Dangeresque The Roomisode Triungulate

Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate is a classic-style point-and-click adventure starring Dangeresque, the world's greatest private eye and crooked cop, in three bite-sized self-contained rooms. Each roomisode is its own mini-adventure with its own puzzles, inventory items and supporting cast, and the three combine into a small but tightly packed package that respects the player's time.

Roomisode 1 puts Dangeresque in the position of having to fake-solve a cold case in order to keep The Chief from sending him to jail. Roomisode 2 teams him up with Renaldo to deal with car troubles at a particularly seedy intersection. Roomisode 3 puts him on a side gig as a security consultant for Perducci. Each setup sounds mundane on paper, which is half the joke — the writing handles the rest.

The project's history is part of the appeal. The original Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate was a Flash browser game released in 2008 by The Brothers Chaps, the team behind Homestar Runner. This release is a full remaster: all-new graphics, animation, cutscenes and full voice acting, brought up to the level the original was always reaching toward. Anyone who played the Flash version will recognize the shape; anyone who didn't gets a clean entry point.

The humor is Homestar's familiar — deadpan absurdity, characters who are aware of how dumb their situations are, the kind of jokes that work because the writing commits completely. The three-room structure keeps the puzzle density high and the runtime appropriate, which is exactly what this kind of comedy adventure benefits from.