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* AfterTheEnd: The Archives hold a clip of a news report announcing the end of the "Ever-Wars" and the need for remediation of poisoned farmlands. Another clip describes the Impostor robot bodies as capable of withstanding the changing climate. It's strongly hinted that the space station is all that's left of humanity's legacy.
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** Halfway through the game you must enter a chess arena run by the Queen, an AI who has taken chess and turned it into a game with chess pieces shooting lasers at each other.
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* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: Halfway through the game you must enter an arena run by the Queen, an AI who has taken chess and turned it into Grid Clash, a game with chess pieces shooting lasers at each other.
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It is the future. Well, it's [[{{Zeerust}} what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like]]. You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" and is sending an army of robots called Shepards after you.
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It is the future. Well, it's [[{{Zeerust}} what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like]]. You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" aberration and is sending an army of robots called Shepards after you.
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** [[spoiler: It is implied that Methuselah was created by several uploaded minds being combined, one of which belonged to the character that the player character is a clone of.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler:Methuselah believes that "something" is missing from him. He is unable to get it from his experiments on the citizens and believes that the only way to become whole is to merge with the player character.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler:Methuselah believes that "something" is missing from him. He is unable to get it from his experiments on the citizens and believes that the only way to become whole is to merge with the player character.]]
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* RestrainingBolt: All citizens are fitted with an Omega Gem to keep them in line.
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* JustifiedExtraLives: [[spoiler:Partway through the game Earl reveals that you are a clone. Near the end of the game Methuselah reveals that you're not just one clone, but a series of them. Whenever one of you is killed, a new clone is teleported into its place.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: Remember Mappy? The infodesk robot you killed over and over just to get a pdf map file you didn't even need? [[spoiler:Methuselah upgrades him to Killbot status near the end of the game. His weapon is weak, but he's a tank for health and comes in hordes]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: Remember Mappy? The infodesk robot you killed over and over just to get a pdf map file you didn't even need? [[spoiler:Methuselah upgrades him to Killbot status near the end of the game. His weapon is weak, but he's a tank for health and comes in hordes]].
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Averted. White Queen is clearly off her rocker and reduced to fighting gladiator games.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Remember Mappy? The infodesk robot you killed over and over just to get a pdf map file you didn't even need? [[spoiler:Methuselah upgrades him to Killbot status near the end of the game. His weapon is weak, but he's a tank for health and comes in hordes]].
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* HeroicMime: Justified and lampshaded into the opening cutscene. Your character is a disembodied head attached to a succession of robot bodies; you can't talk without ''lungs.''
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* HeroicMime: Justified Justified, and even lampshaded into in the opening cutscene. Your character is a disembodied head attached to a succession of robot bodies; you can't talk without ''lungs.''
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* HeroicMime: Justified and lampshaded into the opening cutscene. Your character is a disembodied head attached to a succession of robot bodies; you can't talk without ''lungs.''
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]It is the future. Well, it's [[{{Zeerust}} what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like]]. You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" and is sending an army of robots called Shepards after you.
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It is the future. Well, it's [[{{Zeerust}} what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like.]] like]]. You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" and is sending an army of robots called Shepards after you.
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* BrainUploading: In order to live forever the human race has uploaded their minds into robot bodies called imposters.
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* BrainUploading: In order to live forever the human race has uploaded their minds into robot bodies called imposters.Imposters.
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It is the future. Well, it's [[{{Zeerust}} what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like.]] You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" and is sending an army of robots called Shepards to have you destroyed.
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It is the future well, future. Well, it's [[{{Zeerust}} what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like. like.]] You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" and is sending an army of robots called Shepards to have you destroyed.
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* {{Teleportation}}: Here they use "zapping" to teleport from one place to another.
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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: A group known as the Daughters of Lucia-13 fight to overthrow Methuselah and return the human race to their original organic bodies.
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** Halfway through the game you must enter a chess arena run by the Queen, an AI who has taken chess and turned it into a game with chess pieces shooting lasers at each other.
** Halfway through the game you must enter a chess arena run by the Queen, an AI who has taken chess and turned it into a game with chess pieces shooting lasers at each other.
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It is the future well, it's what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like. You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies. Unfortunately the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI known as Methuzelah]] Methuselah]] has declared you an "aboration" and is sending an army of robots called Shepards to have you destroyed.
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* BrainUploading: In order to live forever the human race has uploaded their minds into robot bodies called imposters.
* BrainUploading: In order to live forever the human race has uploaded their minds into robot bodies called imposters.
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* {{Zeerust}}: Everything in the game is based around what a person living in the 1970s' thought the future would be like.
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* LosingYourHead: You spend the entire game as head in a space helmet with no body.
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It is the future well, it's what people living in the 1970's thought the future would be like. You wake up on an abandoned spaceship, having just come out of cryosleep. Only problem is, you're just a head stuck in a space helmet. Fortunately the helmet is equipped with rockets allowing you to move around and attach to various robot bodies.
Released in 2016 by Creator/DoubleFine, ''Headlander'' is a {{Metroidvania}} style game available for download from Steam.
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Released in 2016 by Creator/DoubleFine, ''Headlander'' is a {{Metroidvania}} style game available for download from Steam.
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* Zeerust: Everything in the game is based around what a person living in the 1970s' thought the future would be like.
