History VideoGame / RenownedExplorers

* DifficultySpike: The first expedition -- whichever map you get -- is pretty benign. All of the fights are easy if you're paying attention, and challenges with harsh penalties for failure are rare. After that, the game stops pulling its punches.

* ActionGirl: Bia and Dolores are competent Fighters, while Molly and Hatice are among the more combat-oriented Scouts.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Hostile monkeys are a common encounter on the Caribbean Island and Emerged Island maps. They tend to use Devious attacks.

* FinalDeath: Losing in adventure mode means you have to start again from square one. Presumably, since NobodyCanDie, your characters are forced to start over from scratch whenever they lose all their Resolve.

* HotAmazon: Dolores Garcia is a strong luchador as well as a shapely brunette.

* {{Gamebook}}: Many nodes trigger events which offer a choice of options. Depending on your decisions, the result can be a challenge to your crew's skills, a gain/loss of resources, buffs or debuffs, treasures, encounters...

* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Many nodes trigger events which offer a choice of options. Depending on your decisions, the result can be a challenge to your crew's skills, a gain/loss of resources, buffs or debuffs, treasures, encounters...

** One of the boss encounters in the Mali expedition consists in [[Disney/TheLionKing fighting a group of hyenas in an elephant graveyard]].

* [[FiveBadBand Four-Bad Band]]: Rivaleux is the BigBad, with Amir, Tommy, and Cassandra standing in as EvilGenius, TheBrute, and DarkChick, the three parts of the game's TacticalRockPaperScissors. Maybe Rivaleux will get a [[TheDragon Dragon]] in an expansion.

*** The ''Quest for the Holy Grail'' free DLC adds a new five-stars expedition [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade which consists in finding the Holy Grail]]. Once the new content is installed, the game's title (opening and main meny screens) becomes "Renowned Explorers: Quest for the Holy Grail", the subtitle being written with the ''Indiana Jones'' font.

** One of the many treasures you can get is an Emerald Skull. Its description says "Way better than the [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull crystal skull]]". You find said skull in South America, too.

** Roche Braziliano, Padmasambhava are [=NPCs=] which can be encountered during the adventure.

* CripplingOverspecialization: While most players tend to favor one mood -- Friendly, Devious, or Aggressive -- and can take crew members, Treasure options, and research papers that grant bonuses for using that mood, specializing exclusively in one mood will hurt you when you run into enemies and encounters that punish that mood.

* MadScientist: Anna Proskuriakova is inspired by this trope, including having a EvilLaugh attack.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: A major part of the game is that verbal assaults (friendly or not) do damage as well. Yes, this even works on monsters, undead and wild animals.

* {{Uberwald}}: Hungary and Transylvania are both dark areas with thick forests, swamps, ruins, wolves, hooded cultists, and superstituous natives. Transylvania's final boss is a vampire noble -- Count Dracul himself.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The game is set in the British Victorian era, but the explorer society is completely fine with having women and foreigners as members.

* TheShangriLa: The last level of the game, at least before the ''More To Explore'' DLC. (Now, players get a choice between Shangri-La and [[LostWorld the Lost Island]].

* AprilFoolsDay: In April the 1st 2018, the developpers made a joke announce they were working on [[https://steamcommunity.com/games/296970/announcements/detail/1664518066125175561 a Dating Sim DLC]] for ''Renowned Explorers''.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of roguelikes. You don't just lead a trio of adventurers to beat people in order to get treasures, as the game's mechanics make clear that gaining more money, prestige, etc. from your discoveries require to hire various helpers (journalists, students, etc.), and to perform lectures and write papers once you're back from your adventures. Having academic formations (naturology, archaeology, physics, etc.) or diplomatic expertise is also very useful to fully exploit the various encounters during your expeditions. Also, depending on the situation, being friendly or using ruse can be as useful as brute violence to solve a combat encounter.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Monkeys are a common encounter on certain maps. They tend to use Devious attacks.

* MadeOfIron: It doesn't matter how badly your crew members get beaten up, stabbed, shot, stomped, burned, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking humiliated]] -- as long as you have at least one Resolve point left, your crew will be perfectly fine ''after'' the encounter.

* NoFinalBossForYou: The game lets you bring this trope on ''yourself''. Normally, players play their final expedition in Shangri-la (where they can defeat Rivaleaux) or the Lost Island (where they can defeat the Anti-Explorers)... but the win condition for the game is to have 2500+ Renown after the last expedition. If you already have that much Renown before the last expedition, you can simply fool around on one of the lower-tier maps, curb-stomp the boss of ''that'' map, and still win the game.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The game is set in the British Victorian era, but the explorer society is completely fine with having women and foreigners as members (some of them being from exotic lands which then were colonies of the European powers).

* SecretShop: One perk of the Engineering research tree is access to a "secret shop" - which sells the best armor you can buy.

* TheThemeParkVersion: Of exploration. This game definitely favors the RuleOfFun over strict historical accuracy.

* TrueCompanions: If your captain loses all of their spirit, the remaining team members immediately gain the mood terrified with the name of the quirk fittingly called "Captain? Captain! CAPTAAIIIIN?", showing how much they care for their leader.

** Rivaleaux, your main competitor for the the title. He makes his début to the player stealing the credit for your first discovery. Indeed the game often mentions his jerk-ness and his French-ness in the same breath.
** Subverted by Victor Signac, who prefers either a more friendly or "hands-on" approach.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Airships, supernatural artifacts, magical rituals, mummies, vampires, werewolves, voodoo pirates led by a ghost pirate, Tibetan demons, dinosaurs, the Yeti...

* BoldExplorer: The Bread and Butter of the game. With a team of three explorers, the player must gain enough Renown - through collecting treasures, science, status, and gold - to become the most Renowned Explorer.

* FantasyKitchenSink: Airships, supernatural artifacts, mummies, vampires, werewolves, voodoo pirates led by a ghost pirate, Tibetan demons, dinosaurs, the Yeti...