Some games just suck you in and don’t let go.
And it’s not like we’re complaining - a highly addictive video game can be utter bliss.
And addictive games wildly vary in genre.
But sometimes, the games we’re addicting to can be a tad embarrassing, or pretty damn
strange in nature.
Now, we’re not aiming to insult any of the games on this list for their eccentricities,
but rather, embrace the wonderful things that make them weird and keep up coming back for
more.
So, without any more hesitation, let’s jump in to our top 10 weird video games that are
addicting.
10 Superhot Making this list for ‘weird’ since you
wouldn’t immediately think of it when it comes to first person shooters, despite it
being one of the best the genre has seen this decade.
Unconventional, it takes traditional FPS genre traits like the gameplay mechanics, but time
stops within the game when the player stops - it progresses when the player moves.
That combined with the minimalistic design, the game has some serious Matrix vibes, making
it trippy at times.
9 Rocket League Football with race cars.
Or soccer with race cars, depending on where abouts in the world you’re from.
While Rocket League is quite beloved for obvious reasons, the game is inherently odd due to
the combination of those two very different sports.
The game has been critically praised, and even adopted as an eSport, and the multiplayer
component is notoriously highly addictive.
8 Proust Dabbling into mobile games for this one, Proust
is a game in which you’re given a series of people or items and you have to rank them
from best to worst.
When you’re done, you can compare with your friends to see where they ranked them.
Loosely based on the Proust Questionnaire developed by Marcel Proust, the game gives
you a bunch of different options, some of which are quite absurd, and leaves you to
cast your judgement.
7 Lindsay Lohan’s The Price of Fame Lindsay Lohan’s the price of fame gives
you a celebrity avatar who you need to build a fan base for by rapidly swiping at your
phone’s screen.
As Kotaku aptly pointed out, the game felt like simulated masturbation on a grand scale.
As simple as that; there isn’t any other sort of gameplay weaved into the mix.
Just swiping and swiping and swiping.
But what makes this odd little game addictive is that it appeals to our infatuation with
social media.
It’s a numbers game.
The more followers you have, the more digital love you’ve procured in the game; an obsession
that so many of us have in real life.
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6 Super Meat Boy A dark comedy with minimalist aesthetics,
Super Meat Boy is an indie game where you play a block of meat trying to save your girlfriend,
Bandage Girl, from the game’s antagonist, Mr. Fetus.
High energy with the need for a quick response time, the game has a very retro feel, terrifying
bosses and a lot of meat juice.
The plot sometimes drifts into dark territory.
And that’s not even including how Meat Boy’s death is depicted when you die in a level.
5 Slime Rancher A life simulation game developed by Monomi
Park, Slime Rancher puts you in the shoes of Beatrix LeBeau, who moves to another planet
in order to live the life of a slime rancher.
Like a horse rancher, except with balls of slime that have cute little faces.
It’s an open world first person game where you need to raise, feed, collect and breed
slimes.
Yep, breed em.
The game received really positive reviews, which many critics commenting on the light
nature of the game and it’s incredibly fun game play.
4 Whose Your Daddy Babies drinking bleach?
Well, that’s one of the many potential moves you can pull in Whose Your Daddy - a game
where you play with a friend, one of you being the dad, the other the baby.
The baby’s mission is quite simple - kill yourself.
The dads?
Stop the baby from killing itself.
It’s like hide and seek but with potential infanticide.
Yep.
3 The Binding of Isaac Inspired by the biblical story of the same
name, the Binding of Isaac puts you in the shoes of Isaac.
You’re a boy who has fled his mother and is trying to survive in his monster filled
basement after his mother receives a message from god demanding Isaac’s life as proof
over her faith.
Created by Edmund McMillen, the same man behind our number 6 super meat boy, the game was
critically acclaimed, and heavily focused on the moral duality of religion, the game
has 13 possible endings.
It was nominated for best indie game in 2011, but lost to some pretty tough competition
- Minecraft.
The game was remade in 2014, enabling more ports and improving upon graphics.
2 Goat Simulator In goat simulator, your primary goal is to
cause chaos.
As a goat.
This involves, sticking your tongue to things, tackling people and or objects, and embracing
a plethora of different mutations that allow you to maximize your destruction, and maximize
the hilarity of it all.
With what initially started out at as a joke trailer soon had a huge demand to be developed
into a full game, which now has several DLCs that are comedic gold - including ones with
zombies, one in space, and another that’s an MMORPG simulator.
1 Seaman But just like the sims or any other game in
which you’re tasked with carrying for something or someone one, Seaman forms a weird attachment
between these strange fish humanoid creatures and the player.
And the fact that they can express pain and fear makes it all that much worse - and horrifically
strange, if we’re being honest.
There we have it friends!
What games do you find the most addicting?
And what’s your favourite weird game that you love playing?
Let us know in those comments below.
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