History VideoGame / Thumper

* NintendoHard: With how fast the game moves, especially at the higher levels, prepare to die ''a lot''. You have unlimited lives, but dying takes you back to the last checkpoint, so prepared to repeat several sections dozens of times.

Described as "[[{{Tagline}} a rhythm violence game]]", ''Thumper'' is a 2016 [[RhythmGame rhythm-based]] EndlessRunningGame by Drool, with music provided by Brian Gibson, best known as the bassist for Music/LightningBolt. It was first released on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 on October 10, 2016. UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version was released on May 18th, 2017, followed by a UsefulNotes/XboxOne version on August 18th, 2017. It also has VR versions playable through Steam VR, [=PS4=] VR and Oculus Rift.

* GameplayGrading: Depending on your score, you will be awarded a letter grade at the end of each level, with C being the lowest, and S being the highest.

* SingleUseShield: The beetle can take only two hits without healing, with first one breaking the metallic wings to reveal more organic ones.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Whether the game itself qualifies is open to interpretation; however, the visuals take some Lovecraftian cues, including tentacles on many bosses and even [[UpToEleven the track itself]].

** Crakhed seems to become more and more like one of these all the time, getting spikier, more deformed, and having more tentacles each time you face it, until it's more like a giant, flaming, metallic anemone than like a burning, screaming human head. Also, its true form is implied to be a [[BiggerOnTheInside large inexplicable shape]] that serves as a phase of the boss fight.

* EldritchAbomination: All bosses are StarfishAliens in one way or another.
** Crakhed seems to become more and more like one of these all the time, getting spikier, more deformed, and having more tentacles each time you face it, until it's more like a giant, flaming, metallic anemone than like a burning, screaming human head. Also, its true form is implied to be a large inexplicable shape that serves as a phase of the boss fight.

Described as a "rhythm violence" game, ''Thumper'' is a 2016 [[RhythmGame rhythm-based]] EndlessRunningGame by Drool, with music provided by Brian Gibson, best known as the bassist for Music/LightningBolt. It was first released on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 on October 10, 2016. UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version was released on May 18th, 2017, followed by a UsefulNotes/XboxOne version on August 18th, 2017. It also has VR versions playable through Steam VR, [=PS4=] VR and Oculus Rift.

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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In the boss runs, you will not have to worry about dodging obstacles while the energy shot is traveling up the rail to the boss.

* NintendoHard: With how fast the game moves, especially at the higher levels, prepare to die ''a lot''. You have unlimited lives, but dying takes you back to the last checkpoint, so prepared to repeat several seconds dozens of times.

* NintendoHard: With how fast the game moves, especially at the higher levels, prepare to die ''a lot''. You have unlimited lives, but dying takes you back to the last checkpoint, so prepared to repeat several seconds many times.

* ArrangeMode: Play+ mode, basically a hard mode. Tutorial messages are removed, the ScoreMultiplier can now [[HardModePerks go up to 4x]] however [[DynamicDifficulty higher multipliers]] will [[DifficultyByAcceleration increase the game speed]], and [[FinalDeathMode if you die, the level ends]] and you get taken to the ScoreScreen immediately.

* FinalDeathMode: Doing a NewGamePlus reduces 2 health points to OneHitPointWonder and removes checkpoints.

* EldritchAbomination: Crakhed seems to become more and more like one of these all the time, getting spikier, more deformed, and having more tentacles each time you face it, until it's more like a giant, flaming, metallic anemone than like a burning, screaming human head. Also, its true form is implied to be a large inexplicable shape that serves as a phase of the boss fight.

And no, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant this game has absolutely nothing to do]] with [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} the rabbit named Thumper]], [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife the bug named Thumper]], [[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine the quarry machine named Thumper]], [[Film/DiamondsAreForever the lady named Thumper]], [[Literature/{{Dune}} The Thumper]], [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal the racer named Thumper]], or [[Series/VeronicaMars Eduardo "Thumper" Orozco]], nor with the [[SimilarlyNamedWorks equally unrelated]] 2017 film called ''Thumper''.

* DifficultySpike: The game hits one in level Infinity , where the speed of the game changes constantly in addition to dealing with the obstacles.
* EldritchAbomination: Crakhed seems to become more and more like one of these all the time, getting spikier, more deformed, and more [[BuffySpeak tentacle-y]] each time you face it, until it's more like a giant, flaming, metallic anemone than like a burning, screaming human head. Also, its true form is implied to be a large inexplicable shape that serves as a phase of the boss fight.
* {{Expy}}: At least visually, the Final Boss in phase one looks a LOT like classical depictions of Azathoth.

* SinisterGeometry: Everything that isn't you or the rail falls into this category; the walls, the spikes, the rods, and ''especially'' the bosses. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the Omega bosses, as while they do appear to be made of geometric shapes they are meant to evoke the design of a screaming human face. Not that it makes them any less sinister.]]