Legacy of a Thousand Suns

Legacy of a Thousand Suns is a Web Game created by Fifth Planet Games hosted by Face Book. It has lots of Shout Outs to Science Fiction and Star Wars in particular.

This game provides examples of:

 * Absolute Cleavage: The story make a point of mentioning Fabricatrix Vespasia's uniform.
 * Ace Pilot: Talia, the player character.
 * Altitis: Thoroughly discouraged, as it takes the fun out of the game. Devs and players will point out possible cases of alt accounts on the forums.
 * Big Bad: Councillor Dule and the Centurian Collective.
 * Black Comedy: First, choose a random item in the game. Then, scroll over it. Now, read the flavor text. There's a one in ten chance it won't be a case of this.
 * Boss Battle: At the end of each stage. Also, raids, which are boss battles involving multiple players and a time limit.
 * Darker and Edgier: Starts with and gets worse from there..
 * Death Is a Slap On The Wrist: Dying doesn't really affect gameplay. All you need to do is spend some credits on health, and you'll be able to participate in PVP fights and boss battles again.
 * Difficulty Spike: Noted especially from going from Zone 7 to Zone 8, where bosses suddenly do significantly more damage.
 * Evil Plan:
 * Experience Points: Obtained by doing missions, participating in raids, and fighting other players.
 * Exploding Barrels: Lampshaded during Zone 6, when you take advantage of red barrels. Princess Illaria even questions why anyone would leave such a dangerous object out in the open.
 * Expy: Princess Illaria is basically Princess Leia with a new hairstyle.
 * Gotta Catch Em All: The collections, for starters. To be able to obtain components for rarer items, and to complete Zone 9 items, you'll need a variety of different items. Time to start collecting!
 * Heel Face Turn: . After you fight him numerous times, including once when . Then, when, swears revenge on the collective, and joins your crew as an Officer.
 * Horny Vikings: The Niflungs are essentially this in space. No horned helmets, but they do have space chain mail.
 * Impossible Thief: Lupin. He once stole a necklace Illaria was wearing and replaced it with a fake without her noticing.
 * Lost Forever: Many limited-time items can only be purchased in a small timeframe, although some do reappear after a while (but not all of them).
 * Luck Based Mission: The raids. When a raid boss is defeated, you can usually obtain up to 9 random items. Some of these items are required for obtaining components for rarer items, and completing Zone 9 missions.
 * The Mafia: The Contella Consortium is essentially this... IN SPACE!
 * Money for Nothing: Once you upgrade the facilities to their maximum level, the only other use for credits is to purchase health refills. But more experienced players have enough health and/or defence such that they will never need to buy health refills, since they level up (and thus gain a free health refill) before this happens.
 * Mooks: Most notably, the Centurian Collective soldiers. Several Contella Enforcers have been referred to as mooks as well.
 * Oh Crap: The flavor text for the tactic 'Killing Field' reads "The best part is the look on their faces when they realize they're doomed..."
 * Perpetual Beta
 * Play Every Day
 * Planet of Hats: Occulus, Drekchester, Cytheria, to name a few.
 * Purely Aesthetic Gender: The player character. Small differences between male and female include how armor appears while equipped and how characters are referred to or addressed during the story.
 * Randomly Drops: Items from missions, boss battles, and raids.
 * Recurring Boss: Rautha.
 * Retcon: Lampshaded in the background story for the Professor Squid raid boss. In short, she gets retconned back to life.
 * Revenge:
 * Shout Out: Many. There's a thread devoted just to players listing all of them on the official forums.
 * Sociopathic Hero: Ragnar, the player... the game in general seems to have a wanton disregard for human life.
 * Stripperiffic: The Zone 6 bosses choice of, uh, clothing. Or lack thereof. Given the context, though, this doesn't come as a surprise...
 * This Is for Emphasis Bitch: "Rautha's back, bitches!"
 * Turns Red: All raid bosses start out with their default artwork. Once they take enough damage, the artwork changes, depicting the battle as it rages on. Starting from Zone 7, this also applies to mission bosses.
 * Why Won't You Die: Rautha's been blown up by a grenade and impaled on a spike, and still comes back for more.