History VideoGame / SangFroidTalesOfWerewolves

* BoringYetPractical:
** Bait, which delays enemies while you are busy elsewhere and lures beasts into your traps.

Basically, it is to [[CanadaEh Canada]] just as ''VideoGame/HostileWaters'' is to Britain and ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' is to the USA.

It got Greenlit by the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} community and was released in April 2013. They have a [[http://www.sangfroidgame.com website]].

* BilingualBonus: Sang-Froid is French for fearless. And cold blood. [[VisualPun As in blood on snow, as seen in the intro]].

* RedHeadedHero: The O'Carrolls!

It got Greenlit by the {{Steam}} community and was released in April 2013. They have a [[http://www.sangfroidgame.com website]].

* GhostLights: The Will O' The Wisps. These ones have more of a small, almost dragon-like shape, bombard you with their fire from range, and retreat underground to quickly regenerate should you damage yet fail to kill them fast enough.

* MoneySpider: Justified. If one looks at the "summary" screen for the night, it shows the number of pelts (of wolf-like creatures) sold and the total money gained. Creatures like Will-o-the-Wisps, Wendigos, etc do not leave behind anything sellable and thus do not give money.

* TheSavageIndian: The Maikans. Even though the Innu tribe consults them for advice, the Innu chief calls them hotheaded and is wary of them. [[spoiler:Justifiably so, as the wendigos summoned by the Maikans to kill the O'Carrolls also kill many of his tribesmen.]]

* SiegeEngines: The O'Carrolls can eventually create a small ballista for defences. It only fires once and does much less damage on subsequent hits to multiple enemies, but its high damage makes it the singularly most effective trap to use against a wendigo.

* TerrorHero: A game mechanic. If enemies fear you, they'll wait before attacking, giving you precious seconds to reload your rifle or catch your breath. With a bit of work, even wendigos and the end boss will hesitate before attacking. The latter is an achievement if maintained for 5 seconds.

Basically, it is to [[CanadaEh Canada]] just as ''VideoGame/HostileWaters'' is to Britain.

* TerrorHero: A game mechanic. If enemies fear you, they'll wait before attacking, giving you precious seconds to reload your rifle or catch your breath. With a bit of work, even wendigos and the end boss will hesitate before attacking. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The latter is an achievement if maintained for 5 seconds]].

* [[spoiler:BloodMagic: Josephine's blood ends up creating the Invisible Beast, and firing a bullet with some of her blood on it is how the O'Carrolls kill it.]]

* [[spoiler:IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Done with the help of some holy water when the Devil turns your brother's soul into a werewolf.]]

* [[spoiler:Swallowed Whole: The Invisible Beast eats '''the Devil'''. He's seen ripping his way out of the Beast's stomach in the ending.]]

* [[HumanPincushion Wolf Pincushion]]: Spike traps.

* [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why Don't You Just Shoot Them?]]: Your rifle only holds one bullet at a time and takes several seconds to load. You might shoot the first werewolf, but the werewolf right behind him will rip you to shreds. In this case, it's better to just shoot the net holding a ton of boulders over them.

* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter: AvertedTrope - the brother who you do not play as stays in Jacques' cabin taking care of their sister through her fever.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Tome I ends with the Invisible Beast dead and Josephine's fever finally broken...but the Devil bursts out of the Invisible Beast's corpse alive and well, saying he has to remind his debtors of their old dues, and a cutscene implying the O'Carrolls' father made a deal with the Devil to save Josephine's life from birthing issues plays.]]

* SprintMeter: Also used for melee attacks. Run or fight for too long and you will need to catch your breath for a few seconds. It also recharges faster if it is not completely drained.

* TheyHaveTheScent: Your enemies can smell you, shown as an indicator on the minimap into the direction of the wind blowing. The size of the indicator varies on the night.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Towers and ziplines lets you quickly and effortlessly get from Point A to Point B, while you briefly enjoy the scenery below. Also, putting points in the "Sniper" skill doubles your damage when you shoot from a tower.

* GhostLight: The Will O' The Wisps.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: From being hunted by creatures of the night, the O'Caroll brothers start laying traps and actively hunt down the creatures.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Normal mode is also named for Joseph O'Carroll with hard mode being also named Jack O'Carroll. The difference of the difficulty levels are the character you get for them mentioned respectively, and Jack has less health and stamina than Joseph.

* NoOntologicalInertia: averted with the werewolves and maikans.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The creatures called werewolves in-game are canines possessed by human souls, are weak against blessed weapons, not silver. The more "traditional" werewolves (i.e shapeshifting humans vulnerable to silver) are called Maikan, [[VoluntaryShapeshifter shape shifters]] who can talk and retain human intelligence in wolf form, and fight the O'Carroll because of a misunderstanding instead of malicious itents.

* CorruptChurch: What with the priest already made a [[DealWithTheDevil]], and the Devil casually walks in and out of it.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The creatures called werewolves in-game are canines possessed by human souls, are weak against blessed weapons, not silver. The more "traditional" werewolves (i.e shapeshifting humans vulnerable to silver) are called Maikan, VoluntaryShapeshifters who can talk and retain human intelligence in wolf form, and fight the O'Carroll because of a misunderstanding instead of malicious itents.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The actual werewolves are wolves possessed by corrupt human souls & controlled by the Devil. The Maikan look like werewolves, but are indigenous shapechangers who can talk, have a different weakness, and fight the O'Carrolls because they think they attract evil. The former is actually resistant to silver while the latter is only vulnerable to weapons made of it.

* BoobyTrap: Your main defense against the beast. You have access to nearly a dozen different traps. When playing the game you will spend roughly 75% of your time figuring out where to put which traps, and 25% in actually seeing if your plan works. The types of traps include:
** Wolf-trap (interestingly, the game uses a BearTrap graphics): insta-kill wolves, can be upgraded to do more damage and hold creatures for a short duration.

** Ballistae: basically [[SiegeEngines]] that do massive damage to a single target.

* BearTrap: Works just as well on wolves, it turns out. (Technically, the game labels them as wolf traps, but clearly use the aforementioned trope's shape for it. They may be upgraded to do more damage and snare still enemies struck by it for a short duration.)

* BoobyTrap: Your main defense against the beast. You have access to a dozen different traps. When playing the game you will spend roughly 75% of your time figuring out where to put which traps, and 25% in actually seeing if your plan works.
* BoomHeadshot: Do it for bonus damage! Especially since you have to buy your own ammunition and your firearm reloads only slightly less slow than firearms of the 1850s did...

* ExplodingBarrels: You can place them as traps. Either light the fuse and run away, or just shoot them.

* HolyBurnsEvil: Wayside Crosses slowly burn diabolic beasts, and blessed weaponry does extra damage against them.

* MightyLumberjack: The Video Game.
** Actual lumberjacking is an option in the game - action points can be used to harvest lumber for money instead of setting up more defences.

* SilverBullet: You can buy them. Also somewhat subverted: mystic creatures such as Maikan are vulnerable to them, but ''werewolves'' aren't. You need to use '''holy''' bullets against the werewolves.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Towers and ziplines lets you quickly and effortlessly get from Point A to Point B, while you briefly enjoy the scenery below. Putting points in the "Sniper" skill doubles your damage when you shoot from a tower.

* CameraPerspectiveSwitch: Usually, the camera is rotated with the PlayerCharacter being always a bit below the center of the screen, but bringing out your firearm (requiring for shooting or reloading it) changes the camera to AlwaysOverTheShoulder.

* {{Combos}}: Three axe swings in a row knocks your opponent back to give you time to hit them again, hit someone else, or just try to recharge your stamina.

* KillItWithFire: Your axe is aflame whenever you have Rage. Otherwise, DownplayedTrope as the traps using fire are all used for scaring off enemies instead of actually killing them with its fire.

* MoreDakka: Largely AvertedTrope as the game's firearms are early ones - the kind that only holds one bullet before you then have to reload slowly. The most the game has is ''one'' gun which can fire two shots before having to be reloaded (the Remington Double Musket).
** In more technical but less in the spirit of the trope terms, more expensive firearms do reload faster, and the Marksmanship skill also helps speed reloading. However, the O'Carrolls will still pretty much only be able to fire about two shots before enemies get close enough to attack without other things hampering them at best.

* BoringYetPractical: Ziplines and bait. They don't kill anything, but the latter delays enemies and former lets you quickly get from Point A to Point B. Both are vital when you have three buildings under attack simultaneously. Bait also lures beasts into your traps.

* MoneySpider: Most enemies killed give you money... but the likes of the Will-o-the-Wisps and wendigos however, do not. As the money earned from the night off enemies cannot be spent until morning anyway and the enemies who give you money off their deaths are wolf-like creatures, it can be inferred the money is earned from the O'Carrolls selling fur taken off the dead enemies, which would also justify the bigger enemies giving more money as their larger bodies would provide more fur.

* GoddamnedBats: Will-o-the-Wisps. They have low health and weak attacks, but they ignore most of your traps (and ''all'' of the place-and-forget ones), are one of the few ranged attackers in the game, are resistant to non-holy weapons, often travel in packs, and can burrow underground to regain all of their health. To top it all off, they don't even give you money from killing them!

Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves is a trap defense computer game by Artifice Studio. You take the role of one of two Canadian lumberjack brothers in the 1850s, protecting their ailing sister from the Devil's minions. By day, you plan defenses, set traps, and buy supplies. By night, you shift to a third-person camera upon the brother you're playing as and head out to trap, crush, impale, explode, shoot, and hack up anything that invades your land. Tales of Werewolves is the "Tome I" of a clearly planned series.

Basically, it is to [[CanadaEh Canada]] just as ''HostileWaters'' is to Britain.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Jacques and Joseph' relationship went sour after Jacques chose to rebel against the government for humanistic reasons while his brother had no interest in such high-minded goals.

[[FightingIrish IRISH]][[CanadaEh -CANADIAN]] [[MightyLumberjack LUMBERJACK]][[NinjaPirateRobotZombie -TRAPPERS]] [[HoldTheLine DEFEND THEIR FEVERED SISTER]] FROM [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent WEREWOLVES]] [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie SENT BY THE DEVIL]]

** Swapped around in their youths - Joseph was a frail kid forced to stay inside all day while Jacques took to trapping and going outdoors quite handily.

* TerrorHero: A game mechanic. If enemies fear you, they'll wait before attacking, giving you precious seconds to reload your rifle or catch your breath. With a bit of work, even wendigos and the end boss will hesitate before attacking.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Done with Jacques and Joseph. Joseph is noticeably... brusque in his speaking while Jacques goes about it with more respect and tact. In technical terms, Jacques is only inferior to Joseph in-game, having less health and stamina. The implication is the drawback enforces the player (and thus Jacques) to require very precise trap placement to win their nights. Something of a DownplayedTrope as Jacques is still quite the BadAss in a fight - he's just not quite as great at it as Joseph.
** InvertedTrope in their youths - Joseph was a frail kid forced to stay inside all day while Jacques took to trapping and going outdoors quite handily.

* CameraPerspectiveShift: Usually, the camera is rotated with the PlayerCharacter being always a bit below the center of the screen, but bringing out your firearm (requiring for shooting or reloading it) changes the camera to AlwaysOverTheShoulder.