History Videogame / Gunpoint

* ActionCommands: Happens during the last level if you did [[spoiler:Rooke's]] mission beforehand. You can either fight off [[spoiler:Hightower, who also uses a pair of Bullfrog trousers,]] by punching or shooting him. Shooting him causes a 60 second timer to start. [[spoiler:If you complete Mayfield's questline without incriminating yourself and then tell him the truth about what's going on, it's doubled to 120 seconds.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Hightower to Conway. Both are professionals with nice hats, Bullfrog trousers that allow them to leap great distances, and Dropshot longcoats that allow them to fall from skyscraper heights with no injury. To drive home their contrasting moralities, Hightower's gear is black, while Conway's is tan. You can downplay this trope, however, since Conway can be far more violent and psychotic than Hightower.

* FreelookButton: While not the straightest example of it, going into hacking mode, lets you scout the map and look for hackable electronics but also to scout the environment for any guards and see their guard's view-cone. Of course, Conway can't move while hacking.

** Katie Collins is basically asking you to do the same thing, as finding any evidence of her innocence necessarily implicates Conway. You can confess to her if you want. [[spoiler: She stops talking to you immediately and ends up killing herself.]]

* MirrorBoss: Hightower, if the player sides with Rooke. His opening gambit is to pounce on you, knock you through a window and then punch you in the face - which is pretty-much the exact moveset Conway starts off with before he upgrades his tech. Slightly subverted in that, by this point in the game, Conway has precisely one combat advantage over Hightower: the ability to [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shoot him]].
* TheMenInBlack: The Professionals count as this - clad conspicuously in a suit and shades, with the added ability to outshoot the player as well as see in near-total darkness.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Since the "Bullfrog" trousers let you leap several stories into the air, the "Dropshot" trenchcoat lets you survive the landing.

* CheckPoint: The game autosaves frequently, so dying to a failed attempt to push a guard out the window, can easily become a [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist slap on the wrist]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Fritz Gessler, CEO of Intex. His rival Melanie Rooke is no stranger to corporate espionage either, though seems considerable less "corrupt" or brutal about it.

* DevelopersForesight: There's seven ways to beat the final confrontation. Even more notable, however, is holding the villain at gunpoint has Conway tell them to drop their gun, and if you have a kill record they do out of fear; do the same after a PacifistRun, however, and your reward is that the villain pulls a "YouWouldntShootMe" speech and ''then shoots you''.

** The money you earn is most likely used to buy a few useful upgrades. Some upgrades are needed for certain missions.

** Failing to complete a pacifist run, however, brings up what the achievements call "Ludonarrative Dissonance".

''Gunpoint'' is "a game about rewiring things and punching people", as described by its creator, former PC games journalist Tom Francis.

* NiceHat: "Conway, hat fancier." The promotional VideoGame/TeamFortress2 item, the [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Crosslinker%27s_Coil Crosslinker's Coil]], implies that his hatband is electrical cable (''powered'', no less). Seeing as this is Conway we're talking about, it's pretty likely.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Fritz Gessler, CEO of Intex.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Gatecrashers, which you can't afford until the final mission, which they're required for.

* FreelookButton: While not the straightest example of it, going into hacking mode, lets you scout the map and look for hackable electronics but also to scout the enviroment for any guards and see their guard's view-cone. Of course, Conway can't move while hacking.

* GreyAndGreyMorality: When it comes to choosing between [[spoiler: jailing an innocent man or letting your client's killer escape]] in the final act of the game, Conway regards whatever the player chooses as the "[[LampshadeHanging the least shitty of two incredibly shitty sides]]".

* OneWordTitle: Also a {{Portmantitle}}, as a fusion of "Gun" and "Point".

* PurposelyOverpowered: The Gatecrashers, costing a whopping $8000, are able to make [[OpenSaysMe short work]] of any normal door, in addition to knocking out the guards on the other side. By then, there's vault doors all over the place.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Delago. She is on screen for about two minutes before Hightower murders her, but her death triggers and drives the rest of the plot.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Firing the Resolver once will net you a timer to exit the level before a police sniper gets into position to shoot you dead if you exit a building. It is a punishment since the game only lets you fire the Resolver at a person. Firing it twice will [[spoiler:[[NonStandardGameOver instantly spawn the police sniper]].]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Conway will pull this on himself if you've killed several police at the end of the game, noting that [[spoiler:he killed more people than he actually avenged.]]