History VideoGame / OneFingerDeathPunch

* RegeneratingHealth: With the Heal skill active, the protagonist regenerates one HP every 99 kills.

* CriticalStatusBuff: When you're left with [[OneHitPointWonder just one HP]] in a regular mob round, there's a chance that the game grants you the Golden Sword that, unlike regular swords, is not discarded after a few hits but can be wielded until the end of the round (or, more likely, until your hasty demise).

* HeroesFightBarehanded: While the enemies will often charge you with weapons, you will dispatch most of them with punches and kicks.

* InterfaceScrew: Blind Survival removes the hints that show you your range and the enemy fighters' key presses.
* JokeWeapon: The swords may be rarely be replaced with [[FishSlap a fish]] and the maces might take the form of grinning spiked stars. They're just as deadly as their less-humorous counterparts though.

* OldMaster: The narrator especially functions as one, at least as far as his exaggerated Asian accent is concerned. Subverted in that outside of announcing when your skills activate during gameplay and your level ranking, he doesn't comment how well or badly you're doing and mostly serves as a voiced tutorial.

''One Finger Death Punch'' is a deceptively simple {{Stick Figure|Animation}} RhythmGame styled after East Asian {{Martial Arts Movie}}s in the vein of Creator/BruceLee and ''WebAnimation/XiaoXiao''. You play as a lone martial arts hero fighting off scores of enemies charging him from all sides. The controls boil down to pressing the left and right mouse buttons (not just one of them, as the title would suggest) whenever an enemy comes within striking range left or right, respectively. If that sounds boring, wait until special enemy types and weapons come into play, to speak nothing of special stages...

* SkillScoresAndPerks: Completing certain stages unlocks passive skills that give you bonuses (except in certain stage types). You can only have three skills active at any time but can swap them out freely between levels.

The game was featured by Creator/TheCynicalBrit and ''WebVideo/ExtraCredits''.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: One of the unlockable survival modes features [[spoiler: Luca the cat from one of Silver Dollar Games' Xbox Indie games called No Luca No, who you need to keep from blocking the screen by pushing it away with the cursor while playing the game normally at the same time.]]

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: One of the unlockable survival modes features [[spoiler: the cat from one of Silver Dollar Games' Xbox Indie games called No Luca No, which you need to keep from blocking the screen with his paw by pushing it away with the cursor while playing the game normally at the same time.]]

* TimedMission: In Timed Rounds, you need to beat all enemies within a time limit, but in return you have infinite HP. Getting hit will still net you both a time penalty and slow you down, and towards the end of the game, it's extremely easy to fail one of these levels if you get hit even once.

* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Sometimes the game will enter ultra slo-mo to show off a particularly brutal demise of a random enemy at the hands of the protagonist, or at least as brutal as it can be with stick figures that're OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: the variations involve breaking the enemy's neck or ribs with an [[XRayVision x-ray view of the damage]], punching out their heart through their back, punching out one of their eyes, slicing off a part of their head, impaling them on an upright spear or crushing their head with a mace.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: When you're wielding a weapon and grab another one or use the respective skill, you can throw them at your enemies, possibly landing multiple kills: swords take out everyone in a line, spears boomerang back before flying offscreen and maces bounce around uncontrollably, killing enemies at random.

* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Sometimes the game will enter ultra slo-mo to show off a particularly brutal demise of a random enemy at the hands of the protagonist, or at least as brutal as it can be with stick figures that're OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: the variations involve breaking the enemy's neck or ribs with an [[XRayVision x-ray view of the damage]], punching out their heart through their back, punching out one of their eyes, slicing off a part of their head or impaling them on an upright spear.

* TimedMission: In Timed Rounds, you need to beat all enemies within a time limit.

* GroundPound: One of the unlockable skills, it allows you to kill every enemy on the screen. However, since it's hard to notice when it's available and it replaces your next normal attack, it's difficulty to use it optimally.

* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Sometimes the game will enter ultra slo-mo to show off a particularly brutal demise of a random enemy at the hands of the protagonist, or at least as brutal as it can be with stick figures that're OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: the variations involve breaking the enemy's neck or ribs with an XRayMove, punching out their heart through their back, punching out one of their eyes, slicing off a part of their head or impaling them on an upright spear.

* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Sometimes the game will enter ultra slo-mo to show off a particularly brutal demise of a random enemy at the hands of the protagonist.
* CriticalStatusBuff: When you're left with [[OneHitPointWonder just one HP]] in a regular mob round, the game grants you the Golden Sword that, unlike regular swords, is not discarded after a few seconds but can be wielded until the end of the round (or, more likely, until your hasty demise).

* LaserBlade: The protagonist wields one in the Lightsword Rounds--though [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial the game emphatically denies]] [[LawyerFriendlyCameo that it's a]] [[Franchise/StarWars lightsaber]].

* PowersAsPrograms: You only have a limited number of slots to place the skills you unlock in, but can change the current skill combination at any time between rounds. Additional skill slots can be unlocked by beating the game's campaign mode.

* CriticalStatusBuff: When you're left with [[OneHitPointWonder just one HP]] in a normal mob round, the game grants you the Golden Sword--a special sword that can be wielded until the end of the match (or, more likely, your hasty demise).

* BattleInTheRain: The Thunderstorm Stages take place during a storm--so you cannot easily see the type of enemies coming at you.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: In the Survival Mode, the enemies keep coming infinitely, so the only challenge is how many of them you'll outlast.

* GameplayGrading: At the end of every level, you may be given a medal, based on how many times you missed.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: The green enemies take two hits before they go down.

* HitPoints: You can be hit ten times before having to restart the level. Depending on the type of the level, your HP can be reduced.
* MiniBoss: The Brawlers require a specific sequence of timed hits to defeat.

* OneHitPointWonder: Some levels start you off with a single life point, meaning that you cannot miss any hits at all.

* TimedMission: In some missions, you need to beat all enemies within a time limit.
* ZergRush: The standard tactic of the regular one-hit enemies.

* HitPoints: You can be hit ten times before having to restart the level.

* SkillScoresAndPerks: Completing certain stages unlocks passive skills that give you bonuses (except in certain stages). You can only have three skills active at any time but can swap them out freely between levels.
* TimedMission: In some missions, you need to beat all enemies within time limit.

* RandomlyGeneratedLevels: While the levels themselves are always identical horizontal planes, their features, like objects and, most importantly, enemies are randomized.

* GameplayGrading: At the end of every levels, you may be given a medal, based on how many times you missed.