
We Slay MonstersĪ lovely fusion of roguelike and card game. Ren'n'Stimpy-esque art lifts a simple thing into a wonderfully vile thing too.


It's familiar 'use tweezers to extract absurdist viscera' stuff, which means it lives or dies on if it's funny or not.Īnd yeah, it is - from stabbing maggots inside a dude's moustache to replacing a fashion designer's arm bones with TV sets and cut-out paper men because he thinks it's more interesting, the joy here is finding out just what random, entertainingly unpleasant nonsense it'll chuck at you next. Super Sports Surgeryīody-horror comedy surgeon game - y'know the sort, those Operation-derived vignettes of grotesquery in which you remove various 'orrible things from wounded souls while trying to avoid doing so much damage that they expire on the table.

This week: absurdist sports medicine, roguelike vs poker vs match-3, bumblebee simulation and chimp-powered internet. Welcome back to Unknown Pleasures, our weekly wade through Steam's ever-deepening sewers to find ten sparkling new releases that perhaps have not enjoyed the attention they deserve.
