COMPLETE: Wurroom

[kjorteo]

This is around the time of year where we gorge ourselves on "it was in our discovery queue and it's short and free" esoterica, I guess.

Wurroom is... uh... um....

*Gesture helplessly at trailer*

That. It's that. It's that but it's fourteen minutes long and you point and click at things. Almost like a puzzle when you need to find the right things to click on? Sometimes? Though it's usually fairly railroaded. Mostly you're just here to click on things to keep continuing on with the... that.

In all seriousness, I have no idea what I just played, but it's visually gorgeous. Everything is done in brightly colorful surrealistic claymation, like if a Tool music video had access to antidepressants. For something short and free, it's definitely a visual spectacle, an experience to have and boggle at and nevertheless greatly enjoy. The whole thing almost feels like a stealth advertisement for the developer's next (upcoming) game, the aptly named Ultra Strangeness, which bills itself as "what if Wurroom were a full length actual-point and click adventure." Which, heck yes, instantly wishlisted right there.

In the meantime, feel free to enjoy whatever this is!

Comments

[xaq_the_aereon]

*gestures to icon* Enough said.

[kjorteo]

Sara: Yeah I don't know either.

[penguinmayhem]

I'd call this pretentious but it's honestly way too freaky and interesting and off-the-wall to be dismissed as simply egotistical.

I'm definitely not artistically literate enough to say much other than "well this looks trippy" but hey that's me.

[kjorteo]

Yeah, that's the thing. Like, for it to be pretentious, there would have to be more of a air of masturbatory lit-crit self-importance, you know? I feel like these guys know they just made a Shpongle music video; their "like this but an actual real serious adventure game" game they're building up to is literally called Ultra Strangeness.

Plus, it looks like earlier versions of Wurroom before we came along received a lot of flak in the comments for being a borderline-unplayable buggy mess, and the devs responded more or less with "Aaaa sorry about that, here's a patch that hopefully fixes things? Thank you so much for still liking this despite the roughness though ;O;" rather than a David Cage "you peons don't understand my genius" rant. So, you know, major points for that.

Anyway this is someone's actual fever dream they put on Steam, but like, it's really neat and good and I'm really looking forward to Ultra Strangeness, somehow?