History VideoGame / CargoCommander

** Another item is a Gram of {{Unobtanium}}.

* LastLousyPoint: Very possible, but the developers came up with two ways of averting this - Scanners and other people. Every time you complete a matching set of cargo, you get a Scanner which can be used to locate a specific peice of cargo you're missing. You will gain a total of twenty Scanners by the end of the game, but if you somehow use them all up before finding the last piece, you're screwed. However, if you have a friend that can give you the name of a sector that has the one you need, you're all set.

* PrecisionFStrike: The taunt button. [[LiteralMinded It's mapped to the "F" key.]]
* SchmuckBait: There is a fully functional Self Destruct button on the Maintainance Panel. It gives you three seperate warnings to back out before detonating the whole place. Thankfully, it's repaired the next day.

* SelectiveMagnetism: Your ship's magnet attracts whole, unbroken containers, and ''only'' those. A broken container two feet away will be ignored in favour of the unbroken one about half a mile away.

The level generation is rather similar to that of ''{{Minecraft}}'''s Seeds, in that anyone who types in a certain Sector Name will always get the same sequence of cargo containers, which allows for competition among players, sharing particularly unusual levels, or helping each other obtain HundredPercentCompletion with the myriad different items to find.

** [[{{Minecraft}} Cubic Chickens and Pigs.]]

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Somewhat. You can hold your breath in space with absoloutly no reprocssions, until you run out of air, which causes rapid health degredation.

* NoFairCheating: Spacewalking can be used to massive advantages - Skipping areas, fighting enemies and so on, all possible if you have air. However, if someone abuses this too much, Mutant Scavangers will appear. These are drill-like aliens, which are small and have low defence but hurt like hell. The more you abuse space, the more will come in a single wave. Due to the lack of MercyInvincibility, Unless you're a spectacular sharpshooter, a wave of five or six is pretty much a death sentence.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Boy howdy. The whole game, and the Commander's ultimate goal, is to get the privelage to go home again. You are finally given the authority to do this when you have [[HundredPercentCompletion obtained all 88 kinds of cargo available.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Controllable by the player, no less!

-->"When neccesary, press LS to let out stress"

* Shoutout: A CompanionCube is present and accounted for under the simple name of "Friend".

-->"Dear Cargo Commander: Go home. Go home. Go home. Go home. Go home. Go home. Go home."

* HundredPercentCompletion: There are dozens upon dozens of different kinds of cargo to collect.

-->"I could use one!" ~Item description

* SwissArmyWeapon: The Cargo Commander's oversized yellow manipulator tool can deploy several different weapons, including:

** An [[OneShotPolykill overpenetrating]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter six shooter]]

* EndlessGame: Journey Mode, unlocked at a high enough rank, has you just going from container to container to container until you manage to die, rather than having waves of containers a few at a time.

* Mook Maker: The Crystals. Mutants constantly regrow from these after being killed, and cannot be destroyed at a distance - You need to get within touching distance and press a button to kick them to pieces.

* SchmuckBait: There is a fully functional Self Destruct button on the Maintainance Panel. It gives you three seperate warnings to back out before detonating the whole place. Thankfully, it's repaired the next day.

Released in 2012, Cargo Commander is a {{Roguelike}} platform game, with procedurally generated levels and one goal: Get enough junk in your day job to earn the right to go home and see your family. However, the emails from home and from your workplace are starting to sound a bit strange and artificial these days...

The [[NoNameGiven Nameless Protaganist, who we will refer to as the titular Cargo Commander]], pilots his tiny, cubic ship around the galaxy, magnetising abandoned vessels and storage containers to crash into his ship so he can go in and loot them of thier contents, avoiding fire, mutants, and the ever-looming wormholes that rip the containers apart around him.

What makes this game particularly interesting is the fact that most of the walls are destructable. This can help people come up with crazy, inventive ways of dealing with problems, such as taking shortcuts, blasting aliens into space, and outright skipping areas. Of course, ill-planned drilling can easily result in losing your life, or more importantly, your cargo.

The level generation is rather similar to that of {{Minecraft}}'s Seeds, in that anyone who types in a certain Sector Name will always get the same sequence of cargo containers, which allows for competition between players, sharing particularly unusual levels, or helping each other obtain HundredPercentCompletion with the myriad of different items to find.

Sector "TROPERVILLE" exists, so feel free to try and compete with other tropers in there.

* TeleportingKeycardSquad: This game lives and breathes this trope. About 75% of the cargo boxes will spawn enemies and [[MookMaker Crystals]] when they're picked up.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: The Wormholes. They seem completely capable of ripping solid metal structures to shreds and sucking them into oblivion, but the home base is outright protected by it, as is the Commander himself, somehow.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Lampshaded - According to one email it says that nanomachines retrieve your body and "repair you back into life".
* EarWorm: The music you hear on the title page and in your base is hauntingly catchy and a very welcome reprive from the lonely atmosphere.

** There is an option to make space totally silent, should you want this played completely straight.

* Mercy Invincibility: ''Totally and utterly averted.'' Exposure to fire will drain your health in moments, and even worse are the Mutant Scavangers - See NoFairCheating.

Released in 2012, Cargo Commander is a {{Rougelike}} platform game, with procedurally generated levels and one goal: Get enough junk in your day job to earn the right to go home and see your family. However, the emails from home and from your workplace are starting to sound a bit strange and artificial these days...