FRAYED.gam isn't actually a valid Klik & Play GAM file but one filled with a bunch of random byte values (hex edit and see).

It took me a while but I think I kinda get the joke.

Either way, I am pretty certain that @Snapman_I_Am is an important source of clues.

After some more research, I have discovered that frayed.com is the EICAR Antivirus test file and is harmless. Weird that Windows Defender marked it as such a serious threat.

Oh Spindley, you are so in on this. You're just playing dumb so that people can play this, I assume. Thankfully, I already did.

Anyway, I had been waiting for this page to unbreak so that I could leave my two cents on this game. Spoilers below (highlight the text to see them):

I really like the concept behind this. In some ways it absolutely blows the first Fred's Adventure out of the water. It wasn't without a few problems, though.

In the first two minigames out of the first set, I had triggered the losing conditions on both. I thought the Tiki Monster was a scripted event that was supposed to show up half-way through and prevent you from being able to complete the totem at all. In the second minigame, I ran into the spider in the top-left portion of the maze. Still, it was taking me to the next minigame, so I assumed the game was one of those trainwrecks trying to take me through an experience rather than asking me to win something. It wasn't until the third minigame dumped me back at the first one whether or not I lost that I began questioning this. I ended up peeking inside the .gam file, and discovered that the first and second games actually did have a win condition. Having to do this sort of broke the immersion. I did love the trick needed to beat the third minigame with the rising slime - figured that one out on my own.

I liked the cliff-climbing minigame and how the sequence of required keystrokes changed after each checkpoint. This is one of the few times in gaming where guesswork adds positively to the experience.

The solution to the swinging axe minigame was way too arbitrary, mainly because I assumed the screws in the puzzle frame were merely part of the background, and I thought those arrows behind the slide pieces were referring to the desired positions or shuffling motions of the pieces such that they would be in the right order. Then I sort of gave up and avoided touching the slide puzzle panel at the beginning, assuming that the trick to the minigame was to not get distracted with a slide puzzle that had no actual solution. So I ran all the way over to the right and then played jump rope with the swinging axe as it descended below the floor. At that point, I thought I had broken the game, so I quit and then looked inside the .gam file again (grr) for the solution.

I loved the atmosphere in that truck monster minigame, but at times it seemed to trigger the lose condition at random. It would often happen when I wasn't even in the path of the truck - I assume the truck saw me around the corner and then decided to chase me? I was a bit confused. It also triggered for me a couple times when I ventured too far down the corridors - but I wasn't even close to leaving the edges of the screen.

The invisible maze minigame was fun if a little dull in terms of thrill power compared to the other minigames.

I almost shat myself multiple times during that Pac-Man minigame, though a couple times the ghost appeared too close to me and I didn't have much of a chance to escape its pursuit. I think the second time it got me, I was in the very top-left of the maze and the ghost appeared in front of me as I was orbiting clockwise.

The elevator minigame was pretty neat. The first time I went into the room with the shifting furniture, I thought, "Oh, it must be another one of Snapman's silly bugs/anomalies." Very tricky of you! I think you left a debug function in there - Space causes the elevator to operate even if you're outside of it. Then again, having that in there adds to the surreal nature of the game.

I saw QR codes at the end but I lack a scanner.

Overall, I thought the game was pretty cool.

Next time you should get the actual game out on or just before Halloween, instead of a few days after..

I'm really happy to have actually finished this, it took a surprisingly large amount of time and effort for me. Part of the fun was constantly wondering if running it through TGF had broken parts of the game and rendered puzzles impossible to solve. Really hoping for a third, preferably in 2012 rather than 2013! You and Klik & Play work together magically.

P.S. This and the original are definitely breathtaking triumphs. Just sayin'. In fact, there's a lot of stuff that really should be on that list now...

Hey snapman, I thought I'd let you know I just managed to get the bad ending. Very spooky, and pretty enigmatic too (especially that last line). I was inspired to replay the game (and seek the other ending) by a friend of mine, who asked about my favourite horror games... I recommended both Fred's Exciting Adventure games without hesitation.

I'd so love to see another entry in the series! I was actually hoping one would turn up this Halloween. If you don't have any existing FEA3 plans, please don't feel pressured by this post, though.