History VideoGame / Othercide

* NoNameGiven: Except for the Daughters, which you name yourself, nobody in the game has an actual name, instead being referred to by their titles - Mother, The Child, Master, The Guide, The Paladin, The Khan, etc.

* CreatureHunterOrganization: Nostra, the organization that Mother was part of for hundreds of years, although Mother rapidly became [[VanHelsingHateCrimes disillusioned with them due to their insistence that all Chosen Ones were too dangerous and needed to be killed, despite Mother's very existence proving that benevolent Chosen Ones were absolutely possible.]]

* NunTooHoly: The Nurse, the boss of the third era [[spoiler: subverts this. She's just as much as much a victim of The Abbot as The Child, and the version "resurrected" by The Child is more a TragicMonster than anything.]]

* SinisterMinister: The Abbot, boss of the second Era. [[spoiler:He was supposed to take care of The Child after his parents' death, only to abuse him and lock him in the basement to starve. Making matters worse, he also abused TheNurse, who was one of the few people who actually cared about The Child.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The third era. It begins with The Child stealing a portion of Mother's power on the behest of a sinister voice, and using it to resurrect The Nurse. While the bosses of the first two eras are irredeemable monsters, The Nurse is a straight up tragic figure.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The third era. It begins with The Child stealing a portion of Mother's power on the behest of a sinister voice, and using it to resurrect The Nurse. While the bosses of the first two eras are [[CompleteMonster complete monsters]], The Nurse is a straight up tragic figure.]]

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Shieldbearers, [[{{BFS}} like the]] [[HandCannon other Daughers]], have their weapon of choice (a shield) be incredibly huge.

* SinisterMinister: The boss of the second Era.

* FighterMageThief: Downplayed. Technically all of the 3 starting classes are fighters given that they're memories of the warrior Mother. In play, the Shieldbearer is the tanky fighter, the Swordsmaster is the thief - a quick and fragile heavy damage specialist and the Soulslinger is the mage who guns down enemies at range. [[spoiler:You can also unlock a fourth class, the Scythedancer, which focuses on powerful area-of-effect attacks.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: As revealed in her memories, Mother has been fighting back against The Suffering for hundred of years.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire game is black, white, and [[SplashOfColor red, with a tiny bit of yellow in the Daughters' eyes]].

* AddressingThePlayer: Mother treats the player like an old companion, though it's not entirely clear what you're relationship with her is.

* ScarfOfAsskicking: All Daughters wear flowing red scarves that servers as main color splash on them. They are all badasses that you will send to fight The Suffering and its agents.

* AddressingThePlayer: Mother talks treats the player like an old companion, though it's not entirely clear what you're relationship with her is.

* {{BFS}}: The blade alone on the Swordsmaster's mighty weapon, is as big as her.
* BigBad: The Child, [[spoiler: a "Chosen One" who fell past the DespairEventHorizon, and now wants nothing more than to destroy the world using creatures created from his own traumas.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: In the tutorial, you play as a pre-generated character named "Mother", the BigGood of the game. After this level, she's demoted to MissionControl. The actual playable characters are the AmazonBrigade of summonable characters named the Daughters.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire game is black, white, and [[SplashOfColor red, with a tiny bit of yellow in the Daughters' eyes.]].

* FighterMageThief: Downplayed. Technically all of the 3 starting classes are fighters given that they're memories of the warrior Mother. In play, the Shieldbearer is the tanky fighter, the Swordsmaster is the thief - a quick and fragile heavy damage specialist and the Soulslinger is the mage who guns down enemies at range. [[spoiler: You can also unlock a fourth class, the Scythedancer, which focuses on powerful area-of-effect attacks.]]

* {{Macrogame}}: Any talents unlocked during a run will remain unlocked when starting over.

* PlagueDoctor: ''Othercide'' is set in a dark world which has been swept by a plague. A whole group of enemy units are named "Plague [Something]", and all have the appearance of robed, thin, and tall (actually taller than your units) humanoids, whose faces include a long and pointy beak. One of them is literally named "Plague Doctor", which wears a hat (more a Robin Hood-esque cap than the classical round hat usually associated with the outfit), and wields a sickle.

* WorldsBestWarrior: Mother is the greatest warrior of all time.
* TimeCrash: Implied by the fact that the date of the Age of Shattering flickers between two different years.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: As revealed in her memories, mother has been fighting back against The Suffering for hundred of years.

* SinisterMinister: The boss of the second Era.

* CloningBlues: The Daughters are described as "echoes of the greatest warrior to ever live". Expect them to die, be sacrificed, and/or resurrected at base level, repeatedly.
* ContinuingIsPainful: If one of your Daughters is wounded, the only way to heal them is to sacrifice another unit of equal or higher level. However, this also imbues the recovered with some of the sacrifice's power.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire game is black, white, [[SplashOfColor red, and a tiny bit of yellow in the Daughters' eyes.]].

* MysticalWhiteHair: A trait of "Chosen Ones", such as the Mother and her Daughters.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Most of the game's story is told through a series of snippets unlocked via memories.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Mother is the greatest warrior of all time.

* FighterMageThief: Downplayed. Technically all of the 3 starting classes are fighters given that they're memories of the warrior Mother. In play, the Shieldbearer is the tanky fighter, the Swordsmaster is the thief - a quick and fragile heavy damage specialist and the Soulslinger is the mage who guns down enemies at range.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire game is black, white, [[SplashOfColor and red]].

* FighterMageThief: Downplayed. Technically all of the 3 starting classes are fighters given that they're memories of the warrior Mother. In play, the Shieldbearer is the tanky fighter, the Swordsmaster is the thief - a quick and fragile heavy damage specialist and the Soulslayer is the mage who guns down enemies at range.

* PlagueDoctor: ''Othercide'' is set in a dark world which has been swept by a plague. A whole group of enemy units are named "Plague [Something]", and all have the appearance of robed, thin, and tall (actually taller than your units) humanoids, whose faces include a long and pointy beak. One of them is literally named "Plague Doctor", which wears a hat (more a Robin Hood-esque cap than the classical round hat usually associated with the outfit), and wields a sickle.

''Othercide'' is a {{Roguelike}} TacticalRPG released on July 27th, 2020. It was developed by Lightbulb Crew, and published by Focus Home Interactive.

* ContinuingIsPainful: If one of your Daughters is wounded, the only way to heal them is to sacrifice another unit of equal or higher level. However, this also imbues the Sister with some of the sacrifice's power.

* {{Macrogame}}: Any talents unlocked during a run will remain unlocked when starting over.