Dropsy is lovable despite some ugliness

Dropsy is, on paper, what your grandmother has wanted more games to be more like.

As the clown in Tendershoot and A Jolly Corpse’s adventure game, you cannot fight, shoot, or even antagonize anyone. Your only action – aside from using or giving people items – is to hug with all of your goofy might. The official subtitle for Dropsy (out September 10 for PC, Mac, Linux, and both iOS and Android) is “A Point and Click Hugventure,” after all. Unfortunately for grandam, the world around Dropsy is a depressed swamp of apathy, cynicism, and the occasional surreal nightmare. I took the PC version for a spin to determine whether or not Dropsy would earn a hug from this jaded reviewer.