Amanda the Adventurer

About Amanda the Adventurer

Amanda the Adventurer was made by MANGLEDmaw Games and published by DreadXP, released on Steam in April 2023 and later on PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. Two sequels followed.

Riley Park has inherited the house of their reclusive Aunt Kate. In the attic, next to an old TV and VCR, sits a stack of tapes of a children's cartoon Riley has never heard of: a low-budget, locally made show about a little girl named Amanda and her shy best friend, Wooly the Sheep. The episodes look charming, in the blocky CGI of the late 1990s, but Amanda and Wooly seem to know someone is watching, and they talk straight through the screen.

You explore the dark attic in first person, play the tapes one after another and answer Amanda when she asks you to name things, find objects or spell words. Between tapes the attic itself becomes an escape room, with clues for its puzzles hidden inside the episodes. The fear builds from the gap between the bright, friendly show and the dim room you are sitting in, and from the moments when the cartoon stops being friendly.

It is a short game, and it suits players who liked analog horror videos, Poppy Playtime or Indigo Park's cheerful mascots turned sinister, and anyone who enjoys escape-room puzzles more than chases.

How to play Amanda the Adventurer

1. Buy it on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo Switch.
2. Explore the attic and put the first tape in the VCR.
3. Watch each episode closely and answer Amanda when she speaks to you.
4. Search the attic for objects, codes and notes, and use clues from the tapes to solve its puzzles.
5. Unlock each new tape to go deeper into the mystery of Amanda and Aunt Kate.

Tips

• Watch the tapes closely: the clues for the attic puzzles are hidden in what Amanda and Wooly show you.
• Keep notes of words, colours and numbers from the episodes.
• Search every corner of the attic between tapes.

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