One person wears a VR headset, while any number of people sit in the real world and look on the screen at a 23-page “bomb-defusal manual”. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes will put you and whoever is in the room under extreme pressure. However, its incredibly distinctive gameplay demands your attention. Unless you’ve invested in a virtual reality headset, this game probably isn’t on your radar.
Each new stage is almost an entirely new game unto itself, and it's an absolute delight to discover its mechanical impetus alongside a good friend. For example, where Cody's given a sticky sap launcher, Mae's given a squirrel-tech flamethrower that ignites said sap in a glorious conflagration to remove obstacles or take down killer wasps. In a nutshell, each player is introduced to a unique mechanic that's specific to them in each level, and these mechanics have to work in tandem in order to progress. Hazelight has essentially fabricated a deeply engaging theme park of cooperative goodness in here, and no two stages are even remotely alike save for a common thread of well-executed platforming mechanics. This is precisely the tale told in the latest and greatest from modern visionary Josef Fares of Hazelight Studios, but really, the wacky plot undersells just how good the cooperative gameplay elements are.
Because that's how you fix problematic marriages.
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Your parents are getting divorced, so they fall into a coma and navigate through a shared fever dream in which they've become miniaturized wooden or clay action figures and are forced through a series of fantastical and action-packed adventures at the behest of a sadistic anthropomorphic self-help book.