Waiting for Franklin

A Point and Click Adventure into the Cold Void

Trapped in the Arctic ice. Abandoned by time. Forgotten by history.

Waiting for Franklin is a surreal, atmospheric point-and-click adventure inspired by the doomed Franklin Expedition, with a homage to Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.

You play as Armitage, stranded aboard a frozen ship in an endless white wasteland. The days blur together as they wait for orders that will never come, for a captain who is long dead, and for a rescue that will nevar arrive.

Each interaction is steeped in bleak humor, quiet horror, and creeping inevitability. Perform mundane, meaningless tasks. Watch as the ice tightens its grip. Speak to the dead.

Perhaps today will be different.

Perhaps not.

Features

• A Frozen World – Explore a single, haunting scene aboard the ice-locked ship.
• Existential Dialogue – A narrative-driven experience inspired by Waiting for Godot.
• Unsettling Encounters – Ghosts, madness, and the endless white void.
• Time Passes, Nothing Changes – But what if it does?

The ice does not break. The ship does not move. And still, you wait.

The Characters

• Thomas Armitage (died c. 1849) – A Gunroom Steward aboard HMS Terror.
• Henry Peter Peglar (1812 – c. 1849) – A Petty Officer aboard HMS Terror.
• Henry Duncan Spens Goodsir (1819 – c. 1848) – An Assistant Surgeon aboard HMS Erebus.
• William Braine (1814 – 1846) – A Private, Royal Marines aboard HMS Erebus.
• George Chambers (1827 – c. 1849) – A Ship's Boy aboard HMS Erebus.

Sources

• Franklin's Lost Expedition
• Waiting for Godot
• HMS Terror (1813)
• Harry Peglar
• Harry Goodsir
• William Braine
  

Disclaimer

 This game is made with a closed sourced game engine called Visionaire Studio 5