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Steam Next Fest is now live, and gamers have encountered a variety of entertaining creations from small studios. However, one stands out for its unconventional concept. Titled Unko Technica, this old-school styled side-scrolling game lets you play a protagonist that is actually a dung striving to navigate to a toilet. For those curious, "Unko" means "poop."

The gameplay is simple: you only need a jump control. Throughout one hundred fifty stages, battle mini-bosses and visit a market to buy skins for your poop character.

Plan your movements carefully, since one wrong move means restarting the level. Leap using air pockets to launch yourself upward, navigate disappearing platforms, and activate switches to reveal hidden paths. Collect currency and use them on challenging levels in which gameplay gets crazy.

Visually, the experience features vibrant environments and a killer music score. The retro graphics with shifting abstract forms evokes memories of gamers of old favorites like Earthbound.

While it's tough to name previous releases where you are a dung character, interactive entertainment often incorporated scatological themes. For example, in Death Stranding, players make throwables from protagonist droppings. Titles such as Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize feces as plant food. Unsurprisingly, such content appears a lot in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.

Putting aside its humorous concept, Unko Technica has already received significant awards, including being named best at a major publisher's game competition in 2023. The demo is ready currently on Steam, with the final release set to debut on computers this November.