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Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and enthusiasts have discovered numerous entertaining independent titles. But, one catches the eye for its offbeat concept. Called Unko Technica, this classic-feel platformer lets you play a hero that is actually a piece of poop attempting to travel to a commode. As a fun fact, "Unko" means "poop."

Player controls is easy to grasp: press a jump control. Throughout one hundred fifty levels, encounter mini-bosses and access a shop to acquire skins for your dung hero.

Plan your actions with caution, since one wrong move requires restarting the level. Leap using bubbles to hurl yourself higher, traverse disappearing platforms, and interact with triggers to reveal new areas. Gather currency to purchase challenging stages as gameplay gets crazy.

Visually, the experience boasts eye-catching environments and catchy background music. Its minimalist graphics of morphing abstract forms evokes memories of gamers of beloved games like Earthbound.

Although hard to recall previous releases where you are a dung character, gaming often featured toilet humor. As an illustration, in Death Stranding, you can craft throwables from protagonist excrement. Titles such as Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize dung as fertilizer. Unsurprisingly, fecal references shows up heavily in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.

Despite its goofy concept, Unko Technica has already garnered impressive awards, like being named best at Bandai Namco's game competition in 2023. The demo is available currently on Steam, with the full game planned to arrive on computers this November.