Life is expensive enough as it is…so when there’s a chance to play free video games, I’m all for it! So let’s play some more fun games that won’t break the bank! Here are two totally free games for your enjoyment! And be sure to check out our other articles with two free games, too!
Sprout
Sprout by Jeff Nusz and rescued by Mindful Mammoth is a really short game! But it’s totally free and incredibly inventive.
You begin life as a coconut, but your goal is to become a mighty oak. In order to become one, you must make various decisions that have consequences. For example, if you stay a coconut, you can roll and can reach certain areas that way. If you become a flower, your seeds can fly in the air. Using the powers of the various plants you can choose from, you find the right path to becoming a mighty oak.
It’s charmingly hand-drawn and colored. I can’t say I’ve seen many other games like this one. I don’t want to give too much away, though. It’s a very short game; I completed it in just 15 minutes. But I played it months ago and never forgot it. It’s really unique. This game was created by Jeff Nusz in Flash and was in danger of fading into oblivion. Mindful Mammoth rescued it, rebuilt it in Unity, and returned it to the world – for free!! Thank you to Jeff Nusz and Mindful Mammoth!
Project Shoreline
Project Shoreline is a free game, graciously gifted to us by the team at Speldosa Interactive. It was created as a validation project, a way to introduce the theme and gameplay to a lot of people. The team has since gone on to create Muri: Wildwoods, which does not have a release date yet. The basic idea of the game was developed for Project Shoreline and then, in my opinion, refined and expanded for Muri.
A Muri is a really cute mouselike creature. There is no real narrative to the story. It begins with your Muri in a corrupted world, wielding a handy water gun as a weapon against the muck. You use your water gun to clean off areas, and you are rewarded with colorful plants when the area is clean. That’s it!
There are a variety of things to clean: flat things, tall things, and squat things! I’m not sure what exactly these things are, certainly nothing found in nature, but they are very appealing. The tall things have wart-like bumps on them. When you spray water on them for long enough, they make the coolest “ploink” sound as the warts pop off! Other plants make different sounds when they are cleaned; all of the sounds are very satisfying! In addition, when a large thing or cluster of small things is totally clean, the things change color, from black to something beautiful, very satisfying indeed!
There is some very light platforming in the game, really easy stuff. You jump from pedestal to pedestal, getting higher each time to clean tall things. Sometimes you run into cute little pixie creatures who are covered with corruption, but a quick cleaning with your hose takes care of that and makes them so happy!
There are also some areas where there may be a puzzle to complete in order to get it clean. In general, the puzzles are not terribly complicated and are likewise very satisfying because when they are complete – voila – a very large object is suddenly perfectly clean.
I play very slowly. I’ve been playing Project Shoreline for over 4 hours, and I have not even completed 30% of the game. That’s a lot of playtime for free! The Speldosa team considers Project Shoreline to be a mini adventure. They tell me it’s not really a game, not a demo, not really a typical prototype. They think it’s more of a very polished prototype.
I think it’s a great game to pick up when you have a few minutes because there is no elaborate plotline to remember; it’s all cleaning!
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