Here we are, slumped on the floor, an exhausted man. Walking is too much. Standing is too much. And yet, he can’t quite sleep. Too many things to do. So this prone man must somehow slither and slide around, propelling himself by bumping his bum up and down. Get him started and he’ll continue sliding onwards until told otherwise, presumably too tired to think about stopping. Which makes it great when he hits a wall and OH he slides right on up the wall, and soon is slithering across the wall, and spinning his floppy body into a twirl. Within this familiar framework of a wacky physics game, we have to perform tasks. Move this object somewhere, adjust your body that particular way, the usual sorts of things that are difficult to accomplish when you are a terrible slug of a man. I enjoyed it (aside from occasional bugs where objectives weren’t listed correctly). It was nice. I had fun. The image of this slugman doing donuts on a wall with his limbs twisting around his body is very funny to me. You can download Exhausted Man’s Next Fest demo from Steam. Exhausted Man is made by Chinese indie studio Candleman Games, who previously released a platformer Alice Bee quite liked, Candleman.
