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2024PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified95 % positive19.50 €

You play a twelve-year-old stepping in as castle gate guard, deciding who gets inside. Interrogation, deduction and witty dialogue make for a funny puzzle adventure where your decisions shape the story.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Lots of humour
  • Fantasy setting
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Lil' Guardsman are King's Quest, Death and Taxes and Great God Grove. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Lil' Guardsman special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Death and Taxes

Choices with consequences

You play the Grim Reaper stuck in an office job, deciding each day who lives or dies. A humorous, narrative-driven visual novel and choice game with a stylish 2D look and a mystery about your own origins.

Great God Grove

Choices with consequences

As the divine mail carrier Godpoke, you wander a quirky grove of gods, solve puzzles and deliver messages to avert the apocalypse. Sharp humor and a vivid, colorful look give this story-driven adventure its charm.

Otaku's Adventure

Choices with consequences

You play a lifelong single Otaku whose romantic encounter with three charming girls sends you on very different adventures. This point-and-click visual novel runs on anime-flavoured humour, light puzzles and choices that steer the story down different paths.

Wailing Heights

Fantasy setting

You hop between bodies in this point-and-click adventure to solve puzzles in a morbid mountain village full of monsters. Its horror-comedy story is carried by hand-drawn 2D artwork from comic talent and musical moments.

Astrologaster

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play Simon Forman, an Elizabethan astrologer and doctor, reading star charts to solve patients' problems. Its charm lies in the absurd cases, from court intrigue to missing spoons, delivered with sharp period-flavoured humor.

Bad End Theater

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short puzzle visual novel where you steer a cast of characters through tragic storybook fates. Toggling behaviors in one story changes the others, so you must untangle the web to rescue everyone from their bad endings.

Return to Monkey Island

Puzzles and brain teasers

A humorous pirate point-and-click adventure by Ron Gilbert in which Guybrush Threepwood once more hunts for the secret of Monkey Island. Clever puzzles, witty dialogue and a bold painterly look make it a charming continuation of the classics.

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