


You will have to make good and fast decisions to make it out alive.

The highly secured prison is guarded by some strong stick soldiers. Fleeing the Complex is an amazing stick figure escape game. Some excellent starting points would include Spirits of Mystery: Song of the Phoenix, Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst, Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince, or Drawn: The Painted Tower. Escape You are trapped inside a small prison cell, and you have to escape not just your cell, but the whole prison If you fail, death is awaiting you. If you’d like to try any of these games mentioned here yourself, you can find them at the likes of Big Fish Games or on Steam. While the industry continues to make its games bigger, longer, and more overstuffed, it can be a pleasure (and a relief) to step out of that enormity and play a game that demands little investment and offers a short, beautiful experience in return. They are designed to be short, satisfying adventures you can easily play in 10-minute stretches. If the average open-world RPG, with its meaty campaign and arresting vistas, is the three-book epic saga of the gaming world, then HOPAs are the paperback novels. None of these games are particularly long - you could probably get through the longest of them in four hours if you really took the scenic route - but that’s not the point.
