The Bride

Grim Tales: The Bride is the first installment in the Grim Tales series by Elephant Games.

Anna's twin sister, Luisa, goes missing on her wedding day. Some believe she was murdered, but her body was never found. Anna has to find out what really happened to her sister.

Plot
"The last time my sister Luisa and I saw each other, we were still children. Witnesses say a dark figure pushed her into the river on her wedding day. The family mansion was plunged into impenetrable grief. But...her body was never found. I must solve this mystery!"

Anna comes to the family mansion to find out about her sister's disappearance. A 'demon' appears and offers to help Anna. He will send her to the moments in Luisa's memories where she has to unlock an item tied to each memory and uncover the mystery of Luisa's death, giving Anna a chance to save her. But if she fails, he will take her soul. Anna agrees; her first task is to find Luisa's diary, as it is the gateway to her first memory. Anna goes back to the moment when John proposed. Searching through her memory, Anna manages to find the next clue, the engagement ring, before going back to present.

Anna searches the mansion and discovers a photograph taken when Luisa met John in the family amphitheater. The demon sends Anna to that moment and tells her to find Luisa's handkerchief, which is stuck in the damaged stage lift. After wandering back and forth through the area, she is able to fix the lift and takes the handkerchief, sending her back to the mansion. While looking for another clue in their mother's room, Anna wonders why their father's room is locked up. Anna finds another photograph behind the fuse box and enters another memory; John and Luisa had a fight and she was crying. The demon instructs her to find a rifle in a puzzle safe on the fireplace. After solving puzzle and retrieving the rifle, Anna uses it to shoot the lock on the door to her father's room. She finds a bolt cutter, which she uses to enter the locked basement with another locked door.

A new photo is hidden behind a map in the basement; it was winter at the family house with unhappy John and Luisa. The demon impatiently tells Anna to bring him a rose in an ice sculpture. But once she gets the rose, he refuses to help her any further. Anna unlocks the door in the basement and enters the basement corridor, where she finds John - the man Luisa was to marry - imprisoned in the dungeon. John tells Anna that her father is behind all of this. Despite her doubt, Anna moves on and solves another puzzle in the dungeon, taking her to the next memory: John and Luisa were traveling and so happy together. Anna is searching the area when the demon appears and throws her out of the memory; she realizes that the demon is actually her father.

Not giving up, Anna goes to her father's room and finds Luisa, who is in fact alive and imprisoned in the secret room. They have a brief conversation before their father appears and takes Luisa to the ritual room in the basement. Anna also meets the ghosts of another set of twins; they reveal themselves to be her half-sisters, who died years before Anna and Luisa were born, and explain that their father needs the souls of twins to complete his occult ritual. Anna follows her father to the ritual room. She shoots him with tranquillizer gun and releases Luisa before he can finish the ritual. The room suddenly collapses on him. The game ends with Luisa smiling back at Anna.

Bonus Chapter
Luisa and John are married and sell the family mansion. Anna comes to check on the Taylors, who have purchased the estate, but is shocked to see them in stasis (neither dead, nor alive) with glass vessels containing their souls beside them. She finds out that five demons tried to possess the family by removing their souls to claim their bodies, and suspects that this might also be connected to her father. Anna manages to release their souls, saving the Taylors from their terrible fates.

Characters

 * Anna: Luisa's twin sister, the player character. She goes back home to find the truth about her sister's disappearance.
 * Luisa: Anna's twin sister. She vanishes on her wedding day.
 * John: Luisa's fiancé, who has been missing ever since Luisa's disappearance.
 * The demon: an otherworldly creature, later revealed to be Anna and Luisa's father.
 * The twins: two ghosts in the secret room, later revealed to be Anna and Luisa's half-sisters; they are their father's children from an earlier marriage.
 * The Taylor family (bonus chapter): the family who buy the mansion after Luisa and John are married.

Trivia

 * There's no map or voice acting in this game.
 * Anna's name is never mentioned in this game. In fact, the first time her name was mentioned is in the eighth game.
 * The Taylors' fates after the incident are unknown; some believe they leave the house for good.