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Steam Next Fest is now live, and players have found a variety of entertaining indie games. Yet, one catches the eye for its quirky concept. Called Unko Technica, this old-school styled platformer lets you play a character that is truly a piece of poop attempting to travel to a restroom. In case you're wondering, "Unko" is Japanese for "poop."

How you interact is straightforward: just use a jump control. Throughout 150 stages, battle boss fights and visit a shop to acquire customizations for your dung hero.

Execute your jumps precisely, as a wrong move means restarting the level. Jump using floating orbs to propel your character upward, cross crumbling surfaces, and touch buttons to unlock new areas. Gather currency and use them on challenging levels in which things gets crazy.

Visually, the experience features neon stages and catchy background music. Its minimalist graphics of morphing abstract forms could recall gamers of old favorites like Earthbound.

While it's hard to name similar titles where you control a coiled turd, gaming often incorporated toilet humor. For instance, in Death Stranding, players create throwables from character waste. Examples include Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved utilize feces as fertilizer. Naturally, such content is present extensively in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.

Despite its goofy idea, Unko Technica has already received significant accolades, like winning at a major publisher's game competition in 2023. This trial version is accessible currently on Steam, with the final release set to launch on computers on November 19.