For this Steam Summer Sale, instead of buying 10 year old popular games for $5-$10, I decided to buy some new Indie titles, for $5-$10. The first one I really sunk into is Demolish or Die, a freshly released light-hearted cyberpunk game with a destructable world. You play Kimo, a kill-the-world super-edgy flaming skeleton, broken out of Dystopian SuperMax by Catnip, a small cat person. The game's humor is, well, its tongue is so far in it's cheek it's achieved escape velocity, and I'm sure in a few years it will become hideously dated. But its mostly a light presence, and the game (so far) lacks voice acting, which I think is better in the end.
The meat of the game is traversing the world of Copistan, a pastel colored island nation under the harsh rule of its overfunded, overmilitarized police force. You destroy cop bases, wreak havoc amidst the town using your building-leveling moveset to turn the apartments and stores into so much rubble, steal cars, and once destroying enough normal outposts, venture into the Cop-Skyscrapers full of traps and tougher enemies. Its light on its feet simple arcade-y fun that doesn't take itself too seriously.
