PLAY CHERIL OF THE FOREST FREE
A jungle platformer: Cheril climbs and leaps through a screen-by-screen forest, gathering the totems she needs to open the way deeper in. Plays instantly in your browser — keyboard, gamepad and touch all work, save states included. No download, no install, no quarters.
▶ PLAY NOW — IN YOUR BROWSER +25 XPMACHINE NOTE — Another tiny Mojon Twins world built from spikes, ledges and a single clear objective. Cheril has been a goddess elsewhere on this wall; here she is back to climbing trees for a living, which is honestly the more relatable career arc.
CARTRIDGE: Cheril of the Forest — The Mojon Twins — LGPL / CC BY-NC-SA (2015). FREE HOMEBREW, LEGALLY DISTRIBUTED WITH FULL CREDIT — SEE ATTRIBUTION. EMULATION VIA EMULATORJS (RETROARCH CORE, WEBASSEMBLY). PART OF THE CABINET — 77 FREE RETRO GAMES AT STARESBACK.GG.
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THE STORY BEHIND THIS CARTRIDGE
Cheril of the Forest is one of the Mojon Twins' many bite-sized NES platformers, built on their own MK1_NES engine and released free with full source. The Spanish collective treats the console like a sketchbook — flip-screen rooms, one clear objective, no padding — and this jungle outing is a textbook example: climb, leap, collect, leave. It was written for love rather than money and handed to anyone who wants it under Creative Commons.
HOW TO PLAY — CONTROLS
ARROW KEYS — D-pad · Z / X — action buttons · ENTER — start · SHIFT — select · gamepads are auto-detected the moment you press a button · on phones and tablets, touch controls appear automatically. Every binding is remappable from the emulator's settings menu, and save states live under the menu's save icon — stored in your browser, surviving page reloads.
NO-NONSENSE ANSWERS
- Is it legal to play Cheril of the Forest online?
- Completely. Cheril of the Forest is original homebrew for the NES — its author distributes it free under a license that permits redistribution (LGPL / CC BY-NC-SA), and the full credit is recorded in our attribution file. Nothing here is a commercial ROM.
- Can I play Cheril of the Forest on my phone?
- Yes. Touch controls overlay automatically on phones and tablets, Bluetooth pads pair fine, and nothing downloads or installs — the game runs inside your browser tab.
- What about saving?
- Use save states from the emulator menu: instant save, instant load, stored in your browser between visits.
