If there’s one gripe I’ve with espresso video games, it’s this: there isn’t a lot of an goal to them. Now that is usually by design. Video games like Espresso Discuss are heavier on the speak than the espresso and newer choices like Good Espresso Nice Espresso have aims however with none actual penalties for those who don’t full them. Which is nice if you would like your gaming to be low stakes.

However generally you need a little bit one thing additional out of your espresso video video games. Possibly you want a little bit pleasure, one thing to get your blood pumping only a contact. Possibly it is advisable be a espresso mascot working for its life from zombies. For that there’s Unusual Brew, and it’s out on Steam now.

Unusual Brew is described as a “cinematic 3D motion platformer with intense chase scenes that really feel like a zombie film.” You play as Joe, the particular person inside a large duck costume for mega espresso chain MoonDucks. After the corporate’s horrible Pumpkin Spice Latte experiment goes utterly sideways, turning anybody who drinks it right into a zombie, Joe should escape the horde and his solely choice is to hoof it.

And sure, MoonDucks is a gossamer-thinly veiled model of Starbucks. Moon vs. Stars, Geese vs. Bucks. Pumpkin spice lattes, the inexperienced cups. The truth that each mascots are some land/sea hybrid. And for all the criticism I’ve lobbied at Starbucks over the years, I’ve by no means as soon as implied they’re/will probably be chargeable for the tip of humankind. Thus I really feel an apology is so as. (Although we did predict the Pumpkin Spicepocalypse.)

So as the escape, Joe should make the most of his environment in inventive methods, both to run away from, distract (by throwing espresso), or the kill the zombie throng. To maintain his energy up, Joe should discover cups of espresso stashed across the maps, which can enable him to run sooner and leap greater. Managing your caffeine ranges whereas attempting to keep away from having your brains consumed solely provides to the stress stage, which is all a part of the enjoyable. Enjoyable in the identical approach being overcaffeinated is enjoyable.

I’ve but to play via your entire recreation so I can’t say for sure whether or not or not the massive unhealthy is a company exec named Harold Schitz who tries to subdue Joe by squirting Oleato at him (Oleato is gone however not forgotten). And when will we get a Buzzy and/or Spesh mod? I imply, now there are some espresso mascots who seems to be like they’d have time throughout a zombie apocalypse.

Unusual Brew is presently accessible on Steam for $14.99, with a ten% low cost till February twenty fifth. For extra info, go to Unusual Brew’s official web site.

Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Community and a workers author primarily based in Dallas. Learn extra Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.