Miasma Chronicles is a Turn-Based Tactics game developed by The Bearded Ladies, who also made Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.
America has been destroyed by a savage force known as The Miasma, which swirls around attacking both nature and technology. In the town of Sedentary there lives a young man called Elvis, who has a glove which can control the Miasma. His mission: use his glove to break through the Miasma wall surrounding the town, find his Missing Mom, and learn who he really is.
Contains examples of:
- After the End: America has been ravaged by The Miasma.
- Apathetic Citizens: You have a shoot-out in a nightclub against the local boss' mooks. When it's all over, no one seems bothered.
- Bottomless Magazines: Magazines have bottoms, and are very small, but can be reloaded indefinitely.
- Brain in a Jar: Mayor Mason of Sedentary is a disembodied head in a jar.
- Calculator Spelling: This is the answer to a keypad puzzle. The door is to the office of a urologist, who has scratched P and N on the display. The code is P3N15.
- The Chosen One: Bha Madhi says that Elvis is the reincarnation of the previous Alpha Editor, and is destined to complete the overthrow of the First Family. She found him as a baby in the Alpha Editor's grave, and raised him as her own child. We see a statue of the Alpha Editor, and Elvis has the same face.
- Dug Too Deep: The miners in Mineshaft A found a big Miasma deposit, which causes havoc. The Mayor even says "they dug too deep."
- Face–Heel Turn: Both of them turn back to Face after varying amounts of drama.
- Mayor Mason puts his head on his robot bodyguard's body and runs away to join the DRC after seeing the Miasma rising around Sedentary.
- Elvis decides to join the First Family after finding out how much the party have been lying to him about their identities and motives and knowledge of his own identity.
- Flunky Boss: Quendyl Zen goes down very quickly after you have defeated all ten of the mooks he summons.
- Gladiator Games: The DRC has an arena for them. The plot requires you to take part, and fight five waves of human, mutant and robot enemies.
- Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: Narrative, Standard, and Extreme.
- Jerkass Has a Point: The Mayor only cares about himself, but he isn't wrong when he tells Bha Madhi that she was a terrible mother to Elvis.
- Missing Mom: When Elvis was very young, his mother left him the care of Diggs, and went through the Miasma barrier surrounding the town. She left a message that when Elvis could break through the barrier, she would tell him who he really was.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After you defeat Quendyl Zen, he says that you have ruined everything, because he was going to purge the Miasma. This is not in line with his previous actions.
- Notice This:
- Loot glows in various colours. Quest items glow blue.
- When you connect the power to the gate in the Temple of the Editors, the power line glows, to remind you which way to go.
- Older Than They Look: Jade reveals that the First Family gave her experimental anti-ageing serum. When asked how old she is, she replies "Old."
- Point of No Return: A Polite example. You get a warning that some content will become unavailable when you enter the First Factory.
- Purple Is Powerful: The best loot glows purple.
- Robot Buddy: Diggs is Elvis' adoptive robot big brother.
- Shout-Out:
- You cannot name a character Elvis without it being a reference to Elvis Presley.
- In the Undertown, you can find a note from Mayor Burton, saying that from next Monday, "three bronze medallions will be required to enter the records room. In addition, to prevent unauthorised public access, restrooms will be accessible by placing a shotgun-sized object in the statue's open arms." Resident Evil, anyone?
- The Achievement for meeting every type of enemy is called "Attenborough," after wildlife presenter David Attenborough.
- You can find the grave of Farrow the fox from Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden in The Editor Archive.
- Wham Line: The villainous Quendyl Zen gets two:
- When he orders his advisors to find his sister, it is obvious from context that he means Jade.
- Later, he sees Elvis on surveillance footage, and says "Forget about my sister, my boy's coming home".
