Unveiling an Bizarre Steam Game Trial: Controlling a Poop in a Mission to Arrive at the Toilet

Steam Next Fest is now live, and players have discovered a variety of engaging creations from small studios. However, one catches the eye for its quirky concept. Called Unko Technica, this old-school styled side-scrolling game lets you play a protagonist that is literally a piece of poop striving to navigate to a restroom. As a fun fact, "Unko" is Japanese for "poop."

How you interact is straightforward: press a jump control. Across 150 levels, encounter mini-bosses and visit a shop to buy outfits for your dung hero.

Execute your movements carefully, as a wrong move requires starting over. Bounce on air pockets to hurl the poop to new heights, navigate crumbling surfaces, and touch buttons to unlock secret routes. Collect currency for buying more difficult levels as gameplay ramps up.

Visually, the game features vibrant level designs and an amazing soundtrack. The retro art featuring moving geometric shapes could recall players of beloved games like Earthbound.

Even though difficult to think of similar titles where you play as a piece of feces, interactive entertainment have long included scatological themes. For instance, in Death Stranding, players craft throwables from protagonist excrement. Examples include Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved use dung as fertilizer. Naturally, this theme appears extensively in the South Park RPG The Stick of Truth.

Regardless of its goofy idea, Unko Technica has already garnered significant awards, like taking top honors at a major publisher's indie contest in 2023. The demo is ready currently on Steam, with the full game scheduled to debut on computers on November 19.