History VideoGame / Hiveswap

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: One of the ways you can get Chixie to give you her ticket is by telling Zebruh about her protest plan. He'll blackmail her into giving up her ticket by threatening to say bad things about her on social media. The Steam achievement for using this method is even called "Mean".

* BastardBoyfriend: Dammek is implied to be one towards Xefros, considering that pale romance is supposed to be a more or less equal relationship where partners stabilize and protect each other. Instead he literally treats his moirail like a butler and subordinate; taking his stuff, and constantly "testing" him.

** The Burgundy and Bronze car is positively filthy and vastly overcrowded, to the point Joey and Xefros are unable to get themselves a seat, and other Trolls in the car can be seen crowded together on the seats, or even resorting to other options like standing, sitting on the floor, or even hanging out in the overhead luggage net. With the one bathroom in the car looking filthy, and it being mentioned cleaning drones rarely make their way back to clean it.
** The Gold and Olive car is at the very least cleaner, though clearly not as fancy. Here Trolls aren't crowded together like sardines and each have their own seat, it looks ''much'' cleaner than the preceding car, and the car's bathroom doesn't look like an outhouse toilet.
** The Jade and Teal Car looks more like a lounge or a comfortable sitting area, with long sideways benches which allow all of them to have space between them even when they're sitting together. With the addition of lockers for privacy and security of storing their belongings.
** The Cerulean and Indigo car is ''much'' more spacious than any car before it, with the car itself having ''two floors'' connected by an elevator, one for Ceruleans at the bottom and one for Indigos at the top. With the lower floor looking like a nice restaurant and apparently having a lot of nice food available to them. And the upper floor having a full on living room area with a fireplace, shelves of books, fur rug, and fine art on the walls. With both floors even having ''private bedrooms'' for all of its occupants. Both of which floors barely even having three to four Trolls seen to be occupying them.
** The Purple car is the only major exception to any sort of fanciness increase, but given what the Purple Bloods are prone to engage in, and the fact that the whole car appears to have been made into some form of church for them, they clearly care more about their space being suited for them (and gut droppingly ''terriying'' for everyone else) than it looking nice.

* AscendedExtra:
** It appears that Alternian Imperial Drones are going to be these. They were only in a few scenes of Alternia's backstory, whereas here they appear to be a major threat.
** Trollkind as a whole, really. Even the Ancestors in ''Homestuck'' acted as mostly just exposition and small amounts of lore building, meaning trolls outside the main twelve were mostly just cannon fodder for Vriska's lusus or barely mentioned. Now, interacting with the variety of Alternia's population is a plot point.

Hiveswap: ACT 1 was released on September 14th, 2017. ACT 2 [[ScheduleSlip was supposed to have a Spring 2018 release]]. During the prerelease period, new trolls were unveiled via a "Troll Call", which can be viewed [[http://hs.hiveswap.com/trollcall/ here]]. The developers have also confirmed that a sister game, called ''Hauntswitch'', will be released after Hiveswap's done, and is set to show the story from Dammek's point of view as he is sent to Earth. ''[[VisualNovel/HiveswapFriendsim Hiveswap Friendship Simulator]]'', a VisualNovel-type game focusing on the characters introduced in the Troll Call, was announced for release on April 13, 2018. It ended in December 2018. ACT 2 was finally released on November 25th, 2020.

* AchievementMockery: The Steam version has achievements that involve pressing the hint button multiple times, and [[EarnyourBadEnding doing things that]] [[SchmuckBait result in a Game Over]] (with one achievement involving you having to get into every possible scenario where that happens on a single playthrough). It's even lampshaded with an achievement called "Achievement Hunter, which is acquired by [[spoiler:constantly pressing the hint button right before the final step of the game until the achievement is triggered]].

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: While in the Jade/Teal car, the game becomes a reference to ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Ace Attorney]]'' as you try and figure out who destroyed a book. [[spoiler:Unlike ''Ace Attorney'', there are multiple endings]].

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: While in the Jade/Teal car, the game becomes a reference to ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Ace Attorney]]'' as you try and figure out who destroyed a book. [[spoiler:Unlike ''Ace Attorney'', there are multiple endings]].

* EarnYourBadEnding: There are more moments where you can end up getting a Game Over than in Act 1, and some are harder than others. There's even achievements for them, as well as an achievement for getting ''every possible Game Over'' in a single playthrough.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Unlike in Homestuck itself, almost nothing than 'crap' is uttered; Joey often makes use of 'heck', 'jeez', and 'gosh, reflecting the fact that she’s a kid growing up in the 90’s. Strangely averted when Joey calls Byers 'The toughest son of a bitch she's ever met'.

** Trollkind as a whole, really. Even the Ancestors in ''Homestuck''acted as mostly just exposition and small amounts of lore building, meaning trolls outside the main twelve were mostly just cannon fodder for Vriska's lusus or barely mentioned. Now, interacting with the variety of Alternia's population is a plot point.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In the beginning of the game, monsters overrun the Harley mansion.