History VideoGame / HomeBehind

* ScavengerWorld: The civil war in both games is ''bad''. Abandoned cars, telephone poles, and random heaps of rubble are just a few of the sources you can harvest for the scrap you can use in ItemCrafting.

* TheAtoner: Haroun's backstory is to make up for how his tribe helped bring Akadullah to power.

* WouldNotShootACivilian: A moral dilemma in [[spoiler: the final mission. A general asks Banan to swear before God not to harm civilians and just to go straight to Akadullah. Immediately afterward, Chris' Nortonan handler suggests employing an airstrike that will wipe out Akadullah's defenders but also kill hundreds of innocent bystanders. It's your call whether you blow the place to hell, use a more targeted airstrike with less effectiveness but fewer civilian deaths, or refuse to kill civilians and deal with Akadullah's soldiers yourself.]]

'''Home Behind provides examples of:'''

'''Home Behind 2 provides examples of:'''
* Main/AdamSmithHatesYourGuts:

* Main/AdvancingWallOfDoom: Played with, as the map layer has numerous enemy soldier groups running around that will take over your owned cities and make it hard to take over new ones, but they don't advance in a wall.

* Main/AlphaStrike: If you manage to ambush an enemy using a random event, or your crew has built their entire morale meter, with the right heroes you can alpha strike the enemy team with your ultimate abilities, and lower level enemies can be killed outright by this.
* Main/AllDeathsFinal: You can't bring anyone back to life, but you only lose someone if their injuries get too high, which can be healed quite easily.
* Main/AmazonBrigade: The dictator Akadullah has one of these as his main bodyguard, and the player character can take an all female team into missions if they want.
* Main/AntiFrustrationFeatures: It is very difficult but still gives you some bonuses it doesn't really have to.

* Main/AntiHero: The heroes can definitely act like this, executing captured enemies, stealing from civilians, robbing farmers of their only food.
* Main/ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: 4 heroes at a time, for both sides. You also have a maximum amount of total heroes.
* Main/ArmorPiercingAttack: Weapons can get a piercing effect to make them better at taking on heavily armoured heroes.

* Main/TheAtoner: Haroun's backstory is to make up for how his tribe helped bring Akadullah to power.
* Main/AutoSave: It autosaves into a single slot but it is possible to get around a failed mission by quitting the game.
* Main/BoringButPractical:

* Main/BreakTheBadass: Banan suffers from this after [[spoiler:Haroun's death]], and takes time to recover. Represented in game by loss of stats.
* Main/CampCook: Maria performs this role for the squad.
* Main/CharacterLevel: Every character gains levels with XP, and you get 2 stat points per level. Maximum level is 30 for you, but enemies can be as high as level 40.

* Main/ColorCodedItemTiers: There are multiple levels of weapon tier and they have special colours.
* Main/CombatExclusiveHealing: Averted, you can heal XP outside of combat for the cost of supplies. Except for a small number of special tactics, you have to heal injuries outside combat.
* Main/CriticalHit: Very important, with certain classes like the Serial Killer generating one hit kill level damage using them.

* Main/CurbStompBattle: When you're heavily under levelled this will happen to you, and vice versa. If you're 5+ levels higher you can smash every enemy group in an area without any major damage, especially if you've got a healer on your team.

* Main/DamageOverTime: Certain skills like the Chemist have skills like this.
* Main/DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty much every main character's backstory is this. Haroun & Banan suffer from knowing how their tribes helped or were hurt by the dictator.
* Main/DeathIsCheap: Averted. If you send a hero off to fight on the front lines they will die. And your own team members can die if you misplay, especially at the higher difficulty levels.
* Main/DungeonCrawling: The general gameplay, although there are only a few areas that you might call a "dungeon", like prison cells or underground mines.
* Main/EarlyGameHell: The number one tip to new players is that during the customisation of your player character Banan, to make them a medic due to how hard it is for characters to survive each area without being healed, or if you do heal them, it costs supplies. You also have very little medicine, poor weapons and won't have a large team.
* Main/EnemySummoner: Several classes have drones, and with enough time, there will be so many drones that your heroes can be killed off incredibly fast.
* Main/EquipmentUpgrade: You can upgrade your weapons or armour with the metal workshop. The truck & drone both have upgrades.
* Main/EverythingTryingToKillYou: Many of the exploration areas contain traps, hostile enemy units and random events that can seriously hurt you.

* Main/ExclusiveEnemyEquipment: Some of the bosses carry special trinkets that aren't the same as the others. One example being a ceremonial short sword which gives +5 damage.
* Main/ExperienceBooster: Is one of the bonuses that weapons, armour & trinkets have.
* Main/FailedASpotCheck: Many of the random events involve rolling an intelligence, resolve or strength check, and if failed will result in an enemy unit coming out to fight you with an ambush bonus. You can also do this in return in some events.

* Main/FesteringFungus: One of the random items in the exploration areas, you need to pass a check to determine if they are edible, or just risk it and potentially take damage.
* Main/ForcedTutorial: The initial section of the game where Chris rescues Banan and the pair have to fight to get to Haroun's truck.

* Main/GuideDangIt: A lot of the mechanics are quite hidden, with the developers often replying to Steam users asking about them.

* Main/HarmfulHealing: The Chemist & Witch Doctor have healing skills that also inflict initial health damage or negative status effects, with the upside being those skills can often heal better than the ones the Medic does.
* Main/HealerSignsOnEarly: If you pick Medic as your starting class. Otherwise, completely down to RNG when you might get a healer.
* Main/HealingSpring: Several random events involve healing baths, springs or rivers.
* Main/HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Averted by Haroun, who Banan shoots to ensure he won't be tortured by Akadullah.]]
* Main/HubCity: Your home base functions as this, as a central point for all your upgrades.
* Main/HyperspaceArsenal: You only have a limited amount of inventory slots for your weapons, trinkets & armour. Characters only have a gun, armour and two trinkets.
* Main/INeedAFreakingDrink: Your characters can come across the Pub in several towns, drinking at them for benefits.
* Main/InexplicableTreasureChests: You can sometimes find items stashed into trees, dead bodies and fish them up from lakes.
* Main/ItsUpToYou: Banan is the only one who can lead the rebels to victory.
* Main/{{Jerkass}}: Executing surrendered enemies or random people you 'rescue' but can't afford to heal makes you one of these.
* Main/KnowWhenToFoldEm: You can retreat from areas, but at a significant cost, as well as you losing all the loot you've earned.
* Main/LethalChef: Maria has to learn how to cook each individual dish, and even when she has learned it, there is still an RNG element that can make her attempts fail badly.
* Main/TheLostWoods: One of the areas is a heavy forest filled with mushrooms.
* Main/LuckBasedMission: You have no direct control over the combat between your hero team and enemies. The snowball effect is significant so failing to take out an enemy team member first can be fatal.
* Main/MagikarpPower: Arguably the most important buffs in the game, reducing supply usage, and injury resistance, start off as extremely limited bonuses.

* Main/MarathonLevel: Combat heavy levels, or those with multiple indoor areas are these. Inverted with areas of little resistance.
* Main/MoraleMechanic:

* Main/TheNeedForMead: Pubs can be used to drink with your heroes, giving them buffs depending on what you drank.
* Main/NewGamePlus: The main benefit of the Revolutionary Heritage mechanic, as you gain bonuses for each new game.
* Main/NintendoHard: This is an extremely difficult and long game.

* Main/NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Implied in several random event areas that the "meat" you are eating might be human.
* Main/NoSell: The invincible and undying buffs can completely prevent damage & dying respectively.
* Main/PamphletShelf: Various notes & journals can be found scattered across the game.
* Main/{{Permadeath}}: If a hero manages to die, that's it.

* Main/PointAndClickMap: The overview of Scaria, with nodes of control for cities, forests, swamps and so on.
* Main/RandomNumberGod: Combat & events are almost all RNG based. There are only a few puzzles or events that are based on logic or reading information.
* Main/RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Banan's band of rebels is made up entirely of these. It can include serial killers, surgeons, commandos, arms dealers, witch doctors and ex-slaves.
* Main/RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters: You start with nothing but a crappy old truck, a place to store equipment and a clapped out barely useful command centre. Eventually you gain access to satellite communications, cooking facilities, an aerial drone, equipment market, crafting workshop and a field hospital.
* Main/ScoreScreen: When you complete a mission you get to see all the loot you've recovered, as well as what specific traits any equipment you've gained has.
* Main/ShootTheMageFirst: In the normal combat you cannot do this, but in the vehicle combat sections you can specifically attack enemy soldiers, killing them off so they can't heal the enemy vehicle.
* Main/SideView: When you explore & fight, with the combat system based on being in one of four slots, which have specific bonuses or debuffs. It is not enforced, but generally advisable to use a long range attacker in the last slot, a healer in the third slot, a damage dealer in the second slot and a tank in the first slot closest to the enemy. Each type of gun also has preferred locations, such as the shotgun preferred in the second and first slots with sniper rifles in the last two.
* Main/SkillSlotSystem: Averted, you don't get the choose skills, each character comes with 3 specific skills based on their job class archetype.
* Main/SprintShoes: Trinkets can give a buff to speed, which in this game improves reloading.
* Main/SpaceCompression: It doesn't take very long to explore areas, and you will often have fights starting with multiple groups on the same screen, but they suffer from MookChivalry, and you don't get ganged up on by 8 or 12 enemies at a time.
* Main/SquishyWizard: The chemist is the most similar class for this, as they can heal and provide offensive attacks.
* Main/StatOVision: In combat your hits, blocks, misses and so on are shown on the screen.
* Main/StatusEffects: A variety of combat effects are included, that can be called up as skills or gained over time from random events or cooking.
* Main/StoneWall: The heavy infantry & shielded soldier classes are the best tanks in the game.
* Main/ATasteOfTheLash: The slave trader uses this.
* Main/ThereAreNoTents: Averted, as you need to rest to raise energy levels back up.
* Main/ThoseTwoGuys: You always start the game with Banan and Chris then quicky add Haroun to the party.
* Main/TotalPartyKill: If you continue to play even though you're on the downslope towards defeat this will happen.
* Main/ToThePain: Can be inflicted in various random events and motivation for certain parts of the storyline.
* Main/UniversalPoison: All types of negative poison effects have the same type of damage.
* Main/TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The final battle takes place in the very top right corner of the map, and just in case you weren't aware, includes a crown icon next to it.

* Main/YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: If you have too many heroes, gain a hero in a class you don't want, or they're too under levelled to be useful, you can dismiss them to fight on the frontlines. It provides a negliglbe bonus to revolutionary support and all but condems them to die fighting.

* Main/WeaponOfChoice: Each class has a preferred weapon and armour set, which provide a decent bonus when used.

* Main/AerithAndBob: The names range from quite simple, like one of the main characters who is named "Chris", but others are Middle Eastern such as Ya'qoob, Shaamila, Fawzaana. The player character is "Banan", a very uncommon name that means "Delicate".

* Main/WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The nations involved in the game are all fictional, but the game appears to be set in a Middle Eastern & Eastern European melange state that would be similar to Syria or Turkey in terms of diverse geographic areas.

* Main/MoraleMechanic: Each character uses Morale to power up their ultimate attack.

** Pouring points into upgrading your facilities doesn't really help that much, it simply helps you maintain equality with the increasingly hard to kill enemies.

* Main/AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Healing is always extremely expensive. Your fellow rebels will also require you to give them supplies or cash even if you're ostensibly on the same side.

* Main/AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** It is very difficult but still gives you some bonuses it doesn't really have to. These include how easy the individual characters are to heal and that they don't die inside the combat layer just from losing their HP. HP itself doesn't need to be healed outside the exploration layer, and it's only the injuries mechanic that matters after.
** The Revolutionary Heritage mechanic allows the player to grind currency that can be used to give upgrades that carry through to new games. These include better starting stats, talents, resources, materials, medicine, weapons, armor & trinkets.

** The main mechanic behind the difficulty is that being under levelled compared to the enemy makes it extremely hard to win. An enemy group 5+ levels above you is exceptionally hard to defeat.

* Main/NoCasualtiesRun: Hard, and more so the higher difficulty you select. It is all but impossible to make a run like this if you consider characters who get sent to the frontline to count, because it is inevitable that they will die and you have no control over how long they will last.

* Main/DamgeOverTime: Certain skills like the Chemist have skills like this.

* Main/ArbitraryHeadcountLimi: 4 heroes at a time, for both sides. You also have a maximum amount of total heroes.

* Main/NoCasultiesRun: Hard, and more so the higher difficulty you select. It is all but impossible to make a run like this if you consider characters who get sent to the frontline to count, because it is inevitable that they will die.

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