| The Day the World Broke | |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Interactive |
| Engine: | mTropolis[1] |
| Genre: | Graphic adventure, puzzle |
| Modes: | Single-player |
| Platforms: | Microsoft Windows |
The Day the World Broke is an adventure/puzzle game released by Houghton Mifflin Interactive in 1997.[2] In the game, the player explores a city located in the Earth's core, achieving game goals primarily through conversations with the city's part animal part machine inhabitants. While the environments are hand-painted, the Mechanimals are sometimes rendered in 3D computer graphics, and the human characters in live action.