One of the Nintendo Indie World Showcase's more disturbing titles was Struggling, an upcoming co-op game headed to Switch that you probably won't want to play just before dinner.
We wouldn't blame you for missing it - it was featured in that quickfire sizzle reel near the end of the show - but it's grabbed our attention for being downright disgusting. The game has you and a friend controlling either arm of a "hideous thing", which is apparently a screeching pile of flesh called Troy, to latch onto everything around you including suspicious levers and dangling eyeballs.
The point here is to overcome a series of physics-based challenges, but you'll notice that your hideous thing gets even more hideous if you mess up, with its arms ripping off and being left to rot on the floor (thankfully they grow back). It looks wonderfully yucky, as seen in the old trailer above.
Check out these screenshots:
We won't have long to wait before checking out Struggling for ourselves, as the game's set to drop on the eShop on 27th August.
Think you'll be able stomach this one? Let us know if you're hoping to get stuck into Struggling with a comment below.
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If there are people who will eat chicken feet there must be people who will like this.
I cant play this is just to gross looking sorry.
this reminds 300% heave ho (such a great game btw)..
This is pretty gross to be honest. I’m not massively freaked out by stuff but I found Carrion too much and this looks relatively similar.
@Snatcher Same... it looks like somebody's innards with a face on it... :-/ I don't mind a bit of blood but I'm kind of squeamish about stuff like this... even the Bokoblin Arm weapon from Breath of The Wild disgusted me when it started moving by itself!
@rex_rex was thinking exactly the same
It looks like a Flash game, but it looks like it could be fun. I don't think it's any grosser than Ren and Stimpy.
I think this looks hilarious. I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Reminds me of one of those physics games on Newgrounds. Yeah, no thanks.
Looks hilarious, but also looks like the old flash games from newgrounds. Not a fan of that animation style.
Too funny to see people grossed out. This looks fun.
I can't think of anyone who'd like to play such a disgusting game with me. I'm alright with the gross-out humor, but it's a hard sell.
Can you sort out the bloody Twitter headings so that the game title is in inverted commas or something? Every word doesn't need an upper case letter either.
Reminds me of the Cronenbergs from Rick and Morty.........still not interested though.
@roboshort Don't you mean... a fleshgame!?
Newgrounds flash games ey, Alien Homonid Invasion is coming back on the switch with a multi-player version.
A hard pass from me.
Super-megaton-massively lame.
@georgesdandre Yeah, I mean.. I guess there's an audience for anything. Even if said audience is a bunch of mush brained freaks who like intensely horrible things like this!
But seriously, this is gross looking and I don't understand how Ryan Craddock can think it's "in a good way".
@FredBiletnikoff Actually, every word does need to be capitalized. It's standard APA rules for article titles. It would be grammatically incorrect and it would fly in the face of most other articles written around the world. Just saying.
This looks digusting, I want it
Character design looks to be taken almost shamelessly from A Robot Named Fight and tossed into a different art style. (Superb metroidvania, btw)
Art style of this though is questionably Newgrounds and gross, but hell if that's going to stop me from being interested. The grossness is a plus to me, haha.
I couldn't believe this game was featured in the Indie Direct... It's absolutely revolting. I would never touch this game with a ten foot pole. Such vile garbage should have an option to be muted completely from the eShop.
@Deltath I didn't mention the article, I don't think the rules you stated has any relevance to what they choose to write on Twitter.
I'm sure people will like this art style, but I saw this and was like, "nope pass." Just disgusting to look at it. Why I couldn't get into the Binding of Isaac either.
The embedded video is marked as private to me.
The video in the article is broken unfortunately.
This game looks gross, but out of all the games in the recent Indie World video, this was one of the few that looked interesting to me.
@georgesdandre I was seeing a girl for a few months, 10 years or so ago who used to eat chicken feet. She was super hot so I tolerated it but man, it disgusted me.
Looks fun; Carrion was awesome and this seems interesting as well.
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