History VideoGame / CuriousExpedition2

** The truffle pig has a cooldown of 40 days and can find random VendorTrash or low-grade sanity items. A very, very long expedition will last maybe 200 days.

** Taxonomist starts as the weakest class of expedition leaders. However, once fully upgraded he has a powerful attack and passive ability that turns otherwise VendorTrash that are animal trophies into decent source of fame. He also starts with a donkey (and thus large inventory) and a cook, meaning all the hunted down animals can be turned into quality meals (once ''the cook'' levels up, that is). Same goes with his starting weapon, ornate revolver, which at max level is one of the better weapons in the whole game.

* GirlsWithGuns: Any female character besides Malin is capable of being equipped with a firearm and becoming this trope.

* DogeTheBullet: Some classes are capable of dodging attacks.

* TatooAsCharacterType: The Pictish Tatooed Warrior companions are the Cultural type.

* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Guns occasionally show

* BilingualBonus: The bar in the Paris hub is called La Boussole Cassée.

* HumungousMecha: Lux Labs has a giant horse robot on display, sadly it doesn't do anyting.

* StreetUrchin: One of the companion classes, they have the unique ability to steal from settlements and merchants if they can roll three green dice.

* NonHumanSidekick: Compared with the original, the new ones include humanoid salamanders, MoleMen and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Pale Faces]].

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Sikh Warriors and Islander warriors.

* {{Steampunk}}: The game drops the general JungleOpera trappings of the original for direct steampunk vibes.

* GoingNative: [[spoiler: In the end of the campaign mode, Victoria Malin decides to join the locals of the final island and learn as much as possible from them]]. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue directly invokes this trope.

* HiddenElfVillage: Most of the native settlements are depicted this way, but the Avalon DLC takes it UpToEleven and features relict populations of Picts, living cutoff from the outside world. The real life Picts disappeared over 1000 years ago.

* PurelyAestheticGender: All companions can be either male or female and it doesn't affect anything. This involves such unlikely candidates like a 1880s British soldier.

** As long as you have a pack animal, a common Crate is pretty much indispensable, as it provides up to 8 additional slots, essentially doubling what your expedition can carry. Saddle bags are just as good, but far less common.

Curious Expedition 2 is the sequel to the 2015 roguelike RPG Curious Expedition. While the core gameplay remains intact, this installment adds a campaign with a story mode and swaps out the Historical Doman Characters with character classes. Two character classes are available at first and six more are unlockable, each one has unique perks and gameplay which greatly effects party dynamics.

** Getting a Street Rat companion, due to unique ability to steal things from various locations. While the outcome is randomised, even if you won't get anything useful, you can then barter it away for what you need or want.

* MagikarpPower: Gear and companions can be upgraded and the higher level they have, the more faces their die has. A level 1 revolver will have 2/6 chance to roll anything at all, while dealing pitiful damage, but the same revolver, once maxed out, is a respectable weapon with its entire die having faces, instead of blanks.

* BritsLoveTea: The only way to get CalmingTea when gearing up for an expedition is to have sufficiently high rank in the British Royal Avalon Society.

* FogOfDoom: The outskirts of the maps are covered in the OmniousFog, which slowly, but surely expands toward the center of each map. If you end up travelling through it, it costs you huge amount of sanity and can also cause a [[TheCorruption fog infection]] to your companions if you cross too many tiles covered by it. The fog can't be in any way dispersed or removed (except for a very rare spell with very small radius), thus effectively it works like the black hole from the first game - it will never stop spreading and eventually consume the whole map.

** As long as you have a pack animal, a common Crate is pretty much indispensable, as it provides up to 8 additional slots, essentially doubling what your expedition can carry.

** Getting any weapon or companion with a die that offers multiple target attack. Once you have it and upgrade it a bit, it will carry you through all combat encounters, because multiple target attacks are so much better and more efficient.
** Getting a Street Rat companion, due to unique ability to steal things from various locations. While it is randomised, even if you won't get anything useful, you can then barter it away for what you need or want.

* AntiHoarding: Even more so than in the first game. ''All'' your unused equipment is being sold back in Paris after expedition, while your funds are only for that specific expedition and come from your sponsor. Short for weapons and few bits of gear, you can't keep anything between expeditions.

* MacheteMayhem: Machete now a weapon instead of usable equipment, dealing significant melee damage. It ''still'' decreases the costs of crossing through jungle tiles, but doesn't cut them down.

** Rework on portals, which went from a free dinosaur early on to suicide mission best avoided entirely
** Significant decrease of damage output of dynamite
** There are no more spells to summon rest place, reveal map, freely move or teleport to desired location

** Each round of combat decrease your sanity by 1, thus making it a top priority to wrap things up fast (and prevents milking healing abilities against weak foes).

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Pale Faces are of the TechnicallyLivingZombie variety, but their minds are twisted by TheCorruption and they slowly turn into {{Humanoid Abomination}}s

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The Pale Faces ruler]] could give [[VideoGames/{{Fallout}} Master]] run for his money when it comes to being deformed ''something''. In fact, your expedition leader will refuse to accept this thing could be human or more likely, group of people.

* FantasticAnthropologist: The Anthropologist player class gains fame from studying indigenous peoples found on expeditions, which includes includes sentient non human tribes.

** The Royal Avalon Society is the most conventional of the three, their items are the most well rounded. They are presumably British and their clubhouse is decorated with artifacts from all over the world. Unique companions they offer are the Sikh Warrior, Corgi Treausre Hunter, and Grail Knight.

* HiddenElfVillage: most of the native settlements are depicted this way, but the Avalon DLC takes it up to eleven and features relict populations of Picts living cutoff from the outside world. The real life Picts disappeared over 1000 years ago.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The Paris skyline often features zeppelins and smaller airships, which is one of the first indicators of the steampunk setting.

* GoofyFeatheredDinsosaur: The raptors are featured with full plumage in line with the current consensus in paleontology, in contrast to the original game where they resembled the scaled ones popularized by Jurassic Park. They are tameable and can become a beloved member of your party and bond with other companions.

* HotGypsyWoman: The more sensitively named Roma Traders, they wear the stereotypical attire but are an unusual aversion because they are merchants rather than dancers or fortune tellers.

In 1886 [[GentlemanAdventurer Victoria Malin]] is on an expedition with two companions on an uncharted island. They discover a portal to another dimension which Malin believes is from a lost civilization that left technology that could be used to better civilization. Malin is the director of the Paris Exposition and the story campaign has you assist her in her quest to uncover more lost technology.

* AdventurersClub: Three are present in Paris and each expedition is sponsored by a club of their choosing. Every completed expedition adds experience which levels up the chosen club, unlocking unique gear and party classes.