History VideoGame / RobinsonsRequiem

Developed by the French studio Silmarils, Robinson's Requiem puts the player in the shoes of Trepliev1, an experienced Robinson on his last mission before retirement. A lot of thought and care went into the survival system, resulting in [[TheManyDeathsOfYou all sorts of nasty ways to die]], from massive blood loss to food poisoning to hacking off your own limbs.

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Nina1 and Trepliev1 seem to be a couple, but she can only contact him in his dreams, during which she shows little concern for his actual well-being; either she makes a few token remarks on her love for him, or she reprimands him or even accuses him of wrongdoing, at one point even joking she'll have an affair with Freud37 just because he's wandered closer to her than Trepliev1 has. Trepliev1 being a HeroicMime doesn't help matters.

** "''Carbonisation''": Lava scattered outside of and inside the AWE Droid base will do this. It works exactly like [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], except Trepliev1 will scream as he sinks instead of sobbing.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The white booklet has signatures from several comrades. [[spoiler:Except for Nina1, everyone who signs the booklet has be killed later to obtain their Sesame computers. Many of the messages include hints that some will turn on Trepliev1, like Nietsche26 and Epicurus92 being jealous of his successes, Pavlov95 boasting his shooting skills, and Diogenes48 just plain despising him.]]

** One commenter on YouTube theorizes this happens to you because "''Trepliev1 is damned one way or another, since he has to murder some of his fellow Robinsons in cold blood''" (like Freud37), even despite the fact most of them have gone mad or are already dead when you find them.

* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler:Nietsche26 asks Trepliev1 to gather every Sesame he can so they can put it into the Droid HQ and make their way to Nina1 together, but when he comes back with all the computers he reveals that the HQ is full of gas and he has the only gas mask. He attacks Trepliev1 and has to be killed first.]]

* QuicksandSucks: The desert has plenty of it, and it's probably one of the most fatal examples of this trope in video gaming. The moment you walk onto it, you freeze in place and sink into it [while Trepliev1 sobs] like there's a ''black hole'' under it.
** Lava technically works the same way further into the desert, but with Trepliev1 screaming in agony as he sinks].

* WorstAid: Just some things you can do to yourself: Take a huge amount of random medical drugs, and the wash it down with some good old whiskey. Give items that increase heart rate right after exercising hard. Chopping off ALL of your limbs just for the hell of it. Of course, you almost always end up dead. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuIgzFW7B2I This video]] goes more in depth in to the ways you can mess yourself up with the first aid kit.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Particularly when it comes to trying to kill you.

* TyrannosaurusRex: The Kagoo and the Baby Kagoos in the Tyrannosaur/Kagoo Cave that connects the Swamp, Desert and Massif. The baby kagoos are smaller and can be regarded as normal-level enemies which you can at least melee with a hope of survival. The larger Kagoo, who doesn't looks ''that much'' bigger than it's children on the other hand? Yeah, do not let it bite you, for it's instant death. Worse? You can't fight it at all in it's cave, and it happens to be hovering near one of the Sesame computers you need to win the game. You either need to be good at dodging the Kagoo in its cave, or kill it before going for the Sesame computer.

** "''Hypotension''": Blood pressure is too low. In the game, this is actually considered a near impossiblity to actually die from. Usually the worst that will happen is you will faint occasionally from the lack of blood pressure.

** "''Poisoning from Gangrene''": Happens within 8 hours of a gangerous infection in one or more limbs if they are not removed.

** "''Electrocution''": Trying to contruct the booby trapped battery without the Kevlar Gloves on, or walking over the battery once placed will inflict this on you.

** "''Carbonisation''": Lava scattered outside of and inside the AWE Droid base will do this. It works exactly like [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], except Tripliev1 will scream as he sinks instead of sobbing.

* GuideDangIt: You might figure out how to survive for a few days without dying a horrible death. But there's no way you'll actually work out how to finish the game without either psychic prescience, looking at a guide, or multiple occurances of playing through to nearly the end and having to restart from the beginning because you rendered the game Unwinnable.

* KillEmAll: To escape the planet, Tripliev has to acquire all of the Sesame computers: one each from every other Robinson. They don't tend to hand them over willingly. [[spoiler: Nina1 is the only other Robinson you don't kill or even meet in person during proper gameplay.]]

* {{Retirony}}: {{Invoked}}; Zarathustra is meant to be Tripliev's final mission, one way or another...

** "''Suffocation''": Sinking into quicksand in the desert will inflict this fast.

** "''Carbonisation''": Lava scattered outside of and inside the AWE Droid base will do this. It works exactly like quicksand, except Tripliev1 will scream as he sinks instead of sobbing.

* SelfDestruct: Implied. The final section of the game is inside a volcanic cave which has been retooled by 'druids' to house the AWE base. Despite the obvious health hazards [like hard to see magma on the ground and walls], there's a cluster of machinary around, including a sort of ''Sesame-reader'', of which you need all 20 of the Sesame's of your intake [your class of Robinsons, from which you Nina1, Socrates19, etc hail from]. Once all twenty, including your own are inserted, a message shows up and a very-annoying klaxon sounds off every second, announcing the impending destruction of the base.

** "''Tachycardia - Cardiac Arrest''": The heart rate is too fast, caused by Atropine misuse when your heart rate is already to high, or from overruse of the "Fruit of L'sk S'yk D'yk" found in the swamps.

** "''Hypertensive Crisis''": Blood pressure is raised above 11/21 on your main stats monitor. Can be inflicted by atropine misuse.

** "''Dehydration''": too little water in the body [the blue bar on the main stats screen runs out].

** "''Asphyxia''": Trying to enter the AWE base without the Gas Mask will kill you this way.

** One commenter on YouTube theorizes this happens to you because "''Trepliev1 is damned one way or another, since he has to murder some of his fellow Robinsons in cold blood''" (like Freud37], even despite the fact most of them have gone mad or are already dead when you find them.

** Another done by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_hZBW6glk&list=PLc8_TGjGbIHjykJqWD_cCAFAhlxOuIGFf LethalFeline]] (/w co-commentary from LetsPlay/{{Grimith}}). Complete, and mostly played on HARD mode to boot. Few people will dare play the game on anything higher than Easy due to the difficulty. Also HilarityEnsues of course.

** Another done by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_hZBW6glk&list=PLc8_TGjGbIHjykJqWD_cCAFAhlxOuIGFf LethalFeline]] (/w co-commentary from LetsPlay/{{Grimith}}). Although not yet complete, it is the farthest anyone has recorded an attempt at the game, and it's being played on HARD mode to boot. Few people will dare play the game on anything higher than Easy due to the difficulty. Also HilarityEnsues of course.

** "''Uncontrollable Hemorrhage''": Too much blood [the red bar on the main stats screen runs out] has been lost overall.

* TheDogShotFirst: [[spoiler: To escape the planet, you need to collect the 19 Sesame computer units from the 19 Robinsons previously trapped there, in addition to your own, making a total of 20 computers. 11 of the Robinsons are corpses already, but 8 are still alive when you arrive and 7 of them will need to be liberated of their Sesames by force, while one more is seperated from it's still living owner.
** Unfortunately, the Robinsons have mostly been driven insane by their time on the planet, and most will turn hostile immediately or shortly after you meet them, so you can kill them in self-defense without any sticky moral ambiguity issues. There are at least 2 Robinsons [Freud37 & Darwin5] that need to be outright murdered for their Sesames, though.]]

* TheDogShotFirst: [[spoiler: To escape the planet, you need to collect the 19 Sesame computer units from the 19 Robinsons previously trapped there, in addition to your own, making a total of 20 computers. About 2/3rds of the Robinsons are corpses already, but several are still upright and will need to be liberated of their Sesames by force. However, the Robinsons have mostly been driven insane by their time on the planet, and most will turn hostile immediately or shortly after you meet them, so you can kill them in self-defense without any sticky moral ambiguity issues. There are at least 2 Robinsons that need to be outright murdered for their Sesames, though.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: In the final area of the game, the corpse of the final Robinson has a laser rifle on his body with ''infinite ammo''. To compensate, at this point the game starts throwing hordes of enemies at you.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The following list is copied from the manual of the sequel (Deus), but the causes of death are still quite comprehensive:
** Hypothermia: when the body temperature drops too low.
** Hyperthermia: when the body temperature becomes too high.
** Heart attack due to tachycardia: the heart rate is too fast.
** Hypotension: blood pressure is too low.
** Hypertension: blood pressure is too high.
** Drowning.
** Exhaustion: physical resources exhausted.
** Uncontrollable haemorrhage: too great a loss of blood.
** Dehydration: too little water in the body.
** Hyperalgesia: abnormally great sensitivity to pain.
** Loss of consciousness: cardiac arrest (often the anxiety level is too great).
** Alcoholic coma following drunkenness.
** Venom poisoning.
** Widespread gangrene.
** Trauma, violent shock.
** Suffocation.
** Electrocution.
** Asphyxia, inhalation of lethal gas.
** Drowning: loss of consciousness caused by immersion in icy water.
** Cyanide poisoning.
** Burning, incineration.
** Death by missiles (bullet, laser impact).
** Overdose: taking too many drugs.

** One commenter on YouTube theorizes this happens to you because "''Trepliev1 is damned one way or another, since he has to murder some of his fellow Robinsons in cold blood''", even despite the fact most of them have gone mad or are already dead when you find them.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Darwin5's presence is technically explained by him being one of the exiled Robinsons, but there's no justification whatsoever for him turning into a werewolf. There are hints that the game was [[ReTool Retooled]] from fantasy to science fiction midway through development (you fight centaurs and goblins, for example), but this is a very flagrant out-of-genre moment.

** Example: Epicurus will tell you about the female alien tribe [the 'Fridays'], climb up a hill... and appear to ''vanish into thin air''. Some people interpret this as a GameBreakingBug, but this is actually a big misconception. Epicurus will reappear after killing the Kagoo and getting your 'reward' from the Fridays' leader. He'll then attack you out of jealousy, forcing you to kill him.

** The Giant Robot is the fastest enemy to face, is immune to weapons and must be lured into a booby trap made attaching a wire to a battery. As an added bit of FakeDifficulty, putting them together will kill you unless you're wearing the Kevlar Gloves.

* UnwinnableByDesign: Tossing away mission-critical items, such as the Sesames. Especially irritating because it's not entirely obvious what's important and what's just weighing you down. Are those heavy Lizard Skins really that important? Turns out, yeah. [[GuideDangIt You need them to make waterproof clothes]].

* GiantSpiders: As to be expected, getting bit by them will poison you. Taking antivenom will help to cure the poison, or if taken preemptively, it will prevent poisoning altogether from the spiders for a few minutes per dose. Alternatively one can use the suction pump on the bitten limb to remove the venom if they're fast enough [about 10 second after getting bit].

** If you attempt to amputation a second limb, you'll generally die of syncope no matter what condition you're in at that point. There are players who have found ways to bypass this, to the point they've actually amputated all four limbs and still survive and can even continue gameplay. Losing one or both legs prevents you from running, but you can still walk around even with both gone. Losing one or both arms prevents you from using the bow, but you can still use one-handed weapons even if you're missing both arms. Even more perplex is the question of ''[[FridgeLogic how you can amputate your remaining arm when it's the only limb you have left]]''.

* TheDogShotFirst: [[spoiler: To escape the planet, you need to collect the 20 Sesame computer units from the 20 Robinsons previously trapped there. About 2/3rds of the Robinsons are corpses already, but several are still upright and will need to be liberated of their Sesames by force. However, the Robinsons have mostly been driven insane by their time on the planet, and most will turn hostile immediately or shortly after you meet them, so you can kill them in self-defense without any sticky moral ambiguity issues. There are at least 2 Robinsons that need to be outright murdered for their Sesames, though.]]

* AmputationStopsSpread: Some infections and poisonings of your limbs, if left unattended for too long, can become gangerous, requiring eventual amputation of the limb in question. If eight or more hours pass when a limb is considered 'Amputation Urgent', you'll die of 'poisoning by gangrene'. To amputate your limb, you must use a tourniquet to cut off the blood flow to the offending limb, apply Anaesthetic [=MW44=] to the affected limb, use the survival knife to amputate the limb, and then use the needle-and-thread to stitch the open wound left behind shut.
** Also keep in mind, under normal game rules, you can only survive one amputation. Usually amputating a second limb, no matter your condition will cause you to die from syncope. There are ways the system can be cheated, but it's generally not recommended. Losing a leg will prevent your from being able to run, but otherwise doesn't hinder movement. Losing an arm will only prevent you from using the bow as weapon. All other weapons are considered one-handed.

* HaveANiceDeath: Though with exceptions to the occasion animation from a face to a skull, the death image remains the same despite with kind of death you suffer.

* EnergyWeapon: There are very few of these, and they're all aimed at you.

* GameBreakingBug: Epicurus will tell you about the female alien tribe, climb up a hill... and ''vanish for good''. If you don't kill him and take his Sesame before he leaves, you can't complete the game.

* GiantSpiders
* HaveANiceDeath

* KillEmAll: To escape the planet, Tripliev has to acquire all of the Sesame computers: one each from every other Robinson. They don't tend to hand them over willingly.

** The Giant Robot is immune to weapons and must be lured into a booby trap made attaching a wire to a battery. As an added bit of FakeDifficulty, putting them together will kill you unless you're wearing the Kevlar Gloves.

* WorstAid: Just some things you can do to yourself: Take a huge amount of random medical drugs, and the wash it down with some good old whiskey. Give items that increase heart rate right after exercising hard. Chopping off ALL of your limbs just for the hell of it. Of course, you always end up dead.

** There's also the issue that the actors don't seem to know English, resulting in some hilariously awful FMVs. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaXEnPEkWsg The meeting with Socrates19]] near the beginning is especially amusing.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: As the screenshot shows, this is where you go when you die.

** Kagoo, the giant tyrannosaur, is invincible unless a) confronted outside his cave, and b) blinded first by USEing the Flare Gun.

* CyanidePill: You have one in your inventory, in case you find yourself in an inescapable situation and don't feel like lengthening your agony.