There's Nothing To Do In This Town
GAME CONTROLS:
ARROW KEYS: MOVEMENT
Z/J: ACTION
There's Nothing To Do In This Town is a short RPG for the original Nintendo Game Boy set in a dystopian present featuring music snobs, zombies, and alcoholic parents.
Available either as a Game Boy ROM for you to download to play on an emulator or flash cartridge, or here in your browser as an HTML5 game. Works pretty well in most phone browsers too.
You can play it through in under an hour.
Inspired by my crushing depression and written during the 2020 lockdown (but before the 2020 zombie apocalypse).
Written by, and including two original chiptune pieces by donotrunwithpixels, aka Simeon Smith.
Created thanks to beautiful open tools such as GBstudio and Milkytracker.
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Development log
- Community Updates!Dec 06, 2021
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Aw man, I had recruited Joe and Bec and was all the way up to the Godsmen's Foundry and accidentally refreshed the browser losing all progress!
Does anyone have any saves from around there?
No spoilers please!
This game is cozy.
thanks!!
wow тут пиксельными
Just got 100 quid from bin obsession. Wow. I have no life.
lovely game, never useless, good music and finally thank for the retro gaming style. Not remember old gameboy games but somethink totally new for me, thanks you for the pleasant moment.
The pixel graphics are lovely, and the nods to early 2000s grunge culture gave me a warm sense of nostalgia. The music totally got stuck in my head, and I've been listening to the album on Bandcamp on loop for the past few days. Thank you for this treasure! I would have felt like the coolest person on the planet if I'd played this on Game Boy as a kid.
Thanks so much for your kind words!
nice
I love u so much
Love the RATM shop, haha! But now I'm left wondering what life in This Town would be like if I'd saved up enough to get a skateboard... Anyway, this is a fun game for a lunch break!
Thanks for playing! Lunch breaks are precious.
Wow, it was unexpectebly cool to try this out! Enjoyed this game pretty much.
I got all the achievements! Its so funny how i though there wasn't anything going on with this game but there was! Yay for zombie slayers!
Are you telling me that I spent like 30 minutes exploring every possibility but there is really nothing to do? You got me good.
Haha this was so fun!! I love it!
Love the simple but fun storyline. Dan’s hipster snobbiness killed me lolol
hahaha I liked this! :D
I also love the Bri'ish talk m8
Nice one, Guv! 'Appy to oblige!
How to Install it on Mobile?
Just open it in your browser on your phone. It should work in most browsers.
So I can go to a coffee shop, a skateboard store, AND a record store? No, there is definitely a lot to do in this town.
I loved this game! ^^
Shh! Don't tell people there's a lot to do in this town! They'll arrive en mass with their avocado toast, and vanilla lattes and before you know it they'll have gentrified the shit out of the place!
...glad you enjoyed the game tho! :D
Short and sweet. A neat game with zombies, quid and cats.
I feel bad for talking to the kid on the bike. I just want to be their friend, but they're apparently afraid of the main character. Anyway, this game is pretty neat. Thank you creators for sharing this with us.
Sorry for traumatising y'all! It made you feel emotions, tho, right?
no developer you're wrong, that must be something to do, even the town in a silent atmoshphere, that must be something to do. ( btw im enoying the vibe, thx dude >//<)
NOPE. Nothing at all to do 🤣. Thanks for your comments. Big love!!
its not workiing
Sorry to hear that. Have you tried on Chrome? Or if you're talking about the ROM, try a different emulator?
i will try on chrome thanks
i still cant seem to get past the first scene i cant walk
Thanks for trying again, not sure what this could be, sorry.
I thought mine was stuck at first too, but all I had to do was tap Z on my keyboard. Can't walk until you do that.
Thanks! I think it's the browser build of GBStudio games that I used for this version. Glad people have worked it out @D
Pretty cool dude it's vibing with those GB graphics and a good storyline and quest.
Awesome! I like the gayness.
Awesome game, love the style :) Tia and Bec are so cute
i love this game!
Short and sweet game!
Also Rage against the machine is one of my fav bands!
Short and very enjoyable :)
And also I like when games let me search through rubbish 10/10
I thought I could buy the skateboard
made an account to make a comment for this lol it was cute, short and fun! Also loved lesbian zombie hunters!!
Thanks so much! :D
Really enjoyed it.
Thanks!!!
Neat little game. Great classic GB graphics (actually, better than most classic GB graphics) and a number of memorable characters. Thanks!
glad you enjoyed!! :)
wow i loved it
Such cool game, and I gotta say it's so pleasing be able to play it on my phone without any download. It really made it feel I was playing on Gameboy again .
I really like this short cute game. Since there really isn't much to do in this town, it really is quite simple to complete the objectives. All we had to do is literally check, pick up everything and talk to everyone multiple times. It was really fun and I'm glad I played it
is it just that road? what do i do to progress? where are the lesbians? i have many questions
I really like short game, its cute.
Thank you.
OH MY GOD YES LESBIANS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
love the game btw. music slaps. quest slaps. bullying children slaps. love it
I like it a lot, it's fun. I have some problems, but overall a good game. I really like the songs.
This is awesome. I got stuck right after I got the "find a zombie hunter" acheivement though
It brought me to this screen and I couldn't move
Sorry to hear that - it should fade out automatically back into the main map. Is anyone else having this issue? If so I can check it out?