Cedar Falls, Ohio, summer 1997. Fifteen-year-old Sam is helping clear out his grandmother's house when he finds Kris, an old household robot still carrying memories of her. In thirty days Kris is due to be scrapped. Sam may be the only person willing to speak for him.

KRIS: The Last Good Summer is a single-player point-and-click adventure about friendship, grief and the value of a life others have declared obsolete. Ability floppy disks give Kris new skills and personalities. To make room for more, the player can erase one of his memories, and that deletion is permanent. The memories Kris keeps and the friendships Sam builds matter when Sam speaks for Kris at the final hearing.

It is set in 1997 but looks, plays and sounds like a late-1980s point-and-click adventure: 32 colours, crisp pixels, disks you swap, and an original score that flows bar by bar from scene to scene. Spoken English and German dialogue is pre-generated synthetic speech and presented as such. Out now on Steam, the Microsoft Store (Windows) and Google Play, with a free demo on Steam.