Port Valley Windows, Mac, Linux game

(Yep, those old games where you had to control a guy using an odd white cross.)

But don’t think of this game as just another nostalgia attack.

This is not a lazy excuse to 'pay tribute' to the classics or to 'take back the charm' (whatever that means). The goal is to borrow the old-school mechanics and use them to make something new and show that this genre still has a lot to say.

In the full game, you’ll witness Port Valley's Election Day from three different points of view:

These unusual "heroes" will be forced to interrupt their boring lives and get ready for action before it's just too late. Work, revenge, political conspiracies, a banana balloon… it seems everything was meant to clash on this specific day.

It's time to face the crossed paths of Port Valley’s bizarre citizens and unfold an obscure plot that seems to be tying together these apparently unrelated stories.

You PICK UP stuff, you USE stuff, you look at stuff and you talk to stu… characters. All that while trying to solve a big annoying puzzle divided into smaller and more annoying ones! Yay!

Wondering what else you can do in this game?

The answer is… whatever you want to! That’s the charm of adventure games!

• You wanna use a cat on a chair? Go on!
• Talk to a pipe? It’s your choice!
• Pick up a tree? Oh, boy! We speak the same language!

The game is still in development, but a brand new demo is available in English and Spanish. (Forget about the original demo). (That never happened.)

The puzzles have been simplified and the story has been modified to fit the new length, but it may work as a first taste of Port Valley's mechanics and characters.

Or not.

• Three plots, three main characters, three difficulty modes, three mayoral candidates… three chances to unfold a bigger and complex story.
• A renewed yet classic Point & Click interface.* (*May not be that renewed.)
• A humoristic and light-hearted tone with annoying self-aware humor. (Which doesn't necessarily mean this is just a comedy…)
• Active NPCs. They're not just there to give you items. They also have their objectives, which may be more important than yours.
• A day-night cycle. (This would've been SUCH a big deal back in the 90's.)
• A dog.

Okay, I'm not a social networks person, but I made a Twitter account to post updates and stuff about the game and it quickly reached 7 followers!

If you give it a try and you happen to see something… odd, please, let me know as soon as possible via comment or send an email to: contact@portvalleygame.com

Any kind of feedback would be welcome.

But please, no more spam.