‘Vidiot Recreation’ Mixes Minigames With Absurd, Weird Humor

Vidiot Recreation regularly places you in unusual conditions you’ll must navigate to outlive. Will dancing for the rusty syringe prevent?

One thing triggered my reminiscence of this surreal, pleasant Xbox Reside Indie Recreation recently, and by chance, it’s nonetheless obtainable on Steam. On this sport, you select from an array of mushroom, potato, frying pan individuals to be your avatar as you play by means of a number of fast Warioware-like minigames the place you could run or transfer to be able to keep away from incoming risks or make it to a end line in time. That makes it sound pretty plain on paper, however its the weird places and actions that make each minigame enjoyable. Hurtling down a snowy hill is far more interesting while you’re evading a pixelated abyss as a substitute of a monster.

This unpredictability is what I maintain coming again to this sport for. Whereas the occasions are pretty comparable (leaping over stuff, operating round obstacles), the framework and reasoning is at all times foolish and retains getting sillier. Additionally, these lively occasions aren’t the one belongings you’ll be doing, as there are various narrative occasions the place you need to decide. Do you kidnap bigfoot? Snack on that cheeseburger you simply discovered on the bottom? Trouble genies? It’s exhausting to foretell what penalties will come of your actions. They’re often ones, although, as, like McPixel 3, the sport’s foolish deaths really feel simply as rewarding as getting it proper. And even when you die, it’s not like the sport REALLY feels prefer it’s beginning over.

Vidiot Recreation is an excellent sport to placed on when you simply wish to let some absurd humor wash over you for a short while. It does an important job of regularly stunning you with what is going to occur subsequent, shifting from enjoying scratch video games for horse apples to flying down corridors in house as a mushroom. It’s visible results may be exhausting on the eyes the additional you get into it (it’s as if the sport is breaking down underneath its personal unusual conduct), however in any other case it has numerous attraction when you benefit from the surprising and the bizarre.

Vidiot Recreation is offered now (totally free) on Steam.

About The Writer

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is consistently looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games may be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.