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Info About The Visitor
I first stumbled on The Visitor back when Flash was still a big deal online and remember feeling an odd mix of fascination and mild disgust as I clicked through its simple scenes. You start with this tiny slug-like alien stranded in a desert at night, and your only real power is the ability to absorb creatures around you. With each gulp, the thing grows, drips goo, and eventually sprouts new limbs or eyes—an oddly mesmerizing evolutionary horror show. The animation is jagged and almost amateurish, but that raw aesthetic is exactly what makes it stick in your brain.
Gameplay boils down to pointing and clicking on various critters or objects in the environment: coyotes scavenging bones, frogs hopping near a puddle, even a hapless homesteader who wanders by. When you click, you see the alien lunge, tear, and devour—sometimes bursting into a gooey cloud that reforms into something more monstrous. It all happens in just a few quick scenes per episode, and there’s no dialogue or text guiding you. You learn by watching what happens when you click different spots, and that DIY feeling of discovery is a big part of the charm.
The sound design is just as spare: squelches, chomps, occasional distant animal calls, and muted groans. It’s almost all mechanical bliss, with no music to soften the edges. By the time you reach the more elaborate versions of the creature—one stage has it ripped off someone’s porch and squirming over a campsite—you’re kind of horrified but can’t look away. It’s got that perfect Flash-era creep factor that manages to be both ridiculous and unsettling.
Even now, long after most browsers dropped Flash support, The Visitor holds up as a little piece of internet history. You can still find it hosted in archives that emulate old Flash players, and people who grew up on Newgrounds often bring it up when they talk about the wild, experimental games of the early 2000s. It’s short, it’s gory, it’s unapologetically lo-fi—and for a lot of us, it’s one of those tiny cultural landmarks you never quite forget.
The Visitor
The visitor is a puzzle game in which you need to cause a series of events to make things work. Find clickable objects and click on them.