Little Wheel

Played a wonderful little browser-game this lunchtime called Little Wheel.

Like a film-noir version of Wall-E, you're the one working robot left in a world full of robots without power. It's up to you to return power to the world.

The game is purposefully short and has minimal challenge. It's all about the gorgeous animation and the wonderfully stylistic almost monochrome design. My particular favourite thing was the clumsy way your robot just falls around the place having not being designed to navigate platforms. :)

It's a point and click adventure but has a lot more in common with the recent Samarost than it has with the classics like Monkey Island. Much of the frustration involved in Samarost is avoided by clearing showing what can be interacted with in each screen.

This does mean that the game can be cleared in less than 10 minutes but I think more things should be short and sweet like this, rather than forcefully stretching out a concept. The short time frame & easy accessibility also makes this an ideal thing to play in your lunch / coffee break whilst at work. So give it a go!

Found Via [The Escapist]