History VideoGame / Boneworks

''Boneworks'' (stylized in all caps as BONEWORKS) is a first person adventure game for VR systems by Stress Level Zero. It is currently available on {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} and the Oculus Store, and launched on December 10th, 2019.

* BoomHeadShot: Any sort of humanoid entity takes the most damage in the head. A running punch can be enough to down a Null Body or Omniroller in one hook if you swing just right.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: [[ImmortalitySeeker Ford]] succeeds in destroying the system clock and entering the Voidway, effectively rendering himself immortal. However, his real-world body is shortly found and he watches himself be shot pointblank. And given that the game implies that he is one of many Fords who have gone through the Voidway before, with graffiti on walls sometimes urging him to avoid the Void, it can be assumed that immortality may not be as glamorous as he wanted...]]

* GainaxEnding: And middle, and beginning. The overall plot is very unclear, but the climax takes the cake. [[spoiler: After destroying the System Clock in the center of [=MythOS=] city, the player is subjected to a cutscene of Ford, the main character, realizing that his mind has been separated from his real world body after entering the BONEWORKS backend. Afterwards, the player is transported to a medieval dungeon within the work-in-progress ''Fantasy Land'' populated by strange, peppy versions of himself (presumably former "shells" from previous attempts to get to the void). After fighting in an arena and killing a version of Ford with a crown, the player does a few more puzzle solving bits before the player is treated to an ending cutscene of mysterious men from Sabrelake finding the protagonists body in the real world and killing him with Void beings surrounding you in the chamber where you're watching the ending.]]

* ShoutOut: [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1933649638 Some of]] [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1933628428 the graffiti]] present is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-662082 modeled after]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation MTF field codes]].

* TakeThat: During the Museum level, the player is given a trip through the history of Monogon Industries' virtual reality development history. During one phase, you're shown that the "early stages" of development relied on a teleporting system that many users decried as irritating to use. This mirrors real life VR development, wherein many early VR games used a teleporting movement system instead of locomotion, which is something that was quickly dropped but still used for sensitive players.

''Boneworks'' prides itself on its highly detailed physics based system, where guns, melee weapons and whatever you can get your hands on reacts to the environment. The game incentivizes the player do this, as well, and allows the player to interact with the playscape however they desire.

The main thrust of ''Boneworks'' is the [=MythOS=] system- a highly advanced virtual reality world that allows the user to inhabit a virtual space of seemingly infinite size. Thrust into this strange landscape, you are forced to use everything in your arsenal to survive.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: [[ImmortalitySeeker Ford]] succeeds in resetting the system clock and entering the Voidway, effectively rendering himself immortal. However, his real-world body is shortly found and he watches himself be shot pointblank. And given that the game implies that he is one of many Fords who have gone through the Voidway before, with graffiti on walls sometimes urging him to avoid the Void, it can be assumed that immortality may not be as glamorous as he wanted...]]