Posts Tagged ‘single-joke games’

Push The Button: ICBM Is A Free Nuke Launch Control Sim

The Cold War! A conflict immortalised in such action-packed movies as Rambo III, Red Dawn, Red Zone Cuba, and Rocky IV. But what about the real threat of the Cold War, the thousands of intercontinental ballistic missiles pointed at the USA and USSR? ICBM [official site] is a free game which puts you – yes, you! – at the heart of the action.

Across four missions, you’ll be the one sat at the desk with the big red button, waiting patiently for orders to turn the key and unleash the end of the world. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting.

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The Wonder Of Shower With Your Dad Simulator

You can hardly swing a cat in here without hitting a dad and being sent to your room. On Monday I was tip-toeing around the first-person melee roguelikelike parenting of Dad By The Sword, and now I’m slipping on headphones so I can listen late at night to the bizarre rewrite of Kanye West’s Power in the trailer for Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad? [Greenlight page]. The dadification of games is exploring some strange and wonderful paths.

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RPS Feature

Have You Played… Skeal?

Oh, yeah, just a ski slope, nothing going on here.

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.

“An endless stream of game recommendations,” says whoever wrote that intro when we started this. This, however, is a more literal question: have you played Skeal? (Now in browser form too!) Because I’d like to talk about it or maybe just laugh together if you have, but if you haven’t, well, I wouldn’t want to ruin anything. It’s a short, free, absurd, and awfully janky game about downhill skiing which becomes quite the thing. How do you feel about R&B singer Seal, by the way?

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Pro Chess Simulator 300 Makes The Tough Guys Tumble

I sank your battleship.

Goat Simulator. Accountant Simulator. Door Simulator 2015. Corgi Simulator 2071. Turtle Simulator. Going Right Simulator. Room Cleaning Simulator 2014. Grass Simulator 2014. Cat Simulator. Tree Simulator 2013: Treeloaded. Teabag Simulator 2014. Alien Probe Simulator 2014. Tea Party Simulator 2014. Barbershop Quartet Simulator. Dish-washing Simulator 2014. Butt Touching Simulator (obviously I showed that one to Cara).

You might have noticed that joke Simulators are all the rage nowadays. They’re often not very funny. Usually their mere name is meant to be the punchline. Pro Chess Simulator 300 is a single-joke Simulator too but it’s a good joke. Not one to retell at your Britain’s Got Talent audition, but worth a few smiles.

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