Diving into an Unusual Steam Game Trial: Guiding a Poop in a Mission to Find the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is in full swing, and gamers have encountered plenty of entertaining indie games. Yet, one catches the eye for its unconventional concept. Titled Unko Technica, this classic-feel platformer includes a protagonist that is truly a dung striving to make its way to a toilet. As a fun fact, "Unko" means "poop."
How you interact is simple: just use a single jump button. Throughout one hundred fifty stages, you'll face mini-bosses and unlock a store to acquire skins for your fecal avatar.
Execute your actions precisely, since one wrong move requires beginning again. Leap using floating orbs to propel the poop upward, cross disappearing surfaces, and interact with switches to reveal secret routes. Collect UN-KOINS to purchase tougher levels where things intensifies.
Visually, the game shows off neon level designs and an amazing background music. Its minimalist art featuring morphing abstract forms could recall players of beloved games like Earthbound.
Even though tough to think of previous releases where you play as a piece of feces, gaming often incorporated toilet humor. For instance, in Death Stranding, players create grenades from protagonist waste. Titles such as Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved use dung as soil enrichment. And of course, such content appears heavily in Obsidian's South Park RPG The Stick of Truth.
Regardless of its silly premise, Unko Technica has already earned notable recognition, including winning at a major publisher's indie contest in 2023. The demo is ready currently on Steam, with the complete version scheduled to arrive on Steam in the fall.