigger for Waygetter's memory modification technique, and one of the more notable differences between the false-memory Tattletail and the real one is in the eyes.
- Can't be avoided
Religion & Sects
Cults
Cult-like imagery, pentagrams, ritual
- Can't be avoided
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