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Steam Next Fest is now live, and players have discovered numerous entertaining independent titles. But, one catches the eye for its quirky concept. Called Unko Technica, this classic-feel side-scrolling game includes a character that is actually a dung trying to travel to a restroom. For those curious, "Unko" means "poop."

How you interact is simple: press a jump control. Throughout one hundred fifty levels, battle boss fights and access a shop to purchase customizations for your fecal avatar.

Execute your jumps precisely, since one mistake means beginning again. Leap off floating orbs to launch the poop upward, navigate crumbling surfaces, and activate switches to unlock new areas. Gather coins and use them on challenging game content in which things ramps up.

Visually, the game boasts eye-catching stages and a killer soundtrack. The retro graphics with morphing abstract forms could recall gamers of beloved games like Earthbound.

Although tough to name other games where you are a piece of feces, interactive entertainment have long incorporated scatological themes. As an illustration, in Death Stranding, you can create throwables from protagonist droppings. Titles such as Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved employ manure as soil enrichment. And of course, such content appears heavily in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.

Putting aside its silly premise, Unko Technica has already garnered impressive accolades, including winning at Bandai Namco's game competition in 2023. This trial version is ready currently on Steam, with the full game scheduled to launch on PC on November 19.