Escaping the Prison

Escaping the Prison is the second Henry Stickmin game, made by PuffballsUnited in 2011. It picks up right after Breaking the Bank: Henry got caught, and now he is sitting in a prison cell. Then a friend sends him a cake, and hidden inside it are a few tools. Which one you pick decides how the breakout goes.

There is no walking around or fighting here. The whole game is a series of choices. Each time, a few options pop up on screen and you click one. Some work, but most go hilariously wrong. Henry might file through the window bars and fall to his death, or use the teleporter and land in the middle of a police shooting range. Every bad pick ends with a big FAIL screen and a short joke scene, and then you go straight back to that choice to try another one. Getting the fails is half the fun, so it's worth clicking everything at least once.

The right picks lead to one of three endings. You can sneak out quietly, smash your way out with the drill, or just call a lawyer from the cellphone and see how that goes. A full run only takes a few minutes, which makes it easy to finish between classes and then come back for the endings you missed. If you liked it, Henry's story keeps going in Fleeing the Complex, the most popular game in the series.