Om nom nom, chomp chomp chomp
Man-Eating Plant is an Android Game where you play as a... well, take a guess.
An unnamed lord of a Medieval Castle, tired of having intruders entering his domain, decide to purchase a magical plant seed and plant it in the entrance of his fortress, which then grows into a Man-Eating Plant ready to gobble everything on sight.
You are the plant, and you get to chomp down an assortment of enemies, from blobs to humans and undead who keeps coming in increasingly large numbers (by clicking onscreen targets to chomp on them). Progressing through levels allows you to grow in size as enemies comes in increasingly large waves, and you can unlock different varieties of mooks to feed on as well as purchasing upgrades from gold dropped by devoured enemies.
Feed me...
- Alluring Flowers: One of the upgrades you can purchase, which draws in mooks into concentrated groups so you can chomp down large numbers at a time.
- Big Eater: You progress through the game by eating onscreen targets, non-stop. By later levels you're gobbling at least half a dozen humans, goblins, blobs and other targets with each bite to the point where you're scooping your maw over a whole wave of edible targets.
- Blob Monster: Featureless green blobs are the first and most common enemies encountered, serving as The Goomba for you to make a quick meal of before moving on to goblins and humans. Lampshaded by the description who says "the blobs are everywhere".
- Dem Bones: Skeletons are the first undead-themed enemies to show up.
- Our Goblins Are Different: They're not too different from other fantastical depictions of goblins, but the goblin mooks in this game are mostly mindless and wanders around a stage until you bite them.
- The Grim Reaper: Grim himself turns out to be the mysterious wizard who sold the seed in the backstory. And will periodically pop up in-game to sell you upgrades.
- Happy Dance: Complete a level by devouring enough enemies and you'll perform a gleeful jig by twisting your stalks, waving your leaves and shaking your gigantic plant maw side-by-side as confetti fills the screen.
- Impossible Item Drop: How does those blobs even carry sacks of coins with them anyways?
- It Can Think: You in a nutshell. While initially appearing as a mindless plant monster, it turns out you can talk, and express glee when reaching out to bite and devour intruders."Hungry... Deeeeeeath! Taaaassste Good!"
- I Want My Mommy!: Some devoured intruders will name-drop this trope when you start swallowing them.
- Make My Monster Grow: You're already a thirty-foot killer plant in the first few levels, and you gain size and height with the sheer amount of enemies eaten. Towards the last stages you're a kaiju plant capable of gobbling dozens of targets in a single bite!
- Man-Eating Plant: Yeah, it's right in the title. Which refers to your playable character.
- Monstrous Scenery: Every now and then in the background, a dragon will fly by and breath fire on a different castle before leaving. Said dragon is irrelevant to the plot and is just... there.
- Nothing but Skulls: Right in the first stage, the castle's entrance is already decorated with various human bones and skulls, before you started feasting. And you just add to the amount of skulls right there by gobbling up everything in sight.
- Overly-Long Tongue: A mid-game upgrade grants you an extendable tongue which can even snatch enemies from afar into your maw.
- Spit Out a Shoe: You'll regularly spit out sacks of coins, gold and jewels after each meal, and some skulls and bones for good measure. The regurgiated treasure can be automatically added to your current tally and used for purchasing upgrades after completing each level.
- Swallowed Whole: How you dispose of intruders.
- Too Dumb to Live: While mindless blobs, goblins, and undead are exempted from this trope, the same can't be said for the human-based intruders ranging from farmers to warriors and wizards. What are the odds of survival by approaching a sixty-foot, fearsome-looking and obviously hungry plant monster who's gobbling up everything in sight like crazy?
- Villain Protagonist: Well, in a way - you're a gigantic killer plant with some degree of sentience, who enjoys stuffing your face with passer-bys.
- Vine Tentacles: Another upgrade you can obtain to ensnare targets.
