Duendes in New Year 1.0

Warning: You need to have a special piece of software to run this game. You can find the special software right here. Then, you'll need to follow the instructions in the review to play the game.

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. One creator that stood out for their high production quality is Esklavos. Let's look at an entry in one of their many series, Duendes in Christmas.

To play Duendes in Christmas, you have to unzip all the files into the folder you extracted the FPSoftware files to. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

This is a short miniseries that revolves around gnomes - Duendes is Spanish for gnome, after all. In this particular game, you have to help the elves prepare the house for the New Year party.

As this is a miniseries that was created in their free time, the production quality can definitely be noticeably low. However, Esklavos has always had beautiful environments even in some of their lowest budget games and this game is still absolutely beautiful.

All in all, Duendes in Christmas is a fantastic entry into Esklavos's game library and really shows that even when they don't spend that much time on something, they can still create something beautiful yet still fun to play.