History VideoGame / VineRealms

The game is described as a "walking simulator" but doesn't really have much self-contained story, instead being a free-roaming, open world exploration game. In that sense, it's sort of an AdventureGame but more focused on characters and environments. There is no combat, and the only real interaction is through character dialogue. The main goal is to collect emotes and avatars by finding them hidden in different areas and speaking to [=NPCs=]. Emotes are taken directly from the streamers' Twitch channels. Avatars are based on the many NPC charaters that can be spoken to throughout the game. Most of them are literally flat cardboard cutouts with a picture on one side. Being shared assets between both player and non-player characters, it can be hard to tell which is which in multiplayer. The player starts as a Vinetoad, the only player-unique appearance in the game.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: More like Amazing Technicolor Landscape, but the Vapor Zone is heavily inspired by the "{{Vaporwave}} aesthetic", using 80's/90's style coloring, outdated computers, floating PC windows.

* ArtShift: Pastiches of various ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' characters (i.e. Scoot, Drake, Cherry, Goose, and Raymond) appear in the game, but rather than being drawn to match the art styles of the game's dev team, they're instead made from edited stock images.

* PaletteSwap: Many of the [=NPC=] designs are simply recolors of each other.

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: There are a [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal smattering of small saguaro scattered sparingly]] in the Lupin Desert. There is also an Egyptian-style pyramid and Old World Middle Eastern town, despite the area otherwise looking more similar to a non-descript area of the American West.

* LostWoods: The Forgotten Forest. Besides the name invoking the concept, it also has windy and confusing pathways.

* DevelopersRoom: Accessed by getting out-of-bounds, which is most easily done in either the Crossroads, the Cave of the Cursed or the Forgotten Forest after unlocking both Super Speed and Super Jump (the wait time is lowest in the Cave of the Cursed thanks to it being the lowest point on the map). It contains loads of concept art, snapshots of development progress, and notes.

* LoudnessWar: Pantherk's sole voice clip (consisting simply of him [[PokemonSpeak saying his own name]]) is heavily compressed, with audible clipping, nodding to a moment in one of Joel's streams where he modded the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fangame the clip was sourced from by boosting it to maximum volume. Here, the poor mastering is similarly exploited by having Pantherk's voice be ''the loudest thing in the entire game'', much louder than every other bit of audio present.

In 2021, the game received a sequel in the form of ''VineWorlds'' for that year's Variety is HOPE event, this time transporting the setting across multiple planets.

In 2021, the game received a sequel in the form of ''Vine Worlds'' for that year's Variety is HOPE event, this time transporting the setting across multiple planets.

There are also a handful of abilities that the player can unlock, some which help with navigation and some that are just visual effects. There are 8 areas that the player can explore, with loads of [[ShoutOut references]] and [[MythologyGag callbacks]] to the many, many games that have been streamed by the entire Vinesauce team. The game was largely developed by Narry with help from [=GreatSphynx=], with character art from regular [[ImageBoards Vinebooru]] contributor Cheesy Draws.

* MushroomHouse: Many of the houses in Vinetoad Kingdom.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: There is a pit full of centipedes in the Cave of the Cursed, entirely because Vinny hates them and the devs wanted to mess with him.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Despite generally keeping things at around E10+ in terms of content, there are a few things that got snuck in.
** The magazine on the Town Crier's stand with the title "[[ADateWithRosiePalms Beat the Meatles]]".
** The song that the Sauce Boss rat sings [[CurseCutShort but stop just before getting to the first swear word]] is about putting Italian food on the singer's crotch.

* LoudnessWar: Pantherk's sole voice clip (consisting simply of him [[PokemonSpeak saying his own name]]) is heavily compressed, with audible clipping, owed to the fact that the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fangame the clip was sourced from was mastered that way to begin with. Here, the poor mastering is somewhat exploited by having Pantherk's voice be ''the loudest thing in the entire game'', much louder than every other bit of audio present.

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: There are a [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal smattering of small saguaro scattered sparingly]] in the Lupin Desert.

* BlandNameProduct: Bepis, Mountain Doot, and the video game companies referenced in Papa Dook's arcade.

* BraggingRightsReward: The reward for unlocking everything else is... the Doodle Dip avatar, which is distinct from the rest by being 3D and nothing else. It's just there to show everyone else that you unlocked everything.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The flavors of Bepis available include classic, lime, BBQ, Garlic, [[TastesLikeFeet feet]], slime, pizza, [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Chaos]], and Corruption.

* HubWorld: The Crossroads, where the player starts the game. The six other seven main areas can be accessed from here, though each realm has its own internal areas. Only the Cave of the Cursed isnt connected to the Crossroads, since they're technically located inside the Forgotten Forest.

* MemeAcknowledgment: It was created by the team specifically to collect as many of them in one place as possible. They even acknowledge when a meme that's being referenced has already been beaten to death.[[invoked]]

* ShmuckBait: The Innocent 'Pede says its hole is way cooler than the "other guy's" pit, but it's actually just full of fully-modeled and animated 3D giant centipedes.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Most players are going to have one or two streamers whose jokes and memes they want to find.

There are also a handful of abilities that the player can unlock, some which help with navigation and some that are just visual effects. There are 8 areas that the player can explore, with loads of [[ShoutOut references]] and [[MythologyGag callbacks]] to the many, many games that have been streamed by the entire Vinesauce team.

The game is so full of {{Shout Out}}s that it by necessity [[ShoutOut/VineRealms necessitates its own page]].

* ArtShift: Pastiches of various ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' characters (i.e. Scoot, Drake, Cherry, and Raymond) appear in the game, but rather than being drawn to match the art styles of the game's dev team, they're instead made from edited stock images.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The flavors of Bepis available include classic, lime, BBQ, Garlic, [[TastesLikeFeet feet]], slime, pizza, Chaos, and Corruption.

* VoiceGrunting: All of the characters make generic grunting noises a la ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' when speaking... ''except'' for Joel, who has a fully voice acted and improvised OverlyLongGag before realizing the joke he chose was kind of lame. In the case of the Vinesauce is Hope streamers other than Joel, their voice grunts are out-of-context audio clips from their own streams, ranging from syllabic noises to full phrases.

* HubWorld: The Crossroads, where the player starts the game. The six other seven main areas can be accessed from here, though each realm has its own internal areas. Only the Cave of the Cursed and the Vapor Zone aren't connected to the Crossroads, since they're technically located inside the Forgotten Forest and the Psychedelic Swamp, respectively, and are only connected to each other through a dimensional portal.

* BlackComedyBurst: The Chill Shroom in the Papa Dook's ball pit says that the "weird smell" is "all part of the essence". It's likely coming from the ''dead clown'' that appears to have drowned in the Mountain Doot that was poured into the ball pit. Also the [[IAmAHumanitarian Beef Clown Burger]] on the menu downstairs.

* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: More like Amazing Technicolor Landscape, but the Vapor Zone is a heavily [[

* AnimalisticAbomination: There's a large, colorful mascot rabbit in the Cave of the Cursed that has a giant centipede crawling into the zipper on its back, referencing the meme of [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Zipper T. Bunny]] being something horrible inside the suit.

* BleakLevel: Cave of the Cursed is, on the whole, much darker than the rest of the game, and has a smiling ghost that can kidnap you and a wall full of glowing red eyes that, should you touch it, sends you back near the entrance. It also has a pit full of giant, writhing, 3D centipedes. But of course, the bleakness is itself meant to be a joke.

* MemeAcknowledgment: It was created by the team specifically to collect as many of them in one place as possible. They even acknowledge when a meme that's being referenced has already been beaten to death.

* BlackComedyBurst: The Chill Shroom in the Papa Dook's ball pit says that the "weird smell" is "all part of the essence". It's likely coming from the ''dead clown'' that appears to have drowned in the Mountain Doot that was poured into the ball pit. Also the [[IAmAHumanitarian Chris flavored Bepis and Beef Clown Burger]] on the menu downstairs.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The flavors of Bepis available include classic, lime, BBQ, Garlic, [[TastesLikeFeet feet]], slime, pizza, [[IAmAHumanitarian Chris]], and Corruption.

* {{Cyberspace}}: Entering and leaving the Vapor Zone (except through the Cave of the Cursed) has Windows dialog prompts that you pass the get to the entrances, and is a combination of video game, internet, and PC desktop elements.
* DevelopersRoom: Accessed by getting out-of-bounds in the Forgotten Forest, which is most easily done after unlocking both High Speed and High Jump. It contains loads of concept art, snapshots of development progress, and notes.
* DungeonBypass: The level design was not made to intentionally prevent the player from getting to most ares, except for the high walls on the edge of each realm. Because of this, it's often possible to just repeatedly jump up the level geometry and go off the path to get to areas quickly. The only think keeping the player in is invisible walls which sometimes have intentional gaps.

* HubWorld: The Crossroads, where the player starts the game. The six other seven main areas can be accessed from here, though each realm has its own internal areas. Only Cave of the Cursed isn't connected to the Crossroads, since it's technically located inside the Forgotten Forest and only connected to the Vapor Zone through a dimensional portal.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: All of the characters in the game are obviously based on the Vinesauce team's streamers, the games they've played, and the many, many jokes that have been made over the years, but none of them are straight imports of any of those. To even get all of the jokes, you'd have to [[ArchivePanic watch a tremendous number of archived streams]], and some you'd even have to have been there when it happened since [[MissingEpisode the videos got lost at some point.]]
* LighterAndSofter: Contains no overtly adult material, with the dark and dirty jokes toned down significantly. There is the odd cleaned-up reference and CurseCutShort. Not immune to the occasional BlackComedyBurst.

* MythologyGag: Many of the references in-game are call-backs to games that the team has streamed, or more specifically the many bungles and reactions that happened during them. [[MythologyGag/VineRealms has its own page]], since this is arguably the whole point of the game.

** Some [=NPCs=] are based on actual celebrities, being the source of many Vinesauce Memes. However, none of the characters based on them use their actual name or appearance, instead being redesigned to fit into the game's setting. For example, "Loel" and "Niam" are found circling the Lupin Desert [[Music/{{Oasis}} oasis.
** An in-universe example, the in-game Vinny has a fictional counterpart called "Binny". This is based on a NoodleIncident where he met Creator/TommyWiseau who misheard his name.

** The "[[VideoGame/SpaceKids Doodle Dip]]" Avatar is the only one that is a full 3D model and not a cardboard cutout.

* RhymingNames: Liam and Niam, the two squabbling brothers who circle around the oasis in Lupin Desert.

* RunningGag: At least one Varg Fren that gives an emote is present in every area of the game, except the crossroads where instead the emote is directly next to him.

* VoiceGrunting: All of the characters make generic grunting noises a la ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' when speaking... ''except'' for Joel, who has a fully voice acted and improvised OverlyLongGag before realizing the joke he chose was kind of lame.

* LighterAndSofter: Contains no overtly adult material, such as profanity or dark/dirty jokes. There is the odd cleaned-up reference and CurseCutShort. Not immune to the occasional BlackComedyBurst.

* CordonBleughChef: The pizza rat's reaction to finding out a customer had a cockroach on their pizza is to demand more be added, and to "stop skimping on the toppings."

* LiteralMetaphor: The Crossroads Frog has a mushroom as part of its head, taking "Toad" a little too literally.

* SofterAndLighter: Contains no overtly adult material, such as profanity or lewd jokes. There is the odd cleaned-up reference and CurseCutShort.

* PaperThinDisquise: Some of the aliens pretend they're not, and one says he very definitely didn't arrive in a ship. When he realizes that you meant an aquatic vessel, he says he did indeed arrive on this world in a ship.