Brownie’s Adventure Preview – Verbs, Vulgarity, and Violence Against Seagulls

Forget cyberhackers looking at your porn poetry web history; we need to keep our eyes on indie developers, as somehow, Beardy Ramblin’ Games seems to have discovered that I’ve been playing Discworld via ScummVM, and I am absolutely in the mood for a disgruntled wizard and his trooper-like mouthhole full of expletives. Friends, we’re looking at Brownie’s Adventure: The Final Resolution demo.

It is known in these lands that I am a big point and click adventurer, but not so much as an explorer of new titles as they find their way to me. The dev reached out (they didn’t hack my account – I think I mentioned Discworld in one of my retro handheld posts) and asked if I was interested in the demo and whether I was interested in diving into the point and click rabbit hole. You had me at hello.

Now, I don’t know Rich, but he’s a man cast from the same mould in terms of vulgarity, humour, and representing the genre with a pixel art pin badge. Brownie’s Adventure: The Final Resolution is a relatively short affair – it’s a demo – and for that reason, I encourage you to take a look.

A Retired Wizard and an Ominous Spoon

I haven’t played the previous games as I’ve never heard of them until now, but you needn’t have done your background checks. You’re essentially an unemployed Pilchard Press engineer turned wizard who has since retired. The Spoon of Power is at risk of theft, and you’re pulled out of retirement via a Zoom call to look into it. Completely relatable thus far.

There’s an evil wizard named Grundolph, which I believe is a reference to Barry Trotter or sumink, but you don’t get to see them and instead have the pleasures of chinwagging with shrubs, pirate versions of The Borrowers, a child that makes Angry Kid look like a Ghibli protagonist, plus violence towards seagulls.

The humour is quintessentially British, but doesn’t require a membership to enjoy, though there are a few choice words our American friends might not understand. While it has Yorkshire roots, Brownie’s Adventure: The Final Resolution isn’t a talkie, so the subtitles are for everyone, and in some ways, it makes it even funnier if you’re imaginative.

Rough Edges, Warm Heart

I don’t do the ‘solo developer’ pedestal stuff here, but you can see the effort that has gone into this. The graphics are as crude as the language and won’t be to everyone’s taste. I played these back in the day when they were cutting-edge visuals; now it’s not so great on the surface, but I soon fell in love with the presentation. I wasn’t too keen on the sound effects, though – more to do with the timing, which is a shame as the music is great.

Like the rather excellent Heir of the Dog (and Zak McKracken!), Brownie’s Adventure: The Final Resolution adopts verbs within its interface. For example, you click Push, Pull, Use and more to interact. There are no hotspot indicators, but you don’t need them. While the inventory is absurd (as it should be), the puzzles in the demo are very natural to solve, and I have to say I was more riding the great interactions.

I also really like the fourth-wall destruction without spoiling it, and the extended credits that you really have to exhaust the dialogue to see it all are bloody marvellous and further increased my interest in the game when it releases at the end of November 2026.

And on that note, I recommend you try the demo for yourself now. Ignore the title: you won’t be selling biscuits or helping old ladies across the street in this. On the contrary, you’ll be pumping them with hallucinogenic energy drinks, telling them about your shaved scrotum, or simply telling them to fuck off.

I’ve subsequently added the previous games to my cart and will be diving into Brownie’s adventures once the other reviews are up-to-date.