That’s a good explainer for what the game is about, but to summarise: it’s a first-person adventure set in a world where all food walks and talks, and consuming it transforms the body of the creature that ate it. It’s Cloudy With A Chance Of Pokémon with a surprisingly emotional story and some light puzzling. In his Bugsnax review, Steve Hogarty wrote that the game didn’t quite marry its ideas together, but that for its 5-6 hour running time, it’s “is “a delightful and intriguing world to inhabit” and a “faintly naughty, but never crass adventure that feels simultaneously like a love letter to, and a sharply observed satire of, the games that inspired it.” It’s also, brilliantly, a source of wholesome queer representation, wrote Melissa King. Bugsnax will arrive on Steam sometime in 2022. If you can’t wait, it remains available on the Epic Games Store for $25/£18.
