History VideoGame / Breathedge

* BreakableWeapons: All of your tools, weapons, and vehicles have a set durability that is reduced through use or damage, and will break once that durability is depleted. For tools and weapons, a point of durability is lost each time the item is used successfully. The exception is the Infinite Handy Scrapper, which has infinite uses as per the name. For vehicles, they lose durability when damaged but can be repaired with the Repair Tool.

%%* RetroRocket: The spaceships have this aesthetic.
* ShoutOut: Lots of them, but the most obvious would have to be the player's goal in Chapter 2 being to make their way to a ship called [[VideoGame/MassEffect ''Normandy,'']] formerly captained by a man named Shepard. The objective marker for said ship even uses the Systems Alliance logo from that franchise.

** Freezing areas slowly ice up your helmet. The effect isn't fatal by itself, but good luck not dying when you can't even see your map markers. The effect is reversed by either fighting a heating coil in one of the nearby wrecks or exiting the area.

** Freezing areas slowly ice up your helmet. The effect isn't fatal by itself, but good luck not dying when you can't even see your map markers.

** [[spoiler: In the ending, you find your ship has crash-landed on an ocean planet with another destroyed liner in the distance resembling the ''Aurora'' from ''{{VideoGame/Subnautica}}''. Fortunately it's AllJustADream.]]

** One of the photos you can come across shows Grandad and the younger player chracter hanging out with a guy named [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty "Ricky" and his grandson.]]

** [[spoiler: In the ending, you find your ship has crash-landed on an ocean planet with another destroyed liner in the distance resembling the ''Aurora'' from {{VideoGame/Subnautica}}. Fortunately it's AllJustADream.]]

* NighInvulnerable: The Immortal Chicken is well-named. The Man even starts exploiting this to clear up stray electrical currents.
* PinkElephants: When you first use the Dispenser to rebuild an airlock, it comes out bungled. Your suit adjusts your perception to correct the problem, assuring you that there are probably no side effects as a unicorns prances across the bottom of your screen.

** Among the dead Normandy crew is a [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker green haired man who apparently wore heavy make up]].

** While exploring the debris the player finds vats containing mutated
cows with [[XenomorphXerox elongated heads]]. He later encounters one aboard a military capsule, having [[DoomMagnet accidentally released it]], with the crew dead with one of them sprawled on a [[Film/{{Alien}} table]].

** Shortly afterwards, your suit explains that "Unfortunately, due to the security protocol, I cannot tell you that the special magnets built into his engineering boots can be used to illegal open the back panel of Breathedge coffins" and then goes on to explain that it has "no right to explain" about the confidential features in the coffins that make doing this necessary, which it proceeds to describe in detail.

* DissonantSerenity: The suit AI speaks almost always with the same cheerful tone, no matter not dangerous, disgusting or surprising the situation may be.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Towards the end of the game you find that your grandfather left a sticky note on your face with helpful information, which Man only removes after being told about it. The player has likewise been completely ignorant of its existence due to the UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective.

** "Babe", whose profile picture is just a close-up of a woman's cleavage. [[spoiler: This is deliberately exploited by TheDragon - who's pretending to be her for most of the game (using a pair of FakeBoobs the entire time) - to (poorly) try to exploit DistractedByTheSexy to get you to kill yourself. The real Babe uses the same avatar but is more modestly dressed in a FormFittingwardrobe spacesuit.]]

''Breathedge'' Is a survival game developed by indie game devs [=RedRuiins=] Softworks and published on Feburary 25, 2021 after an extended period in early access.

The game puts the player in the role of The Man, SoleSurvivor of a deep-space crash of the funerary liner "Unnamed" operated by the [[TitleDrop Breathedge]] corporation while attempting to bury his recently-deceased Grandfather. With only his family heirloom, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Immortal Chicken,]] and a smart-mouthed corporate AI built into his spacesuit for company The Man must scavenge, craft, explore, acknowledge [[ShoutOut innumerable shout-outs,]] bury his Grandfather once and for all, [[spoiler:get to the bottom of an AncientConspiracy]] and maybe chase after the mysterious "Babe" who keeps sending him seductive messages not-so-subtlety trying to get him killed...

''Breathedge'' takes noticeable inspiration from an earlier survival game ''Videogame/{{Subnautica}}''; the core gameplay loop of scavenge > craft > explore > scavenge is highly similar. However, while ''Subnautica'' played into the horror of being isolated on an alien planet, ''Breathedge'' takes a far more [[BlackComedy darkly humorous and occasionally absurd]] tone. For example; one of the very first things you do in the game is try to plug a leak in your shuttle with the Immortal Chicken - only to be informed that leaks are best plugged with things that don't have holes at each end...

!!Breathedge contains examples of these tropes:

* AIIsACrapshoot: With the exception of your spacesuit AI, who remains loyal and helpful throughout the game despite shouting the occasional corporate platitude, every other AI is not particularly impressive. The highlight has to be the military Gatekeeper confusing a Chicken in camo pattern paint ''for a high-ranking general!''

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler: The Breathedge corporation, exploiting it's position as the premier space funeral service provider in human space, secretly experimented on and developed an army of corpse-powered "coffinbots" and scattered them all over the galaxy under the pretense of offering dignified funerals. One of their experiments resulted in the creation of the rogue AI Mother Station, who conspired with the Green Universe terrorist group to bring down the liner "Unnamed" to allow her to subvert the coffinbots aboard and kickstart the war, but the plan was bungled resulting in the mess The Man finds himself in at the start of the game. Oh and Grandfather, a brilliant space engineer and AI developer, discovered this and worked to subvert it, even posthumously taking control of his coffinbot to fight Mother personally.]] All of this is explained to you in one paragraph.

* MsFanservice: "Babe", who's profile picture is just a close-up of a woman's cleavage. [[spoiler: This is deliberately exploited by TheDragon - who's pretending to be her for most of the game (using a pair of FakeBoobs the entire time) - to (poorly) try to exploit DistractedByTheSexy to get you to kill yourself. The real Babe uses the same avatar but is more modestly dressed in a FormFittingwardrobe spacesuit.]]

* RetroRocket: The spaceships have this aesthetic.
* {{Zeerust}}: Delibrately invoked.

* Zeerust: Delibrately invoked.

* NighInvulnerable: The Immortal Chicken is well-named. The Man even starts exploiting this to clear up stray electrical currents.

''Breathedge'' takes noticeable inspiration from an earlier survival game ''Videogame/Subnautica''; the core gameplay loop of scavenge > craft > explore > scavenge is highly similar. However, while ''Subnautica'' played into the horror of being isolated on an alien planet, ''Breathedge'' takes a far more [[BlackComedy darkly humorous and occasionally absurd]] tone. For example; one of the very first things you do in the game is try to plug a leak in your shuttle with the Immortal Chicken - only to be informed that leaks are best plugged with things that don't have holes at each end...

''Breathedge'' takes noticeable inspiration from an earlier survival game ''Videogame/Subnautica''; the core gameplay loop of scavenge > craft > explore > scavenge is highly similar. However, while ''Subnautica'' played into the horror of being isolated on an alien planet, ''Breathedge'' takes a far more [[BlackComedy darkly humerous and occasionally absurd]] tone. For example; one of the very first things you do in the game is try to plug a leak in your shuttle with the Immortal Chicken - only to be informed that leaks are best plugged with things that don't have holes at each end...

''Breathedge'' takes noticeable inspiration from an earlier survival game ''Videogame/Subnautica''; the core gameplay loop of scavenge > craft > explore > scavenge is highly similar. However, while ''Subnautica'' played into the horror of being isolated on an alien planet, ''Breathedge'' takes a far more [[BlackComedy dark and occasionally absurd]] tone. For example; one of the very first things you do in the game is try to plug a leak in your shuttle with the Immortal Chicken - only to be informed that leaks are best plugged with things that don't have holes at each end...

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler: The Breathedge corporation, exploiting it's position as the premier space funeral service provider in human space, secretly experimented on and developed an army of corpse-powered "coffinbots" and scattered them all over the galaxy under the pretense of offering dignified funerals. One of their experiments resulted in the creation of the rouge AI Mother Station, who conspired with the Green Universe terrorist group to bring down the liner "Unnamed" to allow her to subvert the coffinbots aboard and kickstart the war, but the plan was bungled resulting in the mess The Man finds himself in at the start of the game. Oh and Grandfather, a brilliant space engineer and AI developer, discovered this and worked to subvert it, even posthumously taking control of his coffinbot to fight Mother personally.]] All of this is explained to you in one paragraph.

** At one point your suit's AI recognizes that you need confidential information about the Breathedge corporation to survive, which its programming will not allow it to tell you. However, its programming ''does'' allow it to point out that there are numerous other suits around with the information which could be forced to reveal it using a drill. [[spoiler: Your character decides to [[ViolationOfCommonSense use the drill ''on himself'' to get your suit to talk]].]]

** At one point your suit's AI recognizes that you need confidential information about the Breathedge corporation to survive, which its programming will not allow it to tell you. However, its programming ''does'' allow it to point out that there are numerous other suits around with the information which could be forced to reveal it using a drill. [[spoiler: Your character decides to [[ViolationOfCommonSense use the drill ''on himself'']] to get your suit to talk.]]