History VideoGame / TheCrystalKey

''The Crystal Key'' is a first-person AdventureGame, developed by Earthlight and published by [=DreamCatcher=] Interactive in 2000. A loose sequel, ''The Crystal Key 2'', was released 4 years later by Creator/TheAdventureCompany.

* OffModel: Naoo has a different model each time you see him, including his beard.

* TreeTopTown: The Monolith Trees, home to the Nehli, take this UpToEleven, with the factor that they tower so high that the mushrooms that grow on their branches are big enough to live in, and there are giant, squirrel-like creatures called Yamax that people can ride between the trees. Legends say that Merik's fountain was the cause of this.

* LostWoods: One of the colonies contains an enormous, dark forest terrain, complete with NoisyNature, and only a pair of crashed spaceships to provide variety.

* CoolKey: The translucent blue Crystal Key. It's used to interface with portal devices made by the Arkonians, and each plane added to it, [[FetchQuest which you'll eventually collect]], contains coordinates for one of various the colony worlds. [[spoiler: Including their sun.]]
* CreationSequence: One segment in the desert world involves placing a rock into a machine that results in a loud, dramatic manufacturing sequence...only to end with the production of a single golden coin.

* SuddenlyVoiced: In some of the bad endings, [[spoiler: you can hear Ozgar summon his guards by telepathically speaking, '' "Guards...there is an intruder." '' This is the one time he ever speaks in the entire game.]]

* DesertPunk: Half of Meribah is like this, ranging from a Tattooine-like Marketplace, to a large clay house with a secret tap to Merik's miracle fountain. Bonus points that some people say it's mid-summer in-game.

* RetCon: The first game was set up to imply that Colonel Lifeson came from Earth. The second game explains that it was actually planet Evany.

* TreeTopTown: The Monolith Trees, home to the Nehli, take this UpToEleven, with the factor that they tower so high that the mushrooms that grow on their branches are big enough to live in, and there are giant, squirrel-like creatures called Yamax that people can ride between the trees. Legends say that Merik's fountain was the cause of this.
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* EvilOverlord: Ozgar fits this to a T.

* ShoutOut: The game is heavily inspired by ''Franchise/StarWars'', with clear examples ranging from Ozgar's very Death Star-inspired mothership, to an Arkonian submarine that looks strikingly like the ''Slave I''.

* AbandonShip: Played word-for-word by one of Ozgar's ships having crash-landed on the forest colony, with "Abandon Ship" in his species' language on a display inside. [[spoiler: Later, at the end of the game, you have to type this same phrase into his mothership's systems, to sound the alarms and force him out of his room.]]

* MarketBasedTitle: The game was also released under the title "Evany: Key to a Distant Land".

''The Crystal Key'' is a first-person AdventureGame, developed by Earthlight and published by [=DreamCatcher=] Interactive in 2000. A loose sequel, ''The Crystal Key 2'' was released 4 years later.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: One segment in the desert world involves placing a rock into a machine that results in a loud, dramatic manufacturing sequence...only to end with the production of a single golden coin.

* CoolGate: Taking a page from Stargate, these simple arches, when activated by the key, provide direct transport between the Arkonian colony planets. They recently perfected the ability to design portable portals as well, from small remote-controlled ones you can carry around - and which go with you when used, to huge rods mounted on spaceships, which they used to temporarily deter Ozgar.

''The Crystal Key'' is a first-person graphic adventure game, developed by Earthlight and published by [=DreamCatcher=] Interactive in 2000. A loose sequel, ''The Crystal Key 2'' was released 4 years later.

* TreeTopTown: The Monolith Trees, home to the Nehli, take this UpToEleven, with the factor that they tower so high that the mushrooms that grow on their branches are big enough to live in, and there are giant, squirrel-like creatures called Yamax that people can ride between the trees. Legends say that Merik's fountain was the cause of this.

* FishPeople: The Merari, amphibious beings who reside in an undersea palace. They began there, then eventually helped in the creation of Meribah and supported its people in a war against the Balial. Because of this legend, they are your lead to saving Evany, as well.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: In the first game, the Arkonian distress signal arrives just days before Ozgar attacks your planet; in the second, the Balial find and kidnap Athera on Evany just after she meets you.

* ShoutOut: The game is heavily inspired by ''Franchise/StarWars'', with clear examples ranging from Ozgar's very Death Star-inspired ship, to an Arkonian submarine that looks strikingly like the ''Slave I''.

* FasterThanLightTravel: You use your world's first faster-than-light spacecraft, and Ozgar's people have already developed it for their ships.

''The Crystal Key'' is a first-person graphic adventure game, developed by Earthlight and published by DreamCatcher Interactive in 2000. A loose sequel, ''The Crystal Key 2'' was released 4 years later.

* WarpZone: Once you get the portable portal, you can use it from your inventory to visit any of the planets at will. [[spoiler: And Ozgar's ship, if you remembered the coordinates.]]