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Less Miserables, a point-and-click parody of Les Miserables gets a demo

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Last updated: 30 Mar 2026 at 3:22 pm UTC

Love a good point and click adventure comedy Less Miserables is an upcoming point-and-click parody of Les Misérables. It's due to release with Linux support, and just recently the developers at College Fun Games released a demo so you can try it a bit early.

More about it from the developer: "Part 'Monkey Island', part 'Allo 'Allo, Less Miserables aims to do for 'Les Misérables' what 'Life of Brian' did to The Bible, with legally British humour, and a modern hobo-based hint system. The game follows the known tropes, but is accessible for people who never pretended to sing from the barricades or see a three-headed monkey. You’ll play parody puzzles of Gwent, Curse of the Golden Idol and even deface Notre Dame. Fully hand-drawn, with 30 beautiful and/or deprived locations in Paris to explore, and dozens of historical characters, fully voiced by amazing stars of Edinburgh Fringe and stand-up, recorded in live-improv recording sessions."

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They're planning a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to go live April 2nd.

Platform: 🐧 Native Linux
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pb 7 hours ago
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The artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...
whizse 6 hours ago
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Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...
From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".
pb 5 hours ago
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Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...
From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".
I don't know what is worse, if that turns out to be a lie or the truth. ;p
Ehvis 5 hours ago
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Quoting: pb
Quoting: whizse
Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...
From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".
I don't know what is worse, if that turns out to be a lie or the truth. ;p
Having something hand made doesn't automatically make it good of course. But yeah, the scenes look boring and inconsistent.
ToddL 3 hours ago
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: pb
Quoting: whizse
Quoting: pbThe artwork looks suspiciously sloppy, especially the backgrounds...
From the Kickstarter page "Everything is hand made, with no AI used in any part of the process".
I don't know what is worse, if that turns out to be a lie or the truth. ;p
Having something hand made doesn't automatically make it good of course. But yeah, the scenes look boring and inconsistent.
Maybe that's why it's called Less Miserables but in a bad way.
Eike 2 hours ago
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Hmm, I fail to see what you're seeing...
Except the sprites and the backgrounds not fitting too well together, I find the backgrounds I saw fine.
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