Diving into an Unusual Steam Demo: Guiding a Piece of Feces in a Mission to Find the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is in full swing, and enthusiasts have discovered a variety of engaging creations from small studios. But, one stands out for its unconventional concept. Named Unko Technica, this old-school styled platformer features a protagonist that is truly a dung striving to navigate to a toilet. As a fun fact, "Unko" means "poop."
How you interact is easy to grasp: press a one button to leap. Throughout one hundred fifty challenges, you'll face mini-bosses and access a market to acquire customizations for your fecal avatar.
Execute your movements with caution, since one wrong move means restarting the level. Jump off air pockets to propel yourself higher, navigate crumbling ledges, and activate triggers to open secret routes. Earn UN-KOINS to purchase tougher stages as the action intensifies.
In terms of design, the experience boasts neon environments and catchy music score. The simple visual style featuring moving basic polygons may remind players of old favorites like Earthbound.
Although tough to recall previous releases where you control a coiled turd, interactive entertainment have long featured toilet humor. As an illustration, in Death Stranding, you can create grenades from protagonist droppings. Examples include Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize feces as plant food. Unsurprisingly, fecal references shows up extensively in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.
Putting aside its goofy concept, Unko Technica has already garnered impressive accolades, such as being named best at a major publisher's game competition in 2023. A playable preview is ready currently on Steam, with the final release scheduled to debut on PC in the fall.
