Little Wheel is a short Point and Click puzzle browser game by One Click Dog, where you play the last living robot.
10,000 years after an accident at the main power generator that causes the world of robots to become lifeless, a bolt of lightning strikes patrol tower no. 2, repowering it and the one robot present there. Realising it's the only one alive, it sets off to restore power and life to the world.
The game was released on June 11th, 2009.
Little Wheel contains examples of:
- Achilles' Power Cord: To get past a security robot and to the main generator, all you have to do is disconnect the cord right behind the robot to deactivate and send it plummeting off the platform.
- Aside Glance: When the protagonist drops itself in mid-air from the one-eyed self-propelled robot that was helping the former fly, it looks to the side at the camera in confusion.
- Construction Vehicle Rampage: The protagonist lifts a segment of the broken train with the claw of a wheeled construction crane to swing it at a hill of debris and clear a path.
- Cute Machines: All the robots are rounded rectangular silhouettes with claw arms, wheeled legs, and white circular eyes, most of asymmetrical size.
- Cyber Cyclops: Downplayed. There are one-eyed robots among others in this world of living robots, but none appear to be malicious. A small one-eyed robot helps the protagonist fly to the main generator. There is a larger security robot with one larger eye (between two smaller lights) that punches the protagonist right after being reactivated, but it's likely just doing its job.
- Eye Lights Out: All light is depicted as white, both from robot eyes and other pieces of technology. When the power to the world is cut, all lights go out. The robots fall into a deep sleep as their eyes become dim.
- Famed In-Story: After the protagonist restores power to all the robots, they celebrate it as a hero. The ending screen has them joyously crowding around the waving robot and a statue of its likeness that holds a lightning-shaped arrow to symbolise its role at restoring power to the world.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: The protagonist robot comes back to life after the whole world of living robots is cut from their power source because a lightning bolt strikes its patrol tower.
- Mechanical Lifeforms: Implied, as the world is apparently solely inhabited by robots. Their lifeforce as a whole is connected to a main generator.
- Robbing the Dead: A coin is taken from a depowered robot's hand to use the elevator.
- Track Trouble: There is a large gap in the rail that the train hangs from, causing it to fall to the ground, forcing the protagonist to proceed on foot (or, on wheel).
