Sheepy: A Short Adventure

Sheepy: A Short Adventure

Windows - World - Title card.

Developer MrSuicideSheep Publisher MrSuicideSheep Published 2024-02-06 Platforms Windows Genres Adventure, Atmospheric, Exploration, Platformer Themes Adventure, Cartoon, Horror, Mystery, Science fiction Distribution Freeware

Sheepy: A Short Adventure is a platform adventure game developed and published by MrSuicideSheep for Windows on 2024-02-06 and release as freeware.

In the game, you play as a stuffed toy sheep which mysteriously becomes animated. You guide it through an abandoned underground structure with various hazards.

Personal

Own?	No. This game was never sold.
Won?	Yes. Achievements: 26/30.
Finished	2025-02-01.

I saw this game listed in the top 10 list of free games on the Steam 250 web site. The "Short Adventure" subtitle played a part in why I chose to play it, as it was late in the evening when I found it. I really enjoyed the game and played it a second time through the next day.

Review

7	6	8	7	7

Best Version: Windows

Good

• The art is really good. The artists did a wonderful job of mixing traditional pixel art with modern lighting effects and physics models. The animation of Sheepy and Patches are fantastic with lots of cute and creepy frames. The game has a lot of nice visual ambience.
• The music is well-composed and serves as a wonderful backdrop to the game. It's very mood inducing. Great sound effects too.
• The final boss battle is an epic showdown which requires both thinking and reflexes, a combination I really enjoy.
• I like the literal warning sign when you reach a point of no return.
• The dynamic music on the long trail was a good idea.
• I enjoyed the game enough that, after I finished the game, I donated some money to the developers.
• The game starts out kind of cute, but, once you meet Patches there is a huge shift in tone which really catches you off guard. The first boss battle and it's escape are really ghoulish.

Bad

• I ran into a couple bugs as I kept failing to escape up out of the deep pit. Patches respawned at one point, then the camera got stuck zoomed in on the singularity. Also, in the final scene, only the analog directional works, which is a bit odd if you used the D-pad the whole game.
• It takes quite a bit of practice to learn the fly / run / double jump combination effectively, and I initially became frustrated with some of the jumps. It wasn't until my second play-through that I had become good enough so that I wasn't too annoyed.
• Having achievements for getting caught by a trap and failing to win a boss battle didn't make much sense to me.
• The hidden records are a nice trinket to find, but they don't really fit with the game's story line. Why vinyl records? As far as I can tell, you never listen to them.
• While the scenes are epic, the story is very sparse. I get that a research team unwittingly unleashed an ancient evil but how does a stuffed sheep and teddy bear play into it?

Ugly

• Nothing.

Media

Title Cards

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  Title card - Steam.

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  Title card - Windows - An early version.

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  Title card - Windows.

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  Title card - Windows - Alternate.

Fan Art

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  Crocheted characters.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	The sole woman is in the pre-recorded messages for the the Belgin facility.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There is only one woman.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There are no clear people of color.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Videos

Official trailer.

Longplay - Windows.

Links