Out of Order
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Out of Order
(2022 on
Windows)
Description
Hurford Schlitzting cannot sleep through a storm one night and finds out he has been kidnapped in his own bedroom. He meets grumpy aliens with strange requests, is brainwashed by hypnotic music, hacks computers running Lookout Express, tries to overthrow the dictatorial reign of The Panel and has philosophical conversations with Random Access Memory. Something is definitely out of order.
In this humorous freeware 2D point and click adventure, which took three years to develop, you guide Hurford in his sleeping gown through about thirty hand-drawn rooms, with ingenious puzzles and a wacky storyline, as you try to find out how you ended up in a parallel world. Developer Tim Furnish made this game in his own scripting language SLUDGE, with 16-bit high resolution graphics. A complete music score and fitting sound effects have been included as well.
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Critics
Average score: 80% (based on 6 ratings)
Players
Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 10 ratings with 1 reviews)
A great independent Adventure game.
The Good
If you are a fan of adventure games then this game has everything just about everything you are looking for unless you are looking for something non comedic. Out of Order has a great original plot, original characters, sense of humor, and some outstanding art for an independent game.
What really stands out about this game is how well it is done. I have played professionally done Adventure games that were not half as good in style and plot as Out of Order is.
The Bad
The only problem with this game is a common problem all adventure games have. Sometimes you can not figure out what the creator of the game intended you to do during a certain scene and you end up stuck or in the worse case having to use a walkthrough.
The Bottom Line
If you were a fan of games like Maniac Mansion, Sam and Max, Day of The Tentacle, Space Quest, or just adventure games in general you really should give this high quality independent a try.
Windows · by Geo_Seven (11) · 2008
Trivia
The game won various awards:* Best Graphics and Best Game (Adventure Gamers Underground Awards 2003) * Best Game (The Crow's Nest Awards 2003)
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Just Adventure interview
Tim Furnish is interviewed about the game (7th April 2003)
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Game added by Sciere.
Game added June 29, 2004. Last modified August 17, 2023.