History VideoGame / ZniwAdventure

''Zniw Adventure'' ("Zniw" being pronounced like "zniff," according to the in-game encyclopedia) is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Azure Mountain and published by Azure Mountain and Kurki Games. It was released on November 6, 2020. The game is notable for its hand-drawn animation inspired by cartoons from The90s, as well as [[ShownTheirWork depicting dinosaurs to be accurate to the latest scientific discoveries]] while keeping them cartoony.

''Zniw Adventure'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Azure Mountain and published by Azure Mountain and Kurki Games. It was released on November 6, 2020. The game is notable for its hand-drawn animation inspired by cartoons from The90s, as well as [[ShownTheirWork depicting dinosaurs to be accurate to the latest scientific discoveries]] while keeping them cartoony.

The game takes place 75 million years ago, in a world of anthropomorphic dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals who have their own towns and buildings. Our protagonist is Zniw (pronounced "zniff," according to the in-game encyclopedia), a young female ornithopod of ambiguous species who lives in the town of Wajapulka. Zniw wakes up one morning to realize, in a panic, that it's her mother's hatchday, and she doesn't have a gift for her. Zniw tries to buy a beautiful bouquet of flowers at a store across the street, but another dinosaur buys it before she can. Zniw gets the idea to make a necklace out of pebbles, but due to a series of unfortunate events, she loses the first pebble she had, gets spooked by a carnivorous dino, and falls off a cliff, causing her to get lost far from home. The player must guide Zniw on a journey back to Wajapulka, during which she will meet tons of quirky characters, solve puzzles, collect items, collect shiny pebbles as a bonus sidequest, eat various plants and fungi, and more.

You can purchase it on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/904750/Zniw_Adventure/ here]]. A sequel, ''Zid Journey'' was [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/azuremountain/zid-journey successfully]] [[Website/{{Kickstarter}} Kickstarted]] and has a Steam page [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1814690/Zid_Journey/ here]], but is not currently released.

* DumbDinos: Inverted; dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles are sentient or civilized, while mammals are feral.

** "[[Music/{{Madness}} Our house in the middle of the wall]]"

* WiseOldTurtle: An elderly, anthropomorphic turtle is a friendly NPC in the Scattered Woods. She gives Zniw directions to help her find her way home, and later [[spoiler:gives Zniw a homemade "crocodile repellent," which is necessary to get past the crocodile in Rivenn-na]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:she has a turtle husband in Fungilla who lives a peaceful life as a mushroom farmer]].

* ExposedEyeballsAsEyes: Zniw has two large eyes on top of her head. Her eyes are white when seen from the back, but when seen from the front, she does have eyelids that appear when she makes certain expressions. Some other animals, such as [[spoiler:Agu the ''Stuthiomimus'']], are also designed the same way.

''Zniw Adventure'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Azure Mountain and published by Azure Mountain and Kurki Games. It was released on November 6, 2020. The game is notable for its hand-drawn animation inspired by cartoons from The90s, as well as [[ShownTheirWork its depiction of dinosaurs as accurate to the latest scientific discoveries]] while keeping them cartoony.

''Zniw Adventure'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Azure Mountain and published by Azure Mountain and Kurki Games. It was released on November 6, 2020. The game is notable for its hand-drawn animation inspired by cartoons from The90s, as well as [[ShownTheirWork depicting dinosaurs to be accurate to the latest science]] while keeping them cartoony.

''Zniw Adventure'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Azure Mountain and published by Azure Mountain and Kurki Games. It was released on November 6, 2020. The game is notable for its hand-drawn animation inspired by cartoons from The90s.

* FeatheredFiend: The ''Troodon'', [[ShownTheirWork which are accurately depicted with feathers]], are not the friendliest dinos in Rivenn-na, to say the least. Downplayed with the ''Hesperonychus'' who is very rude towards Zniw, but mainly because she woke him up during his sleep.

* FeatheredFiend: The ''Troodon'', [[ShownTheirWork which are accurately depicted with feathers]], are not the friendliest dinos in Rivenn-na, to say the least.

* BigSisterBully: Downplayed. Zniw has a younger brother named Zid and an unnamed sister who is older than Zid, and might also be older than Zniw. Zniw's sister smugly shows off the fancy present she got their mother: an expensive-looking necklace. This makes Zid and Zniw feel bad because Zid only did a crayon drawing that is hardly impressive in comparison, while Zniw forgot to get a present entirely. Zniw's sister doesn't technically do anything too harsh, but her expressions make it clear that she's very haughty, and she enjoys being superior to her siblings.

* CrappyHomemadeGift: Invoked. In the opening cutscene, Zniw's little brother Zid shows off a crayon drawing he made of him and his mother, as his gift for his mother's hatchday. Zniw's older sister smugly shows off ''her'' gift, a fancy golden necklace, bringing Zid to tears. We never see how Zniw's mother reacts to these gifts, though.

* BigSisterBully: Downplayed. Zniw has a younger brother named Zid and an unnamed sister who is older than Zid, and might also be older than Zniw. Zniw's sister smugly shows off the fancy present she got their mother: an expensive-looking necklace. This makes Zid and Zniw feel bad because Zid only did a crayon drawing that is hardly impressive in comparison, while Zniw forgot to get a present entirely. Zniw's sister's expressions make it clear that she enjoys holding herself above her siblings.