History VideoGame / Norco

** [[spoiler:It's also possible to find out Kay's mother's cancer was in remission during the flashbacks and that exposure to a Superduck node brought it back and ultimately killed her. Also subverted in that he was already doomed to die by the time Kay retrieves the Orb that was killing him.]]

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The Ditch Man turns out to be responsible for the explosion that killed Kay's father. Subverted in that while Kay alone can thwart his plan, but killing him, it seems, may not ever be an option.]]

-->'''Lucky:''' Lucky ain't in nobody's way. Everybody like Lucky just fine.
-->'''Kay:''' Didn't you blow up an oil pipeline?"
-->'''Lucky:''' Lucky done blown up all kinds of shit.

* WalkingTheEarth: What Kay did prior to the beginning of the story. She wandered around for a while in the collapsing United States, and as such, she knows quite a bit about what goes on in the hinterland of Louisiana and beyond.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Catherine's half of the game involves her running errands for Superduck to make some money for her children before her cancer claims her. This ends up being disastrous for both parties - her cancer was in ''remission'' but came back with a vengeance due to the latent radiation around Superduck, killing her weeks later, and the Orb she claimed for Superduck ultimately overloads and destroys the network. Adding insult to injury, she was paid in Superduck's personal cryptocurrency, which was never spend and rendered worthless by the network's destruction]].

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Kay has a chance to experience a vision of whatever awaits the cast after the game's climax. [[spoiler: After escaping Norco, Kay will once again abandon her brother and return to her wanderings across the nation. If rescued, Blake ]]

** Pawpaw the Ditch Man. A strange, hyper-religious vagrant who playfully teases the nicer Garretts and seems to genuinely care for Catherine and her children. He's also a violent BloodKnight who locked a Garrett in a vase for an undetermined amount of time, stalked Kay and Catherine across the country, and repeatedly threatens to kill Kenner John in horrifying fashions.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Private Investigator Brett LeBlanc is perpetually convinced everyone's thinking about him. He's fully convinced that Catherine secretly loved him, even if Kay asserts that she never mentioned him. His first response to hearing that an old friend died in a shoot-out is to wonder if the friend did it "because he was mad at me." He also repeatedly insists that he could have easily fought off any of the threats that appear in the story, despite neglecting to put in the actual work to actually help out. [[spoiler: His boasting does prove to be somewhat warranted when he sobers up and joins Kay's party as her new heaviest hitter in Act 3.]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Lucky's a friendly, bearded hunter who bears no ill-will to anyone and just wants to spend his days playing with his dog. He's also a fugitive on the run for his regular attacks against the Shield Refinery and easily decimates two robot guards that both Kay and Million struggle to fight off.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Played with. Most of the game's surreal imagery is treated matter-of-factly by most of the cast. The exception is [[AiIsACrapshoot Superduck]], which completely baffles Catherine and Dallas seems to only barely be coping with the concept.
-->'''Cat:''' There's a... bird? With teeth the size of my head living inside that warehouse. That's normal to you?
-->'''Dallas:''' No. But I mean... I've seen some stuff in my life.

-->'''Dallas:'' No. But I mean... I've seen some stuff in my life.

* DyingAlone: Blake admits that he wasn't there when Catherine drew her last breath.

''Norco'' (stylized as ''NORCO'') is a SouthernGothic [[PointAndClickGame Point-and-Click]] AdventureGame with {{Cyberpunk}} elements, developed by indie developer Geography of Robots and published by Raw Fury in March 2022.

* FallenStatesOfAmerica: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. While a Federal US Government still exists, its de facto control over the country, and the South in particular, has been severely diminished. It is no longer in any state to maintain infrastructure, and as such it's effectively not recognized outside of urban centers, which is left to the control of local homegrown militias.

* SimonSaysMiniGame: In order to "recruit" Monkey, Kay has to pass a short one in order to meet his ThousandYardStare. It later gets expanded on, as you get to use Monkey in battle with other characters.

* SimonSaysMiniGame: In order to "recruit" Monkey, Kay has to pass a short one in order to meet his ThousandYardStare.

* WalkingTheEarth: What Kay did prior to

The game places you in the shoes of Kay, a young woman who is forced to return home to her childhood neighborhood Norco, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, when her mother, Cathrine, passes away from liver cancer. Not long after her return, Kay makes some troubling discoveries: her younger brother, Blake, has gone missing, and prior to her death, her mother was doing some undisclosed research for a mysterious client. The two mysteries seem to be interconnected somehow, and so Kay sets out to get to the bottom of both.

* DyingAlone: Blake admits that he wasn't there when Cathrine drew her last breath.
-->''Alone with the morphine drip and the rattling glass. That's how Cathrine died.''

* RobotBuddy: Million is a security android that decided to abandon her post, rendering her a fugtitive. Kay's mother took her in, and she has remained an unofficial member of the family ever since, spending the time she isn't in stasis repairing stuff around the house.

* FallenStatesOfAmerica: {{Downplayed| Trope}}. While a Federal US Government still exists, its de facto control over the country has severely diminished. It is no longer in any state to maintain infrastructure, and as such it's effectively not recognized outside of urban centers, which is left to the control of local homegrown militias.