History VideoGame / LethalCompany

* InterfaceSpoiler: Hostile monsters inside the facility spawn from inside wall vents, [[OhCrap and there is an identical vent on the inside of the company dropship...]] [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that there are currently no enemies that will spawn inside the ship. For now.

** Dead players can't directly speak to the living, but they ''can'' vote to make the ship leave early - and if the vote passes, the ship is only a short time away from leaving whether anyone's on it or not. This prevents situations where the last person alive waits until midnight just to waste everyone's time, while also letting the dead signal that, well, they're dead in case the sole survivor isn't certain. This is a double-edged sword, however, as the number of votes corresponds to how many people are dead. [[{{Griefer}} If the only dead person in a lobby decides to vote while everybody else is nowhere near the ship, then...]]

* CosmicHorrorStory: Humanity appears to be long gone on the moons you visit, with the abandoned buildings taken over by anomalous fauna. The only humans known to remain are scrap collectors serving [[MegaCorp "The Company"]], which could care less about their lives. Employees are regularly killed by various bizarre and otherworldly monsters, and any that survive long enough inevitably fail to meet the quota and are [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ejected into space by the Company]]. To top it off, the Company is implied to be [[spoiler: an EldritchAbomination]].

* NiceDayDeadlyNight: During the day, creatures that spawn outdoors are the harmless Roaming Locusts and Manticoils, as well as the hostile but not very deadly Circuit Bees and Baboon Hawks. When nightfall comes or an eclipse occurs, the ''very deadly'' Eyeless Dogs, Forest Keepers and Earth Leviathans start spawning outdoors.

'''''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck You did not meet the profit quota before the deadline.]]'''''

'''''[[HaveANiceDeath WELCOME TO OUR]] [[GameOver DISCIPLINARY PROCESS.]]'''''\\

** Player corpses sell for 5 credits - a pitiful amount, but if you're ''just'' beneath quota then murdering your crewmates and fencing their bodies is an effective and hilarious way to close the gap, preventing situations where you miss quota by just one or two.

* InstakillMook: Several monsters will instantly kill employees they manage to attack. Brackerns snap the neck, Eyeless Dogs, Forest Keepers, Earth Leviathans and Jesters simply bite or eat them whole, Ghost Girls lop off their head, Nutcrackers kick them hard enough to send them flying, and Masked vomit blood on them to turn them into more Masked.

* NiceDayDeadlyNight: During the day, creatures that spawn outdoors are the harmless Roaming Locusts and Manticoils, as well as the hostile but not very deadly Circuit Bees and Baboon Hawks. When nightfall or an eclipse comes, the ''very deadly'' Eyeless Dogs, Forest Keepers and Earth Leviathans start spawning outdoors.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Humanity appears to be long gone on the moons you visit, with the abandoned buildings taken over by anomalous fauna. The only humans known to remain are scrap collectors serving [[MegaCorp "The Company"]], which could care less about their lives. Employees are regularly killed by various bizarre and otherworldly monsters, and any that survive long enough inevitably fail to meet the quota and are [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ejected into space by the company]]. To top it off, the Company is implied to be [[spoiler: an EldritchAbomination]].

* KaizoTrap: it is still very possible to die after you pull the lever to take the ship into orbit, if everyone else is already dead and you die after pulling the lever, you still lose everything. This also has the possibility of [[GameBreakingBug breaking the game]] that you can't reenter any planets after that.

The game has up to 4 players play as contracted workers for "the Company", having to explore various moons to collect scrap and sell it to reach the Company's profit quota within a limited period of time. The catch? Well, while the moons are long abandoned by humans, there are...other things in the dark which have taken their place, and pretty much all of them are hostile. So you and your friends scramble to get quota while a bunch of monsters try to kill you. HilarityEnsues.

** Eyeless Dogs are able to hear any noise produced by the player through their actions, microphones, or even just clicking their walkie-talkies on and off. The one exception to this is if players are communicating ''to'' you through an active walkie-talkie, where it won't draw the monster towards your position.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Shotgun is the game's only lethal ranged weapon, and can [[OneHitKill one-shot]] anything[[note]]That is capable of dying[[/note]]. Unfortunately, it's found exclusively as a drop by the rare, hard-to-kill nutcracker, requires near-shovel range anyways for maximum effect, and has the potential to misfire and kill other assets or anger monsters. It also requires shells, which take up inventory slots, are used up quickly, and are again exclusively obtained via killing a nutcracker.

* CassetteFuturism: The game features a lot of the aesthetics of this trope, from the very 80s-inspired computer appearance and interface, to the ship and architecture of the various moon buildings being very blocky and industrial.
* CoOpMultiplayer: Up to 4 employees can join a lobby, or even more with mods. It's pretty clear that playing with a group is the intended experience, as certain items or mechanics (like the walkie-talkies and the ship monitor) are far less useful or outright pointless without a team. There's also the fact that many enemies are [[OneHitKill extremely lethal]] and often give little time to react. While a team will still make some money even if there are deaths, a solo player gets no scrap at all if they die, putting them very far behind on quota and making even "easy" levels very difficult.

** Inside, darkness leaves players blind to threats and hazards, making it much harder to maneuver, and generally making any action taken outside of a lit room even more dangerous. It's especially dangerous in the case of coilheads, which can only move when unobserved, essentially giving them free reign to roam and kill in the dark where the players can't see.

* DeathByMaterialism: Might as well be the game's subtitle. The whole premise of the game involving workers risking life and limb to collect scrap for money, and you can very easily lose the former by going for the latter.

** Hoarding bugs can be rendered a non-threat by dropping something for them to take, but holding onto your items will leave them as a persistent roaming threat than can claim the lives of unwary players. They also instantly become aggressive if something is taken from their hoard, which can be a tempting prospect if they have something of high value.
** Circuit beehives are extremely valuable, enough to meet lower quotas on their own. However, grabbing them angers the circuit bees and causes them to furiously attack whoever has their hive and anyone nearby, which can wipe the whole group if they manage to get onto the ship.

* DownerEnding: Considering the game is an {{Endless Game}}, it doesn't matter how well you did. At some point the quota will be so ridiculously high that your team will have a hard time reaching it in just 3 days. And when you do inevitably fail to reach the quota, the company will promptly fire you and your team... [[ThrownOutTheAirlock into the vacuum of space]].

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The moons are inhabited by monsters that will kill you on sight. The scrap you have to gather can either become a lightning rod or attract hoarding bugs to you. The ship's autopilot will leave you for dead at midnight. The company will kill you if you failed to meet the quota. You're not even safe from ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking your company issued ladders]]'', which can fall on top of and kill you and your fellow employees. Everything in this game has come to the collective agreement that you being alive is an issue and will pull out all the stops to fix that.

* KilledMidSentence: A major game mechanic regarding the voice chat. If you're killed while speaking, you're immediately placed into a dead chat and anything you were saying cuts out for living players. If you hear someone suddenly cut off mid-sentence and they don’t reply back, take it as a sign that something just went horribly wrong. If someone dies in the middle of speaking while on the radio, you’re treated to the sound of drawn out static as a confirmation that they’ve just died.

* NothingIsScarier: The game's setting provides a lot of mysteries with no answers (at least as of yet). What happened to all the humans on the moons you explore? Why does the Company want random scrap and how does it make any sense to launch interstellar expeditions for it? What is that ''thing'' that takes in the scrap? ''Why are the Company computers running 400-year old operating systems?''

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Considering your only other option for weaponry are shovels and stop signs, the Double Barrel is a fantastic weapon if you manage to take out a Nutcracker using one. However, you only get two shells at minimum (and four at most if you're able to kill the Nutcracker just after it reloads without it firing), so make them count, and once they're used up you might as well just sell the shotgun since you'll get another one once you encounter and kill another Nutcracker. It's also better to use up any extra shells that aren't loaded, since a single shell takes up ''an entire inventory slot''.

* RandomTransportation: The inverse teleporter, which randomly teleports users to somewhere in the facility. Sometimes this can drop you right on top of a bunch of valuable loot, or by the fire exit. Other times you'll appear right in front of a deadly monster, or in a dead end behind a locked door with no way out.

* NothingIsScarier: The game's setting provides a lot of mysteries with no answers (at least as of yet). What happened to all the humans on the moons you explore? Why does the Company want random scrap and how does it make any sense to launch interstellar expeditions for it? What is that ''thing'' that takes in the scrap? ''Why are the company computers running 400-year old operating systems?''

* NothingIsScarier: The game's setting provides a lot of mysteries with no answers (at least as of yet). What happened to all the humans on the moons you explore? Why does the company want random scrap and how does it make any sense to launch interstellar expeditions for it? What is that ''thing'' that takes in the scrap? ''Why are the company computers running 400-year old operating systems?''

* NothingIsScarier: The game's setting provides a lot of mysteries with no answers (at least as of yet). What happened to all the humans on the planets you explore? Why does the company want random scrap and how does it make any sense to launch interstellar expeditions for it? What is that ''thing'' that takes in the scrap? ''Why are the company computers running 400-year old operating systems?''

* DarknessEqualsDeath: As the night comes, the moons become more and more dangerous as the lethal wildlife emerges. When midnight comes the autopilot activates and makes the ship leave the moon, regardless of whether the workers are still on it or not and leaving them to die if not.

* ExplosiveStupidity: Landmines can litter sections of a a building, occasionally flashing a red light as a warning in the dark, but otherwise being hard to spot in the dark. Beware of traveling with inattentive and impatient players if you don’t want to go up in a fiery explosion. Funnily enough, creatures who like to kidnap player corpses, namely Hoarder Bugs and Brackens, who normally won’t set explosives off, might brush a fresh kill over a mine and promptly explode. Of course, a [[TakingYouWithMe suicide play]] is an option if a player believes they're not escaping a monster alive, as it might make the expedition easier for their teammates.

'''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck WELCOME TO OUR DISCIPLINARY PROCESS.]]'''

'''[[GameOver YOU ARE FIRED.]]'''\\
'''''[[HaveANiceDeath You did not meet the profit quota before the deadline.]]'''''

The game has up to 4 players play as contracted workers for "the Company", having to explore various moons to collect scrap and sell it to reach the Company's profit quota within a limited period of time. The catch? Well, while the moons are long abandoned by humans, there are...other things in the dark which have taken their place, and pretty much all of them are hostile. So you and your friends scramble to get quota while a bunch of monsters try to kill you. HilarityEnsues

''Lethal Company'' is a co-op horror game developed by Zeekerss, creator of ''VideoGame/ItSteals'', ''VideoGame/TheUpturned'', and ''VideoGame/DeadSeater''.

The game has up to 4 players play as contracted workers for "the Company", having to explore various moons to collect scrap and sell it to reach the Company's profit quota within a limited period of time. The catch? Well, while the moons are long abandoned by humans, there are...other things in the dark which have taken their place, and pretty much all of them are hostile.

* LandMineGoesClick: There are landmines that will occasionally appear around the building, which emit a faint beeping sound and have a flashing red light. However, they are only triggered when they are stepped on, and then stepped off of. This makes for hilarious situations where a doomed employee steps on a mine, realizes their situation, and tells everyone to get the hell away before they explode helplessly. The ''only'' way to survive stepping on a landmine is to have someone in the ship save you, either by disabling the mine or by teleporting you away. Otherwise, it’s a violent and explosive death for you and potentially everybody around you.