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'''''Cargo! The Quest For Gravity''''' is a PC game taking place in a colorful, low-gravity world where lots of important Earth landmarks have floated off into the stratosphere. The only way to get them back is to imbue them with Fun, a resource harvested from cute little creatures called the Buddies. As trainee mechanic Flawkes, the player must build increasingly complex vehicles to take the Buddies for rides in order to get Fun with which to keep things like Big Ben, the Statue of Liberty, and the Large Hadron Collider from floating off into space.
Oh, and it's made by Ice-Pick Lodge, a developer known ([[Cult Classic|by the few people who have heard of them]]) for incredibly bleak and serious games like ''[[Pathologic]]'' and ''[[The Void (
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* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Realizing that he and Flawkes are the last humans on Earth, the Captain asks Flawkes if she'd like to start a family {{spoiler|... of Buddies. So that's a subversion}}.
* [[After the End]]
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The robotic devil that seems to operate independently of the Demiurges is rather creepy, but is genuinely trying to help Flawkes through his advice.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: Sure, the whole game is weird, but it's a silly kind of weird. The ending is just... ''confusing''.
* [[Let's Play]]: A still ongoing one by the [[Freelance Astronauts]]. [http://www.youtube.com/user/SAMaxwellAdams#p/c/C4B4E77691BE4E06 Start here.]
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Depending on how many buddies die. If not many die, {{spoiler|Flawkes and the Captain simply fly away while the Buddies throw a rave party}}. If you let quite a few die, {{spoiler|Robo-Satan causes everything to dissolve into FUN, including the main characters. Then he [[Leaning
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Flawkes, who occasionally wonders aloud why she's surrounded by morons.
* [[Punny Name]]: The Egg-Plant.
* [[Sky Pirates]]: The Captain at least dresses and [[Talk Like a Pirate|talks]] like a pirate, though he seems to be more of a Sky Deliveryman in terms of what he actually does.
* [[Slippy
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Steampunk]]: Not strictly speaking, but it borrows some of the "goggles and gears" aesthetic.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] / [[
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: Too hard on the Buddies? {{spoiler|Hope you enjoy spending the rest of your life as particles of FUN.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Flawkes, naturally.
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