Re: FREE GAME: Botanicula

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:20:18 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:00:08 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It's Thursday, blah blah blah, Epic Games, blah blah blah blah,  will
it be good, blah, let's see what the game is, blah blah blah blah
blah.

* Botanicula
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/botanicula-50043d
   I wonder how many of the people in this newsgroup
   looked at this game --an Indie platformer featuring
   little bug-like critters-- and immediately thought,
   "Oh, Ant will love this." What, only me? Oh well.
   Anyway, it's got a unique visual style (it's made
   by the same folk who created "Machinarium", if
   that helps) and is as much adventure as platformer.
   It's all a bit too whimsical for my taste, though.
   It's Number-fodder, for sure.

It's basically a point and click adventure game with quirky graphics and
music. I really enjoyed it about 10 years ago.

Thanks for the clarification. Not having played the game, I have to
depend on how the game is advertised when I write my announcements,
and the store page was _really_ unclear as to what the gameplay was
all about. The trailer video very much makes it look like your typical
Indie platformer.

I didn't really care for "Machinarium"; it was very surreal and felt
like a game being weird for the sake of being weird and I didn't enjoy
my playthrough. Of course, I was also playing it on mobile (an iPad,
if I recall) and I don't favor that form-factor for long-form games
anyway.

But you never know; someday somebody might convince me I absolute MUST
play this game because it's JUST THAT GOOD  and then I'll be glad to
have the game in my library* (it's happened before). And it's not like
it's taking any (significant) resources to have it in the library.








* Although, it being an Epic game, in the above example, I'd probably
STILL buy it on Steam just because I don't like using the Epic Game
Store. Although odds are pretty high that Botianicula will appear as a
freebie on other storefronts sooner rather than later; these freebies
tend to spread like fungus. ;-)