Plug and Play Review (or Seriously What the Fuck?)

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Seriously what is this game? What is it trying to say? Where is the game?
Okay, I first saw this when it was doing the rounds on Youtube and kind of skipped over it. Then when it appeared on a Humble Bundle, and being a bit of a Humble Bundle addict I bought it without thinking. Hey, these YouTubers were playing it so there must be something about it?
Alright, at the time of writing this Plug and Play is going for £1.99 on Steam remember this as it's important for later.


The game consists of some very simple black and white graphics and some even more simple game mechanics. The imagery, Jesus Christ what's with the imagery? It starts off nice and simple with you popping a plug into a socket, followed by some mad Da Vinci God and Adam finger touching with some massively long fingers. Which is funny don't get me wrong. Then convert to a surreal image of a person with a plug for a head running back and fourth. With quiet a predominant arse. This surreal character at a third through the game stops swats and shits out one of his plug pins, straining.


Now this is where I start looking at this game as a weird Salvador Dali painting with something deep and meaningful to it, or as the work of some kind of pothead who managed to keep it together long enough to either make the game, or explain it to someone so they could make the game. Is the whole drop and squat something about gender dynamics. Saying the people can change their genders or sexual preferences at the drop of a hat?

Along with a section reminiscent of a cartoon I saw in the 80's about communism and individuality. In this cartoon, a long line if grey dull characters were shoving in a queue until someone fell off a cliff and then they'd shuffle up and repeat the process, but in the middle of all of this I a bright colourful character who seems stupid and non-conformist would go against the grain and push back in the other direction.


The game seems to have had two clear plug head types, male and female. In the game, you have to converse with the female plug heads. Declaring your love or not. Trying to form some kind of connection with the other one. Which gave me the feeling it was emphasising the human condition and the need for love and understanding.
And at the point I thought the game was trying to be deep and meaningful, along came the human centipede. A ring of plug head characters, with their heads buried firmly up one another’s arses.
This game is so strange, as I stated above it's either deep and meaningful or just mental. Now the whole experience lasted about 15 minutes, and had no real deep or fun gameplay, but saying that they may be a deeper meaning to it. Then again I could just be over analysing this whole thing.

It retails at £1.99 on steam and is pretty much the same as a flash game you can find of Game-jolt or IndieDB. I don't believe it's worth it. My best advice is to find a play-through on Youtube and give it a watch. I give this a Gaming Face Punch 1 out of 5
Tagged: Plug and Play, Review, Weird