Saturday, June 12, 2021

Buddy Simulator 1984

This game had amazing promise, but didn't take it to the places I was hoping it was going.

Buddy Simulator 1984 has you befriending a text computer program that slowly grows in power and gets more and more cringy/clingy to the player.  Like a primitive War Games computer, he gets bored with the simple games and needs you to allow him to upgrade.

They played around with some glitchiness, but it really needed to go 'dark'.  If it had tried eliminating everyone else that tried to be friendly in the game or went well over the top with the super cringy-clinginess, it might have been a big hit - but all it all it was fairly tame.   Effectively it built a bad adventure game and whined a lot ... 



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