5 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.1 hrs on record
Posted: 14 Sep, 2025 @ 4:10pm

This game has left me so disappointed that I'm writing a serious review on it.

There was so much potential to pose actually tricky ethical questions and humorously follow up by showcasing the consequences in a satirical way as was done in the very first stages, where you're asked whether to do nothing and watch five people die or intervene and sacrifice one person - if you choose the latter option, the game lets you harvest the organs of one healthy person in order to save five people reliant on organ donations in the following level, as the player has shown that he's willing to sacrifice one life to save five. That was cool. Had me left hoping for more. To no avail.

What followed were just dumb referential jokes (haha, Schrödinger's cat, get it? Aren't we smart?), tasteless "edgy" jokes (more on that later) and an avalanche of horribly implemented mini-games.

The mini-games deserve a section of their own, because it feels like you spend most of your time not solving Trolley Problems but instead playing terrible mini-games: A crazy taxi clone that's very badly controlled only by your mouse, a Return to Castle Wolfenstein-esque shooting gallery, a Tamagotchi clone, a game that has you push a trolley up a mountain for minutes while balancing shifting values (click on + or - for ressources like balance) and closing pop-ups... I could go on.
None of these are fun, they all play very awkwardly and overstay their welcome by a long shot.
You could make a case that unfun mini-games are part of the post-modern charme like they're the game equivalent of the famous uncomfortable chair, but eh... Stanley Parable and Papers, Please did it better.
I must stress that they really do overstay their welcome. While babysitting the Tamagotchi for five minutes may have been funny as a novelty thing, more time-wasters of the same caliber (with fail-states that have you do everything over, no less) were really not appreciated. Awful experience.

Then there's the aforementioned bad taste jokes. One problem the game posed was whether I would sacrifice my father or my mother. This honestly left me feeling sick to my stomach. I know this is just a funny game and nothing is to be taken seriously, but in no context should you joke about such topics. Just made me feel bad. Why put the player through this? Not like there was a deeper point being made here, it's just supposed to be another dumb joke.

Next in line is this game's version of "would you kill baby Hitler?" Naturally the author couldn't resist beating this dead horse. Figures. Not gonna go into more detail on this, it's overdone.

I could only describe this as a dumb person's idea of a smart person's game. Avoid this trainwreck.
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