A WINNER IS YOU
It’s an Indiana Jones-inspired platformer. It’s difficult and unforgiving, but fair. It’s cute and well-animated. Like its predecessor Nethack, the content is randomly generated and throws up constant surprises.
If you’re feeling anarchic you get to rob shopkeepers, who in this game have completely evil AI and will chase you down with terrifying efficiency.
It has a whole bunch of Secret Stuff which you find out in pleasant moments of ‘oh, I see’ and by checking out the buzz on the official message board.
the horror
It’s completely free and will run on old PCs. As you can see from my stats (which I assure you are pretty good), don’t expect too many wins per play…
26-Feb-09 at 11:08 am | Permalink
This looks superb, I will definitely check it out.
Your Zombie Baseball recommendation was spot on, I wasted many hours on that one. It’s an easy game but the real joy comes with slowly increasing your skills to the point where you’re lopping the heads off every single zombie, ha ha ha.
“Hey… come on, come on!”
04-Mar-09 at 5:37 pm | Permalink
Some details:
• I used the Tunnel Man to start from level 9 of 15
• I got the Sceptre by blowing away the big mummy – this makes the last set of levels *much* easier
• You will need a bunch of ropes to get out of the last level. First time I beat the last boss I was trapped and had to jump into lava : (