Grimsfield
Grimsfield is a short point & click story game. You take on the role of a deadbeat beatnik poet who lives in an absurdist market town somewhere in the north of England.
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May 12, 2016
10 years and 83 days ago
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Positive22 reviews90.9%
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7 itemsAbout the Game
Off the M62 Between Leeds and Manchester lies Grimsfield* - a market town in the North of England. In this point, click & natter adventure you will gob your way through a number of ginnels**, working men's clubs, and underground temples***. You take on the role of a poet**** whose job it is to cut through copious amounts of red tape in order to make it to the open mic night down the local beatnik club.
* trademark
** alleyway
*** only 1 of each of these
**** knob
Grimsfield takes the form of a kafka-esque short adventure game set across a number of mini dioramas.
You, dear gameplayer, can expect the following:
* trademark
** alleyway
*** only 1 of each of these
**** knob
Grimsfield takes the form of a kafka-esque short adventure game set across a number of mini dioramas.
You, dear gameplayer, can expect the following:
- Enter a world of rules and bureaucracy, where even the rules have rules!
- Navigate this experience as a layabout poet whose only concern is their own ego.
- Visit over 1 type of office in your quest to overcome legislation.
- Talk to lots of irritating and occasionally amusing characters.
- Role play what it's like to be a bit of a bell end.
- Multiple Endings
- One definitive ending.
- Network like a pro
