History VideoGame / QuadrilateralCowboy

The story, much like the ''Gravity'' and ''Loving'' is told without dialogue, but the story is much easier to piece together this time around. You play as a young woman in a poncho as part of a 3-woman team of spies, who are hired to do a variety of jobs like stealing bank vaults or gathering sensitive intel for your client.

Compare and contrast {{Videogame/Uplink}} and {{Videogame/Hacknet}}.

* EverythingIsOnline: The Telenet program in the Deck allows you to hack, among other things, locked doors, lasers and bridges.

* TrueCompanions: The crew has been together since college, at the very least, and [[spoiler: the epilogue shows that they remain close friends long after they quit the business.]]

''Quadrilateral Cowboy'' is a first-person platforming/spy/hacking game developed by Blendo Games, known for their previous works ''Videogame/GravityBone'' and ''Videogame/ThirtyFlightsOfLoving''. The main difference between those games and this one is that this one is much larger. and that it's a puzzle game. The main gameplay consists of utilizing the Deck- a highspeed (for the setting) wireless interface to set up and use a variety of interesting SchizoTech gadgets, like controllable turrets and walking drones to solve puzzles.

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler: Poncho gains Lou and Maisy's abilities for the final two missions]]

** Hell, some companies are actually ''still'' make [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F0Z1860/ turntables of this ilk]], although, nowadays they're mostly meant as portable vinyl-to-[=MP3=] encoders.

* ArtShift: All photographs in the game are two-dimensional, hand-drawn and fairly realistic, in contrast with the blocky 3D models
* AutoDoc: Poncho uses one to [[spoiler: upgrade her cybernetics for the last two missions]]
* BedmateReveal: Both Maisy and Poncho leave a guy sleeping in their apartments when they leave to go to work
* BlackMarket: Chu-Chu's Contractor's Warehouse, where the team gets most of their tech upgrades
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The prologue and the epilogue both have Poncho chasing a train on a hoverbike]]

* BrainUploading: One of the jobs entails downloading brains from comatose patients

* CoolAirship: The crew upgrades to this after [[spoiler: their old hideout is destroyed]]

* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler: After the attack on the first hideout, the team recovers all the essential equipment and burns the rest]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Maisy, who develops the door jam and the buzz saw after [[spoiler: the team moves to the airship]]

* ICallItVera: [[spoiler: All tools in the game get a codename in the Epilogue]]

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: You're best advised to mute it and put on your own music, unless you enjoy the same few low-fidelity renditions of "Auld Lang Syne" and "Clair de Lune" genuinely too old for any copyright term extension to grasp.

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: The attack on the hideout shows that Poncho is partially machine, as her arm transforms into a ''minigun'', {{Videogame/Syndicate}} style to fight off the attacking robots]]

* SpeakingSimlish: Character dialogue is reminiscent of the 'muted trumpets' effect from Charlie Brown
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Lou and Maisy. If either of them aren't working on something in the hideout, Lou will do exercises while Maisy will read a romance novel.
* TrueCompanions: The crew has been together since college, at the very least, and [[spoiler: the epilogue shows that they remain close friends long after they quit the business]]

** Hell, some companies are actually ''still'' make [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F0Z1860/ turntables of this ilk]], although, nowadays they're mostly meant as portable vinyl-to-{{MP3}} encoders.

''Quadrilateral Cowboy'' is a first person platforming/spy/hacking game developed by Blendo Games, known for their previous works ''Videogame/GravityBone'' and ''Videogame/ThirtyFlightsOfLoving''. The main difference between those games and this one is that this one is much larger. and that it's a puzzle game. The main gameplay consists of utilizing the Deck- a highspeed (for the setting) wireless interface to set up and use a variety of interesting SchizoTech gadgets, like controllable turrets and walking drones to solve puzzles.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack

* IntelligentAnimal: Mr. Chu-Chu, who runs the black market

''Quadrilateral Cowboy'' is a first person platforming/spy/hacking game developed by Blendo Games, known for their previous works ''Videogame/GravityBone'' and ''Videogame/ThirtyFlightsOfLoving''. The main difference between those games and this one is that this one is much larger.. and that it's a puzzle game. The main gameplay consists of utilizing the Deck- a highspeed (for the setting) wireless interface to set up and use a variety of interesting SchizoTech gadgets, like controllable turrets and walking drones to solve puzzles.

* ChekovsGun: Chu-Chu's Contractor's Warehouse has a number of weapons on display, including a bazooka and a sword. Later, [[spoilers: Lou and Maisy use those weapons to fight off the killer robots]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler: Poncho gains Lou and Maisy's abilities (minus Lou's super speed) for the final two missions]]

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Poncho is largely machine, as her arm transforms into a ''minigun'' {{Videogame/Syndicate}} style as she blows several robots away off screen.]]

* HollywoodHacking: A prime example of this, as the game uses classic command prompts to use different services, like "telnet" for security and "aimbot" for the AutoCase.

* MinimalistCast: Besides the three main characters,

* NoNameGiven: The three women aren't named in the course of the story, though your teammates do get codenames in the latter half of the story. Their actual names can be found during the carpool missions and in the epilogue. The main character's Poncho, the redhead's Lou/Greaser, and the brunette in glasses is Maisey/Enginami.

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Poncho is almost entirely machine, as her arm transforms into a ''minigun'' {{Videogame/Syndicate}} style as she blows several robots away off screen.]]

* WhamShot: Two right in a row: [[spoiler: the first is a group of armed robots bursting into your hideout after you complete a group of missions.. the second is Poncho's arm transforming into a minigun, showing that she's a cyborg.]]

* BlackMarket: Poncho goes to one after each mission to upgrade her tech

* {{Contortionist}}: Lou, [[spoiler: and eventually Poncho, as a result of their bionic enhancements]]

The story, much like the ''Gravity'' and ''Loving'' is told without dialogue, but the story is much easier to piece together this time around. You play as a young woman in a poncho as part of a 3-woman team of spies, who are hired to do a variety of jobs like stealing bank vaults or gathering sensitive Intel for your client.

* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler: Greaser and Poncho become this in the final stretch of the game- Greaser gets clawboots, strong jumping legs and the ability to dislocate her bones to allow her to slide through any hole, while Poncho outfits herself with a minigun arm. Poncho later upgrades to Greaser's tech.]]

* GameWithinAGame: During Carpool:Lou, you can find and play Airplane, an InteractiveFiction game created in-game by Lou and Maisy.

* NoNameGiven: The three women aren't named in the course of the story, though your teammates do get codenames in the latter half of the story. Their actual names can be found during the carpool missions and in the epilogue. The main character's Poncho, the redhead's Lou, and the brunette in glasses is Maisey.

* BrainUploading: One of the jobs entails downloading brains from comatose patients

* NerdGlasses: Enginami/Maisey has them

* NoNameGiven: The three women aren't named [[spoiler: until the last third of the game. The one with glasses is Enginani, the one you play as is called Poncho and the redhead is Greaser, though these might be nicknames]].
** You can find out their real names if you [[spoiler: enter their houses during the carpool missions and read the diplomas on the wall]]. Redhead is named [[spoiler: Lou]] and Glasses is [[spoiler: Maisey]].

-> When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a [[Irony staggering 256k RAM,]] it means just one thing: [[SpyFiction you answer only to the highest bidder.]]
--> The Steam description

-- The Steam description

Compare and contrast Videogame/Uplink and Videogame/Hacknet.

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Poncho is almost entirely machine, as her arm transforms into a ''minigun'' Videogame/Syndicate style as she blows several robots away off screen.]]

''Quadrilateral Cowboy'' is a first person platforming/spy/hacking game developed by Blendo Games, known for their previous works ''Videogame/GravityBone'' and ''Videogame/ThirtyFlightsOfLovin''. The main difference between those games and this one is that this one is much larger.. and that it's a puzzle game. The main gameplay consists of utilizing the Deck- a highspeed (for the setting) wireless interface to set up and use a variety of interesting SchizoTech gadgets, like controllable turrets and walking drones to solve puzzles.

The story, much like the ''Gravity'' and ''Lovin'' is told without dialouge, but the story is much easier to piece together this time around. You play as a young woman in a poncho as part of a 3-woman team of spies, who are hired to do a variety of jobs like stealing bank vaults or gathering sensitive Intel for your client.

''Quadrilateral Cowboy'' is a first person platforming/spy/hacking game developed by Blendo Games, known for their previous works ''Videogame/GravityBone'' and ''Videogame/ThirtyFlightsofLovin''. The main difference between those games and this one is that this one is much larger.. and that it's a puzzle game. The main gameplay consists of utilizing the Deck- a highspeed (for the setting) wireless interface to set up and use a variety of interesting SchizoTech gadgets, like controllable turrets and walking drones to solve puzzles.