The Knobbly Crook Episode 1

Point and click games are great at telling a story. Any kind of story. This one is about O’Sirus, a paper farmer who lives in a dark fantasy world that’s built around the Rock Paper Scissors game. I’m pretty sure you haven’t heard of this one before so get ready for something truly unique.

The Knobbly Crook is a game that unveils before you an elaborate and wonderfully thought out world, that is, if you enjoy the darker and stranger forms of human imagination and creativity. First off, the game has tons of artistic merit in it, design, concepts and everything you can run your mouse cursor over is simply wonderful. They give the game a somewhat creepy allure that sucks you right in.

O’Sirus’s story is an odd one and a bit unsettling to be honest. You get that right after the first piece of serious conversation from the torture room. The eeriness of how the story unfolds is one of the big selling points of the game and it constantly fluctuates.

Looking at how it was written, The Knobbly Crook is great. In all the visual nonsense there is room for things that make sense and for a story that’s really interesting. There is also a good deal of clever humor which tends to liven up the scenery, a few solid chuckles are inbound.

In terms of how you play The Knobbly Crook, it’s all very simple. You tell you character where to go in an environment just by clicking on the destination, and there are several other commands for interaction. There are strange strangers to talk to, items to find and collect and then use to solve different puzzles.

In terms of difficulty, The Knobbly Crook isn’t a punishing game, it has its tough moments but if you pay attention to the conversations things will move along quite well. It’s clever in more than just conversations, it’s a rather outside the box game.

To sum things up, The Knobbly Crook is a really good point and click. It might not make your jaw drop to the floor but there are plenty of moments when you will cringe a bit, when you will laugh a bit more and throughout its entire length, things just keep getting more and more interesting.