History VideoGame / Strafe

* ShoutOut: The game has numerous shout outs to influential FirstPersonShooter games as well as well-known games on the Indie scene.
** The appearance of the first area of the game, the Icarus spaceship, is highly reminiscent of the Ishimura spaceship from ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''.
** There's a playable Easter egg in level 1-2 called ''Luftenstein 3D'', based on ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' with the aesthetics of the [=WW2=] plane themed indie 2D shooter ''VideoGame/{{Luftrausers}}''.
** The monorail trains that take you from one level to the next in Area 3: The Burbs is based on the monorail train from the beginning of ''VideoGame/HalfLife''.
** In level 3-3, there's an SNES-style console on which you can play a Mode 7-esque third-person shooter based on the indie game ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon''.
** Shoot wooden crates, and piles of assorted items will pop out. One possible item that can appear from crates is a {{UsefulNotes/Nintendo64}} cartridge with a ''Strafe'' logo.

* ObviousBeta: The main consensus of the game after it came out. The entire game looks and feels unfinished, from the poorly-designed first level, to the complete lack of enemy and level variety (despite being a roguelike), mechanics that are never properly explained, and poor balance and pacing throughout. The game in fact was supposed to be released in 2015, the same year the Kickstarter launched, but was delayed until 2017, and many people are left wondering just what the company did in those two years.

The game is probably best-known for its viral marketing campaign, featuring a pair of hilariously over-the-top live-action segments (a commercial and a movie trailer) filmed in the style of the 1990's, with serious amounts of LargeHam.

* GainaxEnding: After defeating the final boss, [[spoiler: you jump into a transporter that takes you into what looks like the starting area of the game, where you fight and kill several human crew members before taking your ship (which looks almost exactly like [[DiegeticInterface your main menu]] back to Earth.]]

* GainaxEnding: After defeating the final boss, [[spoiler: you jump into a transporter that takes you into what looks like the starting area of the game, where you fight and kill several human crew members before taking the ship back to Earth.]]

* NotHyperbole: Trevor's brother refuses to let him have a turn at the game because "You'll just die!" Once he's knocked out of his seat by a fist emerging from the screen, Trevor takes over... and the game kills him.

* NotHyperbole: Trevor's brother refuses to let him have a turn at the game because "It'll kill you!" Once he's knocked out of his seat by a fist emerging from the screen, Trevor takes over... and the game kills him.

* DecoyProtagonist: Tommy, the apparent hero of the movie trailer, gets killed by the evil Strafe clone of his girlfriend at the end of the trailer, leaving it up to the mom from the commercial to fight off the Strafe creatures.

** {{Justified}} as Strafe is incredibly realistic in-universe.
* YourHeadAsplode: In the commercial, Strafe is such an intense game that playing it causes a kid's face to melt off and his head to explode.

* CallBack: The scientist guy from the movie trailer reveals that he's the father of the kid whose head exploded in the commercial.

''Strafe'' (officially stylized as STRAFE®)is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter with fast-paced run-and-gun gameplay inspired by the shooters of the 1990's (such as ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''), as well as procedurally generated levels and other {{Roguelike}} gameplay elements. The game was developed by Pixel Titans and funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} before being picked up and published by Devolver Digital, finally being released in May 2017.

* MightyGlacier: The Brick enemies (giant treant-looking things) in Zone 2. Their ground pound attack hits hard and they take a lot of punishment, and though they move pretty fast, the player is able to outrun them pretty handily.

* NintendoHard: ''Strafe'' is damn hard; a lot harder than ''Doom'' or ''Quake'' on Normal difficulty. Healing items are quite rare, gameplay is fast, and enemies tend to swarm you in large groups. You also must beat the game in one sitting and in only one life; there is no save feature, and dying sends you all the way back to the beginning. Finishing the game normally takes a little over an hour and a half, which is manageable as long as you don't die.

* {{Retraux}}: Made as a homage to the games of the 1996s, the game uses voxel graphics reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' or ''VideoGame/{{Eldritch}}''.

The game is probably best known for its viral marketing campaign, featuring a pair of hilariously over-the-top live-action segments (a commercial and a movie trailer) filmed in the style of the 1990's, with serious amounts of LargeHam.

** There's a playable easter egg in level 1-2 called ''Luftenstein 3D'', based on ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' with the aesthetics of the WW2 plane themed indie 2D shooter ''VideoGame/{{Luftrausers}}''.

* ObviousBeta: The main consensus of the game after it came out. The entire game looks and feels unfinished, from the poorly-designed first level, to the complete lack of enemy and level variety (despite being a roguelike), mechanics that are uninteresting and never properly explained, and poor balance and pacing throughout. The game in fact was supposed to be released in 2015, the same year the Kickstarter launched, but was delayed until 2017, and many people are left wondering just what the company did in those two years.

** There's a playable easter egg in level 1-2 called ''Luftenstein 3D'', based on ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' with the aesthetics of the WW2 plane themed indie 2D shooter ''VideoGame/Luftrausers''.

''Strafe'' (officially stylized as STRAFE®)is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter with fast-paced run-and-gun gameplay inspired by the shooters of the 1990's (such as ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''), as well as procedurally generated levels and other {{Roguelike}} gameplay elements. The game was developed by Pixel Titans and funded on UsefulNotes/{{Kickstarter}} before being picked up and published by Devolver Digital, finally being released in May 2017.

'''Strafe''' (officially stylized as STRAFE®)is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter with fast-paced run-and-gun gameplay inspired by the shooters of the 1990's (such as ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''), as well as procedurally generated levels and other {{Roguelike}} gameplay elements. The game was developed by Pixel Titans and funded on Kickstarter before being picked up and published by Devolver Digital, finally being released in May 2017.

* NintendoHard: ''Strafe'' is pretty damn hard; healing items are quite rare, gameplay is fast, and enemies tend to swarm you in large groups. You also must beat the game in one sitting and in only one life; there is no save feature, and dying sends you all the way back to the beginning. Finishing the game normally takes a little over an hour and a half, which is manageable as long as you don't die.

* {{Retraux}}: Made as a homage to the games of the 1996s, the game uses voxel graphics reminiscent of ''VideoGame/Minecraft'' or ''VideoGame/Eldritch''.

* {{Gorn}}: The game features ludicrous gibs as well as an advanced physics system for painting the levels in enemy blood as it sprays everywhere.

'''Strafe''' (officially stylized as STRAFE®)is a retro-inspired FirstPersonShooter with fast-paced run-and-gun gameplay inspired by the shooters of the 1990's such as ''VideoGame/Doom'' and ''VideoGame/Quake'', as well as procedurally generated levels and other {{Roguelike}} gameplay elements. The game was developed by Pixel Titans and funded on Kickstarter before being picked up and published by Devolver Digital, finally being released in May 2017.