Video Game / Indigo Park

Indigo Park is a first-person exploration Mascot Horror game created by UniqueGeese, who previously created the fanmade remake of Garten of Banban's first chapter, Reincarnated.

Indigo Park, founded by Isaac Indigo, was one of the most renowned parks on Earth until a mysterious and horrific incident caused it to be suddenly shut down. Just under a decade later, you break into the abandoned park to explore the broken down attractions in search of nostalgia... however, there's a reason this place shut down, after all. You must cooperate with the park's A.I. tour guide Rambley the Raccoon to avoid its not-so-friendly occupants and restore power to the park once more.

The game will be released in chapters, with the first chapter being free and the rest being paid releases. The first chapter released May 18th, 2024 on Steam, with plans to do up to 5 chapters.

Previews: Official Announcement Trailer, Official Game Trailer, Chapter 1 Release Date Trailer

Indigo Park contains examples of:

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played with. Rambley does a lot of things out of scope for what a park guide AI should be able to do but all is in service of his primary goal of making sure guests have the best time possible. He also developed a grudge against Lloyd so strong that he disparages his merchandise to the point he claims it makes kids cry, not something a Theme Park employee, let alone a purpose built AI should be doing.
• Alliterative Name: All the mascots (so far) have these combined with Species Surname. From Rambley the Raccoon to Mollie Macaw to Lloyd the Lion.
• Amusement Park of Doom: The titular Indigo Park has become this after its shutdown and years of abandonment, with everything overgrown and broken down. Not to mention the murderous mascots.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • Why, he asks you, is "Rambley's Railway" Rambley's favorite attraction? ...because he likes trains.
  • As Ed is exploring Lloyd's attraction, Lloyd himself stalks him for a bit before finally pouncing…and getting pinned underneath some wooden crates. He attempts to attack Ed again when the latter is about to leave, but is repelled by a loud beeping noise. Lloyd the Lion is not the mascot you need to worry about in Chapter 1; it's Mollie Macaw.
  • The precence of a stuck Mollie Maccaw animatronic when making a repair stop in Rambley's Railway (not to mention the conventions of the Mascot Horror Genre) leads players to believe the hostile Mascots stalking Ed are also animatronics. This is thrown into question when Mollie is very bloodily decapitated.
• Beat: After escaping from Mollie Macaw's chase and seeing actual blood when she's killed by the door, there's a delay of several moments before Rambley starts talking again, presumably to allow the player to absorb the implications.
• Bland-Name Product:
  • The Indigo company as a whole is clearly this world's counterpart to Disney. It was founded by a Mr. Alt Disney, its theme park resembles the Disney Theme Parks, said park's Critter Cuffs are essentially Disney's MagicBands, and its main mascot Rambley the Raccoon is a Mocky Mouse.
  • "Bird Up" soda seems to be a stand-in for 7-Up soda.
    • Besides Bird Up, there also "Coler" (Coca Cola), "Dr. Muncher" (Dr. Pepper), and "Sugar Free Coler" (Diet Coke).
  • Ed's messenger app of choice is "Harmony", a name that's an antonym for Discord.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Of a sort. Compared to other mascot horrors that inspired Indigo Park such as Garten of Banban or Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, the mascots in this game visibly kill you during their jumpscares. This is demonstrated with Mollie Macaw biting the player with blood spurting out at the end of the official trailer.
  • In-game, Mollie Macaw's severed head seems to spew out blood despite the earlier implications that she was an animatronic. Word of God confirms that yes, this is supposed to be actual blood to show that the monsters are not animatronics.
• Dynamic Loading: A subtle detail with Rambley's irises is they become loading icons (throbber) when he's updating or downloading data on the rides for the player.
• Easter Egg: A pathway hidden in one of the pits in the Rambley Rush arcade game has a cage with Mollie trapped inside. Approaching her causes the minigame to glitch out and reset to the start.
• Foreshadowing:
  • One of the first collectibles Ed can find is the Finley plush. On the info kiosk, they muse Finley always made them feel uneasy due to his size. Come the end of chapter one, we get a glimpse of the mascot Finley in the depths of Oceanic Odyssey, and sure enough, he is massive.
  • One of the first things seen upon entering the park property is a lifesize standee of Mollie Macaw with the head having broken off. At the end of the chapter, the real Mollie is killed via Rambley cutting off her head with the doors.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Mollie Macaw sports a pair of glowing white pupils with black sclera.
• Goomba Stomp: Rambley jumps onto the heads of both the corrupted squirrels and the corrupted Mollie to defeat them in Rambley Rush.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Rambley Raccoon is supposedly automated to read from his scripts, but overrides them to interact or cater to the player's needs, as there are no park assistants or employees. As the guide is not supposed to be able to do that, it causes various glitches.
• Honesty Is the Best Policy: After saving Ed from Mollie Macaw chasing them, Rambley Raccoon decides to come clean that the park is in a shambles after being disused for so long. He couldn't admit that from the beginning because he was so excited to see a guest after many lonely years. Rambley recruits the willing visitor to help them do some maintenance on the attractions.
• Hostile Animatronics: The mascots are all but stated to be this, with the heavy implication that they were supposed to appear on Rambley's Railway but were taken backstage for repairs. The ride uses cardboard cutouts of the characters instead. This is then Subverted with Mollie's death, which very bloodily confirms that she was not an animatronic.
• Job-Stealing Robot: The audio log Rambley plays for the Rambley mask has two costume actors believe this to be happening to them with the introduction of the animatronic mascots and decide to quit.
• Meaningful Name: Rambley the Raccoon, who's the park's tour guide and thus talks a lot.
• Mook–Face Turn: In the background of the Rambley Rush Mini-Game, a couple of corrupted squirrel enemies can be seen in the background ignoring Rambley to fall in love with each other.
• Mr. Alt Disney: Isaac Indigo, the founder of Indigo Park. The park even has a statue of him holding Rambley's hand, not unlike Walt's statue with Mickey Mouse.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Mollie utilizes this throughout her chase to maintain a close distance to the player and to keep up the tension. Most notable with the very start, where you flee from her down a hallway with no other open exits and down a sliding tube, only for her to appear in front of you emerging from a different tube.
• Oh, Crap!: When Rambley sees Ed running toward a staff-only section, he tries to caution them against entering… until he sees Mollie chasing them down and hurriedly welcomes the "new staff" into the room before slamming the door shut.
• On Second Thought: Upon reuniting with Ed at the end of the Mollie chase, Rambley notices them heading towards a staff-only section and warns them about it, only to realize they're running from Mollie, and hurriedly welcomes them as "new staff".
• My Friends… and Zoidberg: At the end of Rambley’s Railroad, Rambley tells Ed that he’s met all of Rambley’s friends… and Lloyd.
• Shout-Out:
  • Several soda machines seen throughout the reveal trailer are branded as "Bird Up!".
    • One of the buttons on said soda machines is a purple and lavender button for "uhsoda". The name and color scheme is a reference to the YouTuber uhyeah, whose usage of "Bird Up" became a meme for the original version of the game that UniqueGeese made a remake of.
  • The "Rambley's Railway" attraction at Indigo Park seems to be a reference to the Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway attraction at the Disney Theme Parks.
  • Speaking of Disney's theme parks, Indigo Park would give every guest a Critter Cuff, a wristband that can be scanned to access certain areas of the park and charge payments to their rooms. This is more-or-less the main function of Disney's MagicBands.
  • One of the Chapter 1 collectibles is a plush of Percy Poodle from Playtime with Percy.
  • Rambley's reason for inviting the protagonist on Rambley's Railway even though they're out of the target age range is him stating "I like trains".
  • Rambley's dialogue at the information kiosk for the Rambley mask has him find an audio log conversation between two workers about the new animatronic mascots. One of them refers to the other as "Old Sport", with his real name being Jackson, and the two decide to quit preemptively and go to Vegas.
  • When Rambley is annoyed by the old audio log, he removes it with a familiar-sounding "DELETED".
  • In the "Rambley Review" official music video, Rambley briefly appears as a character in a number of classic PC games, such as the spaceship pilot from the freeware version of Space Cadet and in Where in the Park is Mollie Macaw?.
• Sinister Surveillance: Rambley tracks the player through monitor webcams and CCTV cameras around the park.
• Species Surname: Mollie Macaw.
• Stepford Snarker: Zigzagged. When registering Ed's face as a visitor, Rambley can't find them in guest list, then jabs it's either their first time at Indigo Park...or they've had plastic surgery. He then decides to give them a "Tuesday discount" even though it's a Saturday. This may or may not be a malevolent remark, as they used to frequent the park when they were younger.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: The Critter Cuff. It may look like one of Disney's MagicBands, but it has a lot more features than just interacting with the park and making payments. According to Rambley, they double as a pedometer, heart rate monitor, and mood ring, with the additional capability of resuscitating the wearer should they fall unconscious.
• Take That!: The Gold Rambley collectable and what we learn about it seems to be this towards cheap marketing tactics and overly passionate fanbases. Rambley explains that the Gold Rambley plush was actually just a standard Rambley plush that was spray-painted gold just so Indigo could sell it as a "limited-edition" product. That didn’t stop the fans though, as they fought tooth and nail to get their hands on one of these "brand new" plushies. No, really. The staff had to clean up actual teeth and nails when the sale was over.
• Trade Snark: When saying a park-copyrighted noun, Rambley is required to add "(registered)", eventually admitting that it gets old... then seems embarrassed to discover that the trademark expired yesterday.
• Unrobotic Reveal: At the end of the Mollie chase, she gets decapitated by the door to the Staff Only room... and sprays blood all over the room. A closer look at the stump reveals severed muscle instead of machinery.
• Virtual Sidekick: Rambley serves as this to the player, talking to you throughout the various screens scattered around the park to guide you.
• Wham Shot: Mollie Macaw getting brutally decapitated by the door to the Staff Only room as the chase ends, with blood spraying all over the floor.
• You No Take Candle: Rambley offers Ed a discount due to the park being so out of service. The Mad Libs Dialogue he uses is meant for numbers only, and Rambley ends up upgrading Ed's discount to be "free percent off".

Closed for repairs...