28 Jul 2013

Indie Game of the Week: Total Fucking Psychopath

Everything about this retro arcade style freeware game is pretty simple. You play as a maniac who believes everybody is turning into maggots (something like that) and you’re out to stop the madness. As dead bodies begin to pile up on the streets, the cops begin to show up. The more people you kill, the more of cops will arrive in their attempt to arrest -just kidding- shoot you down. Also, you must continuously kill people so that your psychosis meter won’t reach zero, because that means game over. Sounds fun, huh? It is.

Now I bet if this game was released back in the early 2000, Jack Thompson would definitely point it out as being responsible for the Columbine High School Massacre, because as usual, the media, parental and religious organizations would blame video games for horrible tragedies involving troubled teenagers, instead of looking deeper into the psychological and social issues these kids are going through or, how about this; bad parenting.

Anyway, it’s a fun game and my highest score is 5130, with 232 kills and I lasted for 4 minutes 36 seconds. So if you wanna beat that and let Jack Thompson know how harmless video games are, you can download this tiny game right here.