Diving into a Unusual Steam Game Trial: Controlling a Poop on a Quest to Arrive at the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and players have discovered numerous entertaining independent titles. But, one is particularly notable for its quirky concept. Titled Unko Technica, this retro-inspired platformer lets you play a protagonist that is truly a piece of poop trying to navigate to a toilet. As a fun fact, "Unko" is Japanese for "poop."
The gameplay is simple: you only need a single jump button. Throughout one hundred fifty stages, encounter mini-bosses and unlock a shop to buy skins for your fecal avatar.
Execute your actions carefully, since one wrong move means beginning again. Jump off floating orbs to propel your character to new heights, traverse disappearing ledges, and activate switches to reveal hidden paths. Earn coins to purchase tougher stages in which gameplay gets crazy.
Visually, the experience shows off vibrant stages and catchy background music. The simple graphics featuring moving abstract forms evokes memories of gamers of old favorites like Earthbound.
Although hard to recall similar titles where you play as a coiled turd, gaming have long included fecal matter. As an illustration, in Death Stranding, players make explosives from character waste. Games like Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved use manure as soil enrichment. And of course, this theme appears a lot in the role-playing game The Stick of Truth.
Despite its goofy premise, Unko Technica has already received significant accolades, including winning at a major publisher's game competition in 2023. The demo is available now on Steam, with the final release planned to launch on Steam this November.
