Habitica is a cross between a task management site and a role-playing game, where tasks are completed through doing positive habits and refraining from negative habits. Like in many role-playing games, there are levels, stats, and gold. You can spend gold on new equipment with stat benefits. There also are gems, which can be spent on clothing that have no stat benefits. Or you can create you own custom Real Life rewards for completing tasks.
In Habitica, you can have Habits, which can damage you or give you experience. You can also have Dailies and To-Dos, which you can check off to gain experience. Dailies damage you if left unchecked.
You can also join guilds, create a party, or fight boss monsters.
Examples:
- Adventure Guild: There are several guilds you can join. You can even create your own.
- Anachronism Stew: The world of Habitica contains modern-day things (like plastic scissors), but the majority of the world is set in the Middle Ages.
- And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating: You can use gems to buy backgrounds for your avatar.
- Aquatic Mook: Your avatar can be this if you equip them with scuba gear.
- BFS: The Crystal Blade sword is considerably bigger than normal swords.
- Big Bad: Vice, the Shadow Wyrm is this. He could arguably be the Final Boss, but you can repeat the quest multiple times.
- Bows Versus Crossbows: Avatars can use either.
- Climactic Volcano Backdrop: One of the backgrounds you can purchase for your avatar is of a volcano.
- Continuing is Painful: If you die, you lose a level, all of your gold, and a random piece of equipment - which can be frustrating if you have accumulated thousands of gold. However, you can manually change your gold through the site settings.
- Cool Crown: There are several crown designs, including the Royal Crown, the Soothing Lunar Crown and the Snow Sovereign Crown.
- Cool Sword: There's an assortment of fancy swords for warriors and rogues to unlock.
- Dark Is Not Evil: The Shade pets and mounts, despite being Red and Black and Evil All Over, are no different from their other Palette Swaps.
- Difficult, but Awesome: The Mage class is easily the most frail out of the classes, but their high Intelligence makes it very easy to gain experience and level up, and they have some of the best Skills in the game. If you're structured in your routine and never miss a single Daily, you'll have plenty of Mana to spend.
- Equipment-Based Progression: Although you can level up, you can increase your avatar's stats by vast amounts using equipment.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: There's several rainbow-themed equipment sets, including the Rainbow Warrior and the Rougish Rainbow Messanger.
- Experience Points: There's a yellow experience points bar.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Users have a choice between these three classes, plus the healer.
- Flaming Hair: You can buy fire hair for your avatar.
- Freemium: Although Habitica is free to use, there are some items you can't purchase without gems, which cost real money.
- Gold-Colored Superiority / Gold Makes Everything Shiny: The higher-tier warrior items are gold-themed. And the Golden Staff for mages.
- Healing Potion: There's a healing potion you can purchase with gold.
- Hit Points: There's a red hit points bar.
- Horny Vikings: There is an armouire viking outfit set that averts the horned helmet design by making the helmet historically-acurate. Zig-zagged since there are other warrior helmets that have horns.
- Horse of a Different Color: Avatars have a wide range of different mounts they can ride.
- In-Series Nickname: Users and characters in Habitica are referred to as Habiticans.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Rogues can unlock katanas.
- Lazy Bum: Since Habitica is a productivity app, many of the antagonists are the personification of sloth.
- Level-Up Fill-Up: Leveling up fully heals you.
- Little Bit Beastly: The animal ears and custom skins you can purchase.
- Magic Staff: Mages and healers get an assortment of staffs to unlock.
- Matryoshka Object: The plain egg... hatches into an egg.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Habitica's goal is to help people complete their goals by gamifying their tasks, making those task feel more fun and exciting.
- This trailer for Habitica also illustrates this.
- Noble Bird of Prey: The Perching Falcon offhand weapon.
- The falcon pets and mounts.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: The Eel and Mermaid sets allow your avatar to have mermaid tails.
- Panthera Awesome: You can ride tigers, lions, cheetahs, and sabertooth tigers.
- Permanently Missable Content: Some limited-time items never become available again once their event ends.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Several clothing items, including the Gown of Hearts and the Red Party Dress.
- Player Party: Users can team up in a party to help each other complete boss fights and fetch quests.
- Playing Card Motifs: The "Of Hearts" equipment set.
- Random Drop: Random items such as eggs, hatching potions and food can drop when you complete a Daily/To-Do/Habit.
- Repeatable Quest: Quest scrolls are repeatable.
- Replay Value: Items like the Orb of Rebirth and the Stable Keys can help users start over in level/pet unlocks.
- Retraux: Habitica uses pixel art.
- Robe and Wizard Hat: The standard design for most mage clothing sets.
- Snowball Fight: During the winter months, you can purchase snowballs to throw at other party members, which turns them into snowmen.
- Squishy Wizard: Mages pack powerful spells, but miss too many Dailies and you will die.
- Status Buff: Each class has a different set of power-ups.
- Stone Wall: Healers have the highest Constitution of the classes, but they can barely damage bosses.
- The Trickster: The character April Fool plays a lot of tricks, usually on April the first.
- Unicorn: The unicorn pet and mount.
- Unlockable Content: Different quest scrolls, class powers, and features are unlocked as you level up. Clothing items can be bought with gold and gems.
- Unusual Ears: Avatars can wear different animal ears, including dog, cat, mouse and bunny ears.
- Virtual Pet: Feeding the pets allows you to grow them into mounts.
- Whale Egg: Every pet hatches from an egg... even if they're mammals.
- When Trees Attack: One of the boss fights is an attacking tree.