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Misadventures of Chuckles playtest
by Shroom Interactive Private Limited
Misadventures of Chuckles is a top-down action-adventure RPG featuring a unique Laughter–Anger–Sadness emotion-based combat system. Players explore a hand-drawn world, utilizing tactical emotional combat to solve puzzles, recruit companions, and restore balance to a falling world.
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- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Aug 11, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Shroom Interactive Private Limited
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
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About Misadventures of Chuckles
Misadventures of Chuckles is a semi-linear top-down action-adventure RPG where your emotions are your weapons. Master a Laughter–Anger–Sadness combat triangle where every emotion counters another, and every fight is a puzzle about which version of yourself to bring to it.
Feelings run the world in Harmonia. Literally.
In a land where every town runs on a different emotion, Chuckles just wants a quiet life and a protein shake. Instead, the ley-lines that keep Harmonia's emotions in balance are failing and the resulting the Emotional Bleed is dragging Anger, Sadness, and worse into places they were never meant to be. Somewhere between avoiding responsibility and accidentally becoming the only person who can fix any of this, Chuckles takes on the Misadventure to overcome the menace responsible for this.
Fight with Emotions
Laughter beats Anger. Anger beats Sadness. Sadness beats Laughter. Master all three emotional states and read every enemy, boss, and puzzle through the lens of what beats what - combat here is as much about emotional literacy as it is about reflexes.
A World Held Together by Ley-Lines (and Falling Apart Without Them)
Explore four distinct towns, each built around a different emotion, and watch what happens when the infrastructure connecting them starts to fail. Emotional Bleed means the enemies you meet are never quite where they're supposed to be.
Recruit Memorable Companions
Recruit Companions, each essential in Chuckles journey. Every companion opens up new ways to fight, craft, and explore.
Boss Fight Rollercoaster
Every boss in Harmonia has a flavour that complicates the fight. Nothing here is evil just because the plot needs it to be.
A Living, Hand Drawn World
Beautifully animated 2D characters inhabit a fully realized 3D world, brought to life with a striking painterly perspective that makes every town in Harmonia feel like a place worth saving.
Ready to Feel Everything?
Harmonia is breaking, and somebody has to hold it together - Are you the one? Grab your laugh, your temper, and your tears, and get ready to find out what Chuckles is really made of.
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