History VideoGame / Relicta

* ApocalypticLog: Messages are picked up and loaded onto the PDA, giving backstory details. One of them is from Dr. Nic Lucas, protagonist of "Aegir Gig", discussing his concerns about what's going on and his expectations that he'll be killed because of them; another is from Samantha Ngatye, the Security Overseer who is his MissionControl, and who [[spoiler:orders his death]].

Two free bonus levels were released on April 15, 2021. "Aegir Gig" tells the story of a Terran contractor for Aegir Labs before the Seventy-Two Minute War, while "Ice Queen" tells the story of [[spoiler:Laia]] after the "Run Away" ending.

* ExcusePlot: The player must go through all the test tracks, which [[NoOSHACompliance don't have any way to bypass the puzzles in case of an emergency]]. Even more so in "Aegir Gig", where the player is a biologist who is evaluating biomes in the domes by...going through the magnetic test tracks. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the player, who wonders why he's testing things with the gravity gloves, then [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because [[spoiler:he's expendable, and Sam is planning to kill him as soon as the job is done.]]
* FantasticRacism: The contractor in "Aegir Gig" is clearly discriminated against for being Terran.
* ForceFieldDoor: Five kinds of force fields that block your way: purple ones that you can pass through but cubes can't, green ones that cubes can pass through but you can't, yellow ones that block both you and cubes, orange ones that drones cannot pass through but everything else can, and blue ones that allow you (but not cubes) through, but only in one direction. The blue ones are only used to mark the start of a level.

** "Aegir Gig" has the protagonist off in a separate testing area, despite being set when there were over 70,000 people at the Manna-III base.
** "Ice Queen" takes place in an area that was held by squatters until Aegir Labs moved in, and was then left abandoned.

* ApocalypticLog: Messages are picked up and loaded onto the PDA, giving backstory details.

* ExcusePlot: The player must go through all the test tracks, which [[NoOSHACompliance don't have any way to bypass the puzzles in case of an emergency]]. Even more so in "Aegir Gig", where the player is a biologist who is evaluating biomes in the domes by...going through the magnetic test tracks.

* HoneyTrap: "Ice Queen" implies that Laia was under orders to get into a relationship with Angelica, although it led to falling InLoveWithTheMark. [[spoiler:This was not from the Federación; Laia apparently was involved with the revolutionary squatters that had lived in the base before Aegir Labs evicted them by force.]]
* HouseSquatting: A group took over the Manna-III base for a while before Aegir Labs realized the Relicta was there and evicted them by force.

* WorkingWithTheEx: Angelica has to call Ragnar once things start going wrong.

* ForceFieldDoor: Five kinds of force fields that block your way: purple ones that you can pass through but cubes can't, green ones that cubes can pass through but you can't, yellow ones that block both you and cubes, orange ones that drones cannot pass through and that will 'turn off' cubes that pass through them, and blue ones that allow you (but not cubes) through, but only in one direction. The blue ones are only used to mark the start of a level.

* HoneyTrap: "Ice Queen" implies that Laia was under orders to get into a relationship with Angelica, although it led to falling InLoveWithTheMark.

* LockAndKeyPuzzle: Many of the puzzles require getting a block (sometimes a specific block) to a switch to enable or disable a force field, or to activate an elevator.

* BodyHorror: When you get a look at your hands without the filter the parasite provides, there are glowing cracks in them and spikes growing out of them.
* CastFullOfGay: One email mentions Kira breaking up with a girlfriend, and it is strongly implied that Angelica and Laia were involved with each other.

* HoneyTrap: "Ice Queen" implies that Laia was under orders to get into a relationship with Angelica, although it's implied there may have been some falling InLoveWithTheMark.

''Relicta'' is a PuzzlePlatformer by Mighty Polygon Games. A science team that took over an extensive lunar base after the Aegir Corporation was forced out by war has found something strange, fascinating, and terrible...and now something has started to go wrong with it.

* LastSecondEndingChoice: At the end, Angelica has to choose whether to [[spoiler:wait for Ragnar and his team, or to run off with Kira and the parasite in the Solidaridad.]] Each gains a different achievement; if you select 'Continue' from the main menu, it will drop you back at the choice so you can see the other one. The "Ice Queen" ending indicates that the latter ending is the canon one.

* TakeYourTime: In the last puzzles, messages tell you that you only have a few minutes left, but you can take as long as you need.

* ExcusePlot: The player must go through all the test tracks, which [[NoOSHACompliance don't have any way to bypass the puzzles in case of an emergency]].

Two free bonus areas were released on April 15, 2021. "Aegir Gig" tells the story of a Terran contractor for Aegir Labs before the Seventy-Two Minute War, while "Ice Queen" tells the story of [[spoiler:Laia]] after the "Run Away" ending.

* AbandonedArea: The rest of the science team is all busy elsewhere, and the habitat is far larger than they need. It was originally a large mine and research facility for Aegir Labs, until it was bombed and cut off from supplies during the Seventy-Two Minute War.

* DoorToBefore: Often, reaching a certain point gives you access to a control panel that lets you turn on an elevator or lower a shield that lets you return to the same point without going through whatever you had to do to get there.
* ExcusePlot: The player must go through all the test tracks, which don't have any way to bypass the puzzles in case of an emergency.

* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: Earth is a political non-entity compared to the UHA and its member orbital polities like the Republic of High Samarkand and the Federación de Nueva Metzli.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Kwarizmi is funneling all the information to Ragnar.]]

* SolveTheSoupCans: The puzzles are in the way and can't be removed, even though there's no reason for a puzzle design that blocks the entire pathway.

* TheStinger: If you choose to go with [[spoiler:Kira, after the credits, it cuts to the frozen body of Laia...which now has the lines on its hands like yours after the parasite infection. One of the hands twitches.]] This is explained in the "Ice Queen" extra.

* ForceFieldDoor: Four kinds of force fields that block your way: purple ones that you can pass through but cubes can't, green ones that cubes can pass through but you can't, yellow ones that block both you and cubes, and blue ones that allow you (but not cubes) through, but only in one direction. The blue ones are only used to mark the start of a level.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The Relicta and the technology left behind by Aegir Labs provide ways to remotely magnetize/demagnetize items, and to negate gravity. They're used for...solving puzzles to get a human from one side of a test area to the other. It's implied that this is caused by the Relicta, controlling the science team into researching it to the exclusion of all else.

Two free bonus areas were released on April 15, 2021. "Aegir Gig" tells the story of a Terran contractor for Aegis Labs before the Seventy-Two Minute War, while "Ice Queen" tells the story of [[spoiler:Laia]] after the "Run Away" ending.

* AbandonedArea: The rest of the science team is all busy elsewhere, and the habitat is far larger than they need. It was originally a large mine and research facility for Aesir Labs, until it was bombed and cut off from supplies during the Seventy-Two Minute War.

* TheStinger: If you choose to go with [[spoiler:Kira, after the credits, it cuts to the frozen body of Laia...which now has the lines on its hands like yours after the parasite infection. One of the hands twitches.]]

* LastSecondEndingChoice: At the end, Angelica has to choose whether to [[spoiler:wait for Ragnar and his team, or to run off with Kira and the parasite in the Solidaridad.]] Each gains a different achievement; if you select 'Continue' from the main menu, it will drop you back at the choice so you can see the other one.

* MultinationalTeam: Each of the science team leaders is from a different government under the UHA.

Relicta is a PuzzlePlatformer by Mighty Polygon Games. A science team that took over an extensive lunar base after the Aegir Corporation was forced out by war has found something strange, fascinating, and terrible...and now something has started to go wrong with it.

* ForceFieldDoor: Three kinds of force fields that block your way: purple ones that you can pass through but cubes can't, green ones that cubes can pass through but you can't, and yellow ones that block both you and cubes.

* HowWeGotHere: The opening cutscene shows Angelica entering the Relicta. Then we jump back two hours to starting a test track.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Ragnar set up the research team being sent to find the Relicta all along.]]