OFF

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

"You have been assigned to a being called "The Batter". The Batter has an important mission. Be sure that it's accomplished."

OFF is an RPG created in 2007 by web user Mortis Ghost. Originally in French, it since got an English translation. The player enters his name and is informed that he is now in control of a being called the Batter, the game's main character, who is a quiet man in a baseball batter's outfit.

Fairly simple, huh? Well, It gets weirder.

The game takes place in a world nothing like what you know. The Batter encounters, only a few moments after you gained control, a white, wise and snarky cat with a Cheshire Cat Grin that calls himself "The Judge". The people in this world, called the Elsens, are practically all Inexplicably Identical Individuals other than the items merchant Zachary, who has perfected Breaking the Fourth Wall (not that the other characters would care for it; the player is repeatedly addressed personally), strange ghosts that terrorize everything in sight and mighty lords of the lands of the world, called zones.

The Batter's mission is to "purify the world" from these specters; And you have to help him with it.

The game's translation can be found here, and the original French version here.

Tropes used in OFF include:


"This... This is not a serious injury... I'm sure..." -Elsen

"I'm not hiding anything, I promise!" -Elsen