With an inspired, deliberately wrong manual.
I’m delighted becauseI’ve got a soft spot for Lair of the Clockwork God.
I reviewed it on PC in 2020 and loved it.
It’s an adventure game and sometimes a platform game about two characters, Dan and Ben.
And they bicker, endlessly.
One represents point-and-clicks, and the other, platformers.
And they don’t always get along.
And I’m delighted because a boxed release really fits with it thematically.
Adventure games are retro.
They come from a time of big cardboard boxes and chunky manuals.
So they made one up.
“We’ve written a manual for the wrong game,” Dan Marshall told me today.
It does some unusual stuff.
It’s like a fable, a warning story to indie devs of what unchecked passion can do."
There’s no fancy stuff in the latter besides the reversible cover.
If you fancy either, you’ve got to get a pre-order in before the end of the month.
Here’s a link tothe Lair of the Clockwork God collection on the Limited Run site.
