Esophaguys

Esophaguys is a running and swinging game where you control an old person with an extending neck. You move through the weird and surreal stages, extending your neck to bite and hold onto trees and creatures so you can swing across chasms and grapple up ledges. It's a bizarre concept, but paired with the intentionally awkward controls, it makes for silly fun that's also the right amount of challenge.

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Play involves moving through the cartoony stages by using your neck as a grapple to swing across gaps and ascend cliffs. The controls are intentionally awkward, which makes failing to make a swing or missing a ledge as fun as it is annoying. There's a steep learning curve that requires you to experiment and wrestle with your momentum.

As you progress, the levels get more challenging and require more creative use of how you latch onto different objects and exploit the physics to your advantage. You can play by yourself or with friends, which adds the additional fun of being able to latch onto each other's bodies to gain extra distance and reach.

The result is a game that combines novel controls with a quirky concept to create a game that's simple to grasp but difficult to perfect, offering a physics-based challenge while still remaining silly and fun.

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Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Esophaguys 10 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 months ago.