TootSweet , 5 hours ago

Maybe not quite the answer to the question you asked, but I have a relevant story.

My very favorite YouTuber is named “Any Austin”. (Just stay with me here.) And he has a show called “VG Wham” in which he goes to some e-store for video games (the Switch eStore, the PlayStation e-store, Steam, whatever) and purchases a game priced $2 or under and plays/reviews it.

Fully expecting it to be terrible, mind you. He does honestly review the games and gives his thoughts about them, but it’s still mostly comedy content. Not generally the sort of show you’d watch to find good games to potentially buy and enjoy.

But one game in particular he clearly loved was “Radiation Island” by a studio called “Atypical Games.” The episode of VG Wham in question is here. But he loved this particular game so much he streamed a full playthrough that itself is a masterpiece. And throughout he constantly flip flops from deriding it ot praising it to praising it ironically. It’s like nothing else I’ve ever seen.

And the game itself makes zero sense, it’s absolute purchased assets trash, kindof minimum viable product as a game, really just churned out in about 5 minutes for a buck. And it’s evident from Any Austin’s stream.

I rewatched that stream just recently and decided to go ahead and purchase the game. I’d seen it played, but didn’t really know what it would be like to play it myself. I really didn’t know whether it was going to be crap or awesome.

If anyone else picks it up, I highly recommend the hardest difficulty.

I haven’t yet played the sequel “Radiation City.” Any Austin streamed it, but didn’t like it as much. I bought a copy and intend to play it at some point, but I haven’t started it yet.