Unveiling a Unusual Steam Game Trial: Controlling a Poop in a Mission to Find the Toilet
Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and enthusiasts have found plenty of entertaining creations from small studios. However, one catches the eye for its offbeat concept. Titled Unko Technica, this old-school styled jumping adventure lets you play a hero that is truly a turd attempting to make its way to a toilet. In case you're wondering, "Unko" is Japanese for "poop."
How you interact is easy to grasp: you only need a jump control. Throughout 150 stages, encounter tough enemies and visit a store to acquire skins for your dung hero.
Execute your actions precisely, since one error means restarting the level. Bounce on air pockets to launch your character to new heights, cross crumbling ledges, and activate triggers to open hidden paths. Gather currency for buying challenging levels where gameplay ramps up.
In terms of design, the experience features eye-catching environments and a killer background music. Its minimalist visual style of moving geometric shapes may remind gamers of classic titles like Earthbound.
Even though difficult to recall other games where you are a dung character, interactive entertainment have long incorporated scatological themes. For example, in Death Stranding, players craft grenades from character waste. Games like Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize dung as fertilizer. And of course, fecal references is present a lot in the South Park RPG The Stick of Truth.
Despite its goofy concept, Unko Technica has already earned impressive recognition, like winning at Bandai Namco's indie contest in 2023. This trial version is available now on Steam, with the complete version planned to arrive on PC this November.
