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It reminds me of the Octodad/mental illness comparisons that were being made in the wake of its release. I can definitely see where the OP is coming from, and while I don't necessarily think that that's what the devs were trying to say, I appreciate the interpretation. That being said, the game presents itself in such a no-nonsense way that I can see a lot of people gathering what they will of the developer's intentions. The combination works well because it makes a lot of sense it comes in an understandable package and still puts down a platform for intriguing gameplay (Giantbomb mentioned multiplayer coming in the future, which I could see being very fun).

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You've got the blood and guts and environments from FPS games while the gameplay itself is reminiscent of a less severe Surgeon Simulator or Octodad, and the mindset of the game is more along the lines of Euro Truck Simulator. It takes a lot of the novel gaming motifs across genres and puts them together in interesting ways. I agree, it's an endearing, unique idea for a game and I think that the novelty is all the devs were actively going for. There will always be people of older generations to whom this idea is obscene and a few reality-detached people who feel that recreating something in a game is a good idea, but for the 99% of sane gamers, the graphic violence is not the point, the removal of the actual violence from our lives is. Whether we were blowing brightly coloured unicorns to fairy dust (hands off, that's my next game idea) or gibbing space warriors into bloody mist the result would be the same, it just seems our primate hindbrains find the fantasy of enacting violence a more readily acceptable form of escape and stress relief.Īfter all, as a recent study showed, feelings of anger and frustration at games are more to do with your personal performance than the violent content. It's the flipside of the coin clearly, but for any rational minded gamer the violence isn't the draw of the game, it's a mechanic, to wit - stress relief. I think it's a novel idea, but I think you're also reading far too much into hidden meaning within it. I couldn’t shake what RuneStorm was trying to say about our acceptance of violence in games. And as all this happened, I found it harder and harder to laugh the game off.

All it meant was more work for me, more trips to the biohazard incinerator, more trips to get a clean bucket of water, more pieces of intestine to pick up piece by piece. This is a game that uses the tedium that we’ve seen in games like Papers, Please or Cart Life to incredible effect – after about thirty minutes, I was pissed off at the monster who decided it would be fun to blow apart everything in sight. What RuneStorm is trying to do with Viscera Cleanup Detail is remind us of the human cost of those hilarious giblets we create. But underneath that surface comedy is a pretty great perspective on the games we play. It’s all played up for comedic effect, obviously, reminiscent of things like Sunshine Cleaning, This American Life’s story on a crime-scene cleaner, or the monthly AskReddit thread.

You remove yourself from any emotional attachment, and pick up everything from the Ludicrous Gibs of unarmed scientists, to shell casings and first aid kits. It’s a hilarious concept, but it’s also a brilliant satire of the conventions of first-person shooters we seem to relish. Think of it like a game built around reversing all those destructible environment tech demos developers love to show at press events.

It’s an easy game to explain – you’re a janitor tasked with cleaning up scenes of horrific death of the sort first-person shooters typically have their players generate. Better still, other games have bodies simply disappear into the ether.

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Think of the average FPS level – you strut down some generic hallway, kill a few dozen faceless drones, splatter their blood on the walls, knock over a few barrels, grab a data log, and get out of there – who cares about the mess? Even so-called simulators like the ARMA series have you simply leave the bodies of your comrades and enemies behind. It’s the kind of scene war films love to hide, because it’s the kind of scene that graphically illustrates how brutal war actually is. If you’ve ever spent some time watching combat footage, you’ve probably seen some pretty unpleasant scenes of soldiers having to pack up the bloodied pieces and bodies of the men they’ve just killed. We made a blog post about this, and it seemed like something worth sharing with you guys:

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