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The original series can be purchased at the official website, [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforgeoriginal/index.html here]]. The series is also available for sale on Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]]. Website/{{Kickstarter}}-funded remakes of the series are being made, with ''[[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge/index.html Geneforge 1: Mutagen]]'' releasing in 2021 and ''[[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge2/index.html Geneforge 2: Infestation]]'' releasing in 2024 on the Spiderweb website, Steam, GOG and Platform/EpicGamesStore.
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The original series can be purchased at the official website, [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforgeoriginal/index.html here]]. The series is also available for sale on Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]]. Website/{{Kickstarter}}-funded remakes of the series are being were made, with ''[[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge/index.html Geneforge 1: Mutagen]]'' releasing released in 2021 and ''[[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge2/index.html Geneforge 2: Infestation]]'' releasing released in 2024 on the Spiderweb website, Steam, GOG and Platform/EpicGamesStore.
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* AGodAmI: Abuse of [[spoiler: canisters]] can trigger this in the PC. Don't ask what happens if you actually use the [[spoiler:Geneforge.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Taygen in the fifth game, down to the concentration camps and plan to [[spoiler:exterminate all creations (Even serviles).]] The fact that some people consider his side the best should give an idea of to what degree {{Grey and Gray Morality}} applies in this series.
* AnEconomyIsYou: Averted. Merchants explicitly only show you what you might be interested in and some you can't trade with at all because they only have things useless to you.
* AnEconomyIsYou: Averted. Merchants explicitly only show you what you might be interested in and some you can't trade with at all because they only have things useless to you.
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* AnEconomyIsYou: Averted. Merchants explicitly only show you what you might be interested in and some you can't trade with at all because they only have things useless to you.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Taygen in the fifth game, down to the concentration camps and plan to [[spoiler:exterminate all creations (Even serviles).]] The fact that some people consider his side the best should give an idea of to what degree {{Grey and Gray Morality}} applies in this series.
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** One of the main reasons for the rebellion. Under the Shapers, creations have no rights and any overly independent creations are supposed to be killed.
** Interestingly, [[spoiler:use of canisters and the Geneforge make the user, for all intents and purposes, less human. This can include the Player.]]
** One of the main reasons for the rebellion. Under the Shapers, creations have no rights and any overly independent creations are supposed to be killed.
** Interestingly, [[spoiler:use of canisters and the Geneforge make the user, for all intents and purposes, less human. This can include the Player.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: One of the main reasons for the rebellion. Under the Shapers, creations have no rights and any overly independent creations are supposed to be killed.
** Interestingly, [[spoiler:use of canisters and the Geneforge make the user, for all intents and purposes, less human. This can include the Player.]]
** Interestingly, [[spoiler:use of canisters and the Geneforge make the user, for all intents and purposes, less human. This can include the Player.]]
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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Shaping plays this trope to a T. New creations are traditionally made through experimentation, making one new creature after another with one slight modification each time and recording the results. The first game is about you being stranded on an island where you discover an abandoned research facility that had discovered [[spoiler: DNA, and subsequently magical genetic engineering.]] The series as a whole [[AnAesop delivers the message]] that the process of gaining knowledge gives you the wisdom to use that knowledge, and that simply being given power will lead to abuse.
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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Shaping plays this trope to a T. New creations are traditionally made through experimentation, making one new creature after another with one slight modification each time and recording the results. The first game is about you being stranded on an island where you discover an abandoned research facility that had discovered [[spoiler: DNA, and subsequently magical genetic engineering.]] The series as a whole [[AnAesop delivers the message]] message that the process of gaining knowledge gives you the wisdom to use that knowledge, and that simply being given power will lead to abuse.
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Mutagen's Kickstarter campaign is pretty old news at this point and Infestation is coming out soon, so reworded.
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The original series can be purchased at the official website, [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforgeoriginal/index.html here]]. The series is also available for sale on Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]]. A remake of the first game, titled ''Geneforge 1: Mutagen'', [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geneforge1/geneforge-1-mutagen ran a successful]] Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign which managed to hit two of its stretch goals. The remake released on 24th of February 2021.
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The original series can be purchased at the official website, [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforgeoriginal/index.html here]]. The series is also available for sale on Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]]. A remake Website/{{Kickstarter}}-funded remakes of the first game, titled ''Geneforge series are being made, with ''[[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge/index.html Geneforge 1: Mutagen'', [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geneforge1/geneforge-1-mutagen ran a successful]] Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign which managed to hit two of its stretch goals. The remake released Mutagen]]'' releasing in 2021 and ''[[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge2/index.html Geneforge 2: Infestation]]'' releasing in 2024 on 24th of February 2021.the Spiderweb website, Steam, GOG and Platform/EpicGamesStore.
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* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Guardian Claymore in most games. It has incredibly high attack power, and increases your Strength and Quick Action. It's even useful to Agents and Shapers thanks to the strength boost positively affecting weight limits, but for Guardians it's truly powerful. It's usually only obtained in a late-game chest (usually a heavily guarded one) or gotten by killing a high level Guardian, depending on the game.
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* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Guardian Claymore in most games. It has incredibly high attack power, and increases your Strength and Quick Action. It's In the original series it's even useful to Agents and Shapers thanks to the strength boost positively affecting weight limits, limits[[note]]{{Downplayed}} in ''Mutagen'', due to it requiring a high Melee Weapons stat to equip[[/note]], but for Guardians it's truly powerful. It's usually only obtained in a late-game chest (usually a heavily guarded one) or gotten by killing a high level Guardian, depending on the game.
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* HateSink: Rawal in ''5'' is the rare character that actively defies the series' GreyAndGrayMorality and seems to have been made with the explicit intent of making the player want to get out of his control as fast as possible. He [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaves]] not just serviles but also ''humans'', and you in fact start the game as one of his servants forced to do his dirty work or else die at the hands of the control tool implanted within you. Said dirty work entails undermining all the other members of the Shaper Council, partially out of ideological disagreement, but mostly so that Rawal can rise through its ranks. He has zero respect for the plight of the rebels nor for the laws of the Shapers as he regularly reShapes the player character [[spoiler:and turns out to have built a Geneforge]]. His motives are almost entirely based on selfishly increasing his own influence to the detriment of the war efforts, [[spoiler:and true enough, should the player stay by his side, [[EarnYourBadEnding they get a bad ending]] where the rebels successfully overthrow the weakened Shapers and kill both Rawal and the player]].
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* ActionBomb: Pyroroamers do this automatically when killed. Unstable creations, wingbolts, and rotdhizons in the later games also explode on death, though it isn't their main purpose.
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* ActionBomb: Pyroroamers and, in ''Mutagen'', Volatile Thahds do this automatically when killed. Unstable creations, wingbolts, and rotdhizons in the later games also explode on death, though it isn't their main purpose.
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* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Cockatrices are a new creation type introduced in ''Mutagen''.
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** [[spoiler: Canisters are described as having a negative impact on their user's sanity. Should the player use enough of them, this will creep up during conversations, forcing the player to maniacally snap at certain encounters that otherwise could have been negotiated through.]]
** In ''3'', coming back to Greenwood Academy later in the game gives a bit of flavor text that the aftermath of the attack on it is slowly being cleaned up. This is reflected in the layout of the area, as several places that used to be filled with rubble are now cleared up, not only making the area easier to backtrack through, but even allowing the player to access some treasure they couldn't before.
** [[spoiler: Canisters are described as having a negative impact on their user's sanity. Should the player use enough of them, this will creep up during conversations, forcing the player to maniacally snap at certain encounters that otherwise could have been negotiated through.]]
** In ''3'', coming back to Greenwood Academy later in the game gives a bit of flavor text that the aftermath of the attack on it is slowly being cleaned up. This is reflected in the layout of the area, as several places that used to be filled with rubble are now cleared up, not only making the area easier to backtrack through, but even allowing the player to access some treasure they couldn't before.
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** You may be strong enough to wipe out every faction by the numbers. [[CutsceneIncompetence In 5, that doesn't mean you can win if you piss them all off.]]
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** You may be strong enough to wipe out every faction by the numbers. [[CutsceneIncompetence In 5, ''5'', that doesn't mean you can win if you piss them all off.]]
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* SplashDamage: A common effect of abilities in ''Mutagen''.
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* SplashDamage: A common effect of abilities in ''Mutagen''. Subject to friendly fire on higher difficulties.
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* {{Knockback}}: An effect several creation skills in ''Mutagen'' have.
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* SplashDamage: A common effect of abilities in ''Mutagen''.
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* BonusBoss: One at the end of each BonusDungeon.
** If you choose to [[spoiler:let Trajkov use the Geneforge]] in ''1'', you can still choose to fight him afterwards, and he's not easy.
** [[spoiler:Bennhold]] in ''5'', especially considering how you have to go through a long, game-spanning sidequest chain to even fight him.
** If you kill all of the Oozebeasts (basically [[ActionBomb exploding ornks]]) in one of the late-game areas of ''Geneforge 4'', you open up a [[EasterEgg secret passage]] containing the Uberoozebeast, a more powerful version of them that sprays out acid clouds and has just a bit too much attack power for its own good. Killing it gets you a pair of gloves that increase strength at the cost of intelligence and a canister of [[JokeCharacter Create Ornk]].
** If you choose to [[spoiler:let Trajkov use the Geneforge]] in ''1'', you can still choose to fight him afterwards, and he's not easy.
** [[spoiler:Bennhold]] in ''5'', especially considering how you have to go through a long, game-spanning sidequest chain to even fight him.
** If you kill all of the Oozebeasts (basically [[ActionBomb exploding ornks]]) in one of the late-game areas of ''Geneforge 4'', you open up a [[EasterEgg secret passage]] containing the Uberoozebeast, a more powerful version of them that sprays out acid clouds and has just a bit too much attack power for its own good. Killing it gets you a pair of gloves that increase strength at the cost of intelligence and a canister of [[JokeCharacter Create Ornk]].
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* {{Superboss}}: One at the end of each BonusDungeon.
** If you choose to [[spoiler:let Trajkov use the Geneforge]] in ''1'', you can still choose to fight him afterwards, and he's not easy.
** [[spoiler:Bennhold]] in ''5'', especially considering how you have to go through a long, game-spanning sidequest chain to even fight him.
** If you kill all of the Oozebeasts (basically [[ActionBomb exploding ornks]]) in one of the late-game areas of ''Geneforge 4'', you open up a [[EasterEgg secret passage]] containing the Uberoozebeast, a more powerful version of them that sprays out acid clouds and has just a bit too much attack power for its own good. Killing it gets you a pair of gloves that increase strength at the cost of intelligence and a canister of [[JokeCharacter Create Ornk]].
** If you choose to [[spoiler:let Trajkov use the Geneforge]] in ''1'', you can still choose to fight him afterwards, and he's not easy.
** [[spoiler:Bennhold]] in ''5'', especially considering how you have to go through a long, game-spanning sidequest chain to even fight him.
** If you kill all of the Oozebeasts (basically [[ActionBomb exploding ornks]]) in one of the late-game areas of ''Geneforge 4'', you open up a [[EasterEgg secret passage]] containing the Uberoozebeast, a more powerful version of them that sprays out acid clouds and has just a bit too much attack power for its own good. Killing it gets you a pair of gloves that increase strength at the cost of intelligence and a canister of [[JokeCharacter Create Ornk]].
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A series of 5 {{Role Playing Game}}s for UsefulNotes/{{Macintosh}} and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] by Creator/SpiderwebSoftware, which is more or less the brainchild of Seattle-area programmer Jeff Vogel.
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A series of 5 {{Role Playing Game}}s for UsefulNotes/{{Macintosh}} Platform/{{Macintosh}} and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] by Creator/SpiderwebSoftware, which is more or less the brainchild of Seattle-area programmer Jeff Vogel.
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The original series can be purchased at the official website, [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforgeoriginal/index.html here]]. The series is also available for sale on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]]. A remake of the first game, titled ''Geneforge 1: Mutagen'', [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geneforge1/geneforge-1-mutagen ran a successful]] Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign which managed to hit two of its stretch goals. The remake released on 24th of February 2021.
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The original series can be purchased at the official website, [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforgeoriginal/index.html here]]. The series is also available for sale on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} and [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]]. A remake of the first game, titled ''Geneforge 1: Mutagen'', [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geneforge1/geneforge-1-mutagen ran a successful]] Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign which managed to hit two of its stretch goals. The remake released on 24th of February 2021.
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** In the fourth game, rebel-aligned players can recruit a servile called Khur, while shaper-aligned players can recruit Shotwell. Both of them however only stay on for the chapter they're in, but they do have notable dialogue if you take them with you. You can also recruit soldiers in the fens of Aziraph, but they don't have as much personal characterization.
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** In the fourth game, rebel-aligned players can recruit a servile called Khur, while shaper-aligned players can recruit Shotwell. Both of them however only stay on for the chapter they're in, but they do have notable dialogue if you take them with you. You can also recruit soldiers in the fens Fens of Aziraph, but they don't have as much personal characterization.characterization and also leave once you leave the Fens of Aziraph.
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** In the fourth game, rebel-aligned players can recruit a servile called Khur, while shaper-aligned players can recruit Shotwell. Both of them however only stay on for the chapter they're in, but they do have notable dialogue if you take them with you. You can also recruit soldiers in the fens of Aziraph, but they don't have as much personal characterization.
** In the fifth game you can recruit Mekhen, if you don't out him as an intelligent Servile to Rawal. However he leaves after the first chapter no matter what and isn't recruitable after.
** In the fifth game you can recruit Mekhen, if you don't out him as an intelligent Servile to Rawal. However he leaves after the first chapter no matter what and isn't recruitable after.
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* PlayingBothSides: Each game has multiple factions to work with and give you quests. They're usually mutually exclusive in the end, but in the meantime, abusing multiple alliances to get more quests, and the corresponding loot and XP, is a very rewarding playstyle.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Ghaldring in ''5'': he's the FinalBoss for 4 of the 5 factions, and even in his own faction the player character and allies wind up overthrowing him in the ending.]] Otherwise averted, since the player can side with many different factions, meaning the BigBad of one run can be the BigGood of another, and vice versa.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Ghaldring in ''5'': he's the FinalBoss for 4 of the 5 factions, and even in his own faction the player character and allies wind up overthrowing him in the ending.]] Otherwise averted, since the player can side with many different factions, meaning the BigBad of one run can be the BigGood of another, and vice versa. The Takers in ''2'' split the difference; [[spoiler: if you're ''not'' allied to them, you have to take them down as the end of every faction questline, or to win a non-aligned victory]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: You can do this in the second game after [[spoiler: Shanti dies]]. If you do it immediately after the aforementioned event, it's even a decent ending for your character. [[spoiler: You go back to WizardingSchool despite the Council's mistrust. War breaks out, of course, but that was destined to happen anyhow.]]
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From what I can tell, adding these to the page just made the tropes disappear? I assume it was done by accident.
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* ItGetsEasier: Shapers are usually not surprised when initiates question their wisdom (read: express empathy for creations), but they expect this phase to pass. [[spoiler:Litalia's]] mentor invoked this when [[spoiler:she was forced to destroy a group of disobedient serviles]], leading to where they are in the story proper.
** Ironically, [[spoiler:Litalia's]] journal also shows this. Each account of a kill is followed up with "It was a pity it came to that", but the narration wryly notes that it becomes less convincing after the first fifty times.
** Ironically, [[spoiler:Litalia's]] journal also shows this. Each account of a kill is followed up with "It was a pity it came to that", but the narration wryly notes that it becomes less convincing after the first fifty times.
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* ItGetsEasier: Shapers are usually not surprised when initiates question their wisdom (read: express empathy for creations), but they expect this phase to pass. [[spoiler:Litalia's]] mentor invoked this when [[spoiler:she was forced to destroy a group of disobedient serviles]], leading to where they are in the story proper.
**proper. Ironically, [[spoiler:Litalia's]] journal also shows this. Each account of a kill is followed up with "It was a pity it came to that", but the narration wryly notes that it becomes less convincing after the first fifty times.
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