Video Game / Tsuki Adventure

Tsuki Adventure is a mobile game developed by RapBot Studios and published by HyperBeard in 2018.

The player follows Tsuki the rabbit, who escapes a stressful and monotonous job in the city for a life in the countryside. He moves back to his childhood home, Mushroom Village, where he has inherited a carrot farm from his late grandfather. Rather than directly control Tsuki's actions, the player can lead the rabbit to different places and see what he does on his own.

A second game, Tsuki's Odyssey, released for early access on Android in April 2021. A sequel, Tsuki Adventure 2, released for early access on Android in June 2023.

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Tsuki Adventure contains the following tropes:

• Ad Reward: You can watch ads at certain points to get more carrots (the in-game currency). It is also the only way to get bags of manure, which can be used to get more carrots and are required for a certain diary entry.
• The Alcoholic: One character on Hareshima, Richard, can be found at Lani's bar, getting drunk to unhealthy levels.
  Richard: Gotta... hit the bottle again...
• Anti-Frustration Features:
  • If Tsuki is away from Mushroom Village, villagers will send Tsuki the carrots they harvested from his farm every two hours. Typically it's 50 carrots (unaffected by extra stars on the carrot farm), but it drops to 40 if Ken is the one harvesting.
  • If Tsuki ever gets stuck somewhere or really wants to go home already, the player can type in the code "countryroad" and they'll be teleported back home.
• Appropriate Animal Attire: The anthropomorphic animal characters that populate the game's world come in a variety of states of dress. Some, like Yori, wear no clothes at all. Some only wear an accessory or two, like Tsuki (scarf and shoes) and Mori (hat and glasses). Many wear a full set of clothing, making them either a Barefoot Cartoon Animal or a Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal, depending on whether they're wearing shoes.
• Bedsheet Ghost: Pipi's Halloween ghost costume is a sheet with holes cut out for the eyes.
• Black Sheep: Solstice has three adopted children: Draco, Orion, and Carina. Carina, having passion and talent for watermelon farming, takes after Solstice, and Orion, being good with handiwork, takes after their other mother. Draco on the other hand is interested in cars and wants to be a race car driver, in contrast with his environmentalist family.
• Bland-Name Product:
  • At Yukiyama Village, Tsuki can buy Pucky, clearly based off of the real life Pocky.
  • The BYSON Vacuum is based off the Dyson brand of vacuums.
  • The Cazda R8 is based off the car brand Mazda.
  • The Ceats Headset is based off the Beats headphones brand.
  • The Codak camera is based off the Kodak camera brand.
  • The cPhone is based off the iPhone.
  • The Keurug coffee machine is based off the Keurig brand of coffee makers.
  • The CarrotBoy is based off the Game Boy.
  • One character mentions cars called Ceslas, a reference to Teslas.
• Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Leonard, a blind tourist seen on the trip back from Hareshima, wears sunglasses.
• Butt-Monkey: Tsuki is often annoyed or even terrorized by various characters. Sometimes the environment can screw him over or even the player.
• Captain Ersatz: At Club Moon's Great City branch, a fat orange cat named Barfield can be found. A reference to Garfield, he's a washed up celebrity who spends his nights drinking at the bar.
• Cave Behind the Falls: The waterfall in Jugafuchi Forest has a cave hidden behind it.
• Coconut Meets Cranium: On Hareshima, Tsuki can sometimes be found trying to climb a tree to reach a coconut. If the player taps the coconut, it will fall on Tsuki's head, knocking him to the ground.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Bobo is a skilled ramen cook, but some of his experiments are on the questionable side. One combines soy sauce, banana, and ginger.
• Crapsaccharine World: Downplayed example. While the game features cutesy talking animals and is portrayed as a peaceful, story-based adventure, it does have a 17+ rating and there are many instances where this world is not much better than our own. Many of those cute characters will often be snarking or even threatening Tsuki, to say the least.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Tsuki can use the ukulele to play along with the background music at the carrot farm and Mermaid Coast.
• A Dog Named "Dog":
  • Sheriff Inu is a dog, and his name is Japanese for "dog".
  • Kuma is a bear, and his name is Japanese for "bear".
  • Wagyu is a bull, and Wagyu is the name of various breeds of Japanese cattle.
• Elephants Never Forget: The gacha toy "Ellie", an elephant is a reference to the trope — its description is "Elephants never forget."
• Family Theme Naming:
  • Mori and Moca — grandmother and grandson — both have names starting with Mo-.
  • The brothers Bobo and Kimbo have names ending with -bo. Their father Rondo has a name ending with -o, and his father Kobo has another -bo name.
• Fantastic Racism: One character who can be found in the Grand Royal Hotel is Mr Frog. One of his lines is: "Can't believe they let a rabbit in~ Rabbits belong on the farm~" The Club Moon member Bich also looks down on rabbits.
• Fishing Minigame: Tsuki can go fishing and it can be the player's best way of making money, if they're willing to tap on the screen for long durations.
• Flavor Text: All the items and toys come with descriptions.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Rondo wanted his son Bobo to take over the kyudojo from him, but Bobo, who felt stifled by him growing up, left to open up a ramen shop instead.
• Furry Confusion: Most characters in the game are talking animals, but one character is a non-anthropomorphic yellow duck swimming in a pond who only quacks. Strangely enough, Tsuki can purchase certain items like the Rubber Duckling and the Ducky Float, both modeled after a similar duck.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: There are many diary entries and gatchapon toys to try and collect.
• Holiday Mode: There are various in-game limited time events based around holidays, including Halloween, Christmas, Lunar New Year, Easter, and Mid-Autumn Festival. There's also an event for Tsuki's birthday (November 11).
• Hypocritical Humor: At the Conch station, Scruffy can be seen working the counter while smoking a cigarette, a no-smoking sign plainly visible on the wall behind him.
• In-Universe Game Clock: The game operates in real time, following the device clock.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The diary entry "Privacy!" reads, "I need my privacy. I feel like someone is always watching me, even in my own house..." — referring to the player.
• A Lizard Named "Liz":
  • One of the surveyors is an owl named Talon.
  • One character in the Great City is a bulldog named B.D.
  • The passengers on the Hareshima boat ride include a leopard named Leonard and a pig named Peggy.
  • The Club Moon members and workers include a capybara named Barra, an elephant named Ellie, a bulldog named Ruff, a kangaroo named Rooney, and a dog named Shepard.
• Luck-Based Mission:
  • Tsuki often randomly eats the food in his inventory, not discriminating between event-limited food and common ones like the instant noodles. Some players stock up on the common food types so Tsuki is more likely to eat through those than the event-limited items.
  • Even buying items can be luck-based, due to the stores only stocking three items at a time, sometimes only giving out food items and tickets that the player might not even need. Shops update about every three hours, which is very bad when Tsuki is vacationing somewhere with only three days to buy what he needs before he's forced back home. This gets worse for event-limited shops, those that might not sell you the items you need in time.
  • Tsuki may only visit places randomly if the player leaves the game for a while and checks on him every so often. This is particularly egregious when trying to climb Mount Yukiyama, which can only be done when Tsuki obtains the correct equipment, goes to Yukiyama Village, and the player checks in on Tsuki between 8 AM and 10 AM (a short time slot). This makes it extremely difficult to max out friendship with Kubo, who resides at the top.
  • Preparing to head deeper into Jugafuchi Forest can be this if Tsuki still needs to buy all the equipment necessary for it. The shop updates every three hours or so (while only staying open from early afternoon to late evening), but the shop menu can be filled with up to three useless items that Tsuki doesn't need at the time. If the player doesn't find what they need, they'll have to wait another three hours to see if they can get the right equipment, only to find out that the shop has closed and they must wait until tomorrow.
  • Traveling through the forest itself is almost entirely luck-based, with only the actual directions to the tree where you gain the pomegranate being specified. This makes it particularly difficult to find and befriend all the characters inside the forest.
  • Actually leaving the forest once you enter can take even more work. There are multiple ways of forcing an exit, none of which are ideal. The support code "countryroad" forces Tsuki all the way home (which can be a waste of 1000 carrots it took to get there), Tsuki can pass out from lack of food (unlikely if you've stocked up), Tsuki can find the exit randomly (with a low chance), or Tsuki can use the compass to exit (which only occurs randomly in the shop, a Luck-Based Mission there too).
  • Winning or losing at playing cards is based on chance.
  • There's no way to tell the Masakos apart before letting them in, so getting the good one and avoiding the bad one is based on luck.
• Meaningful Name: The Club Moon member Bich shows Fantastic Racism towards rabbits, and her name is one letter away from "bitch".
• Mistaken for Servant: Mr Frog briefly mistakes Tsuki for a waiter.
• Moon Rabbit: Tsuki is a rabbit, and his name means "moon" in Japanese. There's also a subscription service called Club Moon.
• Mr. Exposition: Mori welcomes Tsuki to Mushroom Village, explains carrot farming, and tells him about the local sites.
• Nap-Inducing Speak: Tsuki will periodically nod off while listening to Mori's stories. In the diary entry associated with the event, he writes:
  I think Mori is starting to have an effect on me because I can't remember half of what she said.
• Now You Tell Me: In the Moonlit Cave, Tsuki can drink the cave water dripping from the ceiling, only to find it disgusting. Chi warns him not to, but her warning comes seconds too late.
  Tsuki: So.. this water gives calcium?
  Chi: In theory, yes but I don't think you should..drink it..
• NPC Scheduling: Each character has different hours of the day when they can be found in a given location, with some of them having different locations for different times of day.
• Nonstandard Game Over: Tsuki can receive a Game Over and die if he's running around his carrot farm and bumps into his golden hoe. However, he wakes up shortly later completely fine.
• Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: Lani, the bartender at Hareshima, is always polishing a glass.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. There is a character named Eddie in the Great City, and an unrelated character named Ed in Jugafuchi Forest.
• Oral Fixation:
  • Walter the seagull is always holding a french fry in his beak like a cigarette.
  • Scruffy and Scrappy, the gas station workers. Scruffy is always smoking a cigarette, and Scrappy is always chewing on a stalk of grass.
• Perpetual Frowner: Lani always looks like he's scowling. According to him, it's just his natural look.
• Properly Paranoid: Chagas at first seems unfounded in his fears of Jugafuchi Forest, especially his fear of bugs which the player never actually gets to experience. However, Ed the implied serial killer does live deep in the forest, so it's probably for the best if Chagas stays where he is.
• Rake Take: Tsuki can step on the golden hoe as a random event and it will flip up and whack him, causing him to temporarily die.
• Relationship Values: If a character can be befriended, a heart appears over their dialogue box. The color of the heart indicates Tsuki's relationship level with them, with the lowest being grey (just met) and the highest being red (best friend forever).
• Ripped from the Headlines: One of Crush's lines while reading his newspaper is a reference to the COVID-19 Pandemic:
  Crush: Oh wow these are some crazy times... An entire country on lockdown...
• Rich Bitch: Mr. Frog is rich enough to stay in the Grand Royal Hotel, and Bich can afford a Club Moon membership and wears a crown. Both look down on Tsuki for being a rabbit.
• Scaling the Summit: Tsuki can climb Mount Yukiyama. The journey takes at least 18 hours.
• Seashell Bra: Referenced in the description of the "Scallop Shell" toy: "Integral part of a mermaid two-piece."
• Shout-Out:
  • Many characters are named after real or fictional people.
  • The "countryroad" code, which takes Tsuki home, is a reference to the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads".
  • Tsuki can buy three Lord of the Carrots books, with the titles and the book descriptions being based off of the Lord of the Rings series.
  • The description of the cod is "An expert at modern warfare", a reference to Call of Duty (frequently abbreviated as CoD) and its Modern Warfare subseries.
  • The description of the swordfish is a reference to the movie by that name: "A 2001 action movie about a computer hacker."
  • The description of the flying fish is "Red Bull gave it wings", referencing the commercial slogan for the Red Bull drink.
  • The description of the volleyball ("I think I'll call him Wilson.") is a reference to Cast Away.
  • The description of the crayfish is "Fifty shades of cray."
  • The description of the "Donnie" toy is a line from Donnie Darko: "Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?"
  • One of Moca's sleepy mumblings is "Sweet dreams....are...zzzz made of tea...", a reference to Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".
  • One of Chi's sleepy mumblings is "taking...Zzzz..to...Zzz..gard...", a reference to a certain memetic line from The Lord of the Rings.
  • Richard bears resemblance to Rick from Rick and Morty. They share a name (Rick's full name is Richard), are both alcoholics, and one of Richard's lines has him starting to say Rick's catchphrase, "wubba lubba dub dub".
    Richard: W-Wubba... lubba ...dub.... ughh.... I-I think I'm gonna... hurl...
  • Kojack is a horse. His name is a reference to the title character of BoJack Horseman, who is also a horse.
  • Among the robot gacha toys, Terminator is a reference to Terminator, Murphy to Robocop, and Mark I to Iron Man.
  • Among the wooden doll gacha toys, Simba is a reference to The Lion King, Baloo to The Jungle Book, Snoop to Snoop Dogg and the song "Who Let the Dogs Out", Mumble to Happy Feet, and Jack to Pirates of the Caribbean.
  • Among the origami gacha toys, the frog is a reference to The Frog Prince, the crane's description to R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly", and the fox's description to Ylvis' "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)".
  • The "Major Tom" gacha toy is a reference to the song "Space Oddity" from Space Oddity.
  • The description of the "Nigiri" gacha toy ("Sashimi rollin', they hatin'!") is a reference to a memetic line from Chamillionaire's "Ridin'".
  • The gacha toy "Twin Peaks", with its description "Fire walk with me", is a reference to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
  • Among the fish gacha toys, Magic Carp is a reference to Magikarp from Pokémon and Dory is a reference to Dory from Finding Nemo.
  • The description of the "Fly Amanita Mushroom" gacha toy reads: "Look carefully, there might be a smurf under it."
  • Moca dresses up as a Ninja Turtle for Halloween.
  • During Halloween, one of the things Chi (dressed as a witch) can say is "accio candy!"
  • During the Halloween event, you can see four ghosts floating together at Tsuki's house — one red, one pink, one blue, and one orange, like the ghosts in Pac-Man. They also have the same names as Pac-Man ghosts (although the orange one's is spelled "Klyde" instead of "Clyde").
  • One of the ghosts from the Halloween event is green and named Slimey, similar to Slimer from Ghostbusters. Another is white and named Kasper, like Casper the Friendly Ghost.
  • One of Ken's lines at Tsuki's birthday is: "Haha so the cake wasn't a lie~ It really is as big as they said it would be."
  • One Club Moon diary entry is about a book called "The Robbit", referencing The Hobbit.
• Sluggish Sloths: Momo the sloth usually speaks in short sentences, often broken into pieces or single words with pauses in between. At Tsuki's birthday, while everyone else has already arrived at the party, Momo can be seen slowly making her way towards it.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Shawn boasts about being a great trekker, but can occasionally be found recovering at the campsite, having passed out in the woods and been rescued by Jovian. According to Jovian, "He didn't get very far."
• Snot Bubble:
  • Cass, the host at the OmuNoodles restaurant, can often be seen nodding off at his post, a snot bubble coming out of his nose.
  • On the trip back from Hareshima, Tsuki is asleep with a snot bubble coming out of his nose.
  • Tsuki will periodically nod off with a snot bubble blowing while listening to Mori's stories, then jerk awake, the bubble popping.
• Stellar Theme Naming: Solstice's adopted kids are named after constellations: Draco, Orion, and Carina.
• Supreme Chef: Bobo makes excellent ramen. Tsuki even makes a diary entry highly praising his regular ramen bowls. His special recipe, on the other hand...
• Surprisingly Creepy Moment: This game has a 17+ rating for a reason!
  • In the Great City, Tsuki can sometimes see a bear in a trench coat walking by. Taking a picture of him provokes him into shooting a window near Tsuki.
  • Exploring deep into the Jugafuchi Forest can lead Tsuki to Ed, who is heavily implied to be a serial killer. For a game revolved around a peaceful life in the countryside, it's startling to see this man "gardening" at 2 AM in the morning.
  • Combining the two events above, befriending Ed to his highest heart means you get his best friend gift, which is an innocent lollipop. Cute, right? Wrong. Eating it makes Tsuki pass out, only to be found by Julian the ranger. Later when you go to Ed's house, you find police and the same bear in a trench coat from before, with police tape surrounding the house. Even worse than that, Ed is never caught by the police, as he actually ends up sending a letter to Tsuki later which sounds vaguely threatening. Also, one of the knives that usually hangs in his kitchen is now missing.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Some female mammalian and avian characters have visible eyelashes as an indicator of gender.
• Verbal Tic: Jovian ends many sentences with "eh" or "ya?"
• Weird Currency: Carrots are used as currency.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Kimbo can sometimes be seen in the city, talking about wanting to earn his dad's pride through boxing.
• Wink "Ding!":
  • In the diary entry "Three Musketeers", Tsuki is winking at the camera with a star shooting out from his other eye.
  • In the "Watercycle" diary entry, Tsuki is riding a jet ski and winking, a twinkle next to his eye.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The "sheep plushie" toy alludes to the expression. Its description is: "There's a wolf inside..."
• World of Funny Animals: There are no humans seen in the game. All the cities and other settlements are populated by animals.

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