Dropsy is an unfortunate-looking clown who likes everyone and wants everyone to like him. He goes through life solving problems and attempting to hug people, but things don’t always go as planned. It’s up to players to guide this sensitive, carefree-but-resolute clown’s dilemmas in a new point-and-click “hugventure” spawned from a choose-your-own-adventure forum post on a long-running comedy website called Something Awful.
Like the early point-and-click adventures that came before it, Dropsy’s goal is to explore the world, solve puzzles, and hopefully win people over with hugs. His biggest obstacle comes from peoples’ aversion to him, with some outright hating him for one reason or another. He shrugs through it all as he happily trudges on despite his own tragic origin, which would give him the right to be a nasty, spiteful clown if it were in him. See, Dropsy used to be a circus clown. A fire destroyed his family’s livelihood and took his mother, leaving him with very little beyond his ailing father, his clown-face-painted dog, and the nightmares of the events that haunt him each time he goes to sleep.
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Like the early point-and-click adventures that came before it, Dropsy’s goal is to explore the world, solve puzzles, and hopefully win people over with hugs. His biggest obstacle comes from peoples’ aversion to him, with some outright hating him for one reason or another. He shrugs through it all as he happily trudges on despite his own tragic origin, which would give him the right to be a nasty, spiteful clown if it were in him. See, Dropsy used to be a circus clown. A fire destroyed his family’s livelihood and took his mother, leaving him with very little beyond his ailing father, his clown-face-painted dog, and the nightmares of the events that haunt him each time he goes to sleep.
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