It's a clickable playground full of silly animations and secrets. It has small arcade games, it has non-sense spatial layout, it's got a bunch of very polite animals who give you tea and let you watch their televisions.

If you grew up on visual-gag-heavy point and clicks like Pajama Sam or Putt-Putt it's a must, but even if not The Manhole deserves attention both for its willingness to engage in play "without purpose" and its historical status as the first computer game available via CD, paving the way for other Cyan smash hit MYST to come to be.