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* AnAesop: Even with the best intentions, meddling with an unknown ecosystem might have disastrous results.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' was released on August 10th 2023.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne Platform/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 Platform/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Platform/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' was released on August 10th 2023.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: the woman, who has been genetically modified to retain the moss that has elsewhere died, eventually allows herself to be absorbed by a root creature, returning that ability to the rest of the plants.]] It isn't entirely certain to what level it's a sacrifice; [[spoiler:it's implied the woman doesn't really die]].

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: the The woman, who has been genetically modified to retain the moss that has elsewhere died, eventually allows herself to be absorbed by a root creature, returning that ability to the rest of the plants.]] It isn't entirely certain to what level it's a sacrifice; [[spoiler:it's implied the woman doesn't really die]].
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' is scheduled to come out on august 10th 2023.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' is scheduled to come out was released on august August 10th 2023.
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* WhamShot: Early on in the game, the astronaut comes across a box containing the symbol of the Soviet Union, right next to a line of power lines leading into a village. For obvious reasons, the astronaut is incredibly confused to find human infrastructure on what is supposed to be an uninhabited and unexplored alien world.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' was due to come out in 2021, but it's still in development.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' was due is scheduled to come out in 2021, but it's still in development.
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* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good Russian]]: Signs are correct and all the voice logs are by actual Russian actors.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' is due to come out in 2021.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' is was due to come out in 2021.
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* JumpScare: A particularly egregious example - while the game is 99% played in third-person, the camera ''goes into the first person perspective'' so [[spoiler:the mysterious woman can appear three inches in front of your face in the dark]] and take two years off your lifespan.
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* NoticeThis: Points of interest are marked with a glint of light. Places crucial for plot progression are often painted bright red.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: '''The Game'''. You randomly land on a planet where the USSR [[spoiler: found a portal delivering them there decades earlier.]] Whenever there's an unscalable cliff, there'll be a building with a bottle of jetpack fuel. Oxygen only gets low close to oxygen sources. Wherever there's an inactive alien generator, a bunch of green fuel balls is always lying nearby. Et cetera...

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* ContrivedCoincidence: '''The Game'''. You randomly land on a planet where the USSR [[spoiler: found a portal delivering them there decades earlier.]] Whenever there's an unscalable cliff, there'll be a building with a bottle of jetpack fuel.fuel, which always runs out ''right'' after you finish the area you need it to traverse. Oxygen only gets low close to oxygen sources. Wherever there's an inactive alien generator, a bunch of green fuel balls is always lying nearby. Et cetera...



* DoubleJump: You can do it with your JetPack.

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* DoubleJump: You can do it with your JetPack. With extra jetpack fuel, you can actually extend this to a septuple jump.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' is due to come out in 2020.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018. A SpiritualSuccessor named ''Lifeless Moon'' is due to come out in 2020.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018.
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* AnAesop: Even with the best intentions, meddling with an unknown ecosystem might have disastrous results.

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* AfterTheEnd: Appears to be such. [[spoiler: The human's exploitation of the local moss ('Green Fire') introduced a virus into it, setting off an ecological downward spiral. Turns out, everything else on the planet either fed off the moss or fed off that which ate the moss]]. Averted in the end, with [[spoiler: the woman allowing herself (with her genetically-modified ability to regrow the local moss) to be absorbed back by the planet, restoring it to verdancy.]]



* AfterTheEnd: Appears to be such. [[spoiler: The human's exploitation of the local moss ('Green Fire') introduced a virus into it, setting off an ecological downward spiral. Turns out, everything else on the planet either fed off the moss or fed off that which ate the moss]]. Averted in the end, with [[spoiler: the woman allowing herself (with her genetically-modified ability to regrow the local moss) to be absorbed back by the planet, restoring it to verdancy.]]

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* AfterTheEnd: Appears to be such. [[spoiler: AncientAstronauts: The human's exploitation original inhabitants of the local moss ('Green Fire') introduced a virus into it, setting off an ecological downward spiral. Turns out, everything else on the planet either fed off the moss or fed off that which ate the moss]]. Averted in the end, with [[spoiler: the woman allowing herself (with her genetically-modified ability to regrow the local moss) to be absorbed back by the planet, restoring it to verdancy.]]who built the gates, apparently come from another planet.



* ConvectionSchmonvection: Played almost straight in The Inferno level. You get immolated when you touch the lava, but you can jump right over it. You can also climb the steel tower that's standing on flowing lava. However, if you stray off-course, you get immolated mid-air.
* CoolGate: The large, round gates built by the ones who also built the portal. They are opened by some kind of combination lock.
* DoubleJump: You can do it with your JetPack.
* EarthAllAlong: Subverted. When the player first sees the Soviet town, he thinks that he may have landed on the Earth, but soon this theory gets disproved.



* GustyGlade: There are some areas in The Cliffs level with high winds that blow you away. You have to take this into account when calculating jumps, or even while running across it.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: This is the plant creatures' attack.
* JetPack: It allows short bursts of power, allowing double jumps. When additional fuel is available, multiple jumps are possible.



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%%* * PlantPeople: The Ancients.original inhabitants of the planet are intelligent plant-like creatures. After the downfall of the planet, they turn into hostile creatures that try to kill the humans, including the player character.


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* SpikesOfDoom: The plant creatures are rather spiky. The wood-colored ones are dead and not dangerous, but the [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black-and-red]] ones try to kill you.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Justified as that space suit is not made for swimming.


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* VaderBreath: This sound effect indicates that the player character is AlmostOutOfOxygen.


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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:You arrive at the portal around 2/3rd through the game. It turns out it's broken.]]

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* ThePlace: The title tells you where the game is set.



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* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish SurprisinglyGoodRussian]]: Signs are correct and all the voice logs are by actual Russian actors.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014. It follows the exploits of an astronaut who has crashed down on what was thought to be a lush planet, but has turned out to be a barren wasteland, devoid of life save for the remnants of a Soviet colony and a mysterious woman wandering around the landscape.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie PuzzlePlatformer PuzzlePlatformer, developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014. 2014 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Lifeless Planet: Premier Edition'' followed for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on May 13th, 2015, UsefulNotes/PS4 on July 19th, 2016, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on September 6th, 2018.

It follows the exploits of an astronaut who has crashed down on what was thought to be a lush planet, but has turned out to be a barren wasteland, devoid of life save for the remnants of a Soviet colony and a mysterious woman wandering around the landscape.

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* YearOutsideHourInside: How the portal system worked between Earth and the eponymous planet. They asked for reinforcements and supplies from Earth, but they were doing little more than [[spoiler: sending it to people - and political systems - long dead.]]

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* YearOutsideHourInside: How the portal system worked between Earth and the eponymous planet. They asked for reinforcements and supplies from Earth, but they were doing little more than [[spoiler: sending it to people - and political systems - long dead.]]]]
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* GhostPlanet
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: the woman, who has been genetically modified to retain the moss that has elsewhere died, eventually allows herself to be absorbed by a root creature, returning that ability to the rest of the plants.]]
** It isn't entirely certain to what level it's a sacrifice; [[spoiler:it's implied the woman doesn't really die]].
* [[spoiler: HumanoidAbomination: The Ancients, to frightening extents.]]

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* GhostPlanet
GhostPlanet: The native ecosystem has been apparently been destroyed, and the planet is covered with artefacts of a vanished civilization.
* GreenRocks: Quite literally. The Green Fire that the Russians were using as a power source, and the glowing green rocks used to power all the alien technology your find in the game.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: the woman, who has been genetically modified to retain the moss that has elsewhere died, eventually allows herself to be absorbed by a root creature, returning that ability to the rest of the plants.]]
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]] It isn't entirely certain to what level it's a sacrifice; [[spoiler:it's implied the woman doesn't really die]].
* [[spoiler: HumanoidAbomination: The Ancients, to frightening extents.]]



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* ChekhovsGun: The astronaut finds a copy of Alerkei Tolstoi's Aelita (classical Soviet sci-fi novel). [[spoiler: The woman was named after a titular character.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: The astronaut finds a copy of Alerkei Tolstoi's Aelita (classical Soviet sci-fi novel). [[spoiler: The woman was named after a titular the eponymous character.]]



* YearOutsideHourInside: How the portal system worked between Earth and the titular planet. They asked for reinforcements and supplies from Earth, but they were doing little more than [[spoiler: sending it to people - and political systems - long dead.]]

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* YearOutsideHourInside: How the portal system worked between Earth and the titular eponymous planet. They asked for reinforcements and supplies from Earth, but they were doing little more than [[spoiler: sending it to people - and political systems - long dead.]]
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* BilingualBonus: The woman actually gives you tips and warnings... in Russian.
* ChekhovsGun: The astronaut finds a copy of Alerkei Tolstoi's Aelita (classical Soviet sci-fi novel). [[spoiler: The woman was named after a titular character.]]


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* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish SurprisinglyGoodRussian]]: Signs are correct and all the voice logs are by actual Russian actors.

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* AlienGeometries: At one point there's a log from the Soviets, in which they glimpse what they ''think'' is this through the portal, because the results are visually bizarre. [[spoiler:Because of the time dilation with regards to using the portals, they are simply viewing Earth from many years into their future.]]



* ContrivedCoincidence: '''The Game'''. Whenever there's an unscalable cliff, there'll be a building with a bottle of jetpack fuel. Oxygen only gets low close to oxygen sources. Wherever there's an inactive alien generator, a bunch of green fuel balls is always lying nearby. Et cetera...

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* ContrivedCoincidence: '''The Game'''. You randomly land on a planet where the USSR [[spoiler: found a portal delivering them there decades earlier.]] Whenever there's an unscalable cliff, there'll be a building with a bottle of jetpack fuel. Oxygen only gets low close to oxygen sources. Wherever there's an inactive alien generator, a bunch of green fuel balls is always lying nearby. Et cetera...



* SingleBiomePlanet: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] The planet displays a breadth of biomes, ranging from tundra to desert to forests.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] The planet displays a breadth of biomes, ranging from tundra to desert to forests.forests.
* YearOutsideHourInside: How the portal system worked between Earth and the titular planet. They asked for reinforcements and supplies from Earth, but they were doing little more than [[spoiler: sending it to people - and political systems - long dead.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: '''The Game'''. Whenever there's an unscalable cliff, there'll be a building with a bottle of jetpack fuel. Oxygen only gets low close to oxygen sources. Wherever there's an inactive alien generator, a bunch of green fuel balls is always lying nearby. Et cetera...


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** It isn't entirely certain to what level it's a sacrifice; [[spoiler:it's implied the woman doesn't really die]].

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* AfterTheEnd: Appears to be such. [[spoiler: It's eventually discovered that a ravenous disease has wiped out all life on the planet, leaving only the woman and FantasticFlora.]]

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** Somewhat weakened, plot-wise, because the warnings only pop up in areas close to where oxygen replacement modules are found.
* AfterTheEnd: Appears to be such. [[spoiler: It's eventually discovered The human's exploitation of the local moss ('Green Fire') introduced a virus into it, setting off an ecological downward spiral. Turns out, everything else on the planet either fed off the moss or fed off that a ravenous disease has wiped out all life on which ate the moss]]. Averted in the end, with [[spoiler: the woman allowing herself (with her genetically-modified ability to regrow the local moss) to be absorbed back by the planet, leaving only the woman and FantasticFlora.restoring it to verdancy.]]


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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: the woman, who has been genetically modified to retain the moss that has elsewhere died, eventually allows herself to be absorbed by a root creature, returning that ability to the rest of the plants.]]


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* TheRemnant: The root creatures are the very last link in what used to be a vast ecological chain.
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* ThePlace: The title tells you where the game is set.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie Puzzle-Platformer developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014. It follows the exploits of an astronaut who has crashed down on what was thought to be a lush planet, but has turned out to be a barren wasteland, devoid of life save for the remnants of a Soviet colony and a mysterious woman wandering around the landscape.

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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie Puzzle-Platformer PuzzlePlatformer developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014. It follows the exploits of an astronaut who has crashed down on what was thought to be a lush planet, but has turned out to be a barren wasteland, devoid of life save for the remnants of a Soviet colony and a mysterious woman wandering around the landscape.
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''Lifeless Planet'' is an indie Puzzle-Platformer developed by Stage 2 Studios and released on June 6th, 2014. It follows the exploits of an astronaut who has crashed down on what was thought to be a lush planet, but has turned out to be a barren wasteland, devoid of life save for the remnants of a Soviet colony and a mysterious woman wandering around the landscape.

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*AlmostOutOfOxygen: Happens periodically throughout the game. [[spoiler: Becomes a plot point at the end.]]
*AfterTheEnd: Appears to be such. [[spoiler: It's eventually discovered that a ravenous disease has wiped out all life on the planet, leaving only the woman and FantasticFlora.]]
*BeautifulVoid: Aside from the woman, the planet is completely empty.
*GhostPlanet
*[[spoiler: HumanoidAbomination: The Ancients, to frightening extents.]]
*LethalLavaLand: The Inferno level. Unfortunately, the ambiguity of what terrain is deadly and what isn't makes it something of ThatOneLevel.
*ManEatingPlant: More "man-impaling plant," but the root creatures fit the description.
*[[spoiler: PlantPeople: The Ancients.]]
*SceneryPorn/[[SceneryGorn Gorn]]: ''Everywhere.'' The latter appears especially in areas overtaken by the root creatures.
*SingleBiomePlanet: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] The planet displays a breadth of biomes, ranging from tundra to desert to forests.

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