Get Off My Lawn is an online 2D Flash game developed by HotAirRaccoon
released in 2009.
As the lawn-loving Blue Mollet, your primary aim is simple, defend your treasured lawn at all costs by using your lawnmower. Your main foes are a variety of other mollets with a variety of special abilities. On this quest, you'll gain money for purchasing upgrades to your lawn and lawnmower. Though, the main question is, will you be able to fend off all waves of lawn-hating mollets?
This game can be played at here or here.
Not to be confused with the 2014 computer and mobile game about an old man named Murray who shoots aliens off his lawn.
Get Off My Lawn provides examples of:
- Achievement Mockery: Racking up enough playtime gives you the "Grandfather Clock" achievement, which tells you that you have no life.
- Action Bomb: Glowflares. After a while, they explode, causing heavy damage to the yard and possibly stunning you in the process if you are in the blast radius.
- Atop a Mountain of Corpses: After beating the last level, you're shown Blue Mollet standing on top of corpses of other mollets he killed. After other levels, he only stands next to the corpses and there's fewer of them, so it stands out.
- Blue Is Heroic: Blue Mollet who is the player character and is the only mollet that tries to protect lawns, unlike the others who destroy it.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The Blue Mollet's goal is to kill everyone trying to trample his lawn.
- Fade to White: The screen turns white right after you reach the mollet killed goal and before the level completed screen.
- Final Boss: B. Hemoth, the legendary Frost Mollet, released from his icy slumber due to global warming.
- Flunky Boss: B. Hemoth, who has other in-game enemies try to destroy the lawn at the same time you're fighting him.
- Fragile Speedster: Whipster Mollets. They're the fastest enemies in the game, but they die in one hit.
- Gardening-Variety Weapon: The main weapon used to kill Mollets is a standard lawnmower, which can be upgraded to a riding mower.
- The Goomba: Red and Orange Mollets. They are easiest to kill, and have no special abilities whatsoever. Though, the orange ones tend to move faster than their red brethren.
- Giant Mook: Gluttons, especially when they are allowed to grow enough in size, can take a ton of damage before expiring.
- Hard Mode Perks: You earn more points and cash on expert mode.
- Heavily Armored Mook: Hardguys. They can temporarily turn themselves into solid steel, making them impervious to attacks.
- Monster Compendium: A bestiary is available which describes the gimmicks of all enemies even before you kill them (except for B. Hemoth, who is given a vague hint of existence).
- Motor Mouth: Chatterboxes, who speak so fast it somehow causes blinding sonic booms.
- Multi-Directional Barrage: Dentists, who fire spiny teeth in six directions at once.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: All mollets hate lawns and want to destroy them. The only exception is the protagonist, Blue Mollet, who loves his lawn and tries his best to protect it from other mollets.
- Punny Name: B. Hemoth, the monstrous Final Boss.
- Regenerating Health: The lawn can regenerate health over time if you buy the sprinkler system.
- Shield-Bearing Mook: Welderbeasts and their tougher version, Molesharks. Both have shields (a welding mask and a drill bit) in front of them to protect against frontal engagements. However, with the serrated mower blades upgrade and a maxed out engine torque stat, it's possible to cut through their shields.
- Shock and Awe: The electric fence upgrade. It helps keep most hostiles out of the yard.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Lobies, who the game describes as totally smart and are the only mollets to wear glasses.
- The Smurfette Principle: Chatterboxes are the only mollet type that is certainly female.
- Spin Attack: The protagonist's Cyclone Spin ability. This sucks all enemies towards the player from every part of the area. Great for pulling off enemies from the lawn. Though, it has a limit how long it can be used before recharging. The ability's effectiveness and recharge rate can be increased by upgrading the thermostat stat.
- Stop Poking Me!: You can click on Frank the store clerk, which he will complain about and threaten you. It doesn't ultimately result in any negative consequences, but you get a trophy for doing this.
- Trap Master: Lobies. They avoid directly confronting the player, lay traps which can temporarily stun the player, and try to lure the player into them. However, it's possible to lure Lobies (and most other enemies) into these traps to temporarily stun them.
