Terminal City was made in a week as part of PowerJam3, and is described by its developer as, "What if you took 80s adventure games like Space Quest, crossed them with auto-runners like Canabalt, and threw in a dash of Another World?"
In the game, you play as a street kid named V-Loc who must escape the Syndicate corpos and rescue his friends, with the twist being that you can't control where the character moves on the screen, only the speed of the character and what they do when they arrive in a particular area. This inevitably means there's no ability to backtrack at any point and that if you should miss an important inventory item or interactable object, then you'll likely end up hitting an instant death later on and will have to start again from the very beginning.
It's a game that rewards problem-solving, situational awareness, and speed, and best of all, is available now completely for free.
Feel your adventure gaming skills are up to the test? You can download the game now from itch.io.
