Founded in April 2012 and led by creative director Evan Greenwood, Free Lives is best known for creating the video game Broforce and has also developed the comedy game Genital Jousting and the virtual reality game Gorn. Beyond that, any of the other nonsense games I’ve listed are probably worth more of your time.Free Lives (Pty) Ltd is an independent South African video game developer based in Cape Town. It’s an amusing few hours and I’d recommend it when it goes on sale. There’s no real secret hunting either.ĭespite some harsh criticisms, I did have fun with Alpaca Ball: Allstars. There’s nothing interesting about the writing beyond a few puns. There’s no customisation to change your playstyle like in Fight Crab. Goat Simulator made a clear effort to harken back to the secret hunting of old Tony Hawk Skateboarding games.īut Alpaca Ball: Allstars is just what it says on the tin. Genital Jousting’s story mode turned out to be an interesting commentary on male ego and toxic masculinity. Fight Crab turned out to be a surprisingly deep fighting game that tried some new and unique methods to differentiate itself from similar games. What makes a nonsense game particularly special or memorable, for me, is finding that hidden gem within it. Goat Simulatoris £7.19 and there’s probably triple the playtime in that game, and I don’t even like Goat Simulator. It’s honestly a little galling that Salt Castle Studio thought to charge £15.49 for this game. The graphics are fine, the colours are bright and the joke of an alpaca swinging its neck around to hit a football is amusing. I’m not trying to rag on this game too much but beyond the initial gimmick, there really isn’t much to review here. At which point you might as well just hit the ball for fun and just hope it doesn’t go into your goal before the timer hits zero. The ball will bounce and bounce and bounce around the pitch until it eventually makes its way into the goal. I found that games with teams of two alpacas to be easy enough to navigate and actively send the ball where I wanted it but anything beyond that and the game becomes a nonsensical mess. You hit the ball with your head and the ball will go somewhere. This game has multiplayer so it’s clearly intended to be fun to play against and with friends. However, that fine comes with the caveat of what you want out of this game. You know, that classic tale! Image credit : Salt Castle Studio Your only hope is to become a famous alpaca ball player to gather the social media fame to save your home. You are a young alpaca who’s home is going to be demolished by a fancy British alpaca named Angus. Alpaca Ball: Allstars is a game about Alpacas playing football by whacking the ball with their heads. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s a solid market strategy and the games I have listed are by no means un-fun to play.Īnywho, moving on with the review. These types of games are usually just meant to pull you in with the silly gimmick, maybe get you to play with a few friends for a fun time and possibly get a YouTuber to scream over it. There are also games like Goat Simulator and even Genital Jousting that fit into this secondary genre. A lpaca Ball: Allstars fits quite nicely into that category along with another game I’ve reviewed on this website, Fight Crab.
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