Sat. Apr 27th, 2024


The Banshees of Inisherin doesn’t seem like the most natural fit for a video game, but Cogs & Marvel has made one anyway. The team released a free Pac-Man-esque game based on the hit film that swaps the titular pellet-eater for a depressed Irish man.

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This retro game doesn’t require a download and can be played in a web browser. After a quick intro, players control Colm, Brendan Gleeson’s character, as he collects fingers around a maze before going to a pub.

However, players have to avoid his boring ex-friend Pádraic, who is played by Colin Farrell. The extra levels add even more characters to avoid, which dials up the difficulty, and it also has some incredibly muffled audio from the film. Players also only get three lives before it is game over.

Cogs & Marvel even released a fake video game ad for the title that recalls magazine ads from the 1990s.

By Dave Jenks

Dave Jenks is an American novelist and Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Between those careers, he’s worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and over the road truck driver, among many other things. He now lives on a sea island, in the South Carolina Lowcountry, with his wife and youngest daughter. They also have three grown children, five grand children, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. Stinnett grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico. His next dream is to one day visit and dive Cuba.