Pants Quest is a Short, Hilarious Point-and-Click Where Everything Goes Wrong

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About half way into Pants Quest, the hero collapses onto the floor in despair: nothing is going well. His pants have suddenly disappeared into the ether, he somehow doesn’t have an extra pair, and he has also misplaced his keys to the basement, where he’ll need to head to in order to retrieve a particular item. His day has already descended into an odious cesspit of pure misery—and he can’t believe the day has only just begun.

That’s the essence of Pants Quest, a point-and-click adventure game about a fully-grown, adult man who still lives his life as if he’s a young bachelor in a fraternity house. He has woken up during the early morning in the midst of a heavy downpour to head to work, which is, to be fair, arguably one of the worst conditions to drag yourself out of bed. His boxers, t-shirts, and socks are strewn across the room, his old clothes are bundled into a pile and chucked into an empty cabinet, and his kitchen probably stinks from days-old pizza, coffee, and chips. And, of course, he can’t find his only pair of pants. The one thing he can do is to cheerily declare, “I guess we’re going on a pants quest!” to you. You. Because you’re going to find his pants for him.

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As with most point-and-click games, you begin by examining everything in the house, and lumping items haphazardly together in hopes that something, somehow, will click. To fans of the genre, the game will already seem largely familiar: your means of interaction with the environment include Look, Use, Pick up, Open/Close, and a keen eye for scouring through the rooms’ pixelated mess. But rather than just focusing on finding the dude’s missing pants, you’ll