Cricket Through the Ages: Silly Physics-Based Historical Record 🏏

Cricket Through the Ages video game

From indie team Free Lives in Cape Town of South Africa, here we have the comedy romp Cricket Through the Ages. This first launched in 2019 on mobile, but recently also hit Steam and the Nintendo Switch.

The game is very ridiculous, but a lot of good clean fun. How’s that!?

It explores (in silly fashion) cricket as it passed through the pre-historic era of caveman, the Age of Discovery, the space age, and all that other jazz. It’s most definitely 100% historically accurate.

Physics-Based Slapstick in Cricket Through the Ages (not to be taken seriously)

Funny games, eh? There are a few around. Recently we covered the highly amusing Frog Detective (2018), which has daft wit as its main comedy bone.

Cricket Through the Ages is more of a Vaudevillian time of it.

The idea is to master the art of cricket (through the ages) even though the game presented on screen doesn’t really look much like cricket. Especially as the game (the video game, not the cricket game) starts out with humans bowling against dinosaurs.

It’s all physics-based, so you make gestures and swing bats and throw balls and watch as the characters flop about the place in amusing fashion.

You have one button to control all of these actions.

There are nine game modes to choose from, too. And the emphasis is very much on absurd fun (if you follow this blog often, you might notice that’s something we’re rather fond of).

So, yeah, you can be the bowler. Or the batsman. Either way, there’s comical slapstick violence around each element.

And players are kind of presented with various epochs of time and how cricket did (but didn’t) fit into such eras.

As cricket in the early days was a lethal sport, didn’t you know? Especially when you’re up against a T. Rex (making this something of a Creationist’s dream video game).

It’s ridiculous. It makes no excuses for being ridiculous. It goes out of its way to up the ridiculousness ante.

But the triumph of the game is its accessibility, complemented by providing straightforward fun, all in small doses, and at a rapid pace.

The floppy characters are comical, stupid, and promote a giggle or two. We can imagine kids absolutely loving the game, as even when characters are getting beheaded in the name of your bowling actions it’s all in the spirit

Keep in mind, though, this is a mobile game.

In the sense its design is meant for use on a smartphone, but its arrival on consoles and Steam is padded out with new stuff. Some sports that aren’t cricket, but a little extra to the OFFENSIVE nature of the THUNDEROUS price tag… the game is a fiver… THE NERVE!