Little Wheel

Posted by Xander Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:24:00 GMT

LittleWheel

Little Wheel is a delicate point and click adventure where you play the role of a robot who is jolted alive by a bolt of lightning and tasked with finding out how to revive the rest of his robot civilisation. It seems perfectly pitched as a coffee break style game, with the relaxed atmosphere and jazz music along with the cool visual style and smooth gameplay. There are no ‘hidden pixel’ puzzles, most interactive elements are highlighted and usually it’s simply a case of just hitting the correct buttons in the correct order.

It’s an experience which is all too brief, but as I said there’s something quite amicable about its brevity. Everything about it just seems so delicately formed, even the protagonist who goes through a suprising amount of physical stress despite the short ride. It’s a wonderfully relaxing little game, so if you’re having a rough day at all now’s the time to put your feet up, get a mug of your favourite brew and of course, save the world.

(Source: Indiegames.com)

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  1. hurdur said 29 minutes later:

    JOHNNY FIVE IS ALIVE

  2. jeb said 36 minutes later:

    Beautiful!

  3. Ezuku said about 1 hour later:

    Very nice. Short and sweet.

  4. enandrews said about 1 hour later:

    so classy!

  5. Dinsdale said about 3 hours later:

    I enjoyed that.

  6. Synnah said about 3 hours later:

    Wonderfully drawn and animated; so much charm in the robots!

  7. fuxter said about 3 hours later:

    very beautiful. also the ending might be a bit longer… really charming game.

  8. dgs said about 6 hours later:

    it takes too long to load on my computer. I wish I could download it and play it offline.

  9. BMcC said about 7 hours later:

    Looks lovely!

  10. pnx said about 7 hours later:

    Honestly, it was extremely easy and short, it’s not much of a puzzle game but it’s got extremely cute and well made graphics.

  11. undertech said about 11 hours later:

    VERYGOOD!

  12. Skofo said about 18 hours later:

    Pretty cute game!

    It’s kind of sad how Flash game sponsors insist on cheapening the experience of cool games by plastering their logo in three different places per screen, though…

  13. Astrozombie said about 18 hours later:

    Fantasmic.

  14. Snow said about 19 hours later:

    Well I played it. Liked it. It was very interesting. You could tell the creator(s) was/were dedicated. Loved the 3d bits - added quite a bit to the atmosphere more than realism. Kind of felt like getting a robot from point a to b in an abandoned amusement park. The music was a good touch.

    Cons: This should be chapter 1 of say 10 or more. (Of course I do realize that a lot of work already went into the game and that it is FREE. If they did have a 10 chapter game, I would gladly buy it.)

    9/10

    Moar please.

  15. Astrozombie said about 19 hours later:

    @snow How would they pull that off the robots already got reactivated

  16. Jamal said about 23 hours later:

    great review. thank you for this

  17. Stabn said 1 day later:

    Beautiful game. Thanks.

  18. Andrew said 5 days later:

    lol, I found a glitch in the game.

    http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/368/littlewheelglitch.png

    The bottom half of the crane thing moved to the right when I told it to but the top half remained where it was. After that nothing worked.

  19. Philip Seyfi said 5 days later:

    I love this game, and especially it’s graphics!!!

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