Most people would probably be familiar with developer Cotton Game by way of their surreal adventure game series Isoland, which has received several entries on mobile over the past handful of years. But what you may or may not be aware of is that the developer has achieved a similar cult-like success with another point-and-click adventure game they released nearly half a decade ago called Mr. Pumpkin Adventure. Like the Isoland games, Mr. Pumpkin featured their signature brand of art as well as an abundance of irreverence, humor, and challenging puzzles to solve. Well, after quite a few years and plenty of fan demand, a sequel to Mr. Pumpkin was created and it’s just about to hit the iOS and Android platforms.
The sequel is called Mr. Pumpkin 2: Walls of Kowloon, and like Isoland 2 the mobile version is being published by the good folks at Lilith Games, who themselves are renowned for developing their own hit game Abi: A Robot’s Tale. As the subtitle says, this is a game that takes place in Kowloon Walled City, which was an actual city in Hong Kong. It has one of the most tumultuous histories I’ve ever heard, and it’s really worth digging into and learning more about Kowloon Walled City as I personally find everything about it fascinating.
The super duper short version of that history is that following World War II, no government entity really wanted to be responsible for Kowloon Walled City so they sort of left the residents there to their own dev...