History VideoGame / RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages

* DropTheHammer: The Gamma Hammer is featured on one of the prebuilt ships, and features a {{Spin Attack}}.

''Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages'' is a top-down space shooter with RPGElements that was developed over the course of six years by brothers Paul and Enrique Dryere of Triple.B.Studios, originally based on their novel, ''Ring Runner: Derelict Dreams''. It was released on Steam on July 19th, 2013.

* ATasteOfPower: Your first ship is a top of the line racing craft with a teleporter and laser shotgun...which gets blown up about fifteen minutes in. Your second ship is an old missile boat your VoiceWithAnInternetConnection found in a landfill; it's centuries out of date, handles like a turtle, and has a movement ability based around setting off the missiles while they're still attached to the ship.

* FasterThanLightTravel: An unconventional form in the anchor drive. Instead of accelerating a ship past the speed of light, the anchor drive holds the ship in one part of spacetime, allowing the universe to move around them.

* PhysicalGod: Sages. They are able to manipulate reality ''down to the subquantum level.'' This is why the CIR are so driven to exterminate them.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Nero would have you believe that he runs exclusively on peanut butter cups.

* UriahGambit: King Kruegler holds the player's cruiser hostage, and asks that they do a series of tasks for him before he'll return it. The last task is to destroy his enemy's stronghold...by going straight into it by yourself.

* CerberusSyndrome: [[spoiler: After you reunite with Solipso and learn that his wife is pregnant, the game takes a much darker turn. With their location discovered, the Sages are on the run from the CIR, with an armada after them.]]

* OverclockingAttack: Certain weapons can add to the target's energy or heat pools, eventually resulting in them overloading or overheating. Overload weapons can be used by casters, while overheat weapons can be used by fighters.

* {{Hologram}}: Rogues have a hologram generator that can do things such as make holograms that explode or follow a specific opponent.

* LifeDrain: Grapplers and Arsenals can equip passive abilities that heal them whenever they land a hit.

* OverclockingAttack - Certain weapons can add to the target's energy or heat pools, eventually resulting in them overloading or overheating. Overload weapons can be used by casters, while overheat weapons can be used by fighters.
* {{Overheating}} - Played with. For most ships, overheating is a bad thing. Fighters, however, want to build up heat because it can be used for Fighter-specific abilities such as increasing weapon damage or having heat absorb damage instead of shields.

The main selling point of the game is the massive amount of customization available to the player. Ships are sorted into five archetypes: [[MightyGlacier Arsenals]], [[SpaceMaster Casters]], [[FragileSpeedster Fighters]], [[AsteroidMiners Grapplers]], and [[StealthInSpace Rogues]]. Many ships mix and match aspects of archetypes, letting you pick whatever combination you want. The creators have stated that they wanted new ship abilities to be "side-grades" instead of straight upgrades. For example, you might replace an energy hammer that can knock back enemy projectiles with a giant magnetized saw blade that draws enemies towards it, or choose between a launcher that fires missiles in a circle around your ship, a missile that makes the target slow down, or a passive ability that makes missile attacks heal you.

The main selling point of the game is the massive amount of customization available to the player. Ships are sorted into five archetypes: [[MightyGlacier Arsenals]], [[SpaceMaster Casters]], [[FragileSpeedster Fighters]], [[AsteroidMiners Grapplers]], and [[StealthInSpace Rogues]]. Many ships mix and match aspects of archetypes, letting you pick whatever combination you want. The creators have stated that they wanted new ship abilities to be "side-grades" instead of straight upgrades. For example, you might replace a space boomerang with a space flail that has shorter range but does more damage, or choose between a heat-seeking missile, a missile that drains the target's energy, or a missile that can phase through walls.

* AmnesiacHero: "Patient [=X9564T=] lost significant brain tissue during operation. Severe brain damage and memory loss are expected. No refund; sequester subject's ship and tell them they took a taxi."

* CryingWolf: Rogues can equip a Tactical Teleportation Feint Device, which creates a hologram of themselves behind a specific ship. They can also equip a Tactical Teleportation Device, which actually places them behind the ship and gives them a damage boost.

* Foreshadowing: Lots, especially pertaining to [[spoiler: The Nameless Sage's status as a Valkarian. For example, when the king of the Mohmils in the Litter Glitter Galaxy attempts to collect the bounty on Sages, the CIR scans the Sage's ship, before immediately leaving, saying that they can't take them.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Consortium says that Sages need to be destroyed because they're too powerful...and then deploys their own Sage forces who only target non-Sophian Sages.

* MacrossMissileMassacre - A specialty of Arsenals.

* UriahGambit: Holding your cruiser hostage, King Kruegler has the player doing a series of favors and tasks for him. The last of which sends you straight into the enemy stronghold.

Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages is a top-down space shooter with RPG elements that was developed over the course of six years by brothers Paul and Enrique Dryere of Triple.B.Studios, originally based on their novel, ''Ring Runner: Derelict Dreams''. It was released on Steam on July 19th, 2013.

Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages is a top-down space shooter with RPG elements that was developed over the course of six years by brothers Paul and Enrique Dryere of Triple.B.Studios. It was released on Steam on July 19th, 2013.

* CerberusSyndrome: [[spoiler: After Solipso's wife is killed by Stygil, the game takes a much darker turn. With their location discovered, the Sages are on the run from the CIR, with an armada after them.]]

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: They're called threads, all living things (even bacteria and fungi) have them, and they can be used to generate power.

* {{Hologram}} - Rogues have a hologram generator that can do things such as make holograms that explode or follow a specific opponent.

* MadeOfIron: Played with with the Aozora Nine, which has only average health but can equip up to three abilities that let it cheat death. The game describes the ship as being "extremely hard to kill."