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The Neverhood (released in Japan as Klaymen Klaymen: The Mystery of Neverhood and referred to in the English version's intro as The Neverhood Chronicles), is a 1996 point-and-click adventure video game developed by The Neverhood, Inc. And published by DreamWorks Interactive for Microsoft Windows. A masterpiece of video-game history. Doug TenNapel (previously known for Earthworm-Jim) created a world out of 3 tons of clay. With the help of composer Terry Scott Taylor (from the band Daniel Amos) they created a whimsical world of comedy and creativity.

A claymation adventure, unique, with great puzzles

The Neverhood Iso

The Neverhood Walkthrough

At the time when this game was released the claymation technique used for the animations and world building that the game is based on, was a first for a game. Today few games ever go that road, and in the past about a handful adventures have been using similar methods. Yes, the end result is a surreal, impressionistic type of deal, a work of art that is not something you'd usually get to see in a game, and so, if not for any other element, this is why you should play this game. However, The Neverhood is also a pretty well produced adventure, featuring the usual kind of things that make an adventure gamer tick; there are lots of puzzles, some that will test your endurance, and well, out of the box thinking (or, rather, how disposed you are at trying to combine things until something happens) as well as logic and find the object puzzles. The game also features really cool music, which adds to the weirdness of it, though, don't worry, it can be played by children without them having nightmares! So, yeah, hard to actually think of a similar game, but maybe Toonstruck offers something just as weird (though not as well executed, or that aged that well).