History Videogame / Clonk

* AbnormalAmmo: Cannons and catapults can launch everything, from rocks, construction kits and barrels to animals. A heavy artillery cannon can even [[HumanCannonball launch]] ''[[HumanCannonball clonks]]''.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The English translation is occasionally a bit ...lacking.

* HumansAreWhite

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading

* XMeetsY: Often described as "''TheSettlers'' meets ''Worms''".

* ManOnFire: Setting your enemies on fire is one of the pillars of basic-warfare in this series [[hottip:*:Along with throwing stuff at them, and throwing stuff at them that explodes]]. Although the death isn't instant, and if you don't keep your distance it can become a [[InfernalRetaliation more frightening trope]].

* {{Religion}}: The FantasyPantheon consists of two opposing deities called Sawelô and Teiwaz [[hottip:*:which are names of [[NorseMythology norse runes]]]]. The Order of Sawelô seems to be light-oriented and has powers like a [[EnergyBall lightning ball]] [[HolyHandGrenade attack]], while the Legion of Teiwaz is portrayed as darker and more sinister, with powers like [[LifeDrain a bloodsucking ray]]. Though LightIsNotGood and DarkIsNotEvil here; it more seems like GreyAndGreyMorality. Both factions fight each other with the same fanatism, not to speak of their shared hatred for the atheistic mages and kanderians.

* MagicMissile

* EverythingsWorseWithBears

* LandMineGoesClick: There are several types as well: Normal mines, the [[TheSameButMore stronger]] goblin mines, the poisoned Plague Mines and the capturing, ranger-only hook mines.

* OneCurseLimit: Only applies to curses though.

* SummonMagic: You can summon weak snakes to attack an enemy, and [[GoshHornet zaps]] that defend you and aid you in melee.

* BarBrawl: You can start them. You don't see anything of it except the saloon ejecting broken bottle shards periodically.

** {{Cowboy}}: Though they do way [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything less cattlekeeping]] than gunslinging - there ''isn't even cattle''.

** The Earth-elemental shadow fist greatly increases the melee speed.

* AwesomeButImpractical:
** The musket tends to suffer from this.
** Magic missiles look cool, but do a pitifully low amount of damage.
* BackStab: The fighter's Shadow Dagger grants this ability.

* CycleOfHurting: The warhammer is well capable of stunlocking enemies.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Battlecry and Swarm percentally increase their subject's damage. Battlecry's power depends on its user's skill level, while Swarm consists of many locusts, and the effect strength depends on the amount of locusts that reached their target.
* DemBones: One kind of creeps.

* FinishingMove: The musketeer's Assassination skill. It's kind of an inversion of the DesperationAttack, dealing damage depending on the amount of health ''the victim'' lacks.

* FragileSpeedster: The main problem of the ranger.
* HatOfPower: The Hunting Hat greatly boosts the ranger's agility.

* HostageSpiritLink: If friendly fire isn't completely deactivated, you'll take half of the damage you deal to your allies instead of them.

* LifeDrain: The vampire tooth adds a slight life drain effect to all magical attacks of its user, while slightly decreasing their powerd.

* PinballProjectile: The Frostbolt spell and the Assassination-enchanted bullet.

* {{Roboteching}}: Homing arrows, fireballs and spider webs do this. Also, [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang boomerangs]] home back to their user.
* SkillGateCharacters: Not characters, but skills/items. The Water Bomb spell deals great damage to an unwary enemy, but experienced players can just jump over the waves or knock down the caster. The shadow dagger allows invisibility and {{backstab}}bing, but can be evaded as well by leaving the fighter's range.

* SquishyWizard: Unless you pile up karma talismans and mana shields.

* EdgeGravity: A few pixels of your hitbox - though not one - are sufficient for preventing you from dropping off a cliff.

* FloatingPlatforms: The terrain system allows "sky islands", which are a popular and famous element of the game.

The [[http://www.clonk.de/ Clonk]] titles are a series of SideView German PC games, that put you in command of one or more of the titular clonks. As a general rule, you'll need to use them to build a functioning settlement, harvest all the gold/oil/whatever in a map, or [[CompetitiveMultiplayer kill off all of someone else's clonks]]. But it might be a race. Or a [[TenLittleMurderVictims murder mystery in progress]]. Or a game of tag. Or maybe there'll be [[WideOpenSandbox no goal at all.]] It varies hugely between levels, being as versatile as only normaly seen with a general-purpose platformer engine.

''Clonk 3 Radikal'' greatly extended the complexity of the game and the construction/management elements; many new structures, vehicles and materials were introduced. ''Clonk 4'' mainly tweaked the physics and the functionality of existing elements, added some further objects and also introduced a system that allows players to create their own objects and scenarios, which pretty much defines Clonk today. ''Clonk Planet'' and ''Clonk Endeavour'' further enhanced the complexity, modernized some elements, gave birth to many expansion packs, and added netplay, which was greatly simplified in ''Clonk Rage''.

* GuideDangIt: Items you're carrying can change the effect of a spell. This is never mentioned in-game.

* StylisticSuck: The community has spawned the phenomenon of "Niwoh" (a malapropism of the word "Niveau" meaning 'level' as sophistication) scenarios, which are a combination of this, purposely inserted bugs and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs general wackiness]].

->''"A small but robust humanoid being. [[TranslationTrainwreck Witty]] and nimble, if skillfully controlled."''

* RuinedForever: When it was announced that the 3D game, Clonk Extreme, wouldn't feature digging or a scenario editor, cries of "It isn't true Clonk!" quickly followed.

The latest official update is Clonk [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Rage]], which was the last game finished before the head of the team had to quit. A 3D release was planned, but ended up being cancelled. Meanwhile, the game code has been released to allow continuation as an open-source game. Some fans, as well as the other members of the development team, are working on ''Open Clonk'', an attempt to bring the series in a new direction by rebuilding the engine from the ground upwards instead of upgrading Clonk Rage. There are also lots and lots of {{Game Mod}}s, although most of them, like the fanbase, are German.

* {{Badass}}: The Special Force Trooper is a deliberate parody of this. He '''''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome kicks down trees]]'''''.

A ...strange survival scenario.
* DeathThrows

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: As a Niwoh scenario, it invokes this.

* BoozeBaisedBuff: Wompfberry whiskey is a healing item. To simulate inebriety, it [[InterfaceScrew wildly shakes the screen]] and randomly makes the clonk trip or change direction, though.

* TrickArrow: The harpoon can fire explosive arrows ''at machinegun rate''.

Based on the ''Metal and Magic'' pack, but plays quite different.

* BoringButPractical: Fire globs are not especially interesting, but one of the strongest attack spells of the game if backed by high INT. ''Their fire effect is stackable.''

* LifeDrain: The vampire tooth adds a slight life drain effect to all magical attacks of its user, while slightly decreasing damage.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Not as bad as most examples, but fighters still tend to be stronger in the beginning (when most of their enemies have low health and can be killed in few or [[OneHitKill one]] hits) and mages tend to be stronger in the endgame (when they usually have sufficiently ludicrous intelligence and equipment to just fry anything in the way, shrug off damage with {{mana shield}}s and can basically overheal five or six times their total health.)

* {{Multishot}}: A passive skill for the bow-wielding agility class.

* {{Roboteching}}: Homing arrows, fireballs and spider webs do this.

* SquishyWizard: Unless you stock up karma talismans and mana shields.
* StandardStatusEffects: Burn, Freeze, Poison, Silence and Stun. The Elemental Overload spell tweaks these, turning Freeze (which normally just slows movement) into a periodic stop effect and Burn into lava chunks, which in turn can themselves incinerate.

* UnstableEquilibrium: Skilled players will keep getting kills and obtain better equipment and enhanced skills which make getting more kills more likely and taking one less likely.

* NintendoHard: It is meant to be a challenge even for veteran players. Rooms challenge you by various means, such as head-tilting puzzles rivalling ''LaMulana'', head-tilting puzzles with additional [[MoonLogicPuzzle outside-the-box thinking]], the application of typical SequenceBreaking techniques, [[PlatformHell unfair platform segments]], exploitation of [[GoodBadBugs traditional bugs]], {{Timed Mission}}s, MalevolentArchitecture [[AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair hidden stuff]], {{death trap}}s, {{fake trap}}s... or ''all of this'' combined.

[[AC:Tower Of Despair]]

A hard puzzle scenario with an unique module system. In development.
* BonusDungeon: The Sewers, full of treasure, and the Backdoor Path, a HarderThanHard late-game shortcut.
* DownTheDrain: The Sewers are a bonus area.
* NintendoHard: It is meant to be a challenge even for veteran players. Rooms challenge you by various means, such as head-tilting puzzles rivalling ''LaMulana'', head-tilting puzzles with additional [[MoonLogicPuzzle outside-the-box thinking]], the application of typical SequenceBreaking techniques, [[PlatformHell unfair platform segments]], exploitation of [[GoodBadBugs traditional bugs]], {{Timed Mission}}s, MalevolentArchitecture [[AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair hidden stuff]], {{death trap}}s, {{fake trap}}s... or ''all of this'' combined.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The point of the entire tower.
* RunningGag: The Egg rooms.
--> I WANT MY OMELETTE NOW!
* SaveThePrincess
* SpikesOfDoom: Deal negligible damage only, but {{knock back}}.
* StockVideoGamePuzzle: Most types are represented somewhere in the tower.
* ThresholdGuardians: The Guardian of Wisdom and the Guardian of Knowledge.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: Missiles and grenades.

* HostageSpiritLink: If friendly fire isn't completely deactivated, you'll take half of

->''"A small but robust humanoid being. Witty and nimble, if skillfully controlled."''

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The [[http://www.clonk.de/ Clonk]] titles are a series of SideView German PC games, that put you in command of one or more of the titular clonks. As a general rule, you'll need to use them to build a functioning settlement, harvest all the gold/oil/whatever in a map, or [[CompetitiveMultiplayer kill off all of someone else's clonks]]. But it might be a race. Or a [[TenLittleMurderVictims murder mystery in progress]]. Or a game of tag. Or maybe there'll be [[WideOpenSandbox no goal at all.]] It varies hugely between levels, ending up somewhere between a separate game and an engine.

The original games were {{Updated Rerelease}}s, starting with the original ''Clonk'' {{DOS}} game from 1994, which consisted, more or less, of groups of Clonks throwing rocks at each other. ''Clonk 2 Debakel'' was an experimental attempt to add TurnBasedStrategy elements: A multiplayer game of Clonk 2 took place in a hex map, and the melee skirmishes, which were almost identical to those of Clonk 1, appeared as encounters between hostile players on the map.

* HumanCannonball: Clonks can shoot themselves with artillery cannon towers.

* EasterEgg: Here and there. One mission contains a corpse that shares the name of the game's creator. Also, smoke very rarely has the shape of a [[SeriesMascot Wi]][[RidiculouslyCuteCritter pf]].

The original games were {{Updated Rerelease}}s, starting with Clonk, which consisted, more or less, of groups of Clonks throwing rocks at each other, and ending at Clonk [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Rage]], which was the last game finished before the head of the team had to quit. A 3D release was planned, but ended up being cancelled. Meanwhile, fans, as well as the other members of the development team, are working on ''Open Clonk'', an attempt to bring the series in a new direction by rebuilding the engine from the ground upwards instead of upgrading Clonk Rage. There are also lots and lots of {{Game Mod}}s, although most of them, like the fanbase, are German.

* WreathedInFlames: The "hot blood" spell plays this straight, and makes simply walking into your enemies a valid tactic.