Leo's Fortune is a Puzzle Platformer, initially released for iOS in 2014, before getting ported to PS4, PC and Xbox One in 2015.
It concerns the adventures of Leo, a little green puffball with large googly eyes, an Eastern European accent (voiced by one Enn Reitel) and a truly heroic mustache who wakes up one morning to find a thief has stolen his gold. Finding a trail of gold coins scattered across the land, Leo sets out to chase the cunning and mysterious thief, convinced it is one of the estranged relatives who he believes have been enviously craving his fortune. Along the way, he encounters deadly, unstable environments, is dogged by a giant Apparatus that follows his every move, and begins to discover that the fortune he has lost may not have been the one he thought...
Tropes featured in Leo's Fortune include:
- Bittersweet Ending: Leo ends up sacrificing his hard-sought gold to feed the Apparatus, but doing so restores it to life. Furthermore, it is heavily implied that he will reunite with Mathilda after all.
- Blackout Basement: The third-to-last and second-to-last levels partly take place in warehouses cast in darkness, with spotlights in various places to light Leo's path.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Leo's wife Mathilda, who is introduced to the player by a note he writes to her at the beginning, turns out to be the thief.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Leo is convinced that his relatives are filled with envy towards him over his gold, when in fact their actions after they have lost their respective fortunes clearly suggest that they are much happier without the material wealth that resulted in their ruin. It is in fact him who is greedy and envious.
- Eternal Engine: The final level, Engineer's Heart, takes place within the Apparatus, as Leo scrambles to fuel him with his supply of gold to keep him from shutting down for good.
- Failed a Spot Check: A Played for Drama example. Leo has been so preoccupied with collecting and protecting his gold that he has failed to notice that his wife has left him many years before.
- Follow the Money: The path through the levels is indicated with gold coins, and in the very beginning of the game, he lampshades how absurd it is that his thief would leave a trail for him.
- Foreshadowing: The fates of each of Leo's relatives. They lose their wealth and the means by which they made it, but ultimately end up content with their lives as a result. Similarly, Leo ends up sacrificing his gold for the Apparatus, but is able to reunite with Mathilda, which makes him happy.
- Human Cannonball: In Cousin's Port, Leo launches himself out of a cannon to clear a gap.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Throughout the levels, Leo can be heard making impressed or curious noises / statements at the various challenges he faces. Until the penultimate level after he has learned that Mathilda has left him and stolen his gold due to his greed. It's the first time he's completely silent throughout the game.
- Saw Blades of Death: Spinning sawblades appear as obstacles in addition to plentiful Spikes of Doom.
- Spikes of Doom: Spiked platforms are Leopold's most frequent obstacle. Some levels also have thorned vines.
