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Przygody Reksia (Adventures of Reksio) is a Polish series of PC point & click games made and published by Aidem Media, starring Reksio the dog, a character from Reksio, an animation of the same title - though, apart from main character, the games don't actually have much to do with the animated series. The games are known for its many shout-outs, a lack of fourth wall and an absurdly high level of difficulty for a kids' game.

The series follows Reksio and his friends (most notably Moles, a grumpy and lazy, but loyal mole) as they go through many fascinating and dangerous adventures, with every adventure ending with an unpredicted event forcing them to start next one immediately.

There are six games in the series:

  • Reksio i Skarb Piratów (Reksio and the Pirate Treasure) (October 2002) - while windsurfing, Reksio gets caught in a storm and ends up on a mysterious, tropical island, where he finds a map to titular treasure. First, easiest and shortest game in series.
  • Reksio i UFO (Reksio and the UFO) (April 2003) - after returning home, Reksio witnesses an UFO attack on his farm. After flying saucers kidnap chickens living here, Reksio and Moles build a space rocket to save them.
  • Reksio i Czarodzieje (Reksio and the Wizards) (May 2004) - after arriving back on Earth, Reksio mysteriously disappears. As it turns out, he himself got kidnapped by the dark wizard, forcing his friends to take on a dangerous rescue mission.
  • Reksio i Wehikuł Czasu (Reksio and the Time Machine) (November 2004) - once again Reksio returns home only to discover a letter from the past, informing him that he and Moles are both chased by mysterious organisation known as Zakon Ryżokitowców (Order of Rosetails). To escape them and save their lives, our heroes will have to build titular Time Machine and go back to the past to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
  • Reksio i Kapitan Nemo (Reksio and Captain Nemo) (October 2006) - Reksio and Moles succeed at changing the future, but get stuck in XIX century and now have to find another way home. Longest and hardest game in series, as well as the one with deepest story.
  • Reksio i Miasto Sekretów (Reksio and the City of Secrets) (August 2009), plus an Updated Re-releases titled Reksio i Miasto Sekretów: Limited Edition (Reksio and the City of Secrets: Limited Edition) (November 2010) and City of Secrets (March 2011) - the first game in the series starring Moles as the main character, as well as first in main series to break from fully 2D graphics, instead having a Sprite/Polygon Mix. Reksio disappears again, and Moles quickly discovers he was kidnapped and taken into Poco Pane - mysterious underground city inhabited by moles and ruled by mysterious mayor who years ago overthrew the king through revolution. Soon it turns out that to save his friend, Moles will have to dig deeper into mayor's origin...

As well as two spin-offs:

In April 2011 production of seventh game in main series, titled Miasto Sekretów 2 (City of Secrets 2) started, with first episode released on 20th April 2013. However, the rest of the game has been stuck in Development Hell for long time and its unknown if it will ever see the light.

Unfortunately, apart from City of Secrets and first episode of City of Secrets 2, none of the games were translated to English. Since the licence to use Reksio has expired and it doesn't look like creators are going to reacquire it again, they probably never will be.

Tropes featured in whole series:

  • Aerith and Bob: Some characters have normal names, including Reksio (for a dog), Korneliusz, and Molly. Others have more unusual names, like Kretes (Moles) and Nemo.
  • Adventure Duo: While Reksio is Audience Surrogate, Moles is more snarky and grumpy.
  • And Now for Someone Completely Different: In later parts Moles becomes more often playabe character
  • Black Bead Eyes: Many characters, such as Reksio himself, have small black dots for eyes. The second most common eye type is the one with white sclerae and black pupils.
  • Body Pocket: Reksio (and sometimes Moles ) are hiding items in "pocket" despite having no clothes.
  • Bookends: Most of games ends with one:
    • Treasure of pirates starts with Reksio swimming on surfboard, and ends with Reksio leaving island on new surfboard.
    • In Ufo last saved by us hen is Princess, which was first kidnapped hen in Cliffhanger of previous game.
    • In Wizzards Reksio has to choose between red bone and blue bone except blue one is not present and is founded only in finale, where it allows you to return to real world.
    • Time machine starts and ends with Old Moles telling to his grandchildren about his adventures.
  • Character Name and the Noun Phrase: All the games' titles follow the pattern Reksio (or Reksio and Moles) and [[insert the main subject of the game]].
  • Common Tongue: There are some exceptions, but most characters, regardless of the place or time period they come from, speak modern Polish.
  • Company Cameo: Logo of Aidem Media is often seen as some element of background, for example on coins or on book in Storybook Opening of Wizards.
  • Continuity Cavalcade: Rex’s doghouse is place where he leaves most of souvenirs from earlier adventures
  • Copy Protection: The games have a security system to make it sure the games were bought legally. In the first four games, Mr. Policeman demands the player to input the code that came with the instruction booklet (or a magazine if the game was bundled with it). In Captain Nemo, the Mad Hatter tells the players to press a button only if they bought the game legally.
  • Deadpan Snarker - Moles the mole often responds to an unfair situation with sarcastic remarks. Jean-Paul from La Resistance is even grumpier and he snarks even (or especially) about his teammates.
  • Development Gag:
    • In Captain Nemo is sometimes referenced “Guy with the scythe”, which was one of creator’s ideas about using one as one of obstacles. Idea was rejected, but is still references
      • Moles in one of dialogues says that he once seen some Guy with the scythe
      • In Credits Gag he is signed as creator of credits
      • Probably Mole with lawnmover from City of Secrets is reference to this note 
  • Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The main characters, especially after UFO:
    • Optimist: Reksio, the brave Heroic Dog who is always there to do what's right. He can sometimes be Conflicted.
    • Cynic: Moles, the Deadpan Snarker mole who always voices his displeasure.
    • Realist: Rooster Artificer, The Smart Guy who makes plans for most of the inventions.
    • Apathetic: Kornelek, a former antagonist who is more quiet than his brother and is the least involved in the plot.
  • Equippable Ally: In broomstic flight minigame Moles (who is on broom scoop) is used mainly to remove obstacles from way
  • Furry Confusion: The games have many anthropomorphic chickens (Rooster Artificer, Kornelek, captain Nemo), but also regular chickens, like he ones that reside in the backyard. In fact, two of them are the sisters of the rooster brothers.
  • Game-Breaking Bug: Infamously, there’s bug in every game in main series activating after leaving game with combination alt+tab. After returning whole game leaves every move of sprite on screen in Windows Solitare victory style.
  • Gameplay Roulette: While initially game is point and click, it often uses many kinds of minigames
  • Hammerspace: In true point & click adventure fashion, Reksio is able to carry a wide assortment of improbably large items in "his pocket", including car wheels, a ladder and a washing machine. Occasionally lampshaded by Moles or the narrator, who quip about the absurdity of this fact.
  • Hamster-Wheel Power: Most of Rooster Artificer's inventions are powered by Diesel the Hamster running on his wheel.
  • Heroic Mime: Reksio himself. Though rather than actually being mute, he communicates by barking.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: Many and often lampshaded. Unfortunately, most of them get Lost in Translation. An example from Wizards:
    Moles (in Piklibia's dungeons): Dungeons! Or female wild boars? Another great linguistic joke. note 
  • Interactive Narrator: The Narrator sometimes interacts with the characters (and vice versa), especially with Reksio in Treasure of Pirates (although the latter doesn't answer back) and Moles in Time Machine and Captain Nemo.
  • It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Rooster Artificer's inventions like the time travelling sofa etc.
  • Lemony Narrator: The Narrator sometimes spices up the narration with jokes and quips, mostly in the first, fourth, and fifth games.
  • A Lizard Named "Liz": Many characters have names related to their species.
  • Mythology Gag
    • Title Rex and the UFO is reference to one of episodes cartoon named the same
    • In Reksio’s doghouse there’s portrait of him as Roman statue used in game outside series
    • When picking up the washing machine early on in Time Mashine, in the following dialogue Moles mentions Reksio's friend, a boy from the original cartoon.
  • No Fourth Wall: It just doesn't exist. Characters (especially Moles) will often talk to the narrator, to the player, to the game creators and lampshade some of the worse pieces of dialogue or scenery.
  • Previously on…: At the beginning of every game from Wizards on there is a recap of the previous adventures, although the way it's done is different.
  • Production Foreshadowing: Every game of the series ends with a Cliffhanger related with the next part. But also in game we can see some foreshadowing for the next part.
  • Purple Prose - Moles enjoys doing this from time to time.
    Moles: All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain.
  • Recycled In Space: Most of games from series are this
    • Pirates’ Treasure is Reksio WITH PIRATES
    • UFO is Reksio IN SPACE
    • Wizards is Reksio IN MAGIC LAND
    • Time Machine is Reksio WITH TIME TRAVEL
    • Captain Nemo is Reksio IN XIX CENTURY
    • In action is rest of series WITH Self-Deprecation
    • City of Secrets is Reksio IN UNDERGOUND COMMIE LAND
  • Reference Overdosed: Not so much in the first game, but starting with UFO, there are numerous shout-outs and sometimes even episodes based entirely around one work (e.g. in a game full of references to Star Wars, planet Kurakis is mostly based on planet Dune, AKA Arrakis).
  • The Stinger: All games after credits are showing some comedic scene
    • In Pirate’s Treasure in scene Moles is interrupted by Space Hen humming Imperial Marsh
    • In UFO Kretan Resistence Movement reveals that Kretti Kretonen is from plywood
    • In Wizards Tea Party comments ending and reveals that Mad Hatter was one that kidnaped Rex
    • In Time Machine is presented Moles recording his voice lines
    • Captain Nemo has two different stinger scenes depending from took difficulty
      • In easy mode it’s Narrator presenting themselves… in room with no lights
      • In hard mode there’s scene with Kretan Resistence Movement and Blub
    • In In Action is tricky one because it’s after skippable advertisement of creator’s products. Presents Kretan Resistence Movement leaving Moles’ house in dark
  • Solve the Soup Cans: Some minigames are built on this, like Genie asking for solving Moon Logic Puzzle to get his wish.
  • World of Funny Animals: Unlike the cartoons the games were based on, the cast is made of anthropomorphic animals (along non-sapient ones) instead of humans. The only human characters are Mr. Policeman (who doesn't interact with the characters), The Mad Hatter, and possibly the Narrator and Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Take That!:

Tropes featured in Treasure of Pirates:

  • Anti-Frustration Features: After several failed attempts at the notoriously difficult map minigame, the player will simply receive a different copy of the map from Robinson, if they decide to quit.
  • Coconut Meets Cranium: In one of the minigames, Reksio must protect the village from the pirates. How does he do this? By throwing coconuts at them.
  • Convection, Schmonvection: Halfway through the game, the characters must cross a cave filled with lava inside an active volcano. How? By jumping on rocks partially submerged in lava!
  • Cypher Language: The pirates use their own script called the Ratscript that only few other characters (The Chief of the Black Village tribe, partially Robinson Kozoe) can understand.
  • Dub Species Change: The pirates are rats, but the Romanian dub changed them to mice.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: The space chickens make an appearance in the third episode that takes place under the volcano. They become major antagonists in the second game.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Reksio is solo, Moles is just comic relief, there is no real story, the game is much shorter and easier than its sequels and there are even more sudden changes in gameplay.
  • Excuse Plot: This game is simply about Reksio going through adventures on a tropical island to find the treasure of the pirates, in contrast to later games which have a more connected storyline. That being said...
    • Innocuously Important Episode: Some characters and plot points in the game prove to be very important later on. Moles joins Reksio in adventures starting with the next game. The space chickens from the UFO level become antagonists in the next game. The island itself is revisited in the fifth game, where it's revealed to go through the Line Date - which is important in helping Reksio and Moles return home.
  • Good All Along: The pirates are mistaken for the bad guys who want to attack the Black Chicken Village and eat the Temple made of cheese. They actually want to find the treasure to fulfill their captain's dream of sending it to the Lonely Egg's House.
  • Invisible Writing: After he fell overboard, Captain O' Gryzek used sympathetic ink to write messages and draw a map. These arrived at the Treasure Island in bottles.
  • MacGuffin: The titular treasure is just there for the sake of having a goal for the game. However, reksio wants to find the treasure to give it to the pirates, who in turn want to send it to the Lonely Egg's House.
  • MacGuffin Title: The game is named after the treasure that the pirates want to find.
  • Reptiles Are Abhorrent: In the jungle level, Reksio must cross a river full of turtles and crocodiles that can knock him in the water while also avoiding being ambushed by snakes that rest on the trees.
  • Riddle Me This: In order to enter the temple and reach the volcano, Reksio must answer the Capon's riddles correctly.
  • Robinsonade:
    • The game begins with Reksio stranded on a shipwreck after going surfing on a stormy day. After being set free, he is brought to the Treasure Island where the rest of the story takes place.
    • A more direct reference to Robinson Crusoe is Robinson Kozoe, who was stranded on the island years ago and has been living on it ever since.
  • Running Gag: In this game, Moles is often caught in embarrassing situations and he always complains about it.
  • Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Piptaszek's glasses can be used to start a fire to read the Invisible Writing on the piece of paper from the bottle found by Reksio.
  • Spiders Are Scary: In the second volcanic level, Reksio must avoid the spiders while crossing the bridge, otherwise he'll start over.
  • Tropical Island Adventure: The plot takes place on the Treasure Island found in the Pacific Ocean.

Tropes featured in UFO:

  • Aliens Speaking English: Apparently the entire universe speaks Polish. The fourth game implies that Polish language was actually brought to Earth by aliens in ancient times, but this obviously raises different questions.
  • Ascended Extra: After being used for no more than comic relief in the first game, Moles returns here and he becomes Reksio's commander. He becomes a permanent ally as of Wizards.
  • Batman Can Breathe in Space: In this universe everyone is Batman. Most notably Diesel the hamster, who serves as the power source for our heroes' spaceship and spends most of the game in a cage on the outside of it, completely unprotected from the void of space.
  • Big Bad: Kurator is the main antagonist of the game, being a dictator in the Kuran system who build the Stinky Egg to take over the world.
  • Bigger on the Inside: Rooster Artificer builds the space vehicle (known as Wajchadłowiec) out of a washing machine, so you'd expect its interior to be pretty small. Except it's spacious enough to have a computer and carry three passengers at the same time.
  • The Chosen One: Molly recognizes Reksio as the "dog from the stars" who was sent to Kuran to help the rebellion defeat Kurator.
  • Defiant Captive: Baron Żabba kidnapped Ferment Kott to obtain a plant with the magical property of shrinking called Lebiodka from him. The cat not only continues to refuse, he also doesn't hesitate to insult him.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Maldurf Von Kretoff built in basement of La Résistance great vacuum cleaner to use it against Stinky Egg. Flaw in this plan? It’s too big to take it out of the basement.
  • Doomsday Device: Jajo Śmierdzi (Stinky Egg), a parody of the Death Star. We don't see power of the weapon, but it's supposedly powerful enough to be only thing Galactic Henpire needs to Take Over the World.
  • Dressing as the Enemy: In the penultimate episode, Reksio disguises as on of Kurator's soldiers to reach the space port without being spotted. The disguise fails if he bumps into a soldier, however.
  • Edible Bludgeon: The first minigame involves Reksio throwing beetroots at the UFOs to stop them from kidnapping the hens in the backyard. However, they still manage to kidnap some, including the Rooster's younger sisters.
  • Evil Overlord: Kurator (lit. The Henperor), parody of Emperor Palpatine, but mixed with Darth Vader.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Reksio and Moles didn't quite start on good terms in the previous game due to the former constantly (albeit accidentally) disturbing the latter's privacy. However, Moles decides to get help from Reksio since the hens from both of their homes got stolen and he didn't know who else to count on. Soon enough, they go on a rescue mission and an adventure that cements their friendship.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After Jajo Śmierdzi is destroyed, Kurator performs it. Just because with the doomsday weapon he has been building his whole life destroyed, he has actually nothing to do.
  • Jumped at the Call: Seeing that they have nobody to pilot the space vehicle, Moles offers himself for the job, becoming Reksio's commander.
  • La Résistance: The rebellion against Galactic Henpire, aptly named La Resistance.
  • Long Song, Short Scene: The soundtrack "Pathos" is 33 seconds long, but only the last 5 seconds are used after the Stinky Egg is defeated.
  • Love at First Sight: Moles and Molly fall in love soon after they meet, complete with an Imagine Spot full of romantic images.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Parodied; the Henperor states this during his confrontation with Reksio... only to burst into laughter and state how illogical it would be. Then played straight, when it turns out The Henperor is Rooster Artificer's long lost twin brother.
  • Pet the Dog: Baron Żabba makes a deal with Moles to free his prisoner Kott if Moles wins at least one race. However, if he loses enough races, the baron will take pity on both Moles and Kott and he decides to set him free.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Both Maldurf and Jean-Paul nearly cost the team's mission - the former because he built th vacuum cleaner that would save the hens in the basement, without thinking about how to take it outside, and the latter because he knew this would happen, but didn't want to warn Maldurf. Thankfully, a little Lebiodka from Kurakis solves the problem.
  • Rake Take: There is a rake in Reksio's backyard. If the player clicks on it, Reksio will step on it and be smacked in the face.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Rooster Artificer makes his debut in this game as Reksio's old friend and neighbour, though he wasn't mentioned even once in previous games. Though it's justified due to Reksio being The Unintelligible.
  • Sand Worm: The desert planet Kurakis is infamous for the giant sand worms. The small ones are pests for the Ferments' Lebiodka crops.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: Roman and Julitta are caught in the middle of a family feud all because the head of Motykiusze forgot to return an important object borrowed from the Ciapciuleci. The two families are separated by a wall. Thankfully, the conflict is solved in the end and the two lovebirds are reunited.
  • Suddenly Voiced: After spending the whole game completely silent and unresponsive, Kretti speaks for the first time in The Stinger, but only after his colleagues erroneously come to the conclusion that he's made of plywood.
  • Transplanted Aliens: The space hens, which are usually green in color, are a common sight on Planet Kuran. However, they were brought to the planet, which was previously only inhabited by moles, relatively recently.
  • Verbal Tic: The space chickens, Kurator's soldiers, start every sentence with "Mi mi mi-".

Tropes featured in Wizards:

  • Bat Out of Hell: The One Who Disturbs So Much, the Big Bad of Wizards, turns into a bat at the end of the game.
  • Big Bad: The One Who Disturbs So Much, a treachorous member of The Council of the Seven Wizards who built a machine to steal all magic in order to open a casket and become the most powerful being in Wonderland. Every member of the council has a version where he's the traitor.
  • Bewitched Amphibians:
    • Students at the University who tried to defend the Walls from Poultry of Chaos were defeated and became frogs.
    • All the fairy tale characters were turned into frogs due to recent events.
    • Serpentus Snake teaches the Turning Into a Frog spell. However, the full transformation can only be seen during mazes and the Defense of Walls minigames. In a duel, the defeated party becomes a half-frog hybrid.
  • The Chosen One: Reksio is once again aknowledged as the chosen one. The third part of the Prophecy talks about a muggle dog who is destined to save Wonderland.
  • Department of Redundancy Department:
    • The first character our heroes encounter in the Fairy Tale Land is The Talking Rock That Speaks.
    • Mr. Caterpillar's third riddle. He asks what walks on 100 legs in the morning, afternoon and evening and has 100 legs.
  • Different in Every Episode: Or rather, in every game. Each new gameplay randomly selects which member of The Council of the seven wizards is the bad guy. Therefore, the clues given by the wizards for the Investigation Chart are also different.
  • Disk One Nuke: The Sleep Spell. It can be learned as the second, third or fourth spell, is one of easiest to cast, and has the most useful effect, (putting enemies to sleep). Since magic duels in this game are won when you hit our enemy with the same spell three times, the best way to win most (if not all) duels in the game is to spam Sleep.
  • Evil Overlord: Yet another, this time it's a powerful wizard that trapped Reksio in the Wonderland, Ten Który Tak Potwornie Mąci (The One Who Disturbs So Much).
  • Flying Broomstick: Reksio has to buy a flying broomstick from Lis Chytrus to travel to three provinces outside of Magix.By doing tasks for Burektor Mateusz and Gulguldryk Gryfindyk, he earns enough money to buy a Bamboo 2000 that comes with a free scoop for Moles.
  • Follow the White Rabbit: What Reksio has to do at the beginning of the game because he is stuck inside a trap that he can't escape without going in circles. The White Rabbit shows him the correct path.
  • Forced Sleep: The Sleep Spell taught by Gulguldryk Gryfindyk puts the enemies to sleep.
  • Forced Transformation: After defeating The One Who Disturbs So Much, Reksio destroys the wizard's machine that absorbs all magic in Wonderland. The magic is released and The One Who Disturbs So Much is turned into a dodo bird.
  • Gingerbread House: Baba Jaga used to live in a gingerbread house, but it was destroyed when Cinderella's carriage crashed into it.
  • The Homeward Journey: Reksio's (and especially Moles') main motivation to save Wonderland is fact that it's only way to get back home.
  • Idle Animation: In this game, Moles hums the background soundtracks when the player stands still.
  • Interface Spoiler: Interesting one. While looking for The Mole between 7 Wizards you are using for investigation card with them all, but there is eight slot for wizard with suit unused by them (red hat and red cloak with stars). In "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue we are informed that Reksio wears that suit as new, eight wizard
  • Logo Joke: Aidem Media logo is shown as sign on book in form of snake swallowing own tail.
  • Magical Star Symbols: Council of Seven Wizards have either on their robes stars or moon.
  • Magic Mirror: There is a mirror that has two different sides. One side is found in the magical trap where Reksio is imprisoned at the beginning of the game and the other side is in Magix, namely in Burektor's office. Reksio and Moles arrive in Magix when the latter breaks the mirror.
  • Mooks: Poultry of Chaos are regular enemies in the game that are there mostly to have somebody to duel with. It's implied the disappearance of magic is how they appeared.
  • Mouse Trap: Spielmauster got stuck in his own giant mouse trap which was meant to be a safety mechanism against the jumping warriors (also created by him) that turned against their master. Reksio and Moles come with a plan to set the mouse free.
  • No Animals Were Harmed: Credits inform that no dodo was harmed while producing this game because they are extinct
  • Noodle Incident: When Reksio has to try the flying broomstick (which comes with a scoop as well for Moles) for the first time, Moles states that he will never fly on a broomstick again.
  • Oddball in the Series: Wizards part unlike other parts contains many RPG Elements around spelling mechanic like Experience Points.
  • One-Winged Angel: The-One-Who-Stirs-So-Frighteningly while final battle turns himself into bat.
  • Plot-Triggering Book: Magic book is place of action
  • Portal Book: How Moles gets into Wonderland: building Teleporters that launched him inside the album where the pages of interest were opened.
  • Red Pill, Blue Pill: Reksio has to choose between the red bone and the blue bone. Or rather, would have to choose if Burektor Mateusz hadn't lost the blue bone.
  • Riddle of the Sphinx: Mr. Caterpillar has three riddles that are a variation of this one: what walks on "x" number of legs in the morning, same number in the afternoon, same number in the evening, and an additional information.
  • Ridiculously Small Wings: Smokręt is a giant dragon with a plump body, but his wings are rather small. He doesn't have trouble flying, although he's a bit slow. When he doesn't fly, he stays afloat in the water.
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The One Who Disturbs So Much kidnapped Reksio to stop the prophecy from happening, but since the White Rabbit helped the latter escape, the prophecy was set into motion. If he had just left Reksio alone, he would have had a higher chance to destroy Wonderland.
  • Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: The-One-Who-Stirs-So-Frighteningly speaks the same voice as other wizards untill he’s revealed. After that he speaks with his real voice.
  • Sixth Ranger: In "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Reksio becomes new, eight wizard
  • Skewed Priorities: After Moles arrives back on Earth and the Rooster tells him that Reksio has been kidnapped, the first thing the former worries about is leaving the pasta on the stove. The Rooster lampshades it.
  • Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Enemies (Chaos Fowl) get more powerful throughout the game.
  • Step One: Escape: The game begins with Reksio locked inside a magical trap. The first task is to follow the white rabbit who shows Reksio the correct path. The rabbit leaves him alone after they get inside a room with a mirror, so it is up to Kretes to free Reksio from the prison.
  • Storybook Opening: As book itself is place of action story is started with opening of this book
  • Transformation Discretion Shot: When The One Who Disturbs So Much turns into a bat, the screen goes dark as if in a thunderstorm and the transformation is accompanied by the sound of thunder.
  • Two-Teacher School: The University of Magic only has three teachers of magic - and one of them has his office outside of Magix.
  • Unnaturally Looping Location: Reksio is stuck in one of them at the begining
  • "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Ending credits are interrupted with this
  • Wizard Duel: Duels end when one of the two parties is hit with the same spell three times. Poultry of Chaos regularly challenge Reksio to a duel and his final opponent is the evil wizard in his bat form.
  • Wizarding School: The University of Magic is where Reksio learns most of the spells except the third-degree ones, which are taught by Waldi Mors in his cave.

Tropes featured in Time Machine:

  • Alien Animals: This game reveals that the ancestors of all moles on Earth are actually from Kuran, which would have been known as Kreton during prehistoric times.
  • Ancient Astronauts: The Ancient Kretons, met in Prehistory, are the first moles that settled on Earth. They travelled to the planet after finding out about the disaster that would wipe out all dinosaurs, but after finding out the planet is habitable, they forget about their mission, which naturally falls in the hands of Reksio and Moles. The impact Kretons had on the Earth is further explored in the next game.
  • Animated Outtakes: The outro features five scenes from the game that changed some details to make them sillier. Highlights include replacing the Rosetails with the Kretons disguised as Spanish Inquisitors, Moles saying that he is not paid enough after he crashes into the Rosetails' statue, followed by the Fellowship of the Ring from the previous game entering the scene after they hear the word "sign", and Nostradamus giving the heroes a rubber duck instead of the album.
    Maldurf Von Kretoff: We are stopping this program, because this is getting too silly
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the third Middle Ages chapter, Grand Master of the Rosetails says that Reksio and Moles, the now prophets of courtesy, showed them the importance of courtesy, good manners, and glue.
  • Bad Future: The future is ruled by the Rosetails who impose good manners as a rule, unless one wants to go to prison just for not saying "bless you". The rooster brothers live in the sewers, Reksio is implied to be dead, Moles ended up as a lonely grumpy old mole, and it's constantly raining.
  • Berserk Button: Moles isn't impressed with his future self in general, but what really sets him off is hearing that he doesn't care about (or even really remember) Molly.
  • Can't Take Anything with You: How the Sofa of Time works. Reksio and Moles can't take any items with them when they exit a period through the Time Funnel.
  • Cast as a Mask: Nosek (one of Moles' grandchildren) is voiced by Rafał Kowal, except when he (along with his siblings) is masquerading as Nostradamus, then he speaks (through a voice-changing microphone) with the voice of Piotr Michalski.
  • Cyberpunk for Flavor: The bad future Reksio and Kretes visit has a strong cyberpunk vibe, being a gloomy technologically advanced dystopia, with some references to Blade Runner thrown in.
  • Empathic Environment: The good future is bright and sunny, the bad future is rainy.
  • Eternal English: Reksio and the Roosters' ancestors speak the cavemen language, which is based on Polish, but mixed with other languages. Everybody else, regardless of place and time period, speaks modern Polish.
  • Failed a Spot Check:
    • The Bad Future chapter begins with our heroes arriving at Rosetails' headquarters. Since the time machine can only be activated and arrive at certain places (known as Time Craters and Time Hills, respectively) and the future is fully controlled by Rosetails, they had plenty of time to secure the Time Hills with all sorts of laser cannons and several guardians. The thing is, said guardians are so absorbed with gloating about how impenetrable their security is, they don't even notice the heroes appearing before they are already well out of reach.
    • Much earlier, at the beginning of prehistoric chapter, Moles warns Reksio about how dangerous dinosaurs can be. Since most of his lecture is given offscreen, we don't really know how long it took... but it's only once he finishes it that either of them notices they are being carried away by a T.Rex.
    • In the ending, pieces of Nostradamus' costume can be seen scattered on the sofa after Moles' grandchildren finish their journey. Moles still thinks Nostradamus was a real person... at least until Nosek speaks with Nostradamus' voice using a microphone.
  • For Want Of A Nail: What fixes the future is Reksio and Kretes apologizing for breaking Rosetails' statue. Moles points out how a small apology changes the whole history.
  • Future Me Scares Me: Moles really doesn't like his future self. Doubles as I Hate Past Me, though future Moles doesn't recognize himself.
  • Geographic Flexibility: This part adds a lake near The backyard.
  • Hollywood Prehistory: Reksio and the roosters' ancestors lived in Prehistory as the game's equivalent to cavemen alongside dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are eventually teleported somewhere else before the impeding doom.
  • Idle Animation: Once again, Moles hums the background soundtracks when the player stands still, but not as frequently as in Wizards. This time, Reksio also gets an idle animation: falling asleep.
  • Impossibly-Compact Folding: Time machine is this to justify hiding it into pocket
  • Inventing the Wheel: In Prehistory, one character makes the first car, which has square wheels, though they can be replaced with round ones.
  • Kid from the Future: Nostradamus is actually Moles' grandchildren in disguise.
  • Long Song, Short Scene: Downplayed with the soundtrack "Happyend", which is slightly shorter than the cutscene where it's used. It's reused in the next game in its full version.
  • Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: According to Moles, this is the (literal) case for all moles, although in their case, men came from Venus while women came from Mars.
  • Mind Screwdriver: After finishing the game Mad Hatter interrupts the credits to explain the main plotwist because it’s to complicated to understand.
  • My Future Self and Me: Moles meets his future self. He's very excited... until he finds out his old self doesn't have a family and doesn't even remember Molly.
  • Never the Selves Shall Meet: Invoked by Nostradamus, when Moles in finale wants to meet himself (again, as he did it in Bad Future). Actually Subverted as he met himself earlier. It was because Nostradamus wanted to get of rig him before he will recognize him as his grandchildren
  • Noodle Implements: Rooster reminds that his plans for constructing submarine in lake which ended with Epic Fail and as result remains of it are at its bottom. Needed items are springs and bulldozer showel but others items found are: barbells, bike (which Rooster borrowed from Reksio and said that was stolen) or medieval equipment.
    Moles: Whoah. No wonder that his submarine sunk.
  • Ominous Latin Chanting: Although there is no spoken Latin, some of the soundtracks feature "Aaahhh ah-ah" chanting.
  • Ominous Message from the Future - What kicks off the game. The Magic Casket from the previous game hides a letter written by Nostradamus telling Reksio and Moles about a terrible future that they can fix if they meet him in the Middle Ages.
  • Our Founder: Statue of king Korybut Dośćmocny is placed in the middle of square as he was founder of the city. It has also secret passage into Rosentails castle.
  • Our Time Travel Is Different: Wormhole type. Time travel works in that way: you enter through Time Funnel (great hole in the ground) into wormhole stylized as great clock and after finding right exit (depending on chosen by you hour) you returns back through great mound in the ground.
  • Portal Pool: Lake near The backyard hides a Time Funnel.
  • Sequence Breaking: Multiple times throughout the game:
    • Midway through the prehistoric chapter you have to help an ancient inventor Rykus in building the first car, which you will need to get to the Time Crater. You are supposed to find an engine and replace the square stones he used as wheels with something round - however you don't actually need the wheels and only thing they do is increase the vehicle's traction. As long as you don't mind beating possibly the hardest minigame in the game with a vehicle that handles like a trike with inflatable wheels driving on oil-covered ice, you can just skip half of the chapter.
    • During the first medieval chapter you have to find the secret passage to the Time Crater. The entrance to said passage is locked with a puzzle lock, and only way to find the solution is winning in a completely unrelated minigame - however said solution is the same on every playthrough, so if you know it already, you can once again just skip the minigame.
    • Similarly at the beginning of the Egypt chapter you need to learn a two part poem which describes how to avoid the traps in a pyramid we're about to enter. Said poem is also identical on every playthrough, letting you just skip the whole sequence.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong
  • Schrödinger's Gun: The Magic Casket from the previous game returns during the Ancient Egypt sequence, where we see its creation and why it has Reksio's pawprint on it's lid. However, since pawprint the is left on the lid when we interact with the casket, which is completely optional, it becomes this.
  • Serious Business: The Rosetails take good manners very seriously. To what extent, you ask? Well, in the future, you can be sent to prison for not saying "Bless you" after someone sneezes.
  • Something about a Rose: Both of Nostradamus letters mention a rose as a hint to how find his hideout - the first time in a hidden room under a tavern named "The Rose", the second in a secret chamber in the Rabarbark Stronghold that's opened by moving a painting with black rose on it.
  • Stone Punk: A wooden car we build in Prehistory.
  • Suddenly Speaking: The Romanian dub gives Reksio actual human dialogue despite the fact that he was as unintelligible as in the original version in earlier games. Every game after this one except "Mystery of the Third Dimension" does the same.
  • Tempting Fate: While building the Sofa of Time, Moles comments that he's afraid to think what would happen if they had to travel around the world instead of going to the past. Guess what the next game is about?
  • Time Machine: The Sofa Czasu (Sofa of Time). Combining a blue sofa with items found in the backyard or sunken in the pond (long story) is enough to build a time-travelling device.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: Time Travel is in this game complicated. While most of times the heroes are making stable time loops, Rosetails’ attitude to them assumes that they in later part of game had decided to not apologize them.
  • Totem Pole Trench: In the end, it turns out that Nostradamus was actually future Moles' four grandchildren disguised in this way.
  • T. Rexpy: One of first dinosaurs is Trex, which looks like Reksio, as his name comes from word ‘’Rex’’

Tropes featured in Captain Nemo:

  • Bait-and-Switch: There are suggestions that Captain Nemo will be Big Bad, by presenting him on cover like Evil Overlooker and kidnaping Reksio in intro, but actually he is heroes’ ally and he took Reksio to save him before drowning.
  • Balloon-Bursting Bird: In flying balloon minigame one of main dangers are flying flamingos that can do this
  • Celebrity Paradox: A variation. In Paris Moles briefly encounters Jules Verne himself, whose novels - particulary 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - provide many of the shout-outs throughout the story.
  • Chain of Deals: In Cairo, you have to buy a fake camel head (don't ask). However, since our heroes are completely broke, our only option is to trade it for a painting, which you pay for with a paperweight etc.
  • Chekhov's Armory: Moles's notebook. Most of the things he writes down or draws in it will turn out to be important later on. In fact, at one point he refers to the trope almost by name.
    Moles: I don't know what it is, but I'll draw it in my notebook, for as we know, if there's a gun on a wall in the first act, it will shoot in the third act.
  • Chekhov's Gag: The manual, which is stylised as a newspaper, has several mock news articles that foreshadow the events of the game. Notably, it portrays discovery of the pyramids in Egypt as a nation-wide, generation-spanning failed spot check, with Doctor Jones being the first person to actually notice those massive constructions that were standing in plain sight all along; while article plays it off as a ridiculous Epic Fail, it's actually an early hint that the pyramids were, in fact, created as a side effect of the heroes changing the future in the previous game and hold the clues necessary to find the way back to the present.
  • Chekhov's News: When we are in London we see newspaper seller saying about discovery in Egypt. Later we are asked to buy same newspaper
  • Credits Gag: Game credits are presented with main heroes commenting them and lamphading that some surnames are repeating also among played characters. Also credits are including “good advises”, “bad advises” or “instant adding philosophy and tries to include Guy with the scythe”, where Guy with scythe himself is credited as credits creator.
  • Famous Ancestor: Turns out to be the case with Moles and Captain Nemo.
  • Floating Continent: Ancient Kretons were living on big continent traveling trough teleporting.
  • A Foggy Day in London Town: London appears very briefly, but it's still very foggy. Lampshaded by the Narrator and Moles:
    Narrator: At last, they reached foggy London.
    Moles: Wow, London town is so foggy.
  • Get Back to the Future: The entire plot centers around Reksio and Moles trying to find a way to return home without the Sofa of Time, which was destroyed.
  • Grandfather Paradox: At one point, Moles meets his grandfather and he's very afraid of invoking just that. Rightly so; Though he doesn't shoot him, he does accidentally convince him not to marry his grandmother, thus effectively erasing himself from existence. It takes Reksio erasing his grandfathers' memories to bring him back.
  • Happily Adopted: Kari Mata Hari was adopted by Captain Nemo after he rescued her from Shangri-La when she was young. They lived happily together until Kari Mata travelled to Reksio's century to be with her boyfriend.
  • The Homeward Journey: With the Sofa of Time destroyed, Reksio and Moles have to find another way home.
  • Interspecies Adoption: Kari Mata Hari and Captain Nemo. He sometimes forgets they're not actually the same species, though.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Even more apparent than in previous games. If you play this game before "Reksio and Time Machine", you will know from the very beginning what will happen to the time machine.
  • Lawful Stupid: In order to get to Dr. Jones, you have to show the guards the archaeologist's note. The only way to get one is to talk to Dr. Jones, but then again, to do that, you need the note. Good luck convincing the guards that they're expecting the impossible, though.
  • Lineage Ladder: Near the end of the game, Kretes and Nemo recite a poem they heard in their childhood, which turn out to be two verses of the same poem. Nemo says that he inherited the poem from his father, who inherited it from his grandfather, ditto his great-grandfather. It was composed by his ancestor, Chief Kukuryk, who was a friend of Amon Kretes.
  • Love-Obstructing Parents: Suprisingly, Captain Nemo at the end. After all, no proper hen runs off with a dog.
  • Low Clearance: Moles while walking on a train’s roof has to avoid obstacles in this way.
  • Native American Casino: Invoked in a conversation with Chief Squatting Bull
    Moles: Nevertheless, Chief, you had better not invest in weapons and violence
    Chief Squatting Bull: Maybe gambling then, huh?
  • New-Age Retro Hippie: There's plenty of them in the Shangri-La.
  • No OSHA Compliance: Subverted. On construction site THERE IS OSH, which Moles is breaking and whenever he encounters worker he force him to leave
    Worker Please follow the health and safety rules and do not wander around
  • Ominous Latin Chanting: Not exactly Latin, but a chorus still appears in several themes.
  • Pixel Hunt: Game forces you to look for golden coins, which are in size of LITERAL pixel. Fortunately game hints you location of them with their shines, but still clicking on them is challenge.
  • Priceless Paperweight: Literally. One of items you trade away during the Cairo bazaar sequence is a golden volleyball-sized scarab, which you sell as a PAPERWEIGHT.
  • Rage Against the Author: While credits showing main screenwriter Moles insults him which ends to him badly, as he force him to say humiliating lines and as punishment he was forced to narrate advertisement.
  • Reaching Through the Fourth Wall: Whole game ends with Mad Hatter saying “Let’s see what is happening on the Windows desktop this time” which turns off game and shows… your desktop.
  • Self-Deprecation: The characters spend the ending credits commenting on (and mostly criticizing) the creators' job.
  • Sherlock Homage: Schlafrock Holmes is a brilliant detective who has a similar name and appearance as Sherlock Holmes, smokes a pipe, and has an assistant named Doctor Młotson.
  • Stealth Pun: The seaman who's guarding the ship in Istanbul is a wolf. In other words, he's a Seawolf (a class of submarine).
  • Story Breadcrumbs: Plotline of Ancient Kretons and Amon Kretes is presented on ancient plates found while traveling in many locations.
  • Suddenly Speaking: Reksio speaks for the first time in the ending. The joke, however, was ruined in Romanian dub due to Reksio always having human dialogue combined with dog sounds during the whole game.
  • Swallowed Whole: Reksio is swallowed in intro by Captain Nemo's Nautilus. Even Lampshaded in bonus scene teasing game in demo
    Narrator: Why Captain Nemo swallowed Reksio?
    Captain Nemo: I didn't do it.
    Moles: But it looked like you did.
  • Time-Travel Romance: Reksio and Kari Mata Hari fall in love with each other during the heroes' journey in the 19th century. Kati Mata eventually travels to Reksio's century to be with her boyfriend.
  • Trapped in the Past: The game starts with Reksio and Moles being trapped in the 19th century because the time machine was destroyed when they landed here by accident.
  • Travel Montage: Travels are ofted depicted in that way
  • Underwater Ruins: Ruins of Mu in the pacific ocean are the main destination for our heroes.
  • Who Writes This Crap?!: In a cutscene at the end of the Istanbul chapter we get Moles' almost three minutes long rant about old 2D graphics, recycled and repetitive animations and the low quality of the dialogue.
  • You Didn't Ask: Said by Doctor Młotson when Moles finds out from him that he has 5 minutes to reach train

Tropes featured in Back in Action:

Treasure of Pirates is limited only to coins, 1-Up and more bombs, Wizzards has only heal and Superhero and Captain Nemo has only more explosives.

Tropes featured in Secret of The Third Dimension:

Tropes featured in City of Secrets:

Tropes featured in City of Secrets 2:

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