Whenever you consider video games based mostly off mythology, you would possibly take into consideration the Hades or God of Struggle franchises. However there’s a brand new contender on the block that mixes Greek fantasy with the foibles of Bennett Foddy. Pushing It! With Sisyphus is a sport about endlessly rolling a rock up an enormous hill. It is a notoriously troublesome and thankless process within the supply materials, and the sport adaptation makes it even worse, as a result of as you try to fail (and fail, and fail, and fail) the developer overtly mocks you.
Pushing It! With Sisyphus initially launched on Sept. 10, and as of Sept. 17, nobody has managed to beat it. The sport does a nasty little trick up-front the place it exhibits you a end line on the finish of a excessive hill. Certain, it’s a steep slope to handle, and the ball will take any alternative to slip out of Sisyphus’s grasp and again to the abyss beneath, however it appears manageable… at first. When you get to that first goalpost, issues simply get tougher.
“Falling video games” just like the notorious Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy are fashionable due to the each the problem and the inevitable failure of the duty at hand. Pushing It! (which Foddy shouldn’t be concerned in) revels in placing a carrot simply in sight, pulling it out of the participant’s attain on the final second, after which making enjoyable of the participant for pondering it was an actual carrot. And if Sisyphus perishes on these rocky slopes, a Darkish Souls-style “You Died” banner seems … earlier than Zeus shocks you again to life to start your everlasting torment as soon as once more.
Pushing It! with Sisyphus is out there on Steam, and the outline notes: “There may be an finish. You simply most likely received’t make it.” I definitely received’t; I’m clever sufficient to know once I’m beat. However for individuals who love the fun of the climb, that elusive ending would possibly simply be what you’re searching for.
