History VideoGame / Awesomenauts

''Awesomenauts'' is a Free to Play 2D {{MOBA}} video game, released on UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam, from Ronimo Games (The guys who brought you ''VideoGame/SwordsAndSoldiers'').

* AnnouncerChatter: In addition to the default announcer, you can purchase more colorful announcers such as:
** [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Papa Gnaw]] (Kickstarter only)
** [[InsufferableGenius Voltar]] (Kickstarter only)
** [[ObstructiveBureaucrat SUSI]]
** [[TotallyRadical Coco Nebulon]]
** [[{{Mockumentary}} Wildlife Narrator]]
** [[BlackKnight Wraithlord Scoop]]
** [[HermitGuru The Scrolls of Xi-Pang]]
** [[EvilLaugh Ghosthouse]]
** [[HairMetal Rockstar]]
** [[HiveMind The Mind Collection]]
** [[CargoCult Skree]]
** [[AscendedFan SlowWolf]] (Referral bonus)
** [[RepulsiveRingmaster The Ringmaster]]

* AprilFools: They've done two so far. The first was in 2015, which replaced all the neutral creeps in the game with sheep. This was also a cross-promotion with Swords & Soldiers II, which had recently launched.

* BonusBoss: The Solar Boss.

* InterfaceScrew: Some skills can be upgraded to blind players, which temporarily blacks out most of their screen.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Every character has a theme that plays upon selection, composed with their respective personalities and character traits in mind.
** Should you get a Killing Spree, the standard music will be replaced by a [[ThemeMusicPowerUp remixed version of the character's theme]].
* LevelScaling: As time passes, 'Nauts generally become stronger by upgrading their skills, but the robot creeps gradually get more numerous and sport larger health bars as a round progresses.
** Played straight as of patch 2.13, which overhauled the game to include an XP System. Every Awesomenaut has scaling damage and health based on their team level.

* NewSeasonNewName: The Starstorm expansion has shades of this, with a {{Retool}} as darker-looking 'Nauts are released, along with a new plot for the titular Starstorm station.

* PlayerVersusPlayer

* SceneryPorn: The backgrounds have all kinds of small details, such as jumping sandworms, other planets, and moving transport lifts. On Ribbit IV and Aiguillon, the bottom of the map is filled with water that reflects everything near it.
** Starstorm Station is just ''gorgeous''. It's filled with lots of little details, including lights that turn on and off, moving parts, scenery that you can interact with, several Easter eggs, and subtle references to all five of the Starstorm 'Nauts. It's also the first map where the art isn't mirrored at the halfway point.

* ThemeMusicPowerup: When you're doing really well (getting a killing spree at 3, 6, and 9 kills in a row), a remix of the {{leitmotif}} for the 'Naut you're playing overrides the normal background music.
** And if your team is handing the enemy their keisters on a silver platter (15-0 team kills), the game's main theme starts playing.

** This really seems to be the case in Overdrive, as most of the free features being released around the time of the expansion (Lonestar's visual rework, new matchmaking, Ix the Interloper, the XP System) are part of "[[UpToEleven taking Awesomenauts into Overdrive]]".

* FrickinLaserBeams: Actually averted, for a Saturday Morning-esque sci-fi game. Lasers are depicted as a continuous straight line that instantly hits anybody in it, such as Yuri's beam and Raelynn's sniper.

[[ExcusePlot Right, with the plot out of the way]], the game is what takes centre stage from here. Think of the structure of a typical {{MOBA}} game (lanes with creeps going down them, turrets at periodic moments, and a base you have to destroy at the end), but recontextualised as a 2D platformer. This naturally opens up some slightly different skill sets to what you'd expect from something like ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', ''VideoGames/DefenseOfTheAncients'' and the like.

* SpeciesSurname: Zig-zagged. Played straight for most of the PettingZooPeople in the game. Unknown if Genji, Vinnie, and Smiles follow it, and it's completely averted by Swiggins and Deadlift.
** Played with in Leon's case, as while his last name is Chameleon, his species is actually a Kremzon.

* EndlessGame

* MultiPlatform

* SideView

* AWinnerIsYou: See the [[MostWonderfulSound bottom of this page]].

->'''''[[MostWonderfulSound VICTORYYYYYYYYY!]]'''''

** ''Tank'': Beefy warriors with high HP and/or a source of damage mitigation, but with larger hitboxes and very slow.

** [[DissonantSerenity Wildlife Narrator]]