It’s the definition of a modern, streamlined point-and-click game that focuses more on telling a story and less on exploring and puzzles. There is only one clear solution to the game’s simplistic puzzles, and only a small amount of environmental exploration. Straight Ahead Til Dawnīulb Boy plays like a standard, linear point-and-click adventure title you pick up objects and use them on things in the environment to progress. The game’s eerie atmosphere is a grotesque treat and definitely kept me playing to see what horrors I’d run into next. It’s foreboding, and its melodic tunes fit the game’s atmosphere like a glove. The game’s weirdness is complemented by dark, deep synth sounds with organs and low drum beats. It’s a great example of a game that uses its animation to make you care and empathize with a particular character.

You start to feel bad for him, since he’s just a child. It’s all dark in tone, but manages to have some cuteness as well.īulb Boy is very expressive and will react fearfully if certain creatures act happy when he accomplishes a goal. You go up against spiders and black tentacled creatures and even enter the very essence of your grandfather to kill the darkness inside of him. You can inhabit corpses of dead creatures that give you new abilities. You fight a feces monster – cook and eat a deformed turkey monster – to give you a sense of the game’s aesthetic. It’s grotesque and macabre, very reminiscent of an Edmund McMillen game. The game is highly stylized – everything from the slick animations to the eerie soundtrack. It’s up to Bulb Boy to find his family and rescue his once humble abode from the darkness. Bulb Boy wakes up and realizes that his dog and grandpa are missing.

While he sleeps, a large black cloud enters their home and starts taking taking over the house, giving life to creatures and inanimate objects. After a night of TV, Bulb Boy’s grandpa falls asleep so he decides to go to bed, too. It doesn’t take long before you realize that this strange adventure about a young Bulb Boy only gets stranger, and that this tale is over before you know it.īulb Boy lives in a house with his grandpa and dog. Relive Bulb Boy's childhood memories to uncover the mystery of the storyīubble Speech – no dialogue, just bubble speech.Bulb Boy, by the aptly named studio Bulbware, is a weird but entertaining point-and-click game. Playable flashbacks – play as other family characters. Not only does your head light up and allow you to survive electrical shocks, but it can also be unscrewed for use in strange places Defeat the evil in all its forms and bring the light backīulb's talents – being a boy that is a bulb comes with many talents. Oh.and don't forget to save your Grandpa-raffin and Mothdog from the frightening darkness.ĭefeat the monsters – explore the Bulbhouse, full of frightening creatures. He must gather his courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.īulb Boy is an intuitive 2D point and click horror adventure about a boy with a glowing head (alright, it's a bulb.) Solve puzzles, defeat wicked monsters and reveal bulby's abilities to unfold a twisted tale.

His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. Multi-award winning 2D horror puzzle-adventure about a boy with a glowing head.

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