Lifting Unlimited

"Lifting Unlimited" is an extremely poorly made weightlifting simulator where you control a primitive low poly blob and engage in 3-4 different types of arcade "weightlifting" microgames. What do you do in the game? Button mashing. Seriously, that's it, just mash buttons. The game challenges your imagination in two ways. First, you must imagine that button mashing represents real gameplay. Second, you must pretend this is a real game, and not the steaming pile of garbage it is. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it…

Okay let me just get this out of the way first: Lifting Unlimited is not a "good" game by anyone's particular standards. However, it's actually the funniest and potentially most accurate simulation of powerlifting I've ever seen. You control a little low-poly blob (accurate powerlifting physique tbh) and do quick time events for the squat, bench and deadlift. Because of the way these QTEs are implemented, I ended up just instantly maxing out Deadlift (2000lbs - the world record is 1000 fyi) with comparatively abysmal squat and bench press. You also get injured constantly in this game - which is kind of a pain because you have to wait a whole minute or two to go to the doctor while the game's background music (which I can only compare to something like Entrance of the Gladiators) keeps nonsensically playing - I couldn't help but laugh for most of my experience because of how extremely unserious this game is. Lifting Unlimited is so bad it wraps back around to being good - it's not fun, but it sure is funny and that's good enough for me.

This is somehow mind numbing, infuriating, and gratifying all at once.

this is a horrible game dont waste your time

its aight, really isnt much gameplay

#gooningmaterial