History VideoGame / ZombsRoyaleio

* AnAxeToGrind: One of the unlockable cosmetic melee weapon skins.

* MoreDakka: The Minigun is an archetypal example. Submachine guns can also offload a lot of bullets, fast. Taken UpToEleven with the P90s and Vector, which can spray up to 24 rounds per second.

* GradualGrinder: The poison gas field erodes [=HP=] per every second the player is inside it.

* ATeamFiring: For automatic weapons like submachine guns, assault rifles and especially the minigun, firing roughly in the direction of a player who just went off-screen can still be worthwhile. At best, you'll wound or even finish off a fleeing player; at worst, your stream of bullets will discourage them from turning back and counter-attacking. Then again, veteran players can still circle around and suddenly flank someone who does that.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Rocket Launchers feel awesome when you first find them, but their slow rate of fire, slow flight speed and high potential to damage oneself in close quarters mean that they are not much good against anyone not caught unaware by them.
** A Minigun is also awesome to wield at first. In practice, the spin-up time is more than sufficient for a skilled player to get close and let loose with an assault rifle. Since it can be fired for a long time, and automatically comes with a lot of small ammo, it can be tempting to start firing before you even see anyone, but that gives your position away, and allows for snipers to focus on you from just outside your sight range.

** Crossbows also apply, as they shoot an easily-dodgable projectile that does only 50 damage.

** Sniper rifles and Deagles aren't particularly interesting either, but they are the weapon(s) of choice for pro players due to their high shot damage.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Swearing is automatically replaced by *** in the chat.

* CombatResuscitation: In team modes, getting killed at first simply places you in a "downed" state, where you can't do anything besides crawling slowly to seek out allies, but your health bar is initially at 300, going down by 5 hitpoints a second. If an ally manages to revive you, you begin at 25 health. If it runs out, you are gone. The person who downed you gets the kill if it happens on its own; otherwise, it goes to the player who finished you off.
* ContinuingIsPainful: In the Weapon Race and Crystal Clash modes, death is not permanent, and killed players respawn in five seconds, up until someone wins the race/the space battle clock runs out. However, once the round has gone on for long enough, most players will no longer have a hope of catching up with the leaders, and are essentially only fighting each other for leftover experience and a chance of getting some cosmetics.
* CrateExpectations: While some weapons and equipment can be found just laying on the ground or inside houses, most will be inside crates. Common wooden ones contain just one item that could be anything in the game, golden "Z" crates will usually contain one high-grade weapon or several low-grade ones, and green military and white "space" crates are somewhere in between. Ammo-only crates are self-explanatory.

* NoPlotNoProblem: Though, in that matter it's little different from its inspirations.

** There was also a "Thor's Hammer" drop which also randomly drops, though presently it has been replaced by the "Trident of the Depths" drop.

* ShortRangeShotgun: While the pellet may travel a distance comparable to that of pistol rounds, the SpreadShot mechanic means that they rapidly lose effectiveness at even medium range, and their slow rate of fire makes anything but close-quarters combat highly undesirable.

* SmokeOut: There are smoke grenades, but the top-down perspective limits their usefulness. This shortcoming is somewhat mitigated by them continuing to function and expand the smoke cloud for a good 15-20 seconds.

* TrickBomb: In addition to common grenades and smoke grenades, the game includes impulse grenades, reverse impulse grenades and cactus bombs. The former deal no damage but create a blue impulse wave that pushes anyone affected by it a good distance away, and so can be a good EmergencyWeapon to create some room between yourself and the enemy (or to insert yourself into an opponent-held house for close-quarters combat). Reverse impulse grenades cause a red wave that pulls players towards the epicentre. Cactus bombs are cluster explosives that deal some damage by themselves, but rely on the cactus bomblets to do most of the damage. Unless there are a lot of other players around, or you threw one into a house, they are unlikely to do too much.

See ''VideoGame/BattleRoyaleio'', ''VideoGame/{{Foesio}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Survivio}}'' for the other versions of this idea in the IoGame world.

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* EmergencyWeapon: Each player's melee is their only option at either the very start of the game before they pick up anything, or if they happen to run out of alll their ammo for all weapons. That melee is fits for those who just started out, but experienced players will usually swap it out for a cosmetic, like an axe or a telescope.
* EverythingBreaks: Most objects placed on the map break really easily. It only takes a few shots from any weapon to completely destroy a tree, for instance, and stone objects are only a little more durable. The houses used to be the sole, highly important exception, as they were completely unbreakable (though the objects inside them are), and couldn't even have their windows shattered.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: The players are examples, as they are able to wield weapons like a Rubber Gun that shoots bouncy projectiles or a Gift Launcher that shoots sticky bombs.

* NonFatalExplosions: A rocket explosion from a "common" launcher does 90 damage, regardless of distance, so a full-health player can be hit head-on and (barely) live, while someone with full health and shields will withstand two hits and require a third one. Grenades do the same amount, but are more convenient at tight distances, while cactus bombs are unpredictable, but are unlikely to kill a full-health player outright, unless they were thrown into a house and all bomblets ended up bouncing off the walls towards the player.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Averted. If anything, revolvers may be the worst pistol variant in the game, since they deal less damage per shot than Deagles, yet their fire rate is almost as slow, and far lower than that of other pistols, making it difficult to win a proper shootout with it.
** Note: Revolvers have beeen vaulted.

* TemporaryOnlineContent: Played with. Along with the three main game modes, there'll often be a "unique" fourth mode available for 2-3 days. It may be a ZombieApocalypse mode, 50 vs. 50 player battle, Weapon Race, Space Battle (essentially a complete clone of ''VideoGame/Diepio''), or a Superpower mode. In practice, the game tends to cycle through these additional modes, so it's only temporary in a loose sense.

** Crossbow. Mythic-only, with the highest range but extremely low damage.
** X-Bow. Mythic-only, fires 2 45-damage shots. Only obtainable through airdrops.

* TrickBomb: In addition to common grenades and smoke grenades, the game includes impulse grenades, reverse impulse grenades and cactus bombs. The former deal no damage but create a blue impulse wave that pushes anyone affected by it a good distance away, and so can be a good EmergencyWeapon to create some room between yourself and the enemy. Reverse impulse grenades cause a red wave that pulls players towards the epicentre. Cactus bombs are cluster explosives that deal some damage by themselves, but rely on the cactus bomblets to do most of the damage. Unless there are a lot of other players around, or you threw one into a house, they are unlikely to do too much.

* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight for the Crossbow, but not the XBow.

** [=AWP=]. Mythic-level only rifle, which obtained exclusively through opening the airdrops. Variable (66-80) damage.

** XBow. Mythic-only, fires 2 45-damage shots. Only obtainable through airdrops.

* MoreDakka: The Minigun is an archetypal example. Submachine guns can also offload a lot of bullets, fast.

* AnnoyingArrows: Played straight for the Corssbow, but not the XBow.

* ColorCodedItemTiers: White (Common), Green (Uncommon), Blue (Rare), Purple (Epic), Yellow (Legendary) and Red (Mythic). All Pistol, Shotgun, Submachine Gun and Assault Rifle models are available in all of these tiers, and same goes for Rocket Launchers and all Assault Rifle models besides the Mythic-only [=AWP=]. Grenades are either Common (normal, smoke, impulse and reverse impulse) or Legendary (Cactus bomb). Minigun and Flamethrower are the two unique Legendary weapons.

* ContinuingIsPainful: In the Weapon Race and Space Battle modes, death is not permanent, and killed players respawn in five seconds, up until someone wins the race/the space battle clock runs out. However, once the round has gone on for long enough, most players will no longer have a hope of catching up with the leaders, and are essentially only fighting each other for leftover experience and a chance of getting some cosmetics.

* ElaborateEqualsEffective: Played straight for the Legendary variants of many "standard" weapons like "Deagles", revolvers, assault rifles, etc. Whereas the other grade variants will simply have the color grade present as an outline around the weapon, the Legendaries are literally gold-plated.

* EverythingBreaks: Most objects placed on the map break really easily. It only takes a few shots from any weapon to completely destroy a tree, for instance, and stone objects are only a little more durable. The houses used to be the sole, highly important exception, as they were completely unbreakable (though the objects inside them are), and couldn't even have their windows shattered. More recent versions of the game allow you to break through the walls once you inflict enough damage.

* GradualGrinder: The poison gas field erodes 5 [=HP=] per every second the player is inside it.

* HandCannon: The "Deagle" pistol variant. It has the third-highest single-shot damage in the game, behind only the bolt-action sniper rifles and rocket launchers. However, its slow fire rate, combined with the low range of all pistols, often makes it [[AwesomeButImpractical impractical]] for anything but ambushing unwary players.

* LeadTheTarget: Has to be done in battles, since while bullets travel quickly, they are still real, physical objects that can be seen from the top-down perspective. In the battle between two players with assault rifles of [=SMG=]s and a similar amount of health, the one who is better at leading the target usually wins.

* MissingBackblast: Rocket launchers do not produce any backblast.

* NonFatalExplosions: A rocket explosion from a "common" launcher does 90 damage, regardless of distance, so a full-health player can be hit head-on and (barely) live, while someone with full health and shields will withstand two hits and require a third one. Grenades are slightly weaker, but more convenient at tight distances, while cactus bombs are unpredictable, but are unlikely to kill a full-health player outright, unless they were thrown into a house and all bomblets ended up bouncing off the walls towards the player.

* RandomDrop: The airdrops of exclusive items, which come in heavy crates that take 10 seconds to unlock.. Players are notified of their approach and the location of the upcoming drop on the map.

* RecursiveAmmo: [=MIRV=] grenades will first explode like a normal grenade, but also spread a bunch of bomblets with that first explosion, which detonate a second later.

* SniperRifle: A weapon category, which uses Large ammo along with the Rocket Launchers, [[FridgeLogic somehow]]. Having them as an active weapon automatically increases the player's sight range - a bonus that applies even if it's carried empty. Have five varieties, all but one of which is available in all colour grade levels:
** Bolt-action rifle. Does the largest damage per bullet (starts at about 70 for Common, goes to 90 for Epic and beyond), but has to be reloaded after every shot.
** Hunting rifle. Does slightly less damage than the bolt-action one, but allows for several shots to be fired before the player has to reload them all one-by-one.
** Semi-automatic rifle. Can be fired in bursts, and is quickly reloaded by changing the entire clip, but does substantially less damage per individual shot than any other sniper rifle.
** [=VSS=]. A highly balanced rifle with good fire rate and shot damage, which is also reloaded by changing the clip.
** [=AWP=]. Mythic-level only rifle, which obtained exclusively through opening the parachute drops. The most powerful rifle, with the slowest rate of fire, and which also expands the sight range slightly further than the other sniper rifles.

* StandardFPSGuns: The game contains a load of weapons, roughly divided into pistols (common, dual, revolvers and deagles), shotguns (pump shotgun, assault shotgun and tactical shotgun), submachine guns (several types, including Uzi and Tommy gun), assault rifles (normal, [=SCAR=], [=AK=] and [=AR=], snipers (bolt-action, hunting, semi-auto, [=VSS=] and [=AWP=]), grenades (see TrickBomb below) and unique "legendaries" - minigun and flamethrower.

* TrickBomb: In addition to common grenades and smoke grenades, the game includes impulse grenades, reverse impulse grenades and cactus bombs. The former deal no damage but create a blue impulse wave that pushes anyone affected by it a good distance away, and so can be a good EmergencyWeapon to create some room between yourself and the enemy. Reverse impulse grenades cause a red wave that pulls players towards the epicentre, but their range is so short that they are next to useless. Cactus bombs are cluster explosives that deal some damage by themselves, but rely on the cactus bomblets to do most of the damage. Unless there are a lot of other players around, or you threw one into a house, they are unlikely to do too much.

'''[[http://zombsroyale.io Zombs Royale.io]]''' is a [[AllegedlyFreeGame free-to-play]] WebGame, which combines top-down shooter with the "battle royale" subgenre, popularized by ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''. Like in those, a 100 players or so jump out of a plane with parachutes, and land over an island littered with crates full of guns and ammo. The goal is to kill each other until only one (or 2, or 4, depending on the game mode) is left standing, while tension is raised by a ring of poison gas occupying ever more territory on the island. Certain weapons, like rocket launchers, flamethrowers or even [[MoreDakka Miniguns]] are far more available, while the top-down perspective alters the calculus on many of the familiar ones.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The barrier of poison gas, which acts exactly as a wall that moves at a certain time intervals. In between, it respects the arbitrary circle boundaries, without trying to seem past it like a normal gas would.

* EverythingBreaks: Most objects placed on the map break really easily. It only takes a few shots from any weapon to completely destroy a tree, for instance, and stone objects are only a little more durable. The sole, highly important exception are the houses, which are completely unbreakable (though the objects inside them are), and cannot even have their windows shattered.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All weapons have colored experience ranks, showing how powerful they are compared to the same weapon (whether a Deagle or a rocket launcher) of their class. They go White (Common), Green (Uncommon), Blue (Rare), Purple (Epic), Yellow (Legendary) and Red (Mythic).

* CrateExpectations: While some weapons and equipment can be found just laying on the ground or inside houses, most will be inside crates. Common wooden ones contain just one item that could be anything in the game, golden "Z" crates will usually contain one high-grade weapon or several low-grade ones, and green military and white "space" crates are somewhere in between.

* GoodBadBugs: Long melee weapon skins are essentially the only cosmetic to provide players with an actual advantage, due to a bug whereas they can clip through the walls of a house and hit players standing next to that wall on the other side. This makes them the only weapon capable of doing so: even if regular fists could clip like this, they do not have enough reach for that.

* NoPlotNoProblem: Though, in that matter it's little different from its inspirations.
* RacingUpTheFoodChainGame: The Weapon Race mode, available on some days. All players begin it with a common pistol, and transition to revolver after the first two kills, then to another pistol, etc. The game is won by the one player who finishes the race, by getting two kills with a crossbow - a weapon so rare, it's basically impossible to find in the regular game.

** [=AWP=]. Mythic-level only rifle, which obtained exclusively through opening the parachute drops.

* TemporaryOnlineContent: Played with. Along with the three main game modes, there'll often be a "unique" fourth mode available for 2-3 days. It may be a ZombieApocalypse mode, 50 vs. 50 player battle, Weapon Race, Space Battle (essentially a complete clone of ''VideoGame/Diepio'', or a Superpower mode. In practice, the game tends to cycle through these additional modes, so it's only temporary in a loose sense.

* EmergencyWeapon: The Pistol acts as one for Triggerman, Hunter, Vince, Marksman and Rocketeer, and no class uses it for their main weapon. Due to its weakness, killing someone with it is rewarded with additional 25 points.

* MoreDakka: Spray and Pray's [=LMG=] has a whole 100 bullets in its clip. It's entirely possible for them to start firing before they even turn a corner and still have enough bullets left for an entire engagement. However,their accuracy

* NonFatalExplosions: A rocket explosion from a "common" launcher does 90 damage, regardless of distance, so a full-health player can be hit head-on and (barely) live, while someone with full health and shields will withstand two hits and require a third one. Grenades are slightly weaker, but more convenient at tight distances, while cactus bombs are unpredictable, w
* NoPlotNoProblem: Players joke that the only reason a plot might be needed is to explain where the name "krunker" comes from.

'''[[zombsroyale.io Zombs Royale.io]]''' is a [[AllegedlyFreeGame free-to-play]] WebGame, which combines top-down shooter with the "battle royale" subgenre, popularized by ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}''. Like in those, a 100 players or so jump out of a plane with parachutes, and land over an island littered with crates full of guns and ammo. The goal is to kill each other until only one (or 2, or 4, depending on the game mode) is left standing, while tension is raised by a ring of poison gas occupying ever more territory on the island. Certain weapons, like rocket launchers, flamethrowers or even [[MoreDakka Miniguns]] are far more available, while the top-down perspective alters the calculus on many of the familiar ones.

* AKA47: None of the guns have names, instead simply going as a "Revolver", "Submachine Gun", "Rocket Launcher", "Assault Rifle" , etc.

* ATeamFiring: For automatic weapons like submachine guns, assault rifles and especially the minigun, firing roughly in the direction of a player who just went off-screen can still be worthwhile. At best, you'll wound or even finish off a fleeing

'''Zombs Royale.io''' is a [[AllegedlyFreeGame free-to-play]] WebGame, which combines TopDownShooter with the "battle royale" subgenre, popularized by VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds and VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}. Like in those, a 100 players or so jump out of a plane with parachutes, and land over an island littered with crates full of guns and ammo. The goal is to kill each other until only one (or 2, or 4, depending on the game mode) is left standing, while tension is raised by a ring of poison gas occupying ever more territory on the island. Certain weapons, like rocket launchers, flamethrowers or even [[MoreDakka Miniguns]] are far more available, while the top-down perspective alters the calculus on many of the familiar ones.