I performed a demo of My Arms Are Longer Now at PAX Australia and it was an actual good time. It is a stealth-comedy sport, although not within the sense that you simply’re shocked to seek out out it is humorous. It is humorous from the primary second you twist your upsettingly wiggly arm throughout the ground of a prepare carriage then get caught attempting to steal somebody’s bike proper in entrance of them.
However it’s a stealth-comedy sport within the sense that it is a stealth sport in addition to a comedy one, with a detective who apparently learns of your weird wiggly crimes, and witnesses who will discover once you attempt to, say, pinch their bike proper in entrance of them.
My Arms Are Longer Now’s being revealed by Jackbox Video games. Sure, the individuals who make the Jackbox video games are referred to as Jackbox Video games, and that is their first step into publishing a sport developed by different individuals. These different individuals are Toot Video games, a studio based by Matthew Jackson and Millie Holten, who it’s possible you’ll know from the Aunty Donna-adjacent actual-play collection Trope RPG and the reality-adjacent net animation Lengthy Head.
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I really like stealth video games as a result of I performed Thief: The Darkish Mission at a younger and impressionable age and it made me lengthy for a lifetime of crimes I might expertise from behind a pc display screen, however with out having to commit identification fraud or trick individuals into downloading malware. Stealth video games are a little bit of a cursed style although, as a result of many years later most video games about leaning round corners in the dead of night nonetheless aren’t pretty much as good as those from the ’90s.
Which is why I am trying ahead to a sport that does one thing extra drastic with the thought of thievery than “including multiplayer” or “what when you have been additionally actually good at simply killing individuals after which stealing from them.” Which is precisely what My Arms Are Longer Now guarantees to do when it comes out this 12 months. You possibly can wishlist it now on Steam.
