The Knobbly Crook

The Knobbly Crook is a free to play indie adventure game in the vein of 'Monkey Island'. It will apparently be several episodes long, all of them 100% free Pros: has a good sense of humor a unique, pleasing art style good music, fits the atmosphere totally free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtyOvgNzK8 Cons: notable lack of options the sound effects of the characters speaking is a really unpleasant robotic screeching it may just be that i'm not great at this type of game, but it's REALLY difficult to tell what to do, right from the start It's totally free so there's no reason to not check it out. Especially if you're a fan of the genre. (edited for formatting and added video/fixed typo/wording)

Excellent point n click adventure game! I thouroughly enjoyed the story, the interactions, and that feeling of not knowing WTF I'm supposed to do the entire time until I just click stuff randomly and succeed. Can't wait for Chapter 2! The game isn't very difficult, I got "stuck" a few times for 10 minutes or so at a time but was able to figure out everything without the use of a guide.

This is a "must" for everyone who is into point-and-click quests, especially if you remember Sierra and Telltale. So start downloading while you read this. [h1]Pros:[/h1] [b]The art:[/b] love it. Everything is completely unique and author has done best to evade any overdone things. The details are clearly worked on, but do not give the "overly pulished round corner" feeling that the latest games of this genre do. [b]The Reality:[/b] nothing like it before. No fantasy, no sci-fi, nothing like that. It is all new and interesting. The best I could describe it is a world where metal and minerals substitute flesh, but can be harmed and is maintained by paper? Does that make sense? [spoiler]The whole game is on a big living, sailing mechanical horse.[/spoiler] There is one particular character I am even looking forward to seeing in next chapters, even though he is not a main one. [b]Language:[/b] While all the text on the screen and all the jokes are in English, developer decided on using a complete gibberish language on audio. For you it will sound exactly like that one language you have heard once but can't really recall. That is the one that is used. This gives the game an even more alien feel and completely saves you from any bad voice acting (if there was one). I would suggest playing this game just for a few minutes to hear it, even if you are not interested in anything else. [b]The price:[/b] While I admit that the price is the reason I even played this, I really do have to put this as the lowest priority. I'd buy it. [h1]Cons:[/h1] [b]Lenght:[/b] It is kind of short. Of course, this is just chapter one, but the shortness is stressed by the story. [spoiler]You get a lot of various items, only to be used as "throwaway", so to say. It introduces about 7 new items, all to be used in a single place. This gives the feeling of a lot of things happening while actually it is already at the end.[/spoiler] [b]Animation:[/b] Considering the amount of graphics done and the details on them, it is understandable that animating things is not an easy task. Sure, there are cutscenes, but those are done differently I guess. So whenever there will be a change in the scene, it will be offscreen. [b]Dialogues:[/b] It does bug me a little that dialogues sometimes do not advance. You do some things and those are not noticed by the people around. Even when they should be. It happens once or twice, but some places would be perfect to have another line about it. Maybe this is not a con, just an opportunity missed. [h1]Overall:[/h1] 8/10. Download it just to see the art and hear the language. Comeon, doesn't cost you anything and would probably have already downloaded while you were reading this.

⠀

Short (it's the first in an episodic adventure series) but extremely high quality game, The Knobbly Crook Chapter I is set in an extremely cool fantasy world. You get a strong sense that there's a massive backstory and a big world yet to explore, even though the game itself takes place in a single location. The puzzles are pretty straightforward, and I only had a little difficulty in one spot. The dialog is pretty funny in general, and the weird voices and characters are great. Anyone who enjoys point-and-click adventures will love this one. And since it's FREE, it's easy to recommend. There's abolutely no reason not to check it out. Do so, and you won't be disappointed.

Не поддерживается русский язык

Let the quest begin! That a game of this quality is free is amazing. It's a surreal kind of insane adventure at times, try it and see. It is old school point and click with campy entertaining dialog that is smart and sarcastic. The game mechanics are 90's style. The hand drawn graphics are crisp and eye catching, the game ran seamlessly with no problems.

A lavish point 'n' click of old-schoolish design that is [b]far too good to be free[/b]. Naturally, [i]I[/i] instantly fell in love with it because it is a work of fascinatingly grotesque, consistently clever, incredibly unique, [b]bitingly[/b] satirical, and [u]internally consistent[/u] high fantasy framed in one of my favorite genres of game -- but beyond this, I love it because it's an obvious [i]labor of love[/i], with the hallmarks of a work that has stewed in the brain of its creator for many years, gathering subtle flavors until a protracted shower of blood, sweat, 'n' tears made it a reality. Such things are the very opposite of creation-by-committee; they are [b]Great Totems[/b], much like those that protect the Knobbly Crook, and they deserve all the respect in the world. Apropos of "labor of love": Everybody in the Crook speaks a quasi-garbled language that always [i]very roughly[/i] approximates the (hilarious and well-written) English on-screen while somehow sounding like an alien tongue. No, they didn't just make a function to generate blips, bloops, and moans like in [i]Animal Crossing[/i] or [i]The Sims[/i], they voiced and recorded each and every line of dialog in the same meticulously off-kilter style -- and the actors and their intonations are always just [i]perfect[/i]. I'd have to hear it all again . . . but I think they even invented their own vocabulary for many things. [i]The Knobbly Crook[/i] is a pretty short game. The puzzles can be tough, but they're all based on the wacky internal logic of the Knobbly Crook, sometimes with funny (not "funny") or punny solutions. They're fair, and you'll eventually solve them without a walkthrough if you don't wimp out. Combined with its incredible art, febrile world-building, and jazzy music, this sets the game right up there with the best PnCs I've played. I might as well just say it's [i]one of the best adventures of all time[/i].

This game has a whole made up language, lore based on rock-paper-scissors, and a strange art style that reminds me of HR Giger and Heironimus Bosch while still being its own thing. The writing is fantastic too. And it completely nails the look and feel of a 90s point and click game. 10/10