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Mid-Week Freeplay: Gravity Bone

Have you ever dreamed about being a secret agent? The women (or men, I suppose), the guns, the international intrigue… it all seems so glamorous. Unfortunately, most video games that do feature secret agents don’t exactly portray them as such in our fantasies. Sure there’s the whole line of James Bond games, but even those have felt like meaningless movie tie-ins for the past decade. What we need is a real secret agent, someone like… Citizen Abel.

Now take note that his game is very short. I’m talking like 15 minutes short, but the gameplay, story, artwork, and, oh yes, the sound effects/music are all brilliantly meshed together. This is a game that, even while it’s so incredibly short, lives up to the true mantra of what an international secret agent should be.

The game starts out innocuously enough. Your just an average party go-er. Mingle with some people, enjoy a drink, you know… whatever. Until, that is, you decide to slip into the furnace room to grab your assignment. That assignment being to slip somebody the “wrong” drink, and disappear. From there you are sent on another mission. One that’s a bit more challenging and dramatic.

I won’t get into the nitty-gritty details, but I will tell you that the ending is well-played out and ends in breathtaking fashion.

Gravity Bone isn’t a game that’s going to keep you coming back again and again for hours. Hell, it won’t even last you one hour. But the game is worth playing beyond every other “Freeplay” title I’ve written about here at DIYgamer. Especially if you have a thing for secret agents.

[download from BlendoGames]