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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathstate.png]]
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3	''Deathstate'' is a BulletHell {{Roguelike}} game with heavy [[LovecraftLite Lovecraftian]] themes, chock full of all sorts of imagery that reeks of good old CosmicHorror. It was developed by the Bread Machine Games and released on Platform/{{Steam}} for the PC on the 20th of October, 2015, and ported to Platform/Playstation4 on April 25th, 2017.
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5	In Deathstate, you take on one of multiple playable characters, each with their unique starting stats and abilities and collect a variety of weapons, followers, and organs (yes, you heard that right) to grow progressively stronger over the course of a given run… Unless you pick the [[SelfImposedChallenge Starcreep]]. Then no organs for you, unless you pick up an item that turns you into another character that CAN use organs. Your objective is to reach the eponymous Deathstate and discover what happened to the Professor who was researching the object; he went into a portal and never returned.
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7	The game and its [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic rather cool soundtrack]] can be obtained [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/402120/ here.]]
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9	!!This game contains examples of:
10	* BizarreAlienBiology: The organs you ingest all come from otherworldly beings and can look very... odd.
11	* BodyHorror: Not only do enemies tend to have this (especially in the [[EldritchLocation Maze of Ix]]), but you can inflict this upon your character by ingesting the organs of otherworldly creatures and adding them to your biology. In fact, this is the ''primary method'' of getting statistical upgrades and you'll be hard-pressed to find a non-organ item that directly affects your stats.
12	* BulletHell: ''Jesus Christ on a bike with a flat tire'', does it ever have this. The secondary variation of the ''first level'' will have you dodging through bullet fire that would impress some ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' bosses. And that's not even getting into how crazy things can get when you desecrate an altar...
13	* EldritchAbomination: Multiple. Including, but not limited to; Starchild Emissaries, Dagon, almost every single enemy in the Maze of Ix, and so on and so forth.
14	* EldritchLocation: The ENTIRE GAME takes place in several of these.
15	* LeakingCanOfEvil: One of the dialogues that can pop up between layers indicates that moving between realms affects the others. Oh dear.
16	* LovecraftLite: While not as lite as many works within this, it is still a less hopeless story than most lovecraftian tales, as the characters can go back into the realms as many times as is necessary due to being retrieved after running out of health; really, it's not a matter of if, but rather when they'll reach the game's namesake.
17	* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: [[TemptingFate And yet you're finding out anyway.]]

Context VideoGame / Deathstate