SQUID'S MANSLAUGHTER
Janson Kumori · 2024 · RPG, JRPG, Mystery Dungeon, 2D, Satire
PC
Positive80% · 15
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About SQUID'S MANSLAUGHTER
Have you ever been so miserable, that you desired to cease all bodily functions, leaving your body as a slaughtered, bloodied, mess? Well, now you can do it virtually in 8 different ways for the price of nothing, in this quirky, Earthbound and Undertale inspired videogame! Play as the miserable introvert, Zeke, as he finally ventures outside of his dwelling place. only to see now that the world is corrupted through the lack of spiritual order, the only deity that exists is false. He is the pathetic and negligent fool known as, Joel. Meet several eccentric weirdos, as you go on a politically driven JRPG quest that probably has absolutely no meaning to anyone, waste your valuable life away just as Zeke has.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------T H I S G A M E F E A T U R E S. . .
- Bitter Commentary about the state of indie JRPGs.
- Over 100+ hand drawn images.
- Gameplay that'll always keep you guessing, don't know if you're into that...?
- Interpretive cryptic plot.
- 6 endings, most of which can be gotten in one playthrough.
- Branching path based on your loyalty to your job.
- Sporadic gameplay.
- Around 3+ hours of gameplay, short and sweet.
- Voice acting for major cutscenes.
- The ability to talk to enemies, giving battles several different outcomes.
- Several gambling and card minigames, designed to maximise your profits...!
- Demonstrates the pointlessness of ones existence in game form.
- Subliminal messaging.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀6 found this helpful
This is a must-play2 found this helpful
RPG Maker strikes again! This is yet another RPG Maker asset flip, a low effort kitbash made with the Final Fantasy ripoff construction kit, RPG Maker, in their own words, "These easy to use tools are simple enough for a child". This is just a cringey high school anime club dropout fan-fiction combined with extremely poor quality retro game assets. The developer was unable to work out how to use RPG Maker to create a crappy JRPG, which is the only thing it can do (and it's very bad at doing this). Instead, they made what's basically more of an e-book/visual novel than a game... a very badly written e-book. The topic is incredibly cringey and pretentious political commentary about an introvert being exposed to the world and not liking it. There's a lot of basement dweller vibes coming off this. As with all RPG Maker games, this is the result of a really bad game engine being misused. Like all RPG Maker "games", it looks bad in fullscreen and lacks HD support or graphics options. This is not acceptable for modern PC gamers. The argument must be made that construction kit toys like RPG Maker are intended for making small games, toys and demos to pass around with friends, and…2 found this helpful
too real downvote its hard but that makes sense and adds to the charm2 found this helpful
Okay this is a long one. First off I do like the game, I wouldn't have made this review if I didn't see any potential in it and that is what defines this game *Potential*. The game has a lot that *could* be going for it and that it does, yet a lot of the basic features of the game aren't explained and while I get wanting to keep the spirit of discovery alive but not telling us that 'Form' allows you to change party members rotation in combat, or that 'Provoke' is your basic attack and not a conversation/dialogue/debuff tool, and just the basic stuff like that, the systems of the game don't really get explained or if they do not all that well. Audio/Music: While some of the songs (especially the 'Intro Tape' one) can be worse than god awful at times there is actually a lot of really good and atmospheric tracks within the game, the one's I like the most are the one that plays at the player's house and the jail theme when you get caught stealing. Dialogue/VA: First as this is related both to this section and Audio/Music, as some of the voice acting is just so bad it makes the game suffer, some of the voice lines just need to be pulled out of the game fully imo. I despise Wizards vo…1 found this helpful
Is this the Squid Game everyone's talking about?1 found this helpful
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