Videonauts
Videonauts is a pixel art adventure game where you must escape from a spooky mansion full of deadly traps and terrors. You and your fellow trapped companions want to escape alive... but how you converse and solve exploration-based puzzles can change everyone's fate!
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10 itemsAbout the Game
Videonauts is a story-focused adventure puzzle game with horror and supernatural surprises. Try to escape the spooky and dangerous mansion... and discover the secret behind a bizarre video collection within. The game features multiple fates for the characters, mysterious puzzles where you search your environment, and hand-drawn limited-palette pixel art.
Special character stats will change as you have conversations with others, which means even innocuous exchanges may help change everyone's fate!
Story
Coby is invited to a mansion to gander at a large collection of ancient artifacts, along with a small handful of other curious critters. But it soon becomes obvious this is a mansion of many deadly tricks and secrets of unexplained origin. What will happen to everyone as they try to escape? It doesn't look like everyone will make it out alive...
Among the collector's ancient artifacts, there seems to be a strange choice... video tapes! The tour guide insists they should never be touched, but why? Our protagonist Coby would rather not find out the secret of these videos, but it looks like he won't have a choice...
Features
Multiple endings and fates for the characters!
Avoid taking damage from the strange paranormal surprises.
Moody music and spooky atmosphere.
Unique randomization elements.
Puzzles with many twists.
Avoid enemies such as shadow-ghosts and disembodied arms.
Retro tile-based movement.
A special limited-colour lighting effect.
Cute animal characters with cartoony expressions.
Delve deeper and discover...
...there's more to the mansion than meets the eye!
