Ebenezer and the Invisible World (2023)
A reformed Scrooge fights for London with ghosts on his side.
After Christmas morning, Scrooge has a conscience. Send him back out into the city with ghosts on his side.
You want to play it, not watch it, and you like side-scrolling action games.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Ebenezer Scrooge, after the change of heart.
Changes: the genre: a 2D side-scrolling action game in a Victorian fantasy London, in which Scrooge enlists ghosts to help him.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, after the book ends.
How much time does it ask?
A 2D action-adventure game for Windows on Steam. Developed by Orbit Studio and Play on Worlds.
Steam: “a reimagined Victorian-fantasy based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel.” Play on Worlds, 3 November 2023.
Where to find it
More Christmas Carols: The Penguin Classics edition, ed. Michael Slater (2003) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2008) · The Annotated Christmas Carol, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn (2004)