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The Adventures of Square [Official Site] is a free retro FPS built with the GZDoom engine and it turns out it's pretty amusing.

You are Square, a wise-cracking hero who has to rescue Doctor Octagon from the Circle of Evil, a mysterious cult hellbent on the domination of Shape Land.

I wasn't familiar with it, until we had a handy email tip (thanks Luiz!) to notify us that the developers put out a second episode this month, which had been delayed for quite a while. Check out the wacky trailer:

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For those who have played the first episode, this latest release changes the jump mechanics to add in "ledge forgiveness" and pseudo-bunnyhopping to make some of the platforming easier. It also comes with a revamped main menu, a Dual Oozi weapon, Defibs will electrocute you underwater and more. See the official news about it here.

The download for Linux is simply the main game file, which requires a copy of GZDoom. Once GZDoom is installed, it can simply be run with this in terminal:

gzdoom -iwad /path/to/downloaded/file/square1.pk3

The Adventures of Square is pretty odd, but I've actually come to appreciate the incredibly silly voice over along with the bizarre setting. The way enemies explode into a sticky mess, complete with eye-balls that bounce leaving only their boots when you kill them is the right amount of silly. Once you look past the initial goofiness, you will find a rather good FPS game with some fun level design.

Naturally, there's secrets to discover, keys to find to unlock more areas and other things you would expect in a Doom-like. It also worked perfectly in my testing. In addition to the two episodes, there's also a time attack mode for some extra fun.

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Jollt Apr 10, 2018
Wow really nice I like it! :D
sigmich Apr 10, 2018
Quoting: PatolaIs the ledge forgiveness an option that you can turn off? I really dislike this "feature", I feel cheated when playing.

What's the ledge forgiveness feature? I can't find more info about it.
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