When a character addresses you instead of your character (examples from Doki Doki Literature Club, Cyber Manhunt 2):
(This trick only works when your characters and your Steam account have different names, so I’m having a hell of a time finding let’s players who it works on, but this is where it’s supposed to happen; they stop using the name you cage your character and use the one on your gaming account or computer instead)
When the game crashes and the save files corrupt (Examples from Cyber Manhunt 2, Undertale):
When the interface restricts your vision and/or your options (examples from Digital: A Love Story, Undertale):
When details of the interface or game terminology take on new significance (example: Undertale):
When they make you screw around with files on your computer (examples: Doki Doki Literature Club, Cyber Manhunt 2):
(Variations on this theme include bringing your files into the game a la Inscryption, or OneShot’s “expose this to the void” trick).
When they put a guy on your desktop to play “outside” the game (example: Cyber Manhunt 2)
Characters lamenting their limitations or pleading with you (examples: Undertale, Doki Doki Literature Club):
(Flowey also has this whole speech about when he was in control of the save state and the limitations of the people around him but I can’t find it right now)
