3 Geeks

3 Geeks is a humorous point-and-click adventure about three friends who return to Earth after escaping a nuclear apocalypse. You control Rodolphe Wallace, a 30-year-old unemployed inventor, Cyprien Karanoff, a neurotic neat-freak, and Luc Vega, a bipolar, impulsive geek with only four seconds of active memory.

Story

The three are locked in a madhouse for a year before hiding aboard a space shuttle. It sends them into orbit around Earth, away from a nuclear apocalypse caused by Nathanael, who seeks revenge for his goat’s death from human pollution. Five years later, the shuttle returns automatically and leaves them in a desert near Ragoon City, a partially irradiated post-nuclear town. Their adventure begins there.

Puzzles and chapters

You solve puzzles with the help of a notebook that tracks your objectives. The game has four chapters and at least six hours of gameplay, depending on your experience with point-and-click adventures. Its interface lets you save at any time and configure game options.

Characters and style

The three playable characters have distinct personalities: Rodolphe is pretentious, grumpy and unemployed; Cyprien is a neurotic, germophobic chemist with tics; and Luc is impulsive and has only four seconds of active memory. The game uses cartoon-style graphics and includes references to French cultural works and cult comedies. It was originally made in French, and its English translation may contain errors or jokes that are difficult to understand without French.