Game Pile: The Universe Is Toast!
You might think that I have said everything there is to say about Commander Keen. After all, I wrote a series of articles about it, then I wound up making a video that only bothers me a massive amount because I left a whole audio track muted and in the process left the game music completely silent, gosh dangit. That video covers the first trilogy of Keen games, then the second duology and the two standalones. That is after all all the Keen games that exist, right?
Well, sort of and also no.
Commander Keen was something a lot of folk liked as kids and a lot of that liking as kids meant that it became a hobby as an adult. Some of us speedrun it, some of us write lengthy video essays, some write fanfiction and some of us, some of us, worked out how to break the game open and mod whole episodes of the game into existence.
Now, before I proceed, this is a free mod. This is the indie-est of indie projects, and you might imagine this means I’m going to be super gentle about something or other. Do not worry about that. This free mod for a commercial set of games has its roughness, but it is a game I think worth considering in its own right.
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