Basic Trope: A game that aims to teach you something as you play.
- Straight: In Lucy's Library, a game aimed at 3rd graders, you have to read passages of books and answer reading comprehension questions to earn points and pass the levels.
- Exaggerated: Lucy's Library can teach you about any subject known to man.
- Downplayed: The educational aspects of Lucy's Library are kept in an optional side mode. You can still play and beat the main game without needing to learn anything.
- Justified:
- In-universe, you are applying to work at the library, so Lucy wants to ensure you'd be a good fit for it.
- The game is a life sim with a heavy focus on school.
- Inverted: Lucy's Library runs on Insane Troll Logic and constantly requires counter-intuitive thinking.
- Subverted: While Lucy's Library claims to teach you facts about the English language, most of it is wrong and exaggerated for comedy.
- Double Subverted: A truly educational mode of the game is added into later releases, with legitimate facts.
- Parodied: Lucy's Library is full of truly bizarre facts.
- Zig-Zagged: Some aspects of Lucy's Library are educational and some aren't. And even then, a lot of the supposedly educational facts are either badly researched or retroactively outdated.
- Averted: Lucy's Library has no educational content.
- Enforced: The developers want to get kids introduced to their company, so they make a game catered towards younger audiences that parents and teachers will approve of.
- Lampshaded: "These levels are kind of like what you're doing in school, aren't they?"
- Invoked: Lucy is aware of the player and figures that if they're visiting the library, they'll probably want to learn some stuff from it.
- Discussed: "I hope this isn't one of those educational games."
- Conversed: "They're making me read chapter book passages? Is this a game or homework?"
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