10 Gnomes 1: The Rooftop 1.0

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Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. Mateusz Skutnik is one of the best creators of the genre. He's known for his Submachine series, but he's created a lot of other series as well. 10 Gnomes is one of them. Let's look at 10 Gnomes 1: The Rooftop.

To play 10 Gnomes 1: The Rooftop, just run it with whatever SWF player you have.

The first thing you'll notice is the distinct look of the game. It's a photograph of a certain city's rooftops. I thought at first that it was hand drawn because of Skutnik's other artistic works, but that illusion quickly faded when I found my first gnome. The gnomes stand out in terms of how hilariously simply drawn they're drawn and you'll notice them as soon as you see them.

Gameplay's simple - you click to zoom in on certain areas and try to find the 10 gnomes in the time you're given. My only gripe is how the gnomes aren't visible at all while zoomed out - they just pop into existence when you zoom in, which makes everything feel more like luck than anything else.

If you're a veteran of point and click games, you should definitely give 10 Gnomes 1: The Rooftop a try.