Exploring a Bizarre Steam Game Trial: Guiding a Poop with the Goal to Find the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and players have discovered a variety of engaging indie games. However, one stands out for its quirky concept. Titled Unko Technica, this old-school styled side-scrolling game lets you play a hero that is actually a turd attempting to make its way to a restroom. For those curious, "Unko" means "poop."
The gameplay is easy to grasp: press a one button to leap. In one hundred fifty stages, encounter mini-bosses and visit a shop to purchase skins for your dung hero.
Execute your jumps carefully, as a error requires restarting the level. Bounce using air pockets to launch yourself upward, traverse fragile surfaces, and touch triggers to reveal hidden paths. Gather coins for buying more difficult game content in which gameplay ramps up.
Graphically, the game features vibrant environments and a killer background music. Its minimalist art of shifting abstract forms could recall gamers of old favorites like Earthbound.
Although hard to name other games where you control a dung character, gaming have long featured fecal matter. For example, in Death Stranding, players make throwables from protagonist waste. Games like Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved use feces as fertilizer. Naturally, fecal references is present a lot in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.
Despite its goofy premise, Unko Technica has already earned notable awards, including winning at a major publisher's GYAAR Studio in 2023. A playable preview is available currently on Steam, with the full game scheduled to arrive on PC in the fall.
