Crushed in Time brings Holmes and Watson back in this spin-off of There is No Game

• Crushed in Time is the new spin-off of There is No Game
• Draw me a Pixel bring back Holmes and Watson for a wacky new adventure
• Solve a point-and-click puzzler that'll take you to different stages of a game's development

If you're a longtime reader, you'll probably remember that we covered the comedic point-and-click adventure There is No Game back in the day. Most recently, it popped up as an Epic Games Store freebie, and now, we can look forward to a new spin-off in the form of Crushed in Time!

It's hard to describe the works of developer Draw Me a Pixel since, as Stephen put it, we're dealing with 'quirkiness of the highest order'. But Crushed in Time looks to offer a slightly more straightforward approach, or at the very least less mind-bending than playing a game which isn't technically a game-

Anyway, Crushed in Time sees the return of Holmes and Watson, who briefly appeared in one of the segments of There is No Game. This time around, the two are investigating nothing short of the development of their entire release, jumping around different stages in development.

Crunch time

What's your objective? Find a missing character from the recently launched game to restore things to how they should be. Although given this is Draw me a Pixel, I doubt it'll be as straightforward as that, but no less fun because of it.

Crushed in Time boasts the same point-and-click adventure gameplay as the original There is No Game. But rather than being your typical 'draw things from your inventory and use the rubber chicken with the pulley', you'll instead be discovering new interactivity of different objects and solving puzzles more intuitively.

Set to arrive in 2026 on mobile and PC, Crushed in Time is doubtlessly going to be as wacky as the original, if not equally mindbending.

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