Games like A Laboured Lad

Developed for Jame Gam #36 Welcome to the world of Freaklandia, where people everywhere hunt the planet's wildlife and have them fight each other for sport! And for some reason, nobody thinks anything's wrong with that! Short guide: Use arrow keys to move, I to open the inventory, and K to talk to NPCs To win, you have to get your Candleman to a certain level and have all four of the available Poc…

A Snapshot in Scarlet is an exploration-puzzle game set inside of a carnival.  You are a ghost detective and your goal is to solve an ancient missing persons case so that the ghosts involved can move onto the afterlife. It is believed that the person was murdered, but no body was found. You are aided by your special memory gloves. When the gloves make contact with a bare forehead, you are gifted w…

In the not too distant future, artificial life is in its infancy and humankind has taken its first steps in a new evolutionary frontier, there are people that can fly, change shape, all that cool stuff! Marlowe Reed is a rich industralist who struggles to find his place among the superpowered elite, without any powers, as the armoured vigilante Longspur, while humanity is struggling to improve so …

Warning: this game contains references to animal harm/death via dialogue. No visual depictions of harmful acts occur. Controls Press enter or click "Begin" to start.Uses W, A, S, D to move left/right and jump.Click on the "Continue" button to advance dialogue.Press P or ESC to pause the game (the menu can be a little finnicky, it helps to be gentle). Game Description It's Halloween, and black cat…

It’s early morning. Just another day… or is it? You can’t think what’s special about today, but maybe… something? Anyway, you’re Hermes, Greek god and messenger, and today you’ve got a letter to deliver to Zeus, king of the gods. He also happens to be your dad. Sounds simple, right? What could possibly go wrong? WELCOME This is our first parser game, a collaboration between Darren (ancient, …

CONTENT WARNING: Violence (not shown, only audio) You wake up in a place you've never been before, with no memories of how you got there or who you are. You must escape using the items that you can find. Interact with everything and craft items into other items to solve the various puzzles and escape. If you have questions, feel free to comment below, but try not to spoil the puzzle solutions. Tha…

This is not a fast-paced game. You are strongly recommended to play with a notebook. Experiment. Backtrack. Not all paths lead immediately to success. There were people here, long ago. They were forgotten, and now they are no more. But they have left a series of puzzles, and it seems that they wanted to be understood. And so that is your goal: to understand. -------------------------- Made in a fe…

Holy Handbrakes is a chess-themed puzzle game with an emphasis on the racing game twist. You are a pawn, who has been captured and must break free from the graveyard world you now inhabit by opening the finish line and escaping back to the chessboard as a promoted piece. It's not much to look at, but it has a bopping soundtrack (see credits), and from the playtesting I have found the racing/puzz…

The Ordeal of Soggy Foot Man Soggy Foot Man has found himself deep within an enchanted forest. Out of the hedge pops a sentient seed who proceeds to heckle Soggy Foot Man. There is only one way to silence this menace; but it is likely to start a brawl to end all brawls. How long he survives is up to you! Best played outside of a browser (Webgl screws with sfx and FPS will be much better). Control…

While staying in your lakehouse, you left a key in a pot overnight. A sudden freeze left it frozen in the pot and you locked inside the lakehouse.  This is a short game with 3 endings. I made the game in Wick Editor, a free Flash-like software still under development. As of Christmas 2022, I was finally able to add a restart button, but using it causes the music to loop over itself. If the looping…