Play Gumboots Australia Online

Gumboots Australia is a 1993 MS-DOS game from the now defunct developer Outback Interactive. It was part of a wave of quirky, low budget titles that relied on regional humor and simple mechanics, typical of shareware releases in the early 90s.

You control a character stranded in the Australian bush, equipped with oversized gumboots. The goal is to trade Vegemite jars with local wildlife, like emus and kangaroos, to acquire items that help you progress. The boots double as makeshift boats for crossing small bodies of water, though the handling is intentionally clumsy. Movement is screen by screen, with each area presenting new bartering puzzles or environmental obstacles. The pacing is slow, and the logic behind trades can feel obscure, leading to frequent trial and error. Playing it feels like stumbling through a surreal, slightly broken cartoon where nothing works as you expect, but you keep going out of sheer curiosity.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".