Wimp: Who Stole My Pants? (v2015.06.08)

A stolen pair of pants sends a cheerful little blob through a dreamlike platforming adventure that is far stranger and more demanding than its cute setup suggests. Wimp: Who Stole My Pants? is a colorful indie puzzle-platformer built around chasing a ridiculous thief across distinct fantasy worlds. Its playful animations and soft, friendly presentation keep the mood light, but the levels steadily become serious tests of timing, observation, and movement control. The story is deliberately simple, leaving the focus on Wimp’s journey through imaginative environments packed with hazards and secrets.

Each stage asks you to guide Wimp through traps, moving platforms, environmental puzzles, and precision jumps while learning a growing set of traversal abilities. Early levels teach straightforward running and jumping, then introduce air control, wall-jumps, double jumps, surface-clinging, and teleportation, with mechanics arriving gradually rather than overwhelming you at once. Physics plays an important role in how Wimp moves and interacts with obstacles, so success often comes from reading momentum and planning a route before committing to a jump. Seventy levels provide a substantial single-player campaign, while boss encounters break up the regular obstacle courses with larger, more focused challenges; controller support is also included for players who prefer analog movement.

What makes the adventure work is its willingness to keep changing the rules. Instead of stretching one idea across dozens of similar rooms, it treats new mechanics as the basis for fresh puzzles, giving each world its own identity and keeping the platforming from becoming routine. Wimp himself has an expressive, animated charm that makes repeated failures less frustrating, even when later challenges demand careful execution. Fans of games such as Super Meat Boy who want a gentler visual style and more puzzle-driven progression should find plenty to enjoy, while newcomers to platformers benefit from the accessible controls and gradual introduction of abilities.