The result is game that looks rather impressive but doesn't play quite as well, thanks to a finickity gesturing system and (on my machine at least) some surprisingly massive slowdown problems. Gulliver employs a pencil-drawn flipbook style for its take on the tale of Lemuel Gulliver and his travels across a series of too-small, too-big and too-horsey mythical lands.

Gulliver by Joseph Ringer Download it hereĪnother Public Domain Jam game (and let's take a second to appreciate what must be the most unexciting name for a game jam ever). To succeed in battle you'll need to combine action and insult cards through the game's neatly colour-coded battle system. I have a lot of time for the 'paper' theme on which this game and the Public Domain Jam are based, a theme that's infused Cyrano the Hothead with a pleasing collagey textured look. The sloooooow walking speed will annoy after a while though.Ĭyrano the Hothead by noir Play it online hereĬyrano de Bergerac star of 1980s Jersey-based detective show 'Bergerac', and possessor of a damn fine nose stars in this turn-based swordfighting/insult game, and he should be grateful for all the work he can get. It's not a huge game at all, but there's something kinda beautiful about the super-low-res presentation, not to mention the sophisticated text-only battle system, which has you and the enemy taking turns to wallop each other in the head, chest, belly, legs or groin. As in the superb Desktop Dungeons, the trick to succeeding is to tackle weaker enemies first, using their dropped items to improve your stats for the next encounter. You play the white rectangle - man, I hate that guy - who wakes up on an atmospheric desert island home to a band of black rectangles and shiny treasure. There's still some preserve left at the bottom of the LowRezJam jar, including this minimalist shipwreck RPG.

I've assembled these words in a (hopefully) pleasing order below, so hop aboard your flying cycle and join me, foxlike after the break. A teensy shipwreck RPG, foxes on hoverbikes, the tale of Cyrano and ginormous honker all that and slightly more awaits you in our regular free games roundup, which this week has been cobbled together out of various public domain words such as flipbook and groin.

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