‘GET YOKED’ – Play Your Playing cards Proper For Ridiculous Positive aspects

GET YOKED: Excessive Bodybuilding is a roguelike deck builder about gaining muscle rapidly, safely, and completely absurd-ly.

You end up in a sequence of body-building competitions, aiming for enormous prizes of tens of {dollars} in case you can out-flex your opponents. Fortunately, doing so is comparatively simple. All you’ll want to do is get extra positive factors as the opposite individuals. That’s all calculated numerically based mostly on the playing cards you play, so that you simply need to hit sure numbers inside an allotted time restrict. A minimum of you’ll at all times know that your exercise is selling progress within the goal muscle.

You’ll be able to’t simply play the most important playing cards it’s a must to outgrow your opponents. Every card has a complete Positive aspects quantity that you simply’ll develop that goals for that concentrate on quantity and goal muscle, but additionally has a Fatigue score. Muscle teams that get too excessive with Fatigue get injured and might’t be educated for just a few days, so that you threat dropping positive factors for just a few days in case you overly Fatigue them. That mentioned, many different playing cards can alter Fatigue to minimize it, or they will add extra Stamina (as every card has a Stamina value) that permits you to play extra playing cards (and dearer playing cards) every day.

It’s easy however compelling, and that’s largely as a result of GET YOKED permits you to grow to be a musclebound monstrosity proper from the beginning. Your character downright balloons relying on the way you focus your coaching, creating hilarious bodybuilders in a rush relying on the way you play. Whereas I doubt I may take a bodybuilding recreation critically (even one the place the playing cards are simple and enjoyable like this one), sprinkling humor into this course of makes this recreation a blast to play as you attempt to win AND develop a really weird creature on the similar time.

GET YOKED: Excessive Bodybuilding is out there now (as a playable prototype) on itch.io. You’ll be able to wishlist the long run full model on Steam.

About The Creator

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for numerous 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 continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games could be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.