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''Lost Pig'' is an [[Interactive Fiction]] game.

* [[Direct Line to the Author]]: The game is supposedly by Grunk, "as told to" the game's programmer.

* [[Dissimile]]: Grunk describes an underground chamber lit by "mossfuressence":

* [[Dungeon Crawler]]: The game is a riff on this genre, though Grunk only got into the dungeon by accident, and isn't interested in looting it, even if there were anything really valuable left after all the other dungeon crawlers who have been through.

* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: All the underground locations, except for the room with the strange noise, are conveniently lit by (as the gnome later tells Grunk) "mossfuressence", the alchemical distillation of those mysterious glowing fungi and shaggy mosses that always seem to be growing wherever there's a hero lost underground with no torch.

* [[Last Lousy Point]]

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Grunk's conversation with the gnome includes an [[Easter Egg]] in which Grunk tells the gnome that they're both just characters in a computer game.

* [[Shout-Out]]: At one point, exploring a room that's been ransacked by Adventurers, Grunk finds some graffiti that (when he finds somebody to read it for him) turns out to say "[[The Order of the Stick|Belkar]] was here".

* [[Technicolor Science]]: Lampshaded.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Not within the game itself, but it's a running gag in the supporting materials that the game may not be an accurate representation of the "real" pig-finding expedition that inspired Grunk to write it. Particularly since much of the game requires the player character to progress by solving puzzles, and the player character is, well, Grunk.