Posted November 12, 2020
Hi everyone. Never posted here before but there's a question that's been bugging me for a while and I figured these forums might be a good place to look for an answer.
There was point-and-click adventure I remember playing whe I was a kid, sometime around 2005 maybe (though the game was probably older than this). I picked it up from a "100 freeware games" promo disc in some long-lost PC magazine. I can't for the life of me remember a title, developer, or anything like a useful search term that might easily track it down.
It had a 2D cartoony style, with drawn characters rather than pixel sprites, and the player character was a slacker guy in a bright green dressing gown (green-heavy colour palette in general iirc). The plot involved a thunderstorm that transported his apartment to a surreal familiar-but-also-weirdly-alien world, and I think the storyline did turn out to involve actual aliens by the end. I remember mainly inventory and keycard puzzles, some code-deciphering stuff, and an aloof ironic writing style. The music is what left the strongest impression -- strange, mellow electronic score that added to the whole uncanny atmosphere.
That's the stuff I remember somewhat clearly. I do vaguely recall some developer notes saying this was a one-man project that had languished for a while and never found a publisher so the dev released it for free, though I wouldn't swear to this.
Sorry if this is too vague, but I'm hoping one of these details jogs someone's memory. It seems not to have left much of an impression on the gaming world but it left one on me (especially the music). I don't even remember if it was any good, but it had a unique atmosphere that I'd like to revisit.
Thanks in advance!
There was point-and-click adventure I remember playing whe I was a kid, sometime around 2005 maybe (though the game was probably older than this). I picked it up from a "100 freeware games" promo disc in some long-lost PC magazine. I can't for the life of me remember a title, developer, or anything like a useful search term that might easily track it down.
It had a 2D cartoony style, with drawn characters rather than pixel sprites, and the player character was a slacker guy in a bright green dressing gown (green-heavy colour palette in general iirc). The plot involved a thunderstorm that transported his apartment to a surreal familiar-but-also-weirdly-alien world, and I think the storyline did turn out to involve actual aliens by the end. I remember mainly inventory and keycard puzzles, some code-deciphering stuff, and an aloof ironic writing style. The music is what left the strongest impression -- strange, mellow electronic score that added to the whole uncanny atmosphere.
That's the stuff I remember somewhat clearly. I do vaguely recall some developer notes saying this was a one-man project that had languished for a while and never found a publisher so the dev released it for free, though I wouldn't swear to this.
Sorry if this is too vague, but I'm hoping one of these details jogs someone's memory. It seems not to have left much of an impression on the gaming world but it left one on me (especially the music). I don't even remember if it was any good, but it had a unique atmosphere that I'd like to revisit.
Thanks in advance!
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