Diving into an Unusual Steam Game Trial: Controlling a Poop with the Goal to Find the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and enthusiasts have found plenty of entertaining indie games. Yet, one catches the eye for its unconventional concept. Called Unko Technica, this old-school styled side-scrolling game lets you play a character that is literally a dung attempting to make its way to a toilet. For those curious, "Unko" translates to "poop."
How you interact is simple: just use a jump control. Throughout one hundred fifty stages, you'll face boss fights and unlock a shop to buy customizations for your poop character.
Plan your jumps precisely, since one wrong move requires starting over. Leap off bubbles to hurl yourself to new heights, navigate disappearing ledges, and activate triggers to open secret routes. Collect currency to purchase tougher game content in which things ramps up.
Graphically, the game shows off neon stages and an amazing music score. The simple art featuring moving abstract forms could recall players of beloved games like Earthbound.
While it's hard to recall previous releases where you are a coiled turd, video games often featured fecal matter. As an illustration, in Death Stranding, players craft throwables from protagonist droppings. Titles such as Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved use feces as soil enrichment. Naturally, such content is present heavily in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.
Putting aside its humorous premise, Unko Technica has already received notable accolades, including being named best at Bandai Namco's GYAAR Studio in 2023. This trial version is available at present on Steam, with the final release set to arrive on PC this November.
