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Steam Next Fest is now live, and enthusiasts have found plenty of engaging independent titles. Yet, one is particularly notable for its quirky concept. Named Unko Technica, this old-school styled jumping adventure includes a character that is truly a dung attempting to travel to a restroom. In case you're wondering, "Unko" is Japanese for "poop."

How you interact is straightforward: just use a one button to leap. Across numerous stages, battle tough enemies and access a market to purchase outfits for your fecal avatar.

Execute your actions carefully, since one error requires starting over. Leap on bubbles to launch the poop upward, cross fragile platforms, and touch switches to reveal secret routes. Gather UN-KOINS to purchase more difficult game content in which things gets crazy.

Graphically, the demo features vibrant stages and catchy background music. Its minimalist visual style with shifting abstract forms evokes memories of gamers of beloved games like Earthbound.

Although difficult to think of previous releases where you control a coiled turd, interactive entertainment have long incorporated fecal matter. As an illustration, in Death Stranding, players make grenades from protagonist droppings. Examples include Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize dung as fertilizer. Unsurprisingly, fecal references appears extensively in the role-playing game The Stick of Truth.

Putting aside its goofy concept, Unko Technica has already garnered significant awards, like being named best at a major publisher's indie contest in 2023. This trial version is available currently on Steam, with the full game set to debut on computers this November.