History VideoGame / PrestigeTree

* TechTree: The whole game focuses on a tree of this sort, whre you have to click on nodes and upgrade things in them, which tend to affect the things above or reset them.

* NotActuallyCosmeticAward: While the AchievementSystem is largely there to act as a potential guideline for progression, plenty of the achievements provide rewards to help speed gameplay along, including small boosts to resources and effects, permanently keeping parts of layers on all further resets, increasing the limit to certain Hindrances, and other useful effects.

* GameBreakingBug: The game's excessively huge numbers are too big for standard floating-point formats, requiring the use of a custom numeric system and special functions to deal with it. Occasionally, the game trips and forgets to do this, and putting these impossibly-high numbers into normal variables causes them to spit out [=NaN=], completely breaking the game.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The achievement "Hinder is Coming" requires getting e7,350 points in the "Upgrade Desert" Hindrance. While the intended way to get it is after building up later layer resources and then testing for the right combo of upgrades, if figuring out the necessary timing and upgrades gets a bit too frustrating, you can just wait until you get the achievement for a row 6 reset, since it nullifies the Prestige and Booster upgrade resetting effect, rendering the challenging part void.

* AdaptationExpansion: In addition to adding five extra layers after Gear & Machines, just about all the layers have been heavily expanded mechanically, where most layers in the old game just had resource gaining and upgrade buying, ''Rewritten'' added things like the boost bar in Balance, managing when to sacrifice for boosts in Solarity, judging which Nebula secondary dust combos are needed for progress, an entire DoubleUnlock feature for new upgrades, and revamping Mastery from the building gimmick now merged with Imperium into something that combines ChallengeRun with a higher-tier form of NewGamePlus.

* SkillPointReset: You can reset Space Buildings/Hyperspace Buildings so you can buy different ones, but that performs a space/hyperspace reset as well. Later you get the ability to destroy Space Buildings by one and not have them consume Space, making it superfluous.

* YinYangBomb: The revamped version of the Balance layer introduces two prominent aspects, one being positivity and negativity providing specific buffs to features while also dividing each other's buffs, albeit the debuff is very slow compared to the buffs, while the other is a sliding bar that boosts production of each based on how far it's set to either side, with leaving it in the middle having a MasterOfNone equal gain effect. While individually the buffs are quite strong, to get the most out of the layer you quite fittingly need to "balance" boosting both sides as high as you can, since their effects synergize strongly, and eventually you get an upgrade that makes them boost each-other's gain, so keeping them balanced makes both stronger.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The revamped version of the Balance layer introduces two prominent aspects, one being positivity and negativity providing specific buffs to features while also dividing each other's buffs, albeit the debuff is very slow compared to the buffs, while the other is a sliding bar that boosts production of each based on how far it's set to either side, with leaving it in the middle having a MasterOfNone equal gain effect. While individually the buffs are quite strong, to get the most out of the layer you quite fittingly need to "balance" boosting both sides as high as you can, since their effects synergize strongly, and eventually you get an upgrade that makes them boost each-other's gain, so keeping them balanced makes both stronger.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The revamped version of the Balance layer introduces two prominent aspects, one being positivity and negativity providing specific buffs to features while also dividing each other's buffs, albeit the debuff is very slow compared to the buffs, while the other is a sliding bar that boosts production of each based on how far it's set to either side, with leaving it in the middle having a MasterOfNone equal gain effect. While individually the

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The Balance Energy layer has you produce negativity and positivity depending on how you set the bar. Both provide a buff to a feature while also dividing the buff from the other one, though they don't cancel themselves out too much, so it's important to keep them roughly equal.

* ResetMilestones: Starting from Infectivity, each layer has several milestones that provide conveniences like keeping upgrades on reset or gaining 100% of a resource per second, with later ones also unlocking new features (this happens a lot, since layers starting from Fatality get very complex) and boosts to production.

* AWinnerIsYou: Beating the game doesn't net the player much more than congratulating them for reaching e1e11 points and asking them to retry for a speedrun.

* VideoGameRemake: A remake of the original, now with new layers, an achievement system, revamped Hindrances, and altered mechanics for many layers.

* SkillPointReset: You can reset Space Buildings so you can buy different ones, but that performs a space reset as well.

The game proved to be influential enough to start UsefulNotes/TheModdingTree engine for {{Game Mod}}s, attracting a decent modding community who made plenty of them. An official remade version called ''Prestige Tree Rewritten'' has been made in that engine featuring different upgrades, new nodes and altered mechanics for certain tree nodes.