Preview: Whirlight – No Time To Trip Captures Old School Point and Click Adventure
- Antal Bokor
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Point and click adventure games are not really that popular anymore. You really have to understand hardware limitations, and the exciting merger of new multimedia possibilities and gameplay. Point and click adventures were—for their time—cinematic in a way that most other games weren’t.
Nowadays the whole “point and click” gameplay seems a little quaint, but I’m glad there are those out there still paying homage to my childhood favorites. And Whirlight – No Time to Trip does exactly that, by taking inspiration from Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road—which happen to be two of my very favorite early point and click games.
Developed by imaginarylab—the studio behind Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town (itself inspired by the Escape From Monkey Island series)—Whirlight – No Time to Trip is being handled by true veterans of the genre. That’s why I was excited to check out its Steam Next Fest demo ahead of the event (which runs from February 23rd to March 2nd).
Whirlight – No Time to Trip is a time-traveling point and click comedy starring an eccentric inventor and a determined artist as they hop between time periods trying to stop a global catastrophe. Hector is a brilliant but unlucky inventor from the 1960s who is accidentally hurled into the 1990s where he meets Margaret. Together they embark on a journey through time and space, solving puzzles and interacting with strange environments and characters.
There is some good news for those who like the concept of point and click adventures but hate looking for the right places to click, and then deciding what the right action to use in whatever context menu. There are no more context menus, and each area of the environment that can be interacted with is easily highlighted.
I can’t wait to see more of Whirlight – No Time to Trip when the full game is released. The developers obviously understand the heart and humor that made those old games timeless.