History Videogame / WurmOnline

* BribingYourWayToVictory: In addition to the monetary costs of Premium, players can spend even more real money on in-game currency. The other ways to acquire in-game currency are by trading with other players, which is never a sure thing, and either searching the ground for lost coins or selling high-quality items in a deed (settlement)token, both of which give few coins total. Ingame money can be used to quickly buy high-quality items created from more skilled players, establish settlements (claiming otherwise public land as only yours), and maintain those settlements. Somewhat averted since no part or item of the game is impossible to get via normal play, and you can even build anything you want without paying for a settlement or its maintenance, though you will have to regularly repair your buildings and items from the decay damage they get. Settlements freeze decay as long as they have more coins stored than 1 month of maintenance, saving you both time and materials.

* CoolHorse: Horses can be decked out in bardings of various materials and colors, and equipped with horseshoes, saddles and bridles to make them faster or easier to ride. You can breed horse to achieve special traits, like better speed, and with decent skill, you can even tame cool hell horses!
* CosmeticAward: Achieving a certain level in a skill can add titles to your name, such as "Mason", "Master Blacksmith", etc. Additionally by either buying with real money or with loyalty points accrued as long as you have premium subscription, there are skins for various weapons and items of the game in the game's online store.

** The crop selection contradicts it, by sporting corn, tomatoes, peas, potatoes and even ''cocoa beans''. It's even lampshades in that examining some of these crops will prompt the comment "Where did this come from?"

* PlayerGeneratedEconomy: In the forums and chats players can be seen offering and asking for various goods and services. The only guaranteed buyer for goods is an NPC Trader, whose contract costs 50 silver to acquire. It also takes time for his money supply to refresh. Everything else runs on supply and demand, though players can access a "get price" for any items they examine which is presented as "a Trader would pay x for this". For rare items at auction, the prices can escalate quickly with much profit to be had.

* SceneryPorn: Besides mountains and oceans being a generally cool place to watch over, the world also changes appearance with ingame seasons, and celestial bodies orbit it. There also are celestial phenomenons like rainbows and eclipses.

* BreakableWeapons: In fact, everything is breakable. Items accrue damage by use and will also decay over time. Fortunately all items can also be repaired, but with a proportionate reduction of quality.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: In addition to the monetary costs of Premium, players can spend even more real money on in-game currency. The other ways to acquire in-game currency is by trading with other players, which is never a sure thing, and either searching the ground for lost coins or selling high quality items in a deed (settlement)token, both of which give few coins total.

Ingame money can be used to quickly buy high-quality items created from more skilled players, establish settlements (claiming otherwise public land as only yours), and maintain those settlements. Somewhat averted since no part or item of the game is impossible to get via normal play, and you can even build anything you want without paying for a settlement or its maintenance, though you will have to regularly repair your buildings and items from the decay damage they get. Settlements freeze decay as long as they have more coins stored than 1 month of maintenance, saving you both time and materials.

* AHomeownerIsYou: You can even build it yourself. They range from tiny hermit shacks out in the woods to impressive stone mansions with paved compounds surrounded by stone walls and street lamps.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: In addition to the monetary costs of Premium, players can spend even more real money on in-game currency. The only other way to acquire in-game currency is by trading with other players, which is never a sure thing. This money can be used to quickly buy high-quality items from more skilled players, establish settlements (claiming otherwise public land as yours), and maintain those settlements (which will be disbanded if you don't, no refunds).
** It must be noted that for some reason it is cheaper to buy Premium with real money than it is to pay the equivalent amount of in-game currency. To elaborate, buying two months of Premium with real money costs 10 Euros. Buying one month of Premium with in-game money costs 10 silver, and it costs 1 Euro to buy 1 in-game silver. Perhaps the Premium experience is meant to be easier to access than having extra spending money? On the other hand, it makes it harder for business-minded players to maintain Premium with just trading.
* CoolHorse: Horses can be decked out in bardings of various materials and colors, and equipped with horseshoes, saddles and bridles to make them faster or easier to ride.
* CosmeticAward: Achieving a certain level in a skill can add titles to your name, such as "Mason", "Master Blacksmith", etc.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the [[StarterEquipment starter tool set]] and access to raw materials. The game even touts its focus on player-made items and environment. Furthermore, almost all crafted items can be improved, increasing their quality using the same tools and raw materials used to make them. Most non-bulk items above a certain quality will bear the maker's signature, which becomes more legible the higher the quality.

* ItemCrafting: Taken UpToEleven; a lone player could potentially craft an entire village from the [[StarterEquipment starter tool set]] and access to raw materials. The game even touts it's focus on player-made items and environment. Furthermore, almost all crafted items can be improved, increasing their quality using the same tools and raw materials used to make them. Most non-bulk items above a certain quality will bear the maker's signature, which becomes more legible the higher the quality.

* PerpetuallyStatic: Averted, in line with the focus on a player-driven world. Settlements can be founded and disbanded, public highways built to connect places of interest, walls erected to block mob spawns, forests leveled to make potato farms, and so on.

* SubsystemDamage: Each body location can be hit, with each wound being tracked separately. However, CriticalExistenceFailure occurs when the total damage suffered exceeds your health. So you could die from a few bad wounds or dozens of light ones.

** As a kind of safety net, when the hunger bar gets too low the player will automatically fast, filling the hunger bar but consuming fat reserves. A player who continues to not get food will eventually run out of fat reserves and remain in a perpetual state of weakness.

Interesting fact: Notch, best known as the creator of MineCraft, was a member of Wurm Online's development team before leaving to do his own thing, and the rest as they say is history.