History VideoGame / HROT

* ExcusePlot: In keeping with games of the 90's, there's no real explanation as to why any of this is happening or what's going on. From context, you can determine that your character is slamming [=AZ-5=] buttons to prevent nuclear explosions ([[spoiler: as shown at the end of E3M1 where your character fails to reach the button in time and a nuclear missile gets launched]]), and the ending may imply that [[spoiler: all this is happening because a time-traveling Vladimir Putin ate one of the gears from the Prague Orlaj (astronomical clock tower), which according to local legend would lead to the nation's doom unless a hero born on New Year's shows up to save it.]]

* SequentialBoss: The FinalBoss fight has a whooping 5 phases in total. [[spoiler: First, there's a TrickBoss fight against a robot mech that's a ShoutOut to [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]], then the final boss (who seems to be either UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin (who admittedly would have been alive in 1986) or a Czech politician like Gustáv Husák dressed like Putin) comes out riding a bear and wielding a shotgun, then he hops off the bear and fights you on foot while the bear continues to chase you, then he splits into three, then he finally hops aboard a pterodactyl and fights you while regular enemies start spawning in indefinitely until you kill him.]]

''HROT'' (which means "spike" in Czech) is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter heavily inspired by [[Videogame/QuakeI the original Quake]], set in Soviet-era Prague. The game runs on a custom homebuilt engine made specifically for it and is developed and published by Spytihněv (a single-man operation) and was released on Steam via the Early Access program in January of 2021.

* DeadlyDoctor: Appropriately, the signature foes of [=E3M2=], "Hospital", are the burly medical personnel staffing the place. Up close, they'll try to stab you with a syringe, or will fling buzzsaw blades from a distance.

** The player exits levels by hitting a BigRedButton, much like how Duke would in ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''. However, while Duke would set off a nuclear warhead to leave an area, here the player hits a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram SCRAM switch]] as denoted by the Cyrillic "AZ-5" label, preventing just such a detonation.

** [=E3M1=] War With the Newts begins exactly the same as ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', with the player in a cell having just lured in and murdered a guard to facilitate their escape.

* CouldntFindAPen: The warning "Do Not Enter The Tower" is scrawled in blood just before the end of the Mausoleum level. Naturally, the tower is where you need to go.

* QuickMelee: There is a button to perform a quick kick.

* QuickMelee: You can press a button to perform a kick.

* GasMaskMooks: Every single humanoid enemy wears either a gas mask or a protective hazmat suit. Even the HellishHorse enemies wear gas masks.
* NintendoHard: The game's overall combat difficulty is about on par with most 90's era shooters, however health, armor, and ammo are noticeably harder to find than games like ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' or ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', which can add significantly to the overall difficulty. Rather like the harder Build Engine games such as ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' or ''[[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997 Shadow Warrior]]'', finding secrets for extra health and ammo is almost essential for smooth progress.

* AWinnerIsYou: In the Early Access build of the game, clearing Kiss Me Gustav rewards the player with [[spoiler:a beef stroganoff recipe.]]

* TankGoodness: A Soviet tank appears as a boss at the end of E2M4.

* NintendoHard: The game's overall difficulty is about on par with most 90's era shooters, however health, armor, and ammo are noticeably harder to find than games like ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' or ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', which can add significantly to the overall difficulty. Rather like the harder Build Engine games such as ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' or ''[[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997 Shadow Warrior]]'', finding secrets for extra health and ammo is almost essential for smooth progress.

* HyperactiveMetabolism: The game's main healing items are canned blood and fat of pork (an old Soviet-era Czech product meant as a soup base) and bags of powdered skim milk.

* CreepyCemetery: E2M3 takes place in Velhartice Cemetery, now populated by gas masked mutants and the undead.

* UniqueEnemy: The animated bulldozer enemy only appears once in the game, but doesn't have a boss health bar.

''HROT'' (which means "spike" in Czech) is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter heavily inspired by [[Videogame/QuakeI the original ''Quake'']], set in Soviet-era Prague. The game runs on a custom homebuilt engine made specifically for it and is developed and published by Spytihněv (a single-man operation) and was released on Steam via the Early Access program in January of 2021.

''HROT'' (which means "spike" in Czech) is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter heavily inspired by the original ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', set in Soviet-era Prague. The game runs on a custom homebuilt engine made specifically for it and is developed and published by Spytihněv (a single-man operation) and was released on Steam via the Early Access program in January of 2021.

* PocketProtector: You pick up medals to use as armor, based on an old Eastern European joke about Soviet World War 2 veterans having ''[[Main/ChestOfMedals so many medals on their chest]]'' they'd be bulletproof.

* PocketProtector: You pick up medals to use as armor, based on an old Eastern European joke about Soviet World War 2 veterans having so many medals on their chest they'd be bulletproof.