Exploring an Bizarre Steam Demo: Guiding a Turdy Character on a Quest to Find the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and gamers have found a variety of entertaining independent titles. However, one is particularly notable for its unconventional concept. Titled Unko Technica, this old-school styled platformer includes a character that is actually a dung attempting to navigate to a restroom. In case you're wondering, "Unko" means "poop."
The gameplay is straightforward: press a one button to leap. Throughout one hundred fifty stages, you'll face boss fights and access a market to buy customizations for your dung hero.
Time your actions carefully, since one wrong move means beginning again. Leap using bubbles to launch your character upward, traverse disappearing ledges, and touch switches to reveal hidden paths. Collect coins to purchase more difficult levels as the action intensifies.
Graphically, the demo boasts neon stages and catchy background music. The retro visual style of shifting abstract forms could recall players of beloved games like Earthbound.
Although tough to recall other games where you play as a dung character, interactive entertainment frequently included toilet humor. For instance, in Death Stranding, you can make throwables from character excrement. Examples include Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize feces as fertilizer. And of course, such content shows up a lot in Obsidian's adventure The Stick of Truth.
Regardless of its goofy concept, Unko Technica has already earned significant recognition, like winning at Bandai Namco's indie contest in 2023. This trial version is ready currently on Steam, with the complete version scheduled to launch on PC in the fall.
