Hamlet

The player interacts with the world with simple point and click interface directing a small hero. The goal of Hamlet is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers. The puzzles are sequentially linked forming an adventure story. The game contains no inventory or dialogue, and the solving of puzzles mainly consists of clicking onscreen elements in the correct order. Solving a puzzle will immediately transport the player character to the next screen.

The game begins by setting up a version of Hamlet rather different from the original, in which Prince Hamlet (a swashbuckling hero) returns to find Claudius and Polonius locking up Ophelia in attempts to marry Ophelia to Claudius. Just as Hamlet is about to run in to save her, a man from the future falls out of the sky in his time machine and lands on his head, incapacitating him. The man then goes to save Ophelia. He first enters Polonius's house.

Polonius turns out to be a shriveled, alien-like creature obsessed with chemistry and the periodic table of the elements. The time traveler kills Polonius, but in the process drops Ophelia into a well. When he dives down to rescue her, both are swallowed by a giant fish. With the help of an elderly man living in the fish's stomach, the two escape and surface in the moat outside of Claudius' castle.

The Microsoft Windows version of Hamlet was developed over a period of eight months, by Denis Galanin, also known as mif2000.

Hamlet has received mixed to positive reviews. The game won the award for the Best iOS Game from The Mac Life Awards at Macworld Expo 2011. Google Play Store included Hamlet on the list of Games We Love: Best Games of 2012. Split Sider included the game on the list of The 10 Funniest Video Games of 2010 and Jay is Games included Hamlet on the list of Best Downloadable Adventure Games of 2010. In 2024, Game Rant included the game on the list of the 10 Best Games Based On Shakespeare’s Plays.