Port Valley Windows, Mac, Linux game

Port Valley is a (not so) classic Point & Click adventure for PC, macOS and Linux.

(Yes, those 90’s games where you had to control a pixelated guy using an odd white cross.)

But, hey! Don't think of this game as just a nostalgia attack!

This project doesn't only exist to 'pay tribute' to the classics or to 'take back the charm'. The goal is to borrow the old-school mechanics and use them to make something original and tell a very special story.

In Port Valley you take control of an unnamed guy fed up with his job who just wants to have a calm life… but that's not an option in this town. At least not during the mayoral elections.

In the full game, you'll see Port Valley's Election Day from three different perspectives. Three parallel versions of our main character attempting three different jobs… and the chance to regret it all and start all over again.

Prepare yourself to overcome the crossed objectives of Port Valley's citizens while trying to understand a bigger and obscure plot that'll only make sense after witnessing the three available points of view!

I'm sure you already know the deal.

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!

(As long as those funny interactions have been programmed, which is rare. You guys never read this stuff in brackets, right?)

Okay, the game is still under development, but an hour-long demo is available in English and Spanish. It's a vertical slice of one of the three parts of the game: The Delivery Guy plot.

There are many of those!

• Three difficulties, three plots, three mayoral candidates, three endings… three points of view of a bigger and complex story.
• A renewed Point & Click verb interface with a non-intrusive menu.
• Active NPCs. They're not just there to give you items. They also have their businesses and objectives, which may be more important than yours.
• Annoying puzzles with different ways to solve them. For real.
• Even more annoying self-aware humor. Sorry!
• TONS of hidden secrets. I love doing that.
• 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@portvalley.org

Any kind of feedback would be extremely welcome.