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Play Overview
Perfect Vermin (2020) is a grotesque narrative game where you destroy office furniture to see whether it is actually alive. Play involves traversing the small office area hitting doors, desks, chairs and so on, with a hammer. Hit the right ones and they are revealed to be what the game calls vermin, and explode into a bloody mess. It's a game not for the squeamish but soon subverts the violent play in surreal and intriguing directions that eventually challenge our desire to leave a legacy and the pain of terminal illness.
Through a series of ever more disorienting challenges, you return to the same office space to destroy everything with a sledgehammer. To finish the level you need only find the particular office furniture that explodes into blood when hit. These items are the same on each subsequent run, while the way you interact or see the world changes greatly.
The result is an interesting and rich interactive challenge. It creates an increasing level of disorientation between you and the world and then cashes this in with a philosophical twist at the end. Whether or not you find this satisfying, the experience stands up as a coherent whole that stays with you long after you have finished playing.
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Perfect Vermin 6 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.
Through a series of ever more disorienting challenges, you return to the same office space to destroy everything with a sledgehammer. To finish the level you need only find the particular office furniture that explodes into blood when hit. These items are the same on each subsequent run, while the way you interact or see the world changes greatly.
The result is an interesting and rich interactive challenge. It creates an increasing level of disorientation between you and the world and then cashes this in with a philosophical twist at the end. Whether or not you find this satisfying, the experience stands up as a coherent whole that stays with you long after you have finished playing.
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Perfect Vermin 6 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is a Narrative game with Adventure, Brain Game, Fighting, Simulation and Traversal elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
12+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. Although younger players could cope with these interactions, to get the most from the game you need to be able to interpret what is happening and connect that to the wider context of the character's failing health.
Costs
Perfect Vermin
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Game Details
Release Date: 06/11/2020
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Narrative (Adventure, Brain Game, Fighting, Simulation and Traversal)
Accessibility: 9 features
Components: 3D First-Person
Developer: Its The Talia (@ItsTheTalia)
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