Dead Ascend, an open source point and click 2D adventure game

For those wanting to check out another open source game or perhaps see how they're made, Dead Ascend might be a fun choice for a little adventure.

Developed by Lars from Black Grain Games, Dead Ascend features hand-drawn artwork with gameplay much like classic point and click adventures.

A horde of Zombies chased you to the old radio tower. Your only chance is to ascend up through the tower - solving a host of puzzles on your way to your rescue.

The developer actually notified me about it quite some time ago, sadly I was unable to compile it at the time. Recently, they emailed again to mention it now has a pre-built Linux version so I took a quick look.

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While it's somewhat basic, it does the job pretty nicely. It was fun enough for me to play through it and I actually did enjoy the experience. Since it plays much like a hidden object/point and click adventure, it did feel like it was missing the ability to highlight objects so it took me a while to find everything needed while just clicking everything I could at times. The multi-part text was a little too fast too, would have been better if it switched between parts of the text with a button.

You can find the source on GitHub, with an AppImage to download and play right away on itch.io where the developer accepts donations too.