Play Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike

Great game with Christmasy graphics and soundtrack. This is a hard game, offering to hone your skills. 10/10

This game made me want to kick a bald guy in the nuts 10/10

if you search up "club penguin" this is the first and only result
10/10

Very similar to 'You Have To Win The Game', Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike is worth the price- nothing. It has an element of fun to it but also an element of complete frustration as the rope controls are quite difficult and right from the beginning it is quite frustrating, whether this is because of the awkward controls or because it is just simply challenging, I'm not sure, but it is very hard. So, if it looks like you're interested in it give it a go but if not, you're not really missing out on anything.

Overall, provided me a small bit of entertainment (and frustration). It is free so you don't really have anything to lose. You know you loved taking every single free thing you could as a kid, so why not give just this a go?

Play this game. It's free, challenging, original, frustrating and rewarding. It's got platforming, money, death spikes, old men, Christmas, snowmen with shades, and an achievement for beating the game without dying. What more can you ask for?

This game is ok at best, and frustrating at worst. The controls are clumsy, and the rope system is painful to use, as it is not presice enough to hit exactly where you want to hit, and it bound to the x key, meaining you can't easly move while using it. Couldn't even play more than 9 min. before getting mad at this games clumsy control scheme, and then uninstaling it.

*overdramatic movie trailer voice*

From the "Best Video Game Label Ever"
comes a video game
about grumpy old boss.

...

IN A WORLD...
where stacks of money...
can be found on a mountain,...

...there's a video game company
facing a financial crisis.

Only ONE MAN...
is willing to take the risk...
and climb the Holiday Profit Mountain in order to save the company.

HIS NAME. IS.

FORK.
PARKER.

Watch this man
jumping...
climbing...
dashing...
repeling...
...and riding a private helicopter while drinking a martini.

STARRING

FORK PARKER
as
Fork Parker.

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FORK PARKER'S HOLIDAY PROFIT HIKE.
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Out now for Windows and OS X
FOR. FREE.

(Rated G: gamepad recommended)

A mixture of rainbow island meets super meat boy, Fork Parkers Holiday Hike basically acts as a simulator game to Devolver Digitals CFO Fork Parker. The story here is that as CFO Fork has been tasked by the other board members to increase Digitals revenue for the 4th fiscal quarter; what entails after is a long trek throughout a perilous mountain attacked by various ice dwelling creatures such as Penguins, Yeti's, Cool dude snowmen (who look suspiciously like Cool spot) and sentient holiday sweaters!

Fork must carefully outmanoeuvre these threats as well as the various environmental hazards that litter the mountain, in his bid to reach the summit and obtain the most profit he possibly can. When playing as fork the game acts like Super meat boy; Fork can walk and jump however holding down the run button allows Fork to run faster and jump greater distances he also has a wall jump and slide ability that allows him to navigate tricky crevices and platforms, additionally for harder to reach places Fork can place hiking ropes (up to 3 at a time) around the environment.

By attaching ropes to two hard surfaces fork can create a pulley line that allows him to zip from one end to the other, this is where the real skill of the game comes into play, it becomes more and more necessary to place ropes around areas to avoid traps and progress up the summit, as the player progresses the need to use the ability of rope zipping becomes more crucial; the game luckily eases you into things at the start of the summit you're just required to put a couple of ropes down and move from A to B, later on however things become much more frantic with Fork required to place down various ropes between two pillars of spikes, the idea is that you're learning the skills comfortably at the start of the game which become essential and more frantic in the later halves. Additionally like Forks running skills the ropes hook placement can also be affected by velocity, holding the run button/key while firing a hook will increase it's range and speed and it will become paramount that players correctly understand and identify where their hooks need to go.

Overall Fork Parkers Holiday Hike is a fun, solid little adventure, it's difficult, just like the games it takes it's cues from but there's a deeply satisfying feeling to being stumped in one area and then overcoming the problem with some thorough thinking and creative use of the rope mechanic. Death serves a rather comedic detriment as in SMB this game is more about overcoming the challenges and your own foibles than relentlessly punishing you, checkpoints are plentiful and the game is designed fairly; when you fail you feel like it was your own fault as opposed to the game, still the difficulty can be a turn off for some.

As a free game you really can't go wrong with FPHH, it exudes charm and finally gives Devolvers charismatic Fork Parker a day in the limelight, really when all is said and done this game offers a nice little diversion from the larger Steam sales currently on offer, I wholeheartedly recommend everyone to pick this game up and give it a try!

A challenging game, but fair. The controls are tight and the game forces you to learn the mechanics of the game without the aid of any tutorial. Once you figure out some of the challenges in the higher areas, you'll have to pat yourself on the back. Give it a try, it's free. You can't go wrong with good old fashioned platforming.

(I do want to mention, while the dev company is called Dodge Roll, there is no dodge rolling in this game)

Mario isn't the king of platform anymore.
Fork is my new childhood hero, even though i am all grown up already.

A great tutorial on how to finance development of video games.

We finally get some perspective on what it is Fork Parker's job is. He throws pitons and jumps on sweaters!

System requirements say Windows 7 or better. I'm on Windows XP and the game works fine. Fun, too. 11/10.

Fun game, although definitely hard at times, but still worth it (plus it's free :D). Also try it with a controller, helps a lot!

Ducktales for a-holes.

*as seen on Destructoid*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRHTNlc2o4

if you like mario you like this and it's free

A much more developed and heart breaking tale of the difficulties of the gaming industry than Indie Game The Movie.
Gives you an insight of the life of a fellow man who wants to break all established rules and find developers who can get him enough monies to pay the thousands hospital debts and the party cocaine they consumed at the airport on their way to PlayStation event.
As you climb and loose again and again do to sh*tty keaboard controls, you realize the paradox that they are trying to make, make a reflection of the harsh challenge of his job, as he can bearly survive an ice pick with sharp ends, just as he has to deal with EA executives and weird twitter responses.

Overall, im quite enjoying this, and made me respect Devolver even more, despite your games made a friend of mine want to date birds and keeps making annoying comments over Serious Sam 4 and why it will burst gamers a new a--hole.

So yea, its quite charming in its own right. However, dont melt the ice of the game, or there will be water.And IGN hates water, its a fact.

I'd have paid for this game

I started this game with $100 and now have a crippling debt of $395000. That's worse than college.

Profits are downnn!!! 10/10

A difficult, but fun, platformer that reminds me of part-spleunky, part-crystal caves.