Linear RPG

Why does his mother even know that?

Linear RPG is an Adobe Flash game by Sophie Houlden that reduces linear "role-playing" games to their simplest components.

It can be played here.

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Linear RPG contains examples of:

• All Just a Dream — A wet dream to be precise...
• Big Bad — the Alphabetti Spaghetti
• The Chosen One — Kliche
• Contemplate Our Navels — One example: "Kliche considers the fact that destiny and fate are really the same thing, but perhaps the old man was referring to a deeper truth in the causality of the universe and the phenomena that make up his life..."
• Cool Horse — The pegacorn, so cool that Chuck Norris has like eight of them.
• Doomed Hometown
• Emergency Transformation — The pegacorn transforms into Bruce Lee mode.
• Excuse Plot — You don't even have to read the plot to complete the game.
• Good Morning, Crono — As seen in the page image.
• Level Grinding: ... No, seriously.
• Meaningful Name — Lots
• No Ending
• One-Winged Angel — the later forms of the Alphabetti Spaghetti
• Running Gag — Kliche always wakes up feeling wet.
• Sdrawkcab Name — Tseret Nievol
• Stuffed Into the Fridge — Kliche's first girlfriend.
• Treacherous Advisor — The Alphabetti Spaghetti.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change — A stealth minigame