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Can't find the bloody thing.

It's just a line, black on white, segmented by round checkpoints. The line does a little angle at the checkpoints, but that's purely a visual thing. You can move left or right on it, that's all the possible inputs. You got HP and XP and levels. Totally automatic "random encounter" battles occur. There is no actual battle. When you run into a random encounter, the only thing that happens is that your XP gets higher, and your HP gets lower; there's not even an animation, just the XP and HP bars on screen change randomly.

The strategy of the game is to "grind" around the checkpoints, by moving left and right across them repeatedly, until you have leveled up enough to be able to make it to the next checkpoint.

It's some (J)RPG parody, making fun of the exponential XP grind mechanics of those games. I cannot remember what it's called and I'd like to show it to someone.

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[–] trompete@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

OK I found it, it's called "The Linear RPG" by Sophie Houlden. It's a Flash game and I managed to run the Windows version through wine.