App Army Assemble: Woolly Boy and the Circus - "Is this point-and-click adventure as fun as a trip to the circus?"

Woolly Boy and the Circus is a recently released point-and-click adventure about the titular boy and his dog trying to escape the big top. These types of games have proven popular with our App Army before, making them the perfect judges of whether or not it's worth your time.

Here's what they said:

Jason Rosner

Woolly Boy and the Circus is a new point-and-click adventure where you take on the role of Woolly and his dog Ball trying to escape the circus where they have become imprisoned. Along the way, you’ll meet and help numerous characters that all add up to a rather emotional narrative. The challenges presented here like most point-and-clicks can become rather difficult, yet with some patience and perseverance can be overcome.

I was immediately taken aback by the sights and sounds of Woolly Boy and the Circus, and quite possibly, it just might be some of the best I’ve seen this year. The beautifully hand-drawn colorful animated graphics seem to almost pop out at each scene like those from the pages of a fantastical children’s book. All while the playful circus sounds really help bring this adventure to life. With the ability to switch between both characters and the inclusion of dozens of various arcade-like minigames, this added depth and variety was a nice addition to the overall gameplay.

Oksana Ryan

This is the kind of puzzler that I really enjoy. Woolly is kidnapped by his friend and finds himself alone in a crate. The aim of the game is to find your way to his friend while meeting other creatures and robots and keeping away from danger. There are lots of puzzles to solve from finding items to moving objects to searching for codes. The graphics are cute and fun, the controls are easy to master, and you don’t need the sound so I turned it off. If you want to spend a few hours lost in a twisty story and plenty to think about, then this is the game for you.

Mark Abukoff

A visually appealing hand-drawn point-and-click puzzler + mini-games. Cute story, interesting characters, and challenging puzzles. It gets more interesting when you swap characters to complete the puzzles. I’ve always enjoyed that feature in games. Some puzzles are more challenging than others, and sometimes I found that you had to leave a room and go back to see what you needed to do or for a puzzle to work, but once you accept that, it seems to work pretty well. Overall, a fun game that’s challenging and fun with appealing graphics.

Bruno Ramalho

Nice little gem of a game we got here, especially for point-and-click adventures and puzzle enthusiasts. The entrance to the game is brilliant, presented as a little theatre with puppets in several acts, where we see our heroes being kidnapped by a strange character and sent to be displayed in a circus. The game starts very simple, which is great for people who never played either genre, puzzle or point-and-click, and where you slowly start to understand how everything works, mechanic-wise, and also to see where Wooly got himself into. 

From here starts our adventure to try and find our little dog friend, and until we find him there are a lot of puzzles to solve, some easier than others. And when we finally find the dog, the game gains another dynamic, one where you can switch between the boy or the dog, and each one of them will be able to do specific tasks and help each other so they can move forward, help various characters around circus town, and finally escape.

The graphics and design are awesome, the game is very colourful and there's eye candy everywhere you look. Sometimes you need to walk with your character everywhere on screen because some objects may be a little bit out of sight, so you need to be aware of when that little hand or cog icon comes up, so you know that there's some object to pickup or some action to be taken. I really love the amount of puzzles and mini-games that there are for us to play, most of them quite engaging and fun. You can take a while to go through this game, or just a few hours if you are a veteran in this kind of setting. I'm halfway through the game, I'm guessing, and I'm really loving every little bit of time with it. A keeper for sure.

Robert Maines

Woolly Boy and the Circus is a charming point-and-click adventure. Woolly and his dog are trapped by a stranger and his remote control robot. Waking up in a cage Woolly must work out how to escape and find his dog. It’s a fairly standard point-and-click adventure. You find and use objects to progress, solve puzzles and mini-games to play. The puzzles are usually straight forward but I was stumped a few times. The graphics look hand-drawn and the sound is sparse but does the job. It’s not a long game but you’ll have fun while it lasts.

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