Quirks

Video game concept

Any tags describing quirky behaviour or odd game elements.

Mostly these are intentionally there.

Some of these are game engine limitations and therefore not really bugs, though some can be considered bugs too, others are behaviour simply to aid the player in some manner.

Child groups

Death traps	An avoidable series of events that have a 100% chance of death but do not specifically warn the player of the impending non-obvious trap.	1981 / 2016	45 games
Dissolving corpses	The bodies of recently slain dissolve or otherwise rapidly disappear immediately or soon after death.	1990 / 2019	152 games
Dissolving items	Dropped items, powerups or other objects of interest disappear after a short time.	1989 / 2018	52 games
Endless game	There is no ending screen when you finish the last level. The game wraps to the first level a continues as if there was more to play.	1979 / 2023	184 games
Endless opposition	A game mechanic where players face an unending stream of challenges, opponents, or obstacles.	1980 / 2020	144 games
Flat space	Space, despite its lack of any limitations on movement and positioning, is depicted as a flat expanse of nothing.	2000 / 2017	43 games
Forgetful enemies	Your enemies have a tendency to forget you ever were there.	1998 / 2005	4 games
Hard	Extremely hard, requiring player to memorize levels, repeat the whole game over and over again (usually memorizing something new each time), throwing nigh impossible challenges at the player and so forth.	1979 / 2024	124 games
Homing boulders	Projectiles that one would not ever expect to home on their target do so.	1998 / 2023	53 games
Honorable foes	Enemies refuse to attack from behind, together in groups, or in some other dishoronorable manner.	2003 / 2014	5 games
Inexplicable trajectories	Projectiles leave weapons at angles different than what the weapon itself would suggest.	2008 / 2010	5 games
Intangible allies	Player character's allies are as intangible as thin air, allowing the player character to pass through them without effort.	2000 / 2017	30 games
Intangible foes	Your enemies and other non-allied characters can be passed through as if they were air, or nearly enough. Does not relate to them being immune to being harmed by shots, punches, etc.	2007 / 2016	8 games
Long	Exceptionally long and time consuming to play through compared to many others of the genre.		1 game
Magnetic shoulders	Characters sheathe their weapons to their backs or other places, but there's nothing there to hold those weapons in place. Often makes it seem like they have magnetic shoulder blades or similar.	2001 / 2022	32 games
No Corpses	Any living thing killed in the game simply disappears at the moment of death.	1989 / 2015	3 games
No jumping	Despite the genre/type being something that normally has jumping included, these [i]notably[/i] don't have it.	1983 / 2021	112 games
Single level	There's only one level or equivalent to beat.	1982 / 2015	7 games
Sliding walk	A technical quirk that causes creature walking, running, etc. appear to be sliding across the surface as if they were doing it on ice but with abnormal level of control.	1999 / 2015	21 games
Slow projectiles	Projectiles move at unnaturally slow speed, allowing the player to dodge and/or deflect them with ease.	1992 / 2016	22 games
Space friction	Spacecraft are required to be in constant acceleration to maintain speed.	1987 / 2017	18 games
Tethered projectiles	Projectiles move with the one who shot them. The effect is similar to carrying a translucent pipe in front of you and shooting through it, turning/strafing causes any projectiles still in the pipe to move with you in relation.	1995 / 1999	2 games
Touch activation	Buttons, levers, doors, etc. are activated or used upon being touched, bumped into, or such rather than actually having to press, turn, open them, or whatever else.	1996 / 2013	19 games
Zero ground-level gravity	On ground level gravity has no effect, causing movement uphill and downhill to work at even pace.	1993 / 2013	2 games
Zoned NPCs	NPCs are restricted to their personal zones from where they will never leave even if they had good reason to. Or behave like they're leashed to a spot and never go beyond certain distance from it.	1993 / 2016	6 games