Knytt: Save the Alien!

Free is good. Games are good. Free games should be a no brainer then, but you often get what you pay for with regards to shareware and freeware. Knytt, however, is an awesome exception to the rule. It provides some outstanding free gaming goodness.

In this Windows game, you are a tiny, cute alien who has had a turn for the worse. Abducted by a UFO, you then crash on a foreign planet. To get off the planet, you run around hunting down parts for the UFO.

The platform gameplay is simple yet challenging. You've got some thinking to do to find the parts, and some nimble jumping to do to get to them. Most of the time, you can make things a lot easier on yourself by thinking your way past obstacles. Graphics are clean and neat, and the code appears to be rock solid: I've yet to encounter a crash in two hours of play.

To read more and download the game, go to the developer's website: Knytt