
The game encourages you to torture the Pygmies for your own amusement. Cruel Player-Character God: There are twelve gifts and ninety-nine sacrifices.Word of advice: don't assume that strategy will work for you. The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: In the Battle of the Gods mini-game, there are situations where if you kill the AI but they would get a healing power-up at the end of the turn, they'll survive despite technically having 0 HP.Cerebus Syndrome: The updates towards the end of the original game's lifespan gradually slip towards more and more nightmarish concepts, eventually climaxing in a Mayan Doomsday Story Arc with a fate-deciding battle with Lord Xenu.Crossover: With The Creeps!, Harbour Master, Trenches and The Moron Test.The Cameo: Doodle the Doodler appears as an enemy in the Ooga Jump minigame.

Butt-Monkey: The Pygmies never catch a break since their god is always torturing them through many ways.Bowdlerize: Pygmies were renamed "Oogs", but only temporarily.Bloodless Carnage: The things you can do to the Pygmies and yet they don't spill a drop.Blow You Away: One of your many god powers is the ability to create hurricanes.Justified in that this is in a dream world. Its stomach is infinitely long as the Pygmy runs inside trying to escape. Bigger on the Inside: Inside the snake in the Island of Misfit Crossovers.Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Barking Spider, Beetles and the Locust Queen are more than twice as large as the Pygmies.There are hominoids and dinosaurs existing together in the same time/place.The Tyrannosaurus Rex didn't exist in the time of Pangaea.Apocalypse How: The Series Fauxnale, where the God of Death is awakened using a baby and the Pygmies must collect gems to defeat him.If he gets killed there, it still acts like he got killed like in the real world. All Just a Dream: Anything that takes place on the Island of Misfit Crossovers happens in a Pygmy's dream.The turtle in the Moron Pests minigame growls like a dog when the Pygmy first disturbs it.The Barking Spider barks and whines like a dog.

It has received a sequel/spin-off known as " Pocket God: Journey To Uranus".

The app has recieved a comic book adaptation, which has been well received. The app is constantly updating and has had forty-seven episodes released so far. You also have control over other things as well, such as animals and the weather.

There can be up to six pygmies at a time and if killed, you can bring them back. You can reward them with gifts or kill them. In Pocket God, you play as a god who has control over a race of islanders called "Pygmies". The app was created by Dave Castelnuovo and Allan Dye, of Bolt Creative, a San Francisco-based developer. Pocket God is a smash-hit app and god game for the iPod Touch/iPhone.
