Portrait Of An Obsession — Play Free Online

Portrait Of An Obsession is a point-and-click adventure, and it is a very different kind of visit from the rest of Doodle Jump's catalogue. There is no jumping, no score and no clock. You move through eerie, Japanese-themed locations, look closely at what is in each room, and work out what the place is hiding.

A session is slow and observant. You explore a room, pick up the items you find, and work out where they belong. Progress comes from noticing details rather than from reflexes, so it suits a quiet ten or twenty minutes when you want something moodier than a jumper or a runner. It runs in the browser with nothing to install.

How to play

On a computer, use the arrow keys or WASD to move and the mouse to aim and select. On a phone, tap and swipe instead. The mouse or your finger does most of the work: point at something in the scene, click or tap to examine or collect it, and use what you are carrying where it makes sense.

The aim is to investigate. Collect items, solve the puzzles that block your way, and uncover the secrets the locations hold. The game is listed on Poki, where it is described the same way.

Tips

• Check every part of a room before you move on, including the corners and the edges of the screen. Adventure games like this tend to tuck important objects into places that are easy to overlook.
• If you are stuck, go back to areas you have already seen. An item you picked up later often unlocks something you could not do earlier.
• Play with sound on and in fullscreen. The atmosphere is a large part of the experience, and a bigger view makes small details easier to spot.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Nothing else here plays quite like it, but the nearest in spirit are the puzzle-minded picks. Fireboy and Watergirl is also about working out how to get past obstacles, though it adds cooperative platforming. Ovo 2 and OvO game are precise platformers where the challenge is timing, not investigation. Doodle Jump itself, the site's headline game, is the opposite pace: constant motion and a rising score.