Warp

Warp is a 2012 video game by Trapdoor Studios for XBLA, PSN, and eventually PC. In the game, players control a diminutive alien, Zero, trying to escape a research facility. Early in the plot, Zero regains its fundamental power, the ability to teleport short distances forwards. Other powers are acquired in the course of the game.

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Tropes used in Warp include:

• Big Bad: The Base Commander
• Brought Down to Normal: Zero, at the beginning of the game.

New Objective: Recover Ability. You don't stand a chance without your powers.

• Cannibalism Superpower: Zero, with other aliens. Technically, he's just absorbing their power sources, but it's played like this.
• Cute Is Evil: Zero (if the player takes the kill em' all approach)
• Conspicuously Selective Perception: The guards are not the most perceptive, though they are reasonably quick shots.
• Deflector Shield: The "liquid energy" shields
• Death Course: Lampshaded by the commander when he berates his minions:

"I told you to design a death trap, not an obstacle course!"

• Driven to Madness: Another one of the alien captives
• Force Field Door
• Humans Are the Real Monsters
• Kill'Em All: One way to deal with your captors
• Kill It with Water: A puddle of water disrupts Zero's powers, a pool is instant death.
• Mad Scientist
• Mass Teleportation
• Mood Dissonance: On the one hand, the cute design of the protagonist and some silly mad scientist tropes. On the other hand, extreme violence played straight.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: "Little guy seems harmless enough."
• Pacifist Run: One possible play style.
  • Although there is a "buffer" in place for accidental kills; the player can kill up to six people without losing the "Cuddles" achievement.
• Stealth Based Game
• Tele Frag: Zero's primary attack
• Underwater Base
• Weak Turret Gun
• You Bastard: The "Consequences" ending is basically this, towards the player.