History VideoGame / EightyDays

* MixedAncestry: Passepartout encounters quite a few people of mixed ancestry on his travels, such as Octave and Lin Carrington. It can even be hinted at in Houston and revealed in Bloemfontein that Passepartout has some African ancestry through his mother's side, though he is white-passing.

* SensualSlavs: Finnish dancer Leena Palkala pretends to be Slavic [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar for a reason.]]

* BaseOnWheels: The City of Agra walks on giant mechanical legs. In fact, the whole city ''is'' your mode of transportation at one point if you choose that path. You can even see the mechanical bowels of the city, where the lower classes maintain the intricate machine, while the upper classes and tourists gawk at the splendor of the Taj Mahal.

* CityOfWeirdos: Zurich seems to be one, with a touch of isolationism and xenophobia.

* BiTheWay:
** Passepartout can pursue both female and male love interests.
** Passepartout enamors a Turkish medical student while dressed in drag, but he doesn't stop being attracted to him when he discards his disguise.

* AnachronismStew: Aside from the obvious steampunk AlternateHistory aspect, there are also quite a few machines and modes of transport available to you that wouldn't be invented for another 50 years. One route also has Passeportout mentioning ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', even though the author Mary Shelley was not even born yet in 1872 when the game takes place.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: If you decide to board the ''SS Thunder'' as the duo did in the book, Fogg will remark as if you are planning to go to Hong Kong even if you chose to alight at Singapore.

--> [[ItWasHisSled "Monsieur Fogg! The date-line!"]]\\

* Foreshadowing: The game enjoys throwing small suggestions about events in other places into dialogue.

* PunnyHeadline: A news headline sceptical of Fogg's wager is prefaced 'Fogg warning'.

* SelfImposedChallenge: Of sorts. A high-ranking Artificer could easily round the world in far fewer than eighty days, but the Guild is impressed by Fogg's efforts to do so using only transportation available to normal people.

* {{Speedrun}}: The goal is to [[CaptainObvious go around the world in eighty days]], but it's possible to get back to London ''much'' faster; there's an achievement for getting back in 40 days or less. The world record is [[http://80days.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Fastest_Journeys 29 days]].

''80 Days'' is an interactive fiction game loosely based on Creator/JulesVerne's ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''. Published by Inkle and written by Meg Jayanth, it was originally released in 2014 on [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] and [[AndroidGames Android]] only, but the game was ported to PC in 2015 along with a major update and is now available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and other vendors.

''80 Days'' is an interactive fiction game loosely based on Creator/JulesVerne's ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''. Published by Inkle and written by Meg Jayanth, it was originally released in 2014 on [[IOSGames iOS]] and [[AndroidGames Android]] only, but the game was ported to PC in 2015 along with a major update and is now available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and other vendors.

* CreatorCameo: After the first playthrough, [[Creator/JulesVerne Jules Verne]] himself may be encountered on the Amphitrite Express from London to Paris.

Imagine what might have transpired had we forgotten! [[[NotHisSled A less precise man than Monsieur Fogg might have finished on the eightieth day and yet believed himself to have lost!]]

** [[CanonForeigner Michel Arden]], despite being cool in the [[Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon original novel]], is now a slightly insane but still ingenious rocket engineer.

--> "Monsieur Fogg! The date-line!"\\

Imagine what might have transpired had we forgotten! A less precise man than Monsieur Fogg might have finished on the eightieth day and yet believed himself to have lost!

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Fogg, to some extent. His attitudes towards interacting with others and his single-minded determination to win the wager for reasons that are not clear or ridiculous are PlayedForLaughs.

* {{Oxbridge}}: The duo may travel to Trinity College in Cambridge to begin their journey rather than Paris, since Fogg is an alumnus. The Professor who provides them with transport gleefully tells them that the papers mentioning Cambridge in connection to Fogg will 'annoy Oxford terribly'.

* DevelopersForesight: Fogg can make remarks about the items that Passepartout buys. For example, if the player buys another [[CoolGuns/Revolvers Smith & Wesson]] when you already have one in your luggage, he'll ask "Exactly how many guns do you think we need, Passepartout?"

* DevelopersForesight: Fogg can make remarks about the items that Passepartout buys. For example, if the player buys another [[CoolGuns Smith & Wesson]] when you already have one in your luggage, he'll ask "Exactly how many guns do you think we need, Passepartout?"

-->"Monsieur Fogg! The date-line!"\\
"I have altered our watch already," Monsieur Fogg replied calmly. "Did you think I might forget?"\\

* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:If the North Pole route goes badly, Passepartout's journal can become this.]]

** Passepartout enamours a Turkish medical student while dressed in drag, but he doesn't stop being attracted to him when he discards his disguise.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The photograph Quispe takes in Bogota for the Goland romance.]]

* ClearMyName: One of the longer ocean crossings, aboard the Noelani, contains an entire murder mystery in miniature. If Passepartout is carrying a weapon in his luggage, that will be the murder weapon, and Fogg will call on him to solve the mystery in order to clear both their names. (Solving the mystery is not guaranteed; if the player fails to put the clues together correctly, [[spoiler:the authorities will decide to let them go due to lack of evidence, and the mystery will remain unsolved]].)
* ClockDiscrepancy: Lampshaded. In the original novel, Fogg seems to have lost his bet by being a day late, but soon finds out that the travelers have crossed the International Date Line and effectively gained a day. Here, Fogg knows to adjust his clock when the line is crossed and Passepartout remarks that there is no way such an organized man would miss such a detail.

* GloriousMotherRussia: Furry hats! Drunkeness! Bitter cold! Communists! Passepartout and Fogg's travels in Russia have it all.

* TheMutiny: There are several possible mutinies in the game, and Fogg can even entreat Passepartout to instigate one.

* GentlemanAdventurer: Fogg, obviously. He's a gentleman, he goes on an adventure! (Though he really cares more about winning his wager than the adventure part of it.)

* NorseByNorsewest: The Scandinavian characters are mostly quite weird. On board an airship aptly named 'Northern Lights' the crew members play a bizarre verbal game called 'Hergen-Bergen' that... really does not make sense.

* AdaptionalComicRelief: Fogg, to some extent. His attitudes towards interacting with others and his single-minded determination to win the wager for reasons that are not clear or ridiculous are PlayedForLaughs.

* AdaptationalBadass: Aodha, who goes from being a would-be victim of sati[[note]]Ritual self-immolation[[/note]] in the original to a mercenary leader.

* BiTheWay: Passepartout can pursue both female and male love interests.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Very possible if trying to romance Goland, as the conditions to meet her at the end of the game are extremely hard to meet.

** If you ask somebody about Nanortalik during the 'converse' screen, they may tell you that Greenland is the 'loneliest place on Earth’ and 'the last place you’d expect to find someone you know'. [[spoiler: This, of course, means that it’s the perfect place to run into Vitti Jokinen from the North Pole plot obce more.]]

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: [[UsefulNotes/AngloZuluWar Emperor Cetshwayo]] is historically known for being fantastically intimidating, but in this game he has an army of terrifying automaton animals used for war and defence, controlled by a shard embedded into his brain.
* As well as the Zulu, whole groups like the Ottomans, Indian revolutionaries and Arctic tribes are given more power to attention away from Western Europe.

* InUniverseGameClock: The clock controls when your routes arrive and depart, aswell as determining how long you have left on your wager. It doesn't even stop when you're at the bank or market.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Passepartout finds out that the British commissioner of Waltair got booted back to Britain after trying to get a divorce from his wife when he fell in love with a woman in India. The woman says she loves him because he is 'too honourable' to [[DidNotGetTheGirl abandon his post and come back to be with her.]]

* MythologyGag: In the novel, Fogg and Passepartout have to travel by elephant part of the way because the railroad is not yet complete. On the corresponding route of the game, they travel on a steampunk mechanical elephant.

** [[CanonForeigner Michel Arden]], despite being cool in the original novel [[Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon]] is now a slightly insane but still ingenious rocket engineer.