Devilish Hairdresser is a series of online games published by Spil Games.
The main series has you play as the Devil, whose goal is to mess up the Angel's clients while she isn't looking. These games have "Red Light Green Light" style gameplay, where the player fails if the Angel catches them or if time runs out before the player's progress bar is filled. These main series games are as follows:
- Devilish Hairdresser
- Devilish Stylist
- Devilish Pet Salon
- Devilish Cooking: Unique in the series in that the player can choose to play as the Devil or the Angel. Also includes "cook" mode, a basic point-and-click cooking minigame.
There are also three holiday-themed Spot the Difference games, which each tell a short story about the Devil messing with the Angel herself:
Other games in the series include:
- Devilish Cat: Here you play as a cat, whose goal is to eat as much food as possible while the Angel (or Devil in some levels) isn't looking. Has the same basic gameplay as the main series, with the addition of being able to move the cat across the screen with the mouse; this is used to collect diamonds that appear periodically throughout each level, which give you bonus time when three of them are collected.
- Devilish Candy House: A physics-based puzzle game in which the player has to get a cookie to roll safely to the Angel while using various items in the environment (levers, fans, springs, etc.) to open paths, close gaps, and avoid obstacles.
- Devilish Dress Up: A basic Virtual Paper Doll game that reuses assets from the clients seen in Devilish Stylist.
Devilish Tropes:
- Achievement Mockery: In some of the games, you can get an achievement called "Angel Wannabe", which is unlocked by losing ten times.
- Adaptation Dye-Job:
- In Devilish Pet Salon, the Angel and Devil are pink-haired and brunette with red spiral horns and differing bangs, respectively. They also get palette swaps of their outfit colors, with Angel in a white dress and Devil's outfit now in red.
- In Devilish Stylist, the Devil has silver hair in drill twintails and her usual dress having been split into a crop top and skirt with the same colors as her dress from Hairdresser. Interestingly as well, unlike in "Hairdresser" and "Pet Salon", she also wears a horned headband instead of sporting actual spiral horns of either beige or red color like her previous looks.
- A Day in the Limelight: Devilish Cooking gives the player the option to play as the Angel, though they can also choose to play as the Devil as usual.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
- The Angel's Achilles' Heel is her short attention span. She will often turn away from her work to make a coffee, look at some books, or talk on the phone, which gives the Devil time to mess with her clients.
- If the player chooses to play as the Angel in Devilish Cooking, the Devil will display the same behavior though it's downplayed as the points where she starts to turn around are also accompanied by a sly smirk which only gets bigger if she actually catches Angel, hinting that she may just be mockingly copying her angel accomplice's usual ditzy nature and is subtly encouraging her to also be rebellious.
- Christmas Episode: Devilish Christmas, in which the Devil becomes a Bad Santa to mess with the Angel.
- Color Failure: This happens to you when you get caught ruining the client's hairstyle, as well as the Angel if you win.
- Cross-Popping Veins: The Angel will look angry and have a small popping vein on the side of her head if she catches you/the Devil trying to ruin the client's outfit, hair, or whatever they have.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The Game Over screen shows the Devil locked up in "Angel Prison" for merely attempting to mess up the client's hair. If the player chooses to play as the Angel in Devilish Cooking, she will instead be sent to Devil Prison upon losing, again for the petty "crime" of decorating the food the way she wanted.
- Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness: Implied in the game-over screen; the Devil’s prison cell is filled with toys and presents, but she looks miserable.
- Evil Redhead: In Devilish Hairdresser, the mischief-making Devil has red hair.
- Formula-Breaking Episode:
- In Devilish Cat, you play as a cat, and your goal is to eat as much as possible without getting caught. Additionally, while the first half of the game has you keeping an eye on the Angel as normal, in the second half, it's the Devil you must watch out for.
- Devilish Cooking, as the title suggests, is a cooking game which plays similarly to Sara's Cooking Class. Once you get to the decorating part, the game goes back to its usual Red Light, Green Light style. In this game, you can also choose to play as the Angel or the Devil.
- Green Is Gross: The liquid the Devil puts in the Angel's date's food is green, and the dish later emits sickly green smoke when consumed.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: The kind and gentle Angel is blonde in Hairdresser and Stylist.
- Hero Antagonist: The Angel is usually this. The whole point of the game is to ruin her work, but she's shown to be perfectly nice and there's no indication that she deserves the trouble the Devil causes.
- Idiot Ball: There's really no good reason for why the Angel continues to let the Devil stick around after all of their clients' hairstyles/fur/clothes are continually messed up by the Devil behind her back. The same goes for the Devil if the Angel is the playable character who does the secret sabotaging in Devilish Cooking.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The Angel can hand this out to the Devil if chosen as the player character in Devilish Cooking, giving her a taste of her own medicine by taking over the cooking behind her back to make angelic dishes.
- Leitmotif: Heavy metal music starts playing when the Devil starts ruining the client's hair, outfit, etc.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Angelic Hairdresser (Light Feminine) wears cute and sweet outfits like pink dresses, while the Devilish Hairdresser (Dark Feminine) prefers dark and gothic outfits.
- Mercury's Wings: The Angel has her wings on the sides of her head, rather than on her back, so that they look like hair clips.
- Minimalist Cast: The Devil and the Angel are the only recurring characters.
- Nameless Narrative: The Devil, the Angel, and their customers have no given names.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: In the mainline games, the Angel has worked as a hairdresser, a fashion stylist, and a pet groomer. And possibly a chef, though it's less clear in Devilish Cooking whether her work there is part of a job or not.
- No Plot? No Problem!: The story amounts to nothing more than "sabotage the Angel's work" (or "sabotage the Devil's work", if you play as the Angel in Devilish Cooking), and there's no explanation for why the Angel and Devil run a business together in the first place.
- Non-Indicative Name: If you play as the Angel in Devilish Cooking, the title becomes this because the foods the Angel wants to make aren't at all devilish.
- Our Angels Are Different: The unnamed "Angel" character is a humanoid girl with a halo and wings on the sides of her head. She otherwise seems to behave like a normal human. There's also an "Angel Prison", which the Devil gets sent to after failing a level.
- Our Demons Are Different: The unnamed "Devil" character is a humanoid girl with curly ram horns (or more traditional red devil horns as seen in Devilish Stylist). She otherwise seems to behave like a normal, if troublemaking, human. There's also a "Devil Prison", which the Angel gets sent to after failing a level when playing as her in Devilish Cooking.
- Pink Means Feminine: The Angel always wears pink.
- Riddle for the Ages: It is never really explained why the Angel continues allowing the Devil to hang around her businesses, even though the Devil always tries to ruin things for her clients.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: In Devilish Pet Salon, the sweet, cheerful Angel has pink hair.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: In the Valentine's Day Episode, the Devil puts something nasty in the food that the Angel is making, which makes her date sick.
- Valentine's Day Episode: Devilish Valentine, where the Devil turns her attention on the Angel's date.
- Villain Protagonist: In most games, you control the Devil, who is out to screw over the clients of the Angel.
- White Hair, Black Heart: In Devilish Stylist, the mischevious Devil character has silver hair.