Antinarkomania

Lost Vikings, but with two Russian children and a psychopath.

this game FREAKING SUCKS! theres no point in playing it at all, there is no story, the gameplay sucks, the puzzles SUCK, and I HATED IT! the songs were kind of good though.. and the graphics were good.. but also, if the message of the game was to stop doing drugs, it did NOT succeed! It was freaking TERRIBEL! I Feel like doing drugs even more now becaus of how badly this game freaking suckwed. The only message I got was to kill all homeless people, which is NOT a good message to send to the children! GRRRR!! Do NOT even THINK about PLAYING THSI for a second!

Antinarkomania is an absolute historical relic of the mid-2000s that somehow found its way onto modern digital storefronts, and it is a fascinating 30-minute trip down memory lane. Originally commissioned as a government-backed educational tool, this project plays out as a surprisingly functional 2D puzzle-platformer heavily inspired by the classic mechanics of The Lost Vikings.Spending exactly half an hour inside the game is the perfect amount of time to soak in its pure, unadulterated nostalgia. You switch between unique student heroes—utilizing specialized physics-based gear like a skateboard-shield or a weaponized yo-yo—to clean up stylized corporate and underground levels. Given its bizarre propaganda purpose, the narrative leans completely into ridiculous cartoon logic involving evil black-market doctors and shadow operations. While the low-resolution 2006 graphics and slightly clunky jumping physics won't hold your attention for a massive gaming marathon, it functions as an exceptional interactive time capsule. It completely respects your Steam profile by avoiding broken or unnecessary tracking achievement lists, standing as a wonderful, highly unique novelty to experience o…

"Antinarkomania" is a weird one... this looks like it was a professionally developed C-grade product designed to go direct to bargain bins, but is instead somehow free on Steam. Well, it's always nice when professionally developed games are free, but this is hardly an award winner. The developers themselves admit this is in many ways a ripoff of Blizzard's weird offspring that they kept locked in the attic when people would visit, The Lost Vikings. Gameplay is derived from that but there's a nonsensical plot about fighting drug cartels with three characters that are an unlikely team up to fight drug cartels. Whatever message this narrative might have hoped to send is more lost than the Lost Vikings. The Lost Vikings was a 2D side scrolling adventure game where you would need to switch between three different characters so solve various puzzles. Each character had their own ability, like jumping higher than the others, or having a big shield, etc. Similar premise here, only not as good as The Lost Vikings. The weird thing about this is that it's free, but Strategy First are best known for shovelware cash grabs, so this is a real head scratcher. The graphics in this game are…

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To be absolutely clear: I do not recommend that you play this game, unless competent if mildly boring Lost Vikings clones are your thing. I did complete it and it was okay-ish but hardly worth wasting a few hours on. But I would like you to appreciate and be inspired by the fact that a game made in the aughts at the request of a Russian anti-drug agency is still up on Steam, is free and even receiving occasional updates, long after the aforementioned agency went belly up. In spite of it being a piece of state propaganda, the game is actually very subversive: when the protagonists begin to encounter anthropomorphic rats and giant spiders, it becomes rather obvious that they have joined the war on drugs on the side of drugs. Oh, and it has some banger jazzy tunes too.