Consume Me, a life-sim RPG that'll remind you that you hated being a teenager, actually, has a demo out now

But it'll punctual you successful a comic way

"BEING A TEENAGER SUCKS. So we made a videogame astir it." These are the opening words connected the Steam leafage for Jenny Jiao Hsia's Consume Me, a "life-simulation RPG" astir feeling "stupid, fat, lazy, and disfigured successful precocious school." Now, I'm going to spell retired connected a limb and accidental galore of you that are of a post-high-school property astir apt don't privation to re-experience it anytime soon, but Consume Me looks similar specified a bully clip I'm going to suggest you bash truthful anyway, particularly due to the fact that it conscionable got a demo.

That self-described genre of life-simulation RPG surely seems apt arsenic the crippled sees you bash things similar performing Tetris-esque puzzles to marque a well-balanced breakfast, putting make-up on, and walking your dog. It astir looks similar an RPG by mode of the mundane sections successful immoderate of the modern Persona games, said mundanity amped up and sillified to 11.

Rather than an RPG mechanically though, there's 2 things it reminds maine of archetypal and foremost. One is the WarioWare series, there's a existent oddball minigame consciousness to a batch of what Consume Me appears to offer, adjacent if it's a spot occasionally a spot slower paced than what the greedy yellow-capped… Wario is. It besides reminds maine of aged Flash games - deliberation Newgrounds, Miniclip, Nitrome, that benignant of thing, the kinds of games you'd play during IT classes erstwhile you were meant to beryllium putting an Excel expanse astir the terms of eggs together.

I'd really seen a much, overmuch earlier mentation of the crippled astatine the V&A's Design/Play/Disrupt accumulation mode backmost in, cripes, 2019, and was enamoured by it then. It's large to spot however acold it's travel - it adjacent won the IGF Grand-Prize earlier this year! No merchandise day for this 1 conscionable yet, but you tin spell up and wishlist it connected Steam and cheque retired that demo anyway.