History VideoGame / Noita

* AlienBlood: Several enemies bleed slime, acid, or poisonous ooze instead of blood. With the right perk, the Noita bleeds slime instead of blood as well.

* NoFairCheating: [[spoiler:While the Holy Mountain areas between levels are made of a stone that resists casual explosions and digging, it's possible to burn through it with acid or various matter-eating spells. Doing so lets you travel easily back and forth between levels (rather than one way, as intended) and allows you to go back to alter your wands whenever you want; however, it also causes the gods to send a powerful scythe-wielding avatar of death to punish you for your sacrilege.]]

* ChainsawGood: The Chainsaw spell. It has quite high DPS and often gibs enemies, but you must get close to them.

The premise follows a mysterious cloaked individual who descends down into a dark mountain to... [[ExcusePlot it isn't really clear what]]. Either way, they meet all sorts of odd and deadly creatures as they descend further. The gameplay is a platformer rougelite where every pixel is simulated. What this means is that every single individual pixel seen on screen has its own properties, and the game heavily incentivizes manipulating the environment and using the elements over just straight up shooting your enemies to death. You can drain entire pools of water by blowing out the bottom, set entire massive structures on fire with a single tap of actual flame, and use different liquids to flood entire caverns.

** [[spoiler:Similarly, if you dig below the bottom of the game, you'll find one unusual "hell" version of the final level; if you dig further, it will repeat itself, but increasingly glitchy and with steadily-increasing system instability until the game crashes.]]

* MinusWorld: [[spoiler:If you use powerful matter-dissolving spells to dig through the walls at the very edge of the world - past already-secret hidden areas reachable by less dramatic means - you can eventually reach alternate versions of the main world, complete with their own treasures and rewards; these get increasingly glitchy the further you go from the main universe. The glitches are relatively minor at first, getting more extreme the further you go, so the comparative coherence of these worlds makes it unclear if they're genuine unintentional Minus Worlds or just references to this trope.]]

* StuffBlowingUp: Oh good gosh ''yes''. There are tons of flammable liquid types throughout the caverns, and you can blow surprisingly huge chunks out of the levels depending on the circumstances.

* MinusWorld: [[spoiler:If you use powerful matter-dissolving spells to dig through the walls at the very edge of the world - past already-secret hidden areas reachable by less dramatic means - you can eventually reach alternate versions of the main world, complete with their own treasures and rewards; these get increasingly glitchy the further you go from the main universe. The glitches are relatively minor at first, getting more extreme the further you go, so the comparative coherence of these worlds makes it unclear if they're genuine unintentional Minus Worlds or just references to this trope. The stone itself is also one of the possible names for the MacGuffin at the end of a playthrough, depending on how many orbs you've collected (if you've collected eleven, to be precise.)]]
* PhilosophersStone: Alchemical Precursor, while not a stone, serves this role, [[spoiler:being the ultimate goal of the game's alchemy system and allowing you to both heal your wounds and convert materials to gold.]]

* MinusWorld: [[spoiler:If you use powerful matter-dissolving spells to dig through the walls at the very edge of the world - past already-secret hidden areas reachable by less dramatic means - you can eventually reach alternate versions of the main world, complete with their own treasures and rewards; these get increasingly glitchy the further you go from the main universe. The glitches are relatively minor at first, getting more extreme the further you go, so the comparative coherence of these worlds makes it unclear if they're genuine unintentional Minus Worlds or just references to this trope.]]

* MinusWorld: [[spoiler:If you use powerful matter-dissolving spells to dig through the walls at the very edge of the world - past already-secret hidden areas reachable by less dramatic means - you can eventually reach alternate versions of the main world, complete with their own treasures and rewards; these get increasingly glitchy the further you go from the main universe. The glitches are relatively minor, so the comparative coherence of these worlds makes it unclear if they're genuine unintentional Minus Worlds or just references to this trope.]]

* EmergentGameplay: This is heavily incentivized by the game. For starters, your basic wands deal decent damage and are useful at all ranges, but most will come with odd special effects that can be used in many different ways. In general, the large bodies of water and other liquids that are found throughout the cavern will usually be what kills a lot of enemies at once, either through drowning them out or causing a large explosion. In addition, some wands fire spells that are better used on the environment than in combat, further pushing the player towards messing with your environment.

* StuffBlowingUp: Oh good gosh ''yes''. There are tons of flammable liquid types throughout the caverns, and you can blow surprisingly huge chunks out of the levels depending on the circumstances.
* TheFaceless: Nothing is seen of the Noita except their face-concealing robe (and their blood, when they bleed.) Their gender, appearance, or even ''species'' are all unknown.
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: There's an enemy faction made up of deformed mutants with guns, jetpacks and robots, who are just as aggressive towards monsters as they are towards you.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: The Noita wears a form-concealing cloak, uses magic, and bleeds when struck. Outside of what we can guess about their goals based on context, that's just about all we know about them.

''Noita'' is a roguelite platformer with heavy simulation aspects, released on itch.io and {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} in Early Access on September 24th, 2019. It was created by Helsinki-based Nolla Games, a team comprised of three members who have each made a notable indie game in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens- specifically, ''Crayon Physics Deluxe'', ''VideoGame/TheSwapper'', and ''Videogame/BabaIsYou''. The word "noita" comes from the Finnish word for "Witch", though in practice it's probably closer to "Shaman" or "Medicine-man".

''Noita'' is a rougelite platformer with heavy simulation aspects, released on itch.io and {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} in Early Access on September 24th, 2019. It was created by Helsinki-based Nolla Games, a team comprised of three members who have each made a notable indie game in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens- specifically, ''Crayon Physics Deluxe'', ''VideoGame/TheSwapper'', and ''Videogame/BabaIsYou''. The word "noita" comes from the Finnish word for "Witch", though in practice it's probably closer to "Shaman" or "Medicine-man".

* KillItWithFire: Fire is a surprisingly useful resource in the early two areas. It does quite a bit of damage, spreads easily, can be created easily (even without a bomb, since the oil lamps in the mines can be shot to cause an explosion) and tends to chew through any wood material. The result is that it's often much safer to cover an entire cavern in fire than it is to descend down into it yourself.

* StuffBlowingUp: Oh good gosh ''yes''. There are tons of flammable liquid types throughout the caverns, and you can blow surprisingly huge chunks out of the levels depending on the circumstances.

The premise follows a mysterious cloaked individual who descends down into a dark mountain to... [[ExcusePlot it isn't really clear what]]. Either way, they meet all sorts of odd and deadly creatures as they descend further. The gameplay is a platformer rougelite where every pixel is simulated. What this means is that every single individual pixel seen on screen has it's own properties, and the game heavily incentivizes manipulating the environment and using the elements over just straight up shooting your enemies to death. You can drain entire pools of water by blowing out the bottom, set entire massive structures on fire with a single tap of actual flame, and use different liquids to flood entire caverns.