Our Dragons Are Different, the game!
Hungry Dragon
is a mobile game for the Android and iOS, developed by Ubisoft Barcelona and released on August 30, 2018. A fantasy spinoff of Hungry Shark World, players control a hungry dragon as they soar around various environments devouring almost everything they encounter. Earning enough points will trigger a Fire Rush, where the dragon spews a torrent of flames that incinerates everything in its path. Points earned go into unlocking skins, upgrades, pets, and new dragons.
- Ability Required to Proceed: Certain obstacles—such as stone barriers—can only be removed with a large-enough dragon.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Enemy dragons will eventually spawn and attack the player dragon, and if they're larger they can only be eaten during a Mega Flame Rush.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Gold and gems earned can go into unlocking new costumes for the dragon, which come with boosting their abilities.
- Attack Animal: Pets can be equipped to grant certain bonuses for the dragon.
- Beneath the Earth: The Corkscrew Cave, Goblin Caves, Goblin Mines, Goblin Tunnels, and Shadow Caves are all map locations found beneath the earth.
- Big Eater: Dragons can eat just about anything smaller than themselves and have seemingly bottomless stomachs.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Microtransactions are available for gold and gems.
- Cannibalism Superpower: The dragons possess a Hyperactive Metabolism and just about everything they eat is converted into health.
- Cybernetic Mythical Beast: Goldheist's "Electron" skin turns him into a futuristic cybernetic dragon.
- Difficulty by Acceleration: The longer the player survives the more difficult enemies spawn in and the faster the player dragon's health bar drains, until they eventually starve to death or are killed.
- Dinosaurs Are Dragons: T-Wreks is a cartoony theropod dinosaur wearing a jetpack, and is capable of breathing fire.
- Draconic Abomination:
- Anomalyis is an XXL-sized Gigeresque wyvern described as an extradimensional entity accidentally summoned by some witches, and possesses an insatiable appetite — being capable of devouring almost anything it comes across.
- Kahl'mari is a blatant expy of Cthulhu outright called an "eldritch dragon" in its description, and is said to be capable of driving onlookers insane with its mere presence.
- Dracolich:
- Blaze's "Reaper" skin gives him an undead appearance with white Glowing Eyelights of Undeath and white splotches on his otherwise dark grey body.
- Draconis' "White Flyer" skin turns her into an icy undead dragon.
- Goldheist's "Spectre" skin turns him into a translucent ghostly dragon.
- Umbra is an undead dragon with open wounds on her body that radiate spectral flames.
- Skully is a skeletal dragon who is wreathed in demonic flames.
- Dragons Are Demonic: Umbra is a demonic undead dragon whose "Hellshade" skin gives her a Red and Black and Evil All Over palette swap and large horns, making her look demonic instead of undead. Her "Goldshade" skin also gives her a volcanic makeover, with black scales and a molten yellow underbelly and markings, giving her a demonic vibe.
- Ear Wings: One of the prey items are rabbits able to fly by flapping their wings.
- Feathered Serpent: Sparx's Quetzalcoatl skin turns her into the Plumed Serpent of Aztec mythology.
- Guest Fighter: Grunderbite and Seabreather make appearances as crossover characters from Rayman Legends.
- Happily Adopted: Raktavi was raised from hatching by a vampire lord, who turned her into a vampiric dragon out of pity when she was born weak and sickly.
- Hook Hand: Mad Snaxx's Captain Crunch skin has a hook for its right hand, in keeping with its pirate motif.
- An Ice Person: Icebreaker is a wyvern with ice-powers, being able to breathe a frigid mist that freezes enemies solid.
- The Mafia: Don Drago is referred to as the dragon Godfather, making his underlings offers they can't refuse; while his successor Tony Dragone is described as The Don of the Dragon Mafia, and one of his skins is a Shout-Out to Vito Corleone from The Godfather.
- Multiple Head Case: Jekyll & Fried has two heads, one the intelligent and conniving one, the other with literally half a brain.
- Not Zilla: Geogantis is a mountain-sized bipedal dragon who is a Shout-Out to Godzilla, with its nose-horn resembling that of a Pacific Rim kaiju.
- Our Dragons Are Different:
- Nibbler is a wyvern, with two legs and a pair of wings.
- Mad Snaxx is a traditional four-legged dragon with blue scales, two wings, and tusk-like fangs.
- Sparx is a giant snake that is somehow able to fly.
- Don Drago is a fat reddish-purple traditional four-legged dragon with tiny arms and a pair of tiny wings.
- Tony Dragone is a wyvern with armor plating on his back and etherial blue-white spikes and wings.
- Jekyll & Fried is a two-headed dragon with purple scales, six legs, and two wings.
- Zhé Long is a Chinese dragon with red scales and yellow whiskers.
- Blaze is a large traditional four-legged dragon with reddish-orange scales, a pair of horns, and a pair of wings.
- Dante is a traditional four-legged two-winged dragon seemingly made of lava—having black scales, a glowing orange underbelly, and a fiery mane.
- Jawfrey is a traditional four-legged dragon with a massive lower jaw and four comically tiny wings.
- Draconis is a large traditional four-legged dragon with a prominent nose-horn, tattered wings, and red horns and back spikes.
- Goldheist is a long serpentine dragon with 12 legs and a single pair of wings.
- Umbra is a massive traditional four-legged dragon with black scales and purple spectral flames radiating from her mouth, eyes, and markings on her body.
- Anomalyis is an alien wyvern with an eyeless head and Gigeresque exoskeleton.
- Mechamuncher is a robotic dragon that flies using rocket boosters on its feet.
- Armordillo is a four-legged dragon with feather-shaped wings and an armored carapace that can curl into a ball.
- Icebreaker is a frosty wyvern that spits an icy mist instead of fire.
- T-Wreks is a cartoony theropod dinosaur wearing a jetpack.
- Skully is a skeletal traditional four-legged dragon with a pair of wings.
- Helion is an angelic dragon with four legs, feathered wings, and gold armor.
- Raktavi is vampiric bat-like dragon with a mohawk-like mane, clad in armor.
- Geogantis is a primordial earth-dragon that walks on its hind legs and—at least in its key-art—is the size of a mountain.
- Jade is an armored Chinese dragon with green scales and a white mane, and is Zhé Long's mentor.
- Kahl'mari is an Eldritch Abomination resembling an octopus-headed humanoid dragon.
- Drak-awet is an Egyptian god resembling a humanoid jackal with gold wings.
- Ashbeak is a griffin-like phoenix.
- Manticore is... well... a manticore, having the head and body of a lion, a scorpion-like tail, batlike wings, and goat-like horns.
- Our Goblins Are Different: One of the recurring enemies are goblins, which are green-skinned humanoids with hooked noses. They're more technologically advanced than the humans, and have multiple map sectors dedicated to them—chiefly the Goblin City, the Goblin Caves, the Goblin Mines. Goblin astronauts can even be found in the beyond.
- Premium Currency: As with Hungry Shark Evolution and Hungry Shark World, Gems are rarer to obtain than Coins and are required to unlock certain features.
- Sea Serpents:
- Poseidran is an XL-sized sea-serpent that is nevertheless able to fly with its fin-like wings.
- Eelectrozoa is a bioluminescent eel-like sea-serpent that spits bolts of electricity instead of fire.
- Seabreather—guest-starring from Rayman Legends—is an XXL-sized serpentine creature with a red exoskeleton, numerous tiny legs, and bulging googly-eyes.
- Shout-Out: Several of the dragons, most of the unlockable skins, and more than a few enemies are pop-culture references:
- The Goblin Bomber enemies are standing atop bat-shaped hovercrafts in an homage to the Green Goblin from Marvel Comics.
- Mad Snaxx's pirate-themed Captain Crunch skin is named after the mascot for the Cap'n Crunch cereal.
- Sparx's Dragonator 800 skin is a reference to the T-800 from the Terminator franchise.
- Tony Dragone's Vito Dragone skin is a reference to Vito Corleone from The Godfather, and its Dr Dragonstein skin is a reference to Dr. Frankenstein.
- Jekyll & Fried's name is a reference to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
- Zhé Long's Shenlong skin turns him into a reference to Shenron from Dragon Ball.
- Blaze's Dragonborn skin clads them in Horny Vikings-style armor in a reference to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, while his Dragon Hood skin is a reference to Robin Hood.
- Dante is a reference to the main character of The Divine Comedy, and his "Meal Armstrong" skin is a reference to astronaut Neal Armstrong.
- Draconis' "Count Dragula" skin is a reference to Dracula, her "White Flyer" skin is a reference to the White Walker-corrupted Viserion from Game of Thrones, her "Burner King" skin as a spoof on the Burger King, her "Irontail" skin is a reference to Iron Man, and her "Pennyfries" skin is a reference to Pennywise the Dancing Clown from IT.
- Anomalyis is a Xenomorph Xerox, and its "Fridge" skin is a reference to Frieza from Dragon Ball Z, its "General Roastus" skin is a reference to General Grievous from Star Wars, and its "Preyeater" skin is a reference to the Yautja from the Predator franchise.
- Skully's "Skulletor" skin is a reference to Skeletor from Masters of the Universe, his "D-1000" is a reference to the T-1000 from the Terminator franchise.
- Raktavi's "The Countess" skin is based on Dracula, and her "Quinn of the Damned" and "Red Ivy" skins are references to Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy from DC Comics.
- Geogantis is a reference to Godzilla—with his appearance mainly being based on the MonsterVerse version and his name being a reference to Gigantis, the Fire Monster; and his "Geonidas" skin is a reference to King Leonidas from 300.
- Jade's "Sky Spirit" skin is a reference to Haku's dragon form in Spirited Away.
- Kahl'mari is an expy of Cthulhu from the Cthulhu Mythos, and his "Firebeard" skin is a reference to Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
- Icebreaker is a reference to the White Walker-corrupted Viserion from Game of Thrones.
- Grunderbite's "Bwaahbite" skin is a reference to the Rabbids, also from the Rayman series.
- Xenomorph Xerox: Anomalyis is a vicious extraterrestrial dragon with an eyeless head and Gigeresque exoskeleton.
