History VideoGame / CandyBox

* ExcitedShowTitle: The title ends with an exclamation mark.

* ExactWords: The squirrel says you have to get three-in-a-row to beat him at Tic Tac Toe. [[spoiler:He doesn't say you have to put your X-es inside the grid...]]

* TurtlePower: You can brew a potion that turns you into a turtle. This makes you have much more defense, but makes you slower. [[spoiler: Being slow will benefit you in getting across the Developer's moat.]]

* AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: Nothing is really capped, other than by the limitations of integer storage. Late in the game, it's quite easy to acquire 10^80 or so HP and sword power, which is numerous zeros beyond the point at which most of the game's enemies become laughably harmless.

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: The Hell level is the hardest by far; there are several much easier ones after it. The [[spoiler:Developper]] final level mainly just [[LuckBasedMission requires numerous retries.]]

* EarlyBirdBoss: The Troll in hard mode. You face it with 100 HP, and probably a silver sword and enchanted pink or red gloves at best, as you don't get spells or potions until you beat it. You have to hope your red glove's fireballs manage to do enough damage for you to kill it. Once you get spells, you can easily beat it by casting two fireballs or using some potions.

* EndlessGame: The sea. After the initial waves of fish/jellyfish and seahorses, you'll encounter sharks and sea serpents that will come at you in increasing frequency until you either die or escape.

** From the sequel: "Some spikes killed you with its spikes."

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "The Swampy Swamp is the swampiest swamp you've ever seen."

* WakeUpCallBoss: The Whale. You face it after a level that wears down most of your health, and its 100 HP and 8 damage is nothing to laugh at when you first face it. [[spoiler: Use a Fire Scroll to make things easier.]]

* DifficultySpike: The peaceful forest and Goblin Mountain are both fairly easy and pretty doable, even if you've been hoarding/spending all your candy. The underwater cavern, however, is ''much'' more challenging, and the Castle Entrance will stop you in your tracks if you're not prepared.
** The Castle Keep is another one. Lots of painful Mooks, and the [[spoiler:Dragon at the end which requires you to have invulnerability potions and a very good strategy if you want to beat it.]]
** Another one occurs after beating the Castle Keep. You end up in hell and fight demons as regular Mooks... who do as much damage as the [[spoiler: Dragon]], spiked walls that take a long time to break and deal lots of damage, and [[spoiler:the Devil himself who does twice as much damage as the dragon!]]

* FollowTheLeader: Inspired the creation of many other idle point-and-click games, such as ''VideoGame/ADarkRoom'' and ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''.

* DifficultySpike:
** Try to go into the desert immediately after you face down the rats, without buying an Iron Axe. You'll get destroyed by the camels.
** The forest, after beating the troll. The club you obtain hurts a lot, but it's not enough to face down the huge pack of wolves coming towards you.

* ImprovisedPlatform: One method of obtaining the Rocket Boots is to equip [[spoiler:the Summoning Tribal staff and use the summoned tribals to form a platform staircase to get to the top.]]

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** The Castle Keep is another one. Lots of painful Mooks, and the [[spoiler: Dragon at the end which requires you to have invulnerability potions and a very good strategy if you want to beat it.]]
** Another one occurs after beating the Castle Keep. You end up in hell and fight demons as regular Mooks... who do as much damage as the [[spoiler: Dragon]], spiked walls that take a long time to break and deal lots of damage, and [[spoiler: the Devil himself who does twice as much damage as the dragon!]]

** You don't have to pay all those lollipops to [[spoiler: overcome yourself. You just need to use a Fire Scroll when your foe's health is below 35, which defeats him without having you take any extra damage.]]

** The frog's final question. [[spoiler: Now, just type '''the answer to that question''' and I'll give you a very special present : what is the only thing to go beyond the limits of our universe?]]

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* MemeticBadass: InUniverse, [[spoiler: Creator/ChuckNorris. Yes, really.]]

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* BulletHell: After traveling quite a distance UnderTheSea, you soon face sharks and sea serpents, the latter of which spray multitudes of ''painful'' bullets forwards. This trope comes into play as you progress further and they become more common, eventually having multiple serpents on the screen.

* CallBack: The rats in the cellar are shown as "rat" instead of the ASCII graphics of the other enemies, as a nod to the prequel.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The rats in the basement are the only enemies in the game that are shown in actual letters ("rat") than ASCII art.

[[http://candies.aniwey.net/ Candy box!]] is a free online game. The premise is simple: You have a handful of candies, and you gain one additional piece of candy every second. You have two options: You can either eat all the candies you're currently holding, or throw ten of them on the ground (provided you have 10 to spare). [[BlatantLies That's it. That's really all there is to it. Honest.]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial There certainly isn't a Candy Merchant who will eventually come along to sell you more kinds of candy, and even if there was, there isn't anything you could do with it.]]

Upon the huge success of the game, Aniwey announced that he would work on a sequel. Said sequel came out on October 24th, 2013.

* DegradedBoss: In a sense. [[spoiler: In Normal Mode, some of the Bugs in the Developer's Computer may have the same attacks as those of the Dragon and Devil.]]

* GameWithinAGame: The house to the right of the shop has a game console, with a dungeoning game (full of references to the original Candy Box), and some [[NintendoHard obnoxiously difficult]] "Copter" type of thing.

* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: The Turtle potion turns you into a turtle that has much more defense at the cost of slow speed.

* SturdyAndSteadyTurtles: Like in the first game, the Turtle potion turns you into a turtle that has much more defense at the cost of slow speed. This is handy for surviving some of the more lethal attacks.

* HopelessBossFight: Subverted with [[spoiler:the dragon.]] His impenetrably high HP is displayed as "so much hp / so much hp." But after a bit of futile attacking, he turns out to be friendly, and becomes a QuestGiver.