I’m sorry, Tears of the Kingdom, but the true Switch game of the year just dropped: a $5 indie game where you stick your Joy-Con in the actual roll of toilet paper to play the game.
Give me toilet paper! It is available on the Switch eShop worldwide for $5, or its equivalent in your region. The game basically involves sending a roll of toilet paper through a maze filled with spinning buzzsaws, trap doors, spikes, lasers, and other obstacles. After all, you are trying to get toilet paper to an unfortunate businessman in desperate need.
It’s all about the gimmick in Give me toilet paper! By sticking your Joy-Con in real toilet paper, you can control that roll. Once you’ve laid out the paper, you roll it around to move its in-game counterpart using the cardboard that every gamer keeps on hand. It’s just a matter of stuffing some tissues in there to keep the Joy-Con from moving. There are no English trailers for the game, but this demonstration video speaks for itself.
The concept of playing a game about desperately needing toilet paper may trigger some bad memories of living through the start of a pandemic, but it is a fresh one. I would like to thank GSK on Twitter for highlighting the game. I am still not sure whether or not it is a brilliant or a mad game.
The developer, Takahiro Miyazawa, has previously released a handful of Switch puzzle games as well as a collection of games with bonkers control schemes. I’m looking forward to Miyazawa’s influence creeping over the entire gaming industry if we’re launching a whole new genre of toilet paper games.