Draw a Stickman: EPIC & EPIC 2

My first hour with this double-pack was spent drawing the most absurd stickman I could manage with a controller, and that says everything about who this game is actually for. Draw a Stickman: EPIC and its sequel are light adventure-puzzlers where the central hook is literal: you draw things, and those things do stuff in the world. Scribble a fire pencil stroke to burn down a wooden fence, sketch a rain cloud to coax plants back to life, draw a key to unlock a colour-coded door. The first game establishes the formula in a compact storybook setting. The sequel expands on it with a richer narrative, collecting colour buddies that expand your palette, unlocking new pencil types, and chasing puzzle pieces scattered across eight bite-sized chapters. The sequel's story follows a classic ink-corruption plot: you draw a friend, dark ink possesses them, and you spend the game chasing that corrupted pal through torn-up storybook pages while cleaning up the mess left behind. It is thin as narratives go, but it gives the level design a reason to keep shifting environments and introducing new enemy types, including ink-out goblins, tongue-lashing frogs, and fire-breathing boss fights that require a bit of lateral thinking with your pencil tools. There is also the Drawn Below expansion bundled in with EPIC 2, which flips the structure into something closer to a Metroidvania loop, stripping your pencil abilities and asking you to win them back room by room. Here is where honest expectations matter. The puzzles are designed for a younger audience, and the difficulty never climbs very high. Enemies are easy to manage, levels are short, and some of the drawing mechanics feel imprecise when you are working with a controller rather than a touchscreen. The audio is background wallpaper at best. Adults playing solo will likely roll through the main campaign of each game in a single sitting. The replay hook comes from collectible heart pieces (which expand your health bar), colour buddies that unlock new drawing shades, and the backtracking those collectibles encourage once later-level pencils open previously blocked paths. What both games do genuinely well is the feeling of your own scrawl mattering. Drawing your stickman at the start, then watching that specific wobbly silhouette run around and interact with the world, has a charm that holds up across both entries. It is the same appeal that made Scribblenauts or Drawn to Life click for people, and Hitcents pulls it off with enough polish that the concept never feels like a gimmick. The hand-drawn art style suits the storybook theme well, even if the environments occasionally repeat their visual ideas. If you have kids who like to doodle and want something gentle and creative, this bundle lands well. If you are an adult hunting for a challenging puzzle game, the depth simply is not there. Go in knowing what it is: a short, cheerful, creativity-first adventure that earns its Very Positive rating from the audience it was actually made for.

Alex · Scout Team

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