Amanda the Adventurer

released on Apr 08, 2022

Digging through your attic you found a box set of an old children's TV show, Amanda the Adventurer, starring a brave girl named Amanda and a cowardly sheep named Wooly. You don't recall any specific episodes or characters in the show. Or what happens in the show exactly. Or much about it at all come to think about it, but it still feels strangely familiar. Curiosity takes hold and you decide to watch the tapes and let horror nostalgia take you back to a simpler age.


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A simple yet fun game with puzzles and secrets. I must confess it has enough alternative tricks that I had to check in guides to know how to do them.

It's a hella short game but it was entertaining enough. I wish it had more content for its price, though.

This game knows what its trying to do, does it extremely well, and doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. And, yes, I am a person who advocates for constant experimentation with games as a medium, but honestly sometimes a game doesn't need to, and that's okay. Personally, it's lore/story wasn't very compelling to me. Amanda the Adventurer is, in my opinion, a great way to spend an afternoon if you're bored or something.

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Ignoring my sheep bias, Amanda the Adventurer expands upon the demo/"Pilot Episode" with its compelling use of childhood nostalgia for pseudo-interactive kids media (Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues) as actual interactive media, terrifying with notions of choice which disintegrate upon the whims of the eponymous antagonist. Wooly is right in his terror when unnamed, unspoiled horrors await him in the artificial light of the animated television show featuring his lovely, adorable, not at all scary friend, Amanda. The game has its clear production issues in terms of a rapid development (taking only about a year to create) which lessens the scope of its puzzles and environmental scares, but, in all, this is a wonderful time most suited for myself as it accomplishes what could never be conceived of when watching (and mocking, as older viewers will) children's TV shows of the late '90s and early '00s.

This was a wonderful horror experience with a captivating mystery and very thought out puzzles that made me scratch my head until I got them and hated myself for not getting them sooner! This game wears its creepypasta influence on its sleeve, its build up of uneasiness up to horror kept me glued to the screen and had my try every single interaction just to see what happened as a result. I think this game is a must play for slow burn horror fans that love good, thoughtful puzzles.