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2015 · Pencil Test Studios · Adventure · Indie

Armikrog

Armikrog is a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood. Follow the adventures of space explorer Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak, as they unravel the mysteries of the fortress that holds them captive through exploration and puzzle solving.

Released
30 September 2015
Platforms
LinuxPlayStation 4Wii UWindowsXbox OnemacOS
Genres
AdventureIndiePlatformerPoint-and-click adventurePuzzleStrategy
Developers
Pencil Test Studios
Publishers
Versus Evil
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Science fictionComedyKids
Country
United States
Age ratings
CLASS_IND 10ACB GUSK 6PEGI 7ESRB E10+GRAC ALL
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
3.5hmain story4.5hwith extras5hcompletionist
Composers
Terry Scott Taylor

About

Armikrog (stylized as Armikrog.) is a stop-motion point-and-click adventure comedy game by Doug TenNapel in partnership with Pencil Test Studios and Versus Evil for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. It is a spiritual successor to The Neverhood, and is developed by many members of the same team. Like The Neverhood, Armikrog use clay animation.

›Story

Armikrog is a claymation point-and-click adventure and a spiritual successor to The Neverhood. Players follow space explorer Tommynaut and his talking blind dog Beak-Beak, sent from their dying home planet on a desperate mission to find rare crystals that could save their people. When they crash-land on a strange alien world, the pair become trapped inside a mysterious fortress called Armikrog. Working together, Tommynaut and Beak-Beak use their unique abilities to solve puzzles and explore the fortress, gradually uncovering the secrets of who built it and what really happened within its walls.

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Gameplay

The game plays in a traditional point-and-click with a cursor to interact with objects and navigate around. The player controls two characters: space explorer Tommynaut and his sidekick Beak-Beak. Much like Klaymen in The Neverhood, Tommynaut has the ability to store items in his body. The player primarily controls him to do most of the grunt work like pulling levers, driving the Zipkicker and solving most of the puzzles.

Beak-Beak has the ability to fly in certain areas and enter tight space that only he has access to. He can also digest small objects and pass them to Tommynaut by regurgitating them out.

Story

On the planet of Ixen, the populace is in the midst of extinction without the power of P-tonium to sustain them. They send brother astronauts Vognaut, Numnaut and Tommynaut to a planet called Spiro 5 in hopes to find these crystals. Unfortunately, two of the brothers are dead due to unknown causes, leaving Tommynaut and his best friend Beak-Beak to continue onward.

After crash-landing on the planet, they end up locked inside a fortress called Armikrog. They find a baby girl named P and Tommynaut decides to care for her in hopes to find her parents. Upon further investigation, Tommynaut discovers that Armikrog was previously attacked by an unknown assailant who wished to possess the P-tonium crystals, which were assumed to be imbedded in Father and Mother, the guardians of Armikrog and also P's parents. The assailant killed both parents before learning that the crystals were transferred to P instead.

Development

Mike Dietz and Ed Schofield, founders of Pencil Test Studios, teamed up with Doug TenNapel, with whom they worked on Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood, to use Kickstarter to crowdfund Armikrog. The Kickstarter's goal of $900,000, and stretch goal of $950,000 for a Wii U version were exceeded when the funding ended on June 27, 2013.

The game has a voice cast featuring Michael J. Nelson as Tommynaut, Rob Paulsen as Beak-Beak and the PresidANTs, Jon Heder as evil Vognaut, Veronica Belmont as Mother, Bob Baffy as Father, Charlotte Schofield as P, Yumi Iwama, Jeff Minnerly, Bob Doll as the Octovators, and Eddie Fantastic as Numnaut.

Reception

Armikrog received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Critics appreciated the fun art style and catchy music. As a fan of The Neverhood, Destructoid's Caitlin Cooke praised the game saying that it has a certain charm that only Doug TenNapel can deliver. She did however criticise the lack of an inventory system and outdated interface. GameSpot's Matt Espineli gave a 4/10 rating, with criticism stemming from underdeveloped characters, inconsistent sound design and confusing puzzle elements.

In 2017, TenNapel admitted that the developers ran out of resources to put the final polish in Armikrog.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows30 September 2015Worldwide · North America 30 September 2015
Linux30 September 2015Worldwide · North America 30 September 2015
macOS30 September 2015Worldwide
PlayStation 423 August 2016North America · Europe 23 August 2016
Wii U23 August 2016North America · Europe 25 August 2016
Xbox One23 August 2016Worldwide · North America 23 August 2016

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