History Videogame / GarenaFreeFire

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: An electric storm.
* ArtShift: The pets dont follow the game's realistic art style, their all cartoony creatures.
* BattleRoyaleGame: Though for the sake of accessibility as well as to make individual matches shorter, it's usually limited to 50 participants per match.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The characters are not just for the looks from the very beginning of the game, they also came with a skill type pasive or active and the game allows a character to wear one active and 5 passive skills, most of the characters that Garena gives for free tend to have complementary skills than anything game breaking but the pay-locked ones is where the advantage gets unfair the two most game defining characters are Arlok and Profesor k who's skills make health management something the player can worry less as they both have potent health regeneration and team buff effects.
** The weapons as well, they have stats bonuses, and free or low-rarity ones are usually time-limited in its ownership.
** Now with the existense of the gold character chests and link system its possible to eventually acquire characters through in-game grinds wich mildly downplay this trope, with the link system you should at best get 2 characters a month if you max the links limit every day and the golden chest is guarantee every 3 months with the gold you get from the elite pass in 3 months (30k) the rest you should have no problem getting playing as usual, however nothing stops you from making a new account buy the top tier characters and speedrun the ranks.

* NuclearNasty: In the BTS collab event they added a rare monster to bermuda a mutated rhinoceros also the zombies from zombie mode exist because of this.

* ArtShift: The pets dont follow the game's realistic art style, their all anthropomorphic cartoony creatures.

* EveryoneIsRelated: To absurd levels once the memory fragments system was replaced with character tokens there was a revamp to the characters lore, Andrew the first proper character the game gives turns out to be Kelly's father, Max is Kellys friend and the rest are part of an overarching story trying to take down a BigBad, theres still some characters that are not directly connected.

* EveryoneIsRelated: To absurd levels once the memory fragments system was replaced with character tokens there was a revamp to the characters lore, Andrew the first proper character the game gives turns out to be Kelly's father, Max is Kellys friend and the rest are part of an over arching story trying to take down a BigBad, theres still some characters that are not directly connected.

* EveryoneIsRelated: To absurd levels once the memory fragments system was replaced with character tokens there was a revamp to the characters lore, Andrew the first proper character the game gives turns out to be Kelly's father Max is Kellys friend and the rest are part of an over arching story trying to take down a BigBad, theres still some characters that are not directly connected.

* EveryoneIsRelated: To absurd levels once the memory fragments system was replaced with character tokens there was a revamp to the characters lore, Andrew the first proper character the game gives turns out to be Kelly,s father Max is Kellys friend and the rest are part of an over arching story trying to take down a BigBad, theres still some characters that are not directly connected.

* CaptainErsatz: A lot of the money locked characters may be a reflection of the devs taste in video games and occasionaly they put popular people in there too all while being legally safe of course, Wolfrahh and Hayato for example being based on Ninja the fortnite streamer and Yasuo from League Of Legends.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Back in the first years of the game upgrading a character reveals the character's story which also reveals bits about the world, then after the Awakening System only characters with an Awakening skill have lore unlocked with their skill leveling, implying all or most characters will eventually have back their lore unlocks once they get their Awekening, this days the implication that the leveling of skills is the unlocking of memories its still present given that character specific tokens are photographs implying that the tokens are information about who they are.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Back in the first years of the game upgrading a character reveals the character's story, which also reveals bits about the world then after the Awakening System, only characters with an Awakening skill have lore unlocked with their skill leveling, implying all or most characters will eventually have back their lore unlocks once they get their Awekening, this days the implication that the leveling of skills is the unlocking of memories its still present given that character specific tokens are photographs implying that the tokens are information about who they are.

** The weapons as well, they have stats bonuses, and free or low-rarity ones are usually time-limited in its ownership.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Upgrading a character reveals the character's story, which also reveals bits about the world.

In a remote island in the middle of nowhere a project funded by highly wealthy people composed of government officials and military organizations, they wage wicked experiments on test subjects forced to survive in a highly experimented island forced to fight among themselves for the entertainment of the elite... also dont mind if the characters and in-game lore dont reflect that, Free Fire is a widely popular BattleRoyaleGame for mobile devices developed by 111dots studio Vietnam and published by Garena, made originally to cash-in ''VideoGame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'' popularity while being accessible to as many devices as posible, it ended up being the most downloaded mobile game in 2019 and has a highly active playerbase.

In a remote island in the middle of nowhere a project funded by highly wealthy people composed of government officials and military organizations, they wage wicked experiments on test subjects forced to survive in a highly experimented island forced to fight among themselves for the entertainment of the elite... also dont mind if the characters and in-game lore dont reflect that, Free Fire is a widely popular battle royal game for mobile devices developed by 111dots studio and published by Garena, made originally to cash-in ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' popularity while being accesible to as many devices as posible, it ended up being the most downloaded mobile game in 2019 and has a highly active playerbase.

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: After a battle you may find your character soaked in blood, this can de disabled in settings.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The characters are not just for the looks from the very beginning of the game they come with a skill type pasive or active and the game allows a character to wear one active and 5 passive skills, most of the characters that Garena gives for free tend to have complementary skills than anything game breaking but the pay-locked ones is where the advantage gets unfair the two most game defining characters are Arlok and Profesor k who's skills make health management something the player can worry less as they both have potent health regeneration and team buff effects.

* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: The healing mushrooms that the player eats are due the experiments in the island made by scientists according to the old free fire website.

* ImperialChina: Alpine has a chinese ghost town, official lore in the update's page says it was "once used by a great military force" while bermuda remastered has an "ancient china" small island.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The characters are not just for the looks from the very beginning of the game they come with a skill type pasive or active and the game allows a character to wear one active and 5 passives, most of the characters that Garena gives for free tend to have complementary skills than anything game breaking but the pay-locked ones is where the advantage gets unfair the two most game defining characters are Arlok and Profesor k who's skills make health management something the player can worry less as they both have potent health regeneration and team buff effects.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The characters are not just for the looks from the very beginning of the game they come with a skill type pasive or active and the game allows a character to wear one active and 5 passives, most of the characters that Garena gives for free tend to have complementary skills than anything game breaking the pay-locked ones is where the advantage gets unfair the two most game defining characters are Arlok and Profesor k characters whos skills make health management something the player can worry less as they both have potent health regeneration and team buff effects.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The characters are not just for the looks from the very beginning of the game they come with skills pasives or actives and the game allows a character to wear one active and 5 passives, most of the characters that Garena gives for free tend to have complementary skills than anything game breaking the pay-locked ones is where the advantage gets unfair the two most game defining characters are Arlok and Profesor k characters whos skills make health management something the player can worry less as they both have potent health regen and team buff effects.

!!"Tropes found in Free Fire:

* ExcusePlot: Even when its expanded its highly incosistent and does not make sense at all.

* AWinnerIsYou: The old congratulatory text for being the last one standing said that a chicken dinner awaited the player, later it was changed to the now iconic "BOOYAH!!"

* CaptainErsatz: A lot of the money locked characters may be a reflection of the devs taste in video games and occasionaly they put legally safe look-a-likes of popular people, examples of this being Yasuo from league of legends and Ninja the pro fortnite streamer.