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* ShoutOut: Damn near everything in the game is a shout out to something or other; ''VideoGame/CannonFodder'', ''{{Tron}}'', ''{{Centipede}}'' and the ZXSpectrum to name but a few. Hell, Dr Sepulveda even looks like Clive Sinclair.

* CrapsackWorld: In ''{{Multiwinia}}'' especially. Four tribes of mutated Darwinians are in a constant state of war. No side really knows why the fight even started. Meteor showers and nuclear strikes are commonly used, to the point where "WMD" refers to something [[ItGotWorse other than nukes]]. To top it all off, [[DeathIsCheap]] and souls come back all the time to just keep fighting, unless of course the dark forests get to them, in which case they haunt the ruins of battlefields for all of eternity.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: On the other hand, you can send them marching into a large cluster of The Virus, your squads can throw grenades at them, or you can just promote every single one into an Officer and then execute them.

* ShoutOut: Damn near everything in the game is a shout out to something or other; ''Game/CannonFodder'', ''{{Tron}}'', ''{{Centipede}}'' and the ZXSpectrum to name but a few. Hell, Dr Sepulveda even looks like Clive Sinclair.

** If you see a bunch of Darwinians get killed, chances are pretty good that you'll see a bunch of kites launched as the souls drift upwards off the playing field. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything Yes, the Darwinians have funeral customs.]]

** If you see a bunch of Darwinians get killed, chances are pretty good that you'll see a bunch of kites launched as the souls drift upwards off the playing field. Yes, the Darwinians have funeral customs.

* GeoEffects: Forces move slower when climbing hills, faster when going down them, shorter throws when throwing upslope, and longer throws when going downslope. Thanks, physics!

* InstantWinCondition: As long as you do all that's required, regions can remain as infected as you want.

* MookMaker: Eggs, which can either be laid by certain virus types or launched (usually right at your main Incubator) by Triffids and Spore Generators.

* {{Tearjerker}}: the ending cinematic.

** In ''Biosphere'', you need to use the Darwinians to punch through enemy lines.

* AntiPoopSocking: A [[GoodBadBugs bug(?)]] in the game will prevent you from creating new tasks after playing the game for too long, weakening your chances or even making it impossible to proceed further in the game.

** I could have been also done to show that the programs and enemies are foreign to the Darwinians' world, as it and the Darwinians themselves are rendered without pixelization.

* DemonicSpiders: Soul Destroyers which are very hard to hit since they fly around.

* GameBreaker: Engineers can move ''anywhere'', and capture Control Towers as long as they remain unmolested long enough. And resetting a level ''doesn't'' reset the Towers. This means distracting higher-level monsters, such as Soul Destoryers, with a squad while your Engie captures a tower is a viable strategy.

* GoddamnedBats: Spore Generators due to their ability to float out of danger after getting hit, Triffids because many of them are placed on remote locations and Army Ants for their multiplication properties.

* GameBreaker: Engineers can move ''anywhere'', and capture Control Towers as long as they remain unmolested long enough. And resetting a level ''doesn't'' reset the Towers.

* TheGoomba: Virii which is present in large numbers.

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Digital souls. It's never really explained what a digital soul ''is'', other than "Incubators can make new Darwinians from recycled souls, so go do that."

** Digital souls are basically Darwinian DNA. It mentions how the most successful souls reincarnate pretty much as-is while the less successful start fresh as a template based on the most successful. One level has you recapturing the master template from the virus.

* ZergRush: Possible, once the Darwinians have weapons and your officers have the 'follow me' order. Get enough together and you can overwhelm most enemies through sheer weight of numbers.

* {{God}}: The Darwinians consider Dr Sepulveda to be one. They've even made statues of him after he accidentally sent his webcam video data to the Darwinia sky rendering system.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Programs can simply be rerun for free, and getting back to where you were before is usually just an inconvenience, since any building you've reprogrammed can be used as a starting point. Dead Darwinians can be reconstituted at an incubator.

* {{Pixellation}}: A non-censorship example. 3D enemies and programs have pixellation filter to make it look more retro.

* {{Pixellation}} a non-censorship example. 3D enemies and programs have pixellation filter to make it look more retro.