History VideoGame / OrganTrail

* MentorOccupationalHazard: Sadly, if not surprisingly, Clements doesn't survive the introduction.

** In Badger City, there is a sign for a store called "[[Film/28DaysLater 28 Day Liquor]]".

** The T-Virus and G-Virus from ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''.
*** Both the Flash and Director's cut has [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 RE4]]'s Merchant.

* StoryDrivenInvulnerability: If one ally is alive, your lead character doesn't lose health due to rations or disease, but can still be injured if attacked while scavenging or on a job.
** The Director's Cut has two additional changes - random events can sometimes injure the main character, and the main character isn't healed if one ally is alive.

* DisproportionateRetribution:You can come across people who have you play a ball-under-a-cup game. Should you lose, you have the option to shoot them.

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[[caption-width-right:280:The city is lost.]]

* RaisingTheSteaks: You can have "boss encounters" with zombified animals: a bear, a pair of dogs, and a herd of deer.

** [[Castlevania2SimonsQuest "What a horrible night to have a curse."]]

* DisproportionateRetribution:You can come across people who have you play a ball-under-a-cup game. Should you lose, you have the option to shoot him.

* DispropotionateRetribution:You can come across people who have you play a ball-under-a-cup game. Should you lose, you have the option to shoot him.

** You also encounter [[EvilDead Ash]] at the shack

* MadeOfIron: Your lead character in the flash version takes damage from very few sources. In the Director's Cut, he can also be harmed by some random events but still isn't affected by poor rations or disease.
** This is only true if your party members are alive. As soon as the lead character is the only person left, they start taking damage from a ''lot'' more sources.

''[[http://hatsproductions.com/organtrail.html Organ Trail]]'' is a zombie survival parody of ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'' developed by [[http://hatproductions.com The Men Who Wear Many Hats]]. Players are given the task of navigating a five seat station wagon across the United States in the midst of a zombie outbreak. Dangers along the way include bandits, zombie hordes, and dysentery.

* CrapsackWorld

** The T-Virus and G-Virus from ResidentEvil
*** Both the Flash and Director's cut has RE4's Merchant.

** When inspecting a gravestone, you may encounter the corpse that resides in it. The first thing that comes out of the grave is a VideoGame/Left4Dead hand.

** Zeke from ZombiesAteMyNeighbors is at the Airbase, along with a character from KillingFloor.
* TooDumbToLive - Sometimes one of your party members may wander off from the car, never to be seen again. This trope can also applies to the whole party if you botch scavenging for supplies at the the start of the game.

** Averted in the "Director's Cut" version which still features difficulty levels, but they are just named "easy", "normal" and "hard".

* ZombieInfectee: Party members can and will get bitten. However, this isn't a problem unless an infected party member is incapacitated. In fact, each zombie infectee you successfully bring to Sanctuary alive is worth ''more'' points than an uninfected party member.

* ShootTheDog: This may be necessary if an infected ally is incapacitated. Or infected.