History VideoGame / DaysGone

* MeleeATrois: It's perfectly possible when fighting human enemies at an ambush camp that a swarm will come by and make your job at once easier and more complicated. (It's even scripted in at least one instance.)

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Parodied. In the past Deacon told Sarah that his gang got some Black guys to join solely to tick off a rival biker gang who were skinheads. He immediately admits he was teasing her when she asked if he was being serious.

* SavageWolves: Wolves and zombie wolves can be encountered wandering the wilderness. Both are very hostile to you.

** To a lesser extent, there are Screamers (who can summon more Swarmers if they spot you, drain your stamina if you're in earshot, and if you are near a horde cave you better run), Criers (zombie ''crows'' that move fast, hit hard, and are tricky to shoot down), and Bleachers (who are tougher than regular Swarmers but still behave like standard enemies).

** Heavies are hostile survivors wearing bulky, makeshift body armor and armed with machine guns. They can take a lot more bullets than regular human enemies, but are considerably slower as a result of their armor.

** Per the game's ZombieApocalypse setting, humans are its worst enemy as roving gangs of bandits and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers psychopathic cultists]] pose a threat to Deacon.

* JumpScare: Try opening a car trunk and there's a chance a Newt will jump out at you. There's a scripted one at the very beginning of the game, too, when you're walking point ahead of Boozer's bike and have to cut down an access tunnel. A Swarmer pops out a door and takes Deacon by surprise and can only be killed via PressXNotToDie.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:The outbreak was caused by one of Sarah's coworkers. He correctly thought they were building a biological weapon for the government. He broke into the lab to steal a sample and brought it to a environmental convention in Portland hoping to be then next Edward Snowden. He accidentally infected himself when he stole the sample. He then infected the convention attendees. They got on planes back to their homes infecting people along the way. Two weeks later...]]

** Played seriously in one mission where Deacon [[MercyKill mercy kills]] a seriously injured woman against her will rather than leave her behind to be eaten alive by the Freakers. He suffers a serious HeroicBSOD afterwards, but is able to compose himself fairly quickly.

** Upgrading any of your health, stamina or focus for the first time is "Film/BetterLivingThroughChemistry." Deacon will even quote it after taking a NERO Mod.

** Killing a Breaker, Reacher or Rager with a knife is "[[Film/CrocodileDundee This is a Knife]]."

* ATasteOfPower: You start the game with your bike fully upgraded. However after the first mission Manny scraps the bike and as an apology gives him what Deacon uses throughout the game.

''Days Gone'' is an open world action-adventure survival horror video game released on 26 April 2019 by Creator/SIEBendStudio for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, with a PC port released two years later on May 17, 2021. It is the first intellectual property created by SIE Bend Studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' in 1999 and the first home console game developed by the studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter: Logan's Shadow'' in 2010. Unreal Engine 4 was used for the game development.

As the game is set in an open-world environment, players are allowed to use multiple ways to complete objectives, such as utilizing stealth for silent takedowns or taking the aggressive approach by using long- and short-ranged weapons. A dynamic weather system and day-night cycle is also featured in the game, which affects gameplay, making "Freakers" weak and slow during the daytime, but fast and aggressive during the night. Vehicles such as motorbikes can be used to explore the game's world. Players are able to craft new items to improve combat efficiency.

** The Chicago Chopper is based on the Thompson submachine gun, with the name being a reference to the weapon being referred to as the "Chicago Typewriter" when used in gang related crime.
** The Rock Chuck is ostensibly based on the AAC Honey Badger, but with an MLOK handguard similar to its successor, the Q Honey Badger.
** The .22 Repeater is a Ruger 10/22 with a twenty-five round magazine that suspiciously only holds five rounds in-game.

* DrivenToSuicide: One of the missions has Deacon and Skizzo find dynamite in a cave and they come across two of Skizzo's men that were trapped in a cave in. One died of his injuries and the other one survived by eating him. However this took a toll on him and at some point killed himself by shooting himself in the head, something Deacon can see if he investigates the scene.
* EarlyGameHell: You start with what could be best described as a Pea Shooter that needs a full magazine to kill a Freaker, especially in the harder difficulties settings (unless it's a headshot) and [[ATasteOfPower your bike is scrapped]], leaving you with a replacement that breaks down in any collision and has a tiny gas tank constantly making you seek out scrap and fuel. That's also not including your health and stamina being very low as well as being unable to hold many supplies or ammo. It isn't until close to halfway through the game do you start to get any decent fire power, equipment on the bike, some NERO mods to give you extra health and stamina, and upgrades that allow you to carry more stuff to take on the Freaks.

* DamselOutOfDistress: When you get to Crater Lake, your initiation assignment, more or less, is to hunt down an AWOL member of the milita, Vasquez. Vasquez and his group of ne'er do wells have gotten their hands on a young woman. Vasquez makes a sneering remark to her and drags her into a room with a knife to her throat. After taking care of the thugs outside, Deacon enters the room only to find Vasquez dead on the floor, his crotch a bleeding ruin, with the unhurt, fully-clothed hostage stabbing the corpse in the junk furiously over and over while screaming imprecations. Shouldn't have tried to mess with a female ex-con.
* DegradedBoss: Each EliteZombie is first encountered as the boss of a story mission. You'll start to find them in the open world afterwards.

** The residents of Sherman's Camp were massacred in a war with another group of survivors. Iron Mike was one of two remaining residents that walked out of the town alive. The former returns to the town with Deacon to show him what he went through.

* EarlyGameHell: You start out with what could be best described as a Pea Shooters that needs a full magazine to kill a Freaker especially in the harder difficulties settings (unless it's a head shot) and [[ATasteOfPower your bike is scrapped]], leaving you with a replacement that breaks down in any collision and has a tiny gas tank constantly making you seek out scrap and fuel. That's also not including your health and stamina being very low as well as being unable to hold many supplies or ammo. It isn't until close to halfway through the game do you start to get any decent fire power, equipment on the bike, some NERO mods to give you extra health and stamina and upgrades that allow you to carry more stuff to take on the Freaks.
* EasterEgg: You can find Leon's skeletonized remains where you left his body if you head back there at any point after leaving the first camp.
* EatenAlive: Deacon can find the remains of a survivor who attempted to flee a house through an upper floor window, legs still straddling the window frame. He/she has been completely devoured, bones and all, from the waist up.

* EvilOldFolks: Tucker, who runs the Hope Springs enclave like a labor camp, eventually driving several characters to prefer death over safety and food. [[spoiler:Even Lisa, who grew up with Tucker as a neighbour, hates her after a short while at Hope Springs, and Tucker merely laments losing another worker when falsely informed of her death]].

* EurekaMoment: Deacon just happened to come across Rikki trying to teach Addy how to ride a bike. It is this moment that has Deacon remember the time he was also trying to teach his, at the time, fiancé how to ride a bike as well. [[spoiler: Only for him to remember that the place she worked at required government clearance, something O'Brian claimed were one of the only groups of people evacuated from the camp. This leads to him getting information about where she was and finding her at Wizard Island.]]

** Every camp you go to you are given side missions from the Camp Leader, [[spoiler: except Lost Lake, foreshadowing Iron Mike isn't going to be around by the end of the game]].

** Iron Mike mentions that he was the only survivor of a civil war in Sherman's Camp along with a woman named Nora. This woman is never seen in game or mentioned again afterwards.
* GlobalCurrencyException: The game's economy works on a local credits system, where each camp have their own "credits" that can only be used with their own vendors and can be raised by doing missions and clearing out enemy encampments within their turf or donating bounties/resources to them.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The mysterious [=NERO=] that was responsible for trying to contain the outbreak two years prior, and currently sending field teams to studying the Freakers.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: It's revealed that the virus was deliberately engineered by the government (as represented by [=NERO=]) for unknown purposes, and was accidentally released when a whistleblower stole a sample in hopes of exposing the government's dirty deeds. TheStinger also potentially hints that [=NERO=] are actually an intelligent species of Freakers, and that they'll soon be coming for Deacon and the other Oregon survivors.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: A number of NPC characters (e.g. Iron Mike, O’Brian, Lisa, Kouri, [[spoiler:Sarah]] and so forth) seem to have fairly elaborate backstories which involve daring action, psychological drama and intricate conspiracies, which could easily make for interesting playing themselves.

* HideYourChildren: Justified as the virus killed everyone under twelve and between twelve and fifteen were turned into Newts. However, there is nothing to explain why after two years there are no new babies being born.
* HopelessSuitor: It is clear that Jezzy (Copeland Camp Ear Counter) and Blair (Lost Lake Gun Merchant) have crushes on Deacon, with the latter practically ''gushing'' over him every time he approaches her stall. And later on, [[spoiler: Rikki]] develops an attraction to him. But Deacon is so focused on his [[spoiler: thought to have been]] deceased wife that he can't move on with any of them.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Deacon has found Sarah and got O'Brian to give them an air lift out of the Militia Camp. Only for at that exact moment Colonel Garrett to arrive showing the new recruits the Ark, and one of those recruits being Skizzo. The Militia then scare off O'Brian's chopper and Skizzo falsely claims that Deacon is a criminal to get him executed.]]

** The BigBad of the game, Colonel Garret, starts out as a WellIntentionedExtremist, but starts to believe this trope over the course of the game, quickly turning him into a shining example of it. [[spoiler: He eventually ends up planning to use the army he was going to use to wipe out the Freaks to destroy all other survivor groups instead, reasoning that all of them are no better than the AlwaysChaoticEvil groups like the Rippers or the Marauders.]]
* InvincibleMinorMinion: [=NERO=] soldiers wear military-grade body armor and are immune to both your firearms and melee attacks. The only way to deal with them is to evade them with stealth.

* {{Irony}}: Copeland's Camp has a hard constitutional base for it, especially towards the 2nd Amendment[[note]]The Right to Own Firearms[[/note]]. However you are unable to actually buy any guns from this Camp, just ammo.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Skizzo, who constantly antagonizes Deacon and bullied his fellow survivors, is very skeptical of Iron Mike's peace treaty with the Rippers, who are completely insane and the very least likely of all people to honor the treaty. Deacon does agree and share Skizzo's sentiment, but he doesn't agree with Skizzo's idea to "solve" the treaty issue by usurping Iron Mike's leadership.
* JumpScare: Try opening a car trunk and there's a chance a Newt will jump out at you. There's a scripted one at the very beginning of the game, too, when you're walking point ahead of Boozer's bike and have to cut down an access tunnel. A Swarmer pops out a door and takes Deacon by surprise.

* ManOnFire: Enemies can be set on fire with Molotov cocktails. But setting a Ripper on fire, however, doesn't immediately kill them as they are dope up on PCP, and instead they will attempt [[TakingYouWithMe to run at Deacon and grab him, setting him on fire too if he doesn't succeed in breaking out of their grip]].

** In the Harder Difficulties and later in the game its not uncommon to come across several Boss Level monsters at the same time.

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: One of Skizzo's men survived after a cave-in by eating the remains of his partner who died from his injuries. He eventually killed himself in despair. Skizzo and Deacon have a somber discussion after finding the body where Deacon reveals his thankfulness that he ''hasn't'' had to resort to it.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: After Deacon joined the Militia and found Sarah, on one of their runs Deacon comments how odd it is with how serious they play military with protocol and ranks. Sarah states she felt the same way with Deacon's biker gang with the titles they gave each other. Deacon admits that she has a point.]]

* OppositesAttract: We have Deacon St. John, a guy from a broken home, ex-military and member of a 1% biker gang, where we have Sarah, a woman from the suburbs with 2 [=PhD=]'s. And they are HappilyMarried.

** Once you decide to go on the mission Riding Nomad Again and ride to Crater Lake, you won't be able to go back to any of the northern areas or complete their sidequests until much later.
** The second one occurs after you return to Lost Lake near the end of the game; you won't be able return to Crater Lake or Highway 97 or complete any sidequests there until the PlayableEpilogue.
* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Parodied. In the past Deacon told Sarah that his gang got some black guys to join solely to tick off a rival biker gang who were skinheads. He later admits he was teasing her when she asked if he was being serious.

* ZombieApocalypse: The setting of the game takes place two years after civilization collapsed from a global pandemic that killed most of humankind and turned a majority of the survivors into the zombie-like Freakers.

* UndeadChild: Everyone under about 12 years of age simply died from the virus. However, kids above that age turned into Newts, who are essentially about 12-14 year old Freakers. They're much weaker than regular Freakers, and will usually only attack if you're already badly injured or you intrude upon their space.

* PlotTunnel: There are two in the game. Both helpfully warn you :

** The second one occurs after you return to Lost Lake near the end of the game; you won't be able return to Crater Lake or Highway 97 or complete any sidequests their until the PlayableEpilogue.

The game takes place two years after a global pandemic occurred which killed almost all of humanity, and transformed millions of others into "Freakers", mindless zombie-like creatures that are quickly evolving. The player controls the game's protagonist, Deacon St. John (Creator/SamWitwer), a drifter and former bounty hunter who prefers to live a dangerous life on the road over living in wilderness encampments.

* RagnarokProofing: Despite not having anyone to do maintenance or repairs for two straight years and hosting nests of freakers, the hydroelectric dam at Little Bear Lake is apparently in perfect working order and just needs its intakes cleared in order to start producing electricity again.

* SaltTheEarth: [[spoiler: A central part of the Deschutes County Militia's plan to eventually destroy the Freaker swarms in the region. They have clear-cut and burned a large area around their fort, preventing the Freaks from building nests and gathering into a horde.]]

''Days Gone'' is an open world action-adventure survival horror video game released on 26 April 2019 by Creator/SIEBendStudio for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, with a PC port released two years later on May 17, 2021. It is the first intellectual property created by SIE Bend Studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' in 1999 and the first home console game developed by the studio since ''VideoGame/SyphonFilterLogansShadow'' in 2010. Unreal Engine 4 was used for the game development.

* ScorchedEarth: [[spoiler: A central part of the Deschutes County Militia's plan to eventually destroy the Freaker swarms in the region. They have clear-cut and burned a large area around their fort, preventing the Freaks from building nests and potentially gathering into a horde.]]

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: One of Skizzo's men survived after a cave-in by eating the remains of his partner who died from his injuries. He eventually killed himself in despair. Skizzo and Deacon have a somber discussion after finding the body where Deacon reveals his thankfulness that her ''hasn't'' had to resort to it.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome : [[spoiler: At the end of the game, despite spending the last third finding Sarah and rescuing her, she just vanishes entirely from the game with only some NPC dialogue about her here and there. It became such an issue among gamer complaints that Patch 1.60 made it so she can now be found in Lost Lake sitting next to Boozer.]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome : [[spoiler: At the end of the game, despite spending the last third finding Sarah and rescuing her, she just vanishes entirely from the game with only some NPC dialogue about her here and there. It became such an issue among gamer complaints that Patch 1.60 made it so she can now be found in Lost Lake sitting next to Boozer.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, despite spending the last third finding Sarah and rescuing her, she just vanishes entirely from the game with only some NPC dialogue about her here and there. It became such an issue among gamer complaints that Patch 1.60 made it so she can now be found in Lost Lake sitting next to Boozer.]]

** Decon has SuperDrowningSkills in game, in cinematics it is shown to be heavily implied he cannot swim.

The game takes place two years after a global pandemic occurred which killed almost all of humanity, and transformed millions of others into "Freakers", mindless zombie-like creatures that are quickly evolving. The player controls the game's protagonist, Deacon St. John (Creator/SamWitwer), a drifter and former bounty hunter who prefers to live a dangerous life on the road over living in wilderness encampments. In the E3 2016 stage demo of the game, two types of "Freakers" were revealed, Newts and Hordes.