
Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold. Uncover corruption and wanton punning in this HD revival of a classic freeware adventure game.
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Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold. Uncover corruption and wanton punning in this HD revival of a classic freeware adventure game.
The revenue of the game - after fees and taxes are deducted - will go to the RSPB, a British charity taking care of our feathered friends (birds).
Nelly Cootalot, fearsome pirate and lover of tiny and adorable creatures, is charged by the spirit of a dead buccaneer to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a fleet of birds known as spoonbeaks. Her adventure will bring her face to face with the nefarious Baron Widebeard as she uncovers corruption and wanton punning in the Barony of Meeth.
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! is your opportunity to:
Rescue endangered and unusually named wildfowl.
Acquire morally dubious items on behalf of minor aristocrats.
Intercept the private correspondances of a daredevil pilot.
Come to the aid of downtrodden supernatural beings.
Be confused by obscure colloquialisms.
Borrow facial hair from long-dead pirates.
Wantonly misuse the word 'borrow'.
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! was originally released by Alasdair Beckett-King hundreds of years ago in 2007. The game started out as a birthday present for his girlfriend and got wildly out of hand. In 2016, he even made another Nelly game called Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet.
The HD remastering of Spoonbeaks Ahoy! brings the original game back to life, with a streamlined interface and loads more pixels and voice over (!) for the first time. Read the details below!
Alasdair has been tweaking and polishing (and breaking and fixing) Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! for many months now. 1920x1080 HD resolution and a FULL VOICE OVER in English are the obvious highlights. Here is the full list of the improvements we've made to the original 2007 game.
The game now runs in full 1920x1080 HD, (as well as other widescreen resolutions). This is flipping massive compared to the tiny, square original graphics (see trailer video).
Extremely cheap voice acting by Alasdair Beckett-King, real Nelly and literally no one else. Think of it as a director's commentary where he got to do a load of dodgy accents. (Yes, this feature CAN be switched off.)
Full support for macOS and Linux as well as all recent Windows systems.
Streamlined point & click interface.
Improved launcher app.
Bad jokes replaced with good jokes (we wish).
New "business" model
We've put a lot of work into this remastered edition. However, Spoonbeaks Ahoy! is a shorter game than „The Fowl Fleet“, and the original was freeware. So we've decided to make this release super, super-cheap.
The revenue of the game - after fees and taxes are deducted - will go to the RSPB, a British charity taking care of our feathered friends (birds).

In 2013 Alasdair ran a successful Kickstarter to fund a new stand-alone Nelly game (Nelly Cootalot – The Fowl Fleet). With the support of over 1000 backers, Alasdair teamed up with Application Systems Heidelberg in 2014. With ASH on board, the project rapidly grew in scale, adding cross-platform support, text localisation, German voice acting and tons more animation in glorious High Definition.
The Fowl Fleet isn't a sequel to Spoonbeaks Ahoy! It is a new Nelly story and it is not necessary to play one to understand the other.
The budget for the new game grew from the modest Kickstarter haul to a six figure sum, with a team of 45+ people across 4 countries. Blimey, we've been busy!
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish*languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
A tale of a pirate with a peculiar name, with the goal of saving an elusive species of birds, who have mysteriously gone missing. Who is Baron Widebeard? Is he hiding something? Maybe. Find out in this fun point-and-click adventure! Believe it or not, all the voice acting is done by one person, the sheer vocal range is impeccable, and it really shows whilst playing. The game can be slightly buggy at times, so I strongly suggest saving frequently, and try not to tab out either, the game really doesn't like that. Other than that, the game's a great play, the art style is nice, the puzzles are enjoyable (mostly) and the characters are funny and well written. Definitely recommend!
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy is a great indie game! The art style has a charm to it; almost like if you were to pursue your own point n' click project but didn't have a huge budget for art. It's kinda inspiring in that sense. I really like the unique presentation with the actual developer introducing us to the game in a video. It really makes it feel like a passion project. The difficulty is well paced and i only had to look up the last puzzle which was very confusing in my opinion. For a remastered game it still has its bugs. If you minimize the game it gets stuck on the last second of audio playing and it'll loop it fast until you maximize the game again; and then after maximizing the text boxes will sometimes skip automatically for you. I also encountered that the game froze if i clicked around the menus too fast. But overall it was a great experience and i'll definitely be playing the new Nelly Cootalot game!
A relatively short but funny game, a few hours of light entertainment. Lots of silliness. I love the pirate oath.
[h1] Una linda y carismática pirata protectora de los animalitos [/h1] Un titulo relativamente corto, fácil y con humor absurdo; donde esta tierna pirata usa su osadía y coraje para proteger y es la libertaria de los Espátulas así como la insurgente de una revolución. En cuanto a la [i] historia [/i] y [i] trama [/i], manejamos a Nelly Cootalot, la encomendada por el fantasma del Gran Barbasangrienta, la cual tiene la misión de liberar y ayudar a los pájaros pico espátulas, por lo cual nos hará llegar el a la isla donde se desarrollara la historia. La [i] mecánica [/i] y [i] género [/i] del juego sería una aventura gráfica estilo clic & point con puzzles. El [i] arte [/i] es bastante mono y lindo, esa estética de dibujo hecho a mano estilo medio infantil y caricaturesco, le queda perfecto para el tipo de aventura y psicología del personaje. En cuanto a los [i] puzzles [/i] considero que en en término general no hay problemas en su resolución de problemas pero hay algunos que siento que son carentes de información o es un error y ensayo, dando problemas de interpretación a como avanzar en el juego. Posiblemente porque fue el primer juego (por lo que veo), deriva de 2007. Ahora, bien, hablando de su [i] humor [/i] , este es apto para todo tipo de público, ya que es humor absurdo. pero no por ello malo o nefasto, sino que se hila adecuadamente con la estética, el mensaje del juego y la psique de Nelly Y todo esto esto pasa en menos de tres horas que es el [i] tiempo [/i] aproximado para completar el juego por un [i] costo [/i] de 16 pesos en oferta (cuando lo compre), es un juego magnifico, decente y bueno. No conocía los títulos de Nelly pero veo un potencial en la pequeña Capitana Pirata Nelly Cootalot, herederá de Barbasangrienta, [h2] Recomendación [/h2] Por supuesto que sí te sobran 16 pesos, compra este juego. No puedo decir que compres el juego a precio completo porque yo lo compre en oferta. Pero la historia de Nelly merece que la juegues una tarde.
Underrated hidden gem! I won this game in a private giveaway on SteamGifts 4 years ago, and I never gave it a chance until today and honestly, I'm impressed by every little detail of it! There are lots good reviews written for this game already, so I won't bother with a big one. I'll just say a couple of things that I found incredible: 1. Voice acting! 2 people did voice acting for the whole game and while I liked both of their voices, male voice actor was just phenomenal! You won't even notice all of the characters having same person behind them! 2. Art style, obviously! Simple, yet beautiful hand-drawn visuals make the game stand-out! 3. Price!!! Less than $2 without a sale, even less in other regions! If you see this game, and you love puzzle games, definitely give it a try!
It's like an easier Monkey's Island derivative with British humor and a little bit of Leisure Suit Larry style puzzles thrown in as well. It's fairly easy for this type of game, I only got stuck once and it was because I had to find something in the background that's hard to see. The music is great and there's a ton of voice work. The graphics are obviously nothing special but if you can see past them it is a fun little adventure game with a few cool minigame elements included. There will be some "that was total nonsense" moments while playing, but that is expected of the genre.
Cute, enjoyable, but a bit a low-level adventure. + - Alasdair Beckett - do I have to say more?! ;-) - nice story - likable main character - really good humour (see below) - - probably awesome puns which unfortunately are difficult to understand for non-pirate-English-speakers - very short - sometimes there's a bit much trying-everything-with-everything needed to succeed, but I've played games way worse, so that's a minor point
Made me laugh out loud more for €1 than many a recent Netflix comedy special. Lovely little game.
Well good. Short. But good.
A wonderful whimsical adventure with cracking gags and excellent voice work. Be sure to pick up the sequel too!
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