A game by Return to Adventure Mountain for Xbox 360, originally released in 2012.
City Tuesday is a somewhat experimental title involving time travel, bomb disposal, and the humor and mundanity of a city’s hapless citizens as they go about their daily lives. The game is presented in an interesting graphical style built entirely upon infographics, those generally wordless pictographs that give directions or explain how to avoid serious injury through improper escalator usage and suchlike.
As the game begins, the player finds that time has stopped, and everyone appears to be stuck in the midst of their regular lives, mid-step on a walk through the park, frozen while tending to their daily routines, and even paused mid-fall as they slip on a wet floor. The world is presented in greyscale, while the protagonist’s shirt appears in red, and a few key interactibles are highlighted with colored icons.
Of course, while the world is stopped, the protagonist is able to move freely. Controls are limited, and the player may only move to the left and right, ascend and descend escalators, and perform a low 1x jump (which isn’t actually required for the bulk of the game). The player may also open a subway-style map that shows the general layout of the game world, with each of its single-screen environments presented as a node, and connectors showing where paths branch.
As the player moves through the paused cityscape, he eventually comes to a door that allows him access to a museum. Upon entering the door, the player informed that he has 1 minute before the bombs will go off. Time is now running normally, and the player must move from one screen to the next to collect each bomb before time runs out.
