History VideoGame / Othercide

* BladeOnAStick: The Shieldbearer Daughters use a spear in a combination with their shields.

* FragileSpeedster: Your Daughters are waifish young women who zip across the battlefield in white-and-red blurs, and this is a fair indicator of how you should play them. None of them - not even the relatively heavily-armoured Shieldbearers - are designed to face-tank waves of enemies at once, and so your playstyle will revolve around using speed, aggression, and lots and lots of OutOfTurnInteractions to do unto Others before they do unto you.

* {{Stripperific}}: [[spoiler: Averted by most Daughters but played straight by Scythedancer. Where others wear rather modest clothing which shows almost no skin Scythedancer's outfit [[BareYourMidriff exposes her belly]] and includes an A-Grade ZettaiRyoki with short shorts.]]

''Othercide'' is a [[{{Horror}} horror]] TacticalRPG was developed by French independent video game studio Lightbulb Crew, and published by Creator/FocusHomeInteractive released for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and PC on July 27th, 2020, and for Nintendo Switch on September 10th.

Descend into Humanity’s last hope. The Daughters, echoes of the greatest warrior to ever live, are all who stand before Suffering -dread creatures pulled from the worst of Humanity’s crimes against itself- and the end of the world, caused through the efforts of the Child and his attempts to drag suffering into the world. Through combating the infected beasts and mutated cultists throughout the increasingly surreal, warped black streets of the city, you will unravelling the mystery of who [[TomatoInTheMirror you]] are, the past of the Mother, source of the daughters, and the tragic tale of how The Child became what he is.

* HealingMagicIsTheHardest: For all the power Memory and the Red Mother have, they can't normally recover even a single health point on an injured Daughter. A big aspect of this game is that only sacrificing a Daughter of equal or higher level, can you heal a Daughter.

* HoldTheLine: The Survival mission types, where you have to last out until an exit shows up, at which point you need to get your Daughters to it and evacuate. Interestingly, while enemies spawn in overwhelming numbers those numbers are ''not'' infinite, so if you're good enough you can actually KillThemAll before bailing.

* LackOfEmpathy: The Surgeon. Using the Child as a living guinea pig to try and find a cure for the plague was bad enough, but what truly makes him reprehensible is that he didn't care that he was hurting the Child, and in fact [[TheSadist delighted]] in the suffering he caused to what he viewed as an unnatural abomination.

* IronWoobie: The Mother. In her immortal life she had lost everyone she loved or cared about, leaving her with nothing but her self-imposed duty to protect humanity against the ceatures beyond the Veil. [[StoicWoobie She does not complain]], and keeps pursuing her duty despite all the misery she has to face in its course, and eventually it gets her killed.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: In the past Mother had used her connection to [[spoiler: Memory]] to erase some memories from the Medium, like the times when he accidentally discovered she was one of the Chosen. Eventually the Medium wisened up on that, but they resolved it amiably with him agreeing to keep it a secret and her not erasing his memories anymore. It's also implied Mother does it during the game, where after defeating the Surgeon and the Deacon she takes away Child's painful memories of them.

* Stripperific: [[spoiler: Averted by most Daughters but played straight by Scythedancer. Where others wear rather modest clothing which show almost no skin Scythedancer's outfit [[BareYourMidriff exposes her belly]] and includes A-Grade ZettaiRyoki with short shorts.]]

-->'''[[spoiler:The Child]]''': ''Is this me? No...no no no. Angry, yes, but this is too much. Too much hurting.''

* TrueCompanions: The fourth period of Mother's memories has her team up with two more people, the Bounty Hunter and the Medium, as they track down other Chosen Ones for Nostra. [[FireForgedFriends Mother comes to appreciate them in their time together]], [[spoiler: which adds another tragedy to her life when [[TheFellowshipHasEnded the Bounty Hunter gets killed and the Medium becomes too traumatised by the horrors he had witnessed from beyond the Veil and by Nostra's treachery]], so Mother has to leave him behind.]]

* VillainousBSOD: After the fourth boss fight, [[spoiler:The child feels regret and sorrow for what they've become and relents their connection to sorrow and their revenge upon the world. Suffering, meanwhile, [[GreaterScopeVillain has other ideas]]]].

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: The Child was horrifically abused and experimented on in an attempt to find a cure for ThePlague due to being born a Chosen One. Mother's childhood wasn't much better. And that's not even getting into what was done to all the other Chosen Ones who Mother had rescued and then sent to Nostra.]]

* SequentialBoss: Every boss has multiple phases, activated once you deplete their health before certain thresholds, and each phase gives a boss new moves to their arsenal. [[spoiler: The Suffering doubles it, as it has two distinct forms each with multiple phases and unique moves.]]

* ClusterFBomb: The Bounty Hunter of the Mother's memories is very foul-mouthed.

* ClusterFBomb: The Bounty Hunter of Mother's memories is very foul-mouthed.

** The Suffering resembles a [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Behelit]], complete with its role in empowering The Child and it' connection to a SpiritWorld. [[spoiler:In practice, its role is closer to that of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification the Idea of Evil]]]].

* HolyHalo: Many bosses have a moon-like variant of this when they change stages. Naturally LightIsNotGood, and it expresses both power and their connection to The Suffering.
* HealthDamageAsymmetry: Although, monster OR Daughter all damage tends towards the high side, to encourages counter-play and perfect play.

* IronicName: The Mother, in life, never had any children- and even as the Red Mother, her Daughters are more like clones than true children. [[spoiler: Becomes less ironic when she redeems and adopts the child.]]

* HateSink: The Deacon is the one truly evil character in the game. [[spoiler:The Surgeon was desperate to find a cure to the plague ravaging the land, The Child is lashing out at the world over the pain he's endured, and Suffering is only acting according to its natural affinity. The Deacon, meanwhile, was a SinisterMinister who not only repeatedly abused The Child but also the Maid, and was implied to have [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil forced himself on her repeatedly]]. The Child agreeing to channel Suffering's power came as a result of the Deacon indirectly killing the Maid after finding out that the Maid had been treating The Child with kindness.]]

* HateSink: The Deacon is the one truly evil character in the game. [[spoiler:The Surgeon was desperate to find a cure to the plague ravaging the land, The Child is lashing out at the world over the pain he's endured, and Suffering is only acting according to its natural affinity. The Deacon, meanwhile, was a SinisterMinister who not only repeatedly abused The Child but also the Maid, and was implied to have [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil forced himself on her repeated]]. The Child agreeing to channel Suffering's power came as a result of the Deacon indirectly killing the Maid after finding out that the Maid had been treating The Child with kindness.]]

* MadWomanIntheAttic: [[spoiler:One of the Child's many traumas involves being locked in a clay basement under mud and stone by the abusive Deacon]].