I’m a huge fan of the Lucas Games and Sierra OnLine style point-and-click adventures have frankly found video games in general lacking since the genre’s apparent demise sometime in the late ’90s.
Fortunately, it seems there are always independent developers who are willing to take nostalgic desire all the way to revive lost art forms.
So, for anyone else who shares the same love of Maniac Mansion and the Space Quest series, we have Nanobots.
Created by Erin Robinson and Vince Twelve, Nanobots is by far one of the most enjoyable independent games I’ve played in ages.
The story concerns a group of tiny robots created by a hippie trying to teach machines to love. There’s a slight problem though. While he managed to create tiny intelligent robots with emotions, they kinda hate each other.
However, a problem soon arises that they’ll have to work together to solve.
The game play is pretty reminiscent of Manic Mansion, one of my all time favourites. Each tiny robot has it’s own skill – Strongbot can move heavy objects, while Audbot can communicate with anything, etc.
In order to solve the game’s puzzles, you’ll have to switch between the different bots and use their invidual specialties to accomplish various goals.
And the best part: It’s a free download!
[...] Almost two years ago, I wrote a post about a point-and-click adventure game called Nanobots. [...]