Publisher Devolver Digital has announced that point-and-click adventure game Dropsy will be heading to the Switch very soon on September 29th.
Original released on Windows, OS X, and Linux back in 2015, Dropsy is an "open-world" point-and-click title that stars Dropsy the Clown as the titular character in a story that "harnesses themes of love and unmerited kindness". Players are free to explore the world in whichever order they see fit, piecing together bits of the narrative along the way.
Here's a list of features from the game's Steam page:
- Open World Adventure – Players are free to choose which avenues of adventure they want to explore in an open world setting and can piece many of the puzzles and story bits together however they choose.
- Text Free Experience – Communicate with a bizarre and colorful cast of characters through an innovative use of visual icons rather than traditional text-based dialog trees.- Puzzles and Hugs – Challenging puzzles and complex conundrums stand between Dropsy and the secrets behind his shrouded past. With clever thinking, tender hugs, and the help of his animal friends, Dropsy can overcome evil and win the hearts of the people around him.
- Evocative Soundtrack – From gentle electric piano and saxophone melodies of the starting area, to the space echo drenched dub reggae tracks of a vampire-hunting swamp village, to the bombastic fuzzed out quasi-prog-rock of the endgame sequences, Chris Schlarb and his band of minstrels give every area in the game a distinct sense of place.
Will you be picking up Dropsy later this week? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Now that's a blast from the past if I've ever seen it. I remember seeing this game in a magazine way back when and thinking it looked both incredibly weird yet also interesting so I may grab this at some point, who knows.
Yikes. That is a fairly creepy looking game? I don't think I'll care to... "explore the world in whichever order they see fit, piecing together bits of the narrative along the way." I guess absurd is a fitting descriptionn
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Monkey Island has me on a point and click kick, so I'll be watching this
Looks sh*te to be honest.
@Host-Migration high praise! I do like good computer games too.
The trailer made me strangely uncomfortable, does that feeling echo through the rest of the game? 😅
This looks super cool! I like weird games, so I'll buy it.
I never did get to play this! I guess I'll still have something absurd to do after finishing Baobabs Mausoleum. ^^
I played this on PC to completion and I'm glad I did. I recommend it to point-and-click fans who don't mind some melancholy.
Ah man, I watched an episodic playthrough of this way back when it came out — definitely had a bizarre yet compelling vibe to it
Yes please!! I love that people make games like this
I’m not totally sure what I just watched but it’s definitely scarier than 90% of the survival horror games on the market.
I’m not afraid of clowns but I feel like this would inspire that terror.
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