Pretty Bird Games

Retro adventures,
drawn from real life.

Pretty Bird Games makes Sierra-style point-and-click adventures in an authentic 16-color palette — built from one man's real high school and college years in Ohio.

College Quest cover art — a student with a backpack walking toward the campus store
NEWEST RELEASE · POINT-AND-CLICK ADVENTURE

COLLEGE QUEST

A retro-style point-and-click adventure inspired by the golden age of Sierra. Set between 1994 and 1998 at the Creative College of Art & Design, you play as Tony, a new art student navigating the strange, unpredictable — and sometimes unsettling — reality of college life.

Your mission seems straightforward: complete your projects, earn A's, and graduate. But nothing at this college is quite what it seems. Survive art school the broke-student way — donate blood for art-supply money, keep your energy up at the cafeteria, and don't overdo either.

  • Classic Sierra-style point-and-click gameplay
  • 128 hand-drawn screens and 63 characters — three times the size of School Quest
  • A large, interconnected campus — labs, dorms, studios, and hidden locations
  • Multiple art projects, each with unique solutions
  • Multiple endings based on your final grades
  • Original chiptune soundtrack
  • Dark humor with mysterious undertones
  • Authentic retro graphics in a custom Apple II / Commodore 64 palette
  • Sierra-style hint book available, just like the old days

$9.99

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School Quest cover art
POINT-AND-CLICK ADVENTURE · ALSO ON STEAM

SCHOOL QUEST

Welcome to East Geauga High School, where the bullies are brutal, the teachers are bizarre, and the principal can sniff out a missing hall pass from across the building. You play Anthony, a wisecracking teen just trying to survive puberty and prom — until his best friend Erik vanishes without a trace.

It's Leisure Suit Larry meets Space Quest, meets your worst yearbook photo.

  • Devious puzzles and hilarious deaths galore
  • Dozens of hand-drawn rooms packed with weirdness
  • Flirt awkwardly, dodge bullies, and evade detention
  • Uncover the plot threatening all of East Geauga High
  • 50 hand-drawn screens
  • Sierra-style hint book available, just like the old days
  • Windows, Mac, and Linux

$4.99

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No adult content — just some gay school romance, plus a little '80s/'90s language.

ABOUT THE STUDIO

Pretty Bird Games is the one-man studio of Anthony Anselmo, a game creator from the Columbus, Ohio area. His adventures are built the old way — hand-drawn rooms, a strict 16-color palette inspired by the Apple II and Commodore 64, and stories pulled from his own life: high school in the 1980s, art college in the 1990s.

That palette has a name: AppleDore — the Apple II and Commodore 64 palettes combined, drawn by a color-blind artist who leans into the bright, chromatic colors of the era. And the places are real: to rebuild his college campus as it stood in the '90s, Anthony retraced it through old Google Street View imagery, school photo archives, and an alumni tour of the campus itself.

More from the studio on itch.io: Mega Max (a platformer as if Mega Man started on the Commodore 64) and Walking Stick (an Apple IIe adventure) — both free to play in your browser. A new adventure is in development now.