Cargo: The Quest for Gravity (Insanity)

So the Steam sale was this past week and I picked up quite a few games on the cheap, as it's a great time to do so. Well, one gem that I found was called:

I've not completed it yet, and have merely played a few hours, but I'm ready to declare it the strangest game in my Steam library. It's a game that could have been developed by Picasso having a fever dream while having dropped acid. I've tried to think of other words that could accurately describe this, but really the only fitting thing here is the meme

Yeah, that is a true statement in terms of this game. Essentially the earth has been destroyed, but not totally, just enough that most of it got blown off into the atmosphere in decent sized chunks. Apparently gravity has mostly disappeared as well. This seems to be the work of three giant robot heads who all call themselves Manipu: Deus Ex Machina. They travel around an island dangled from a conveyor belt and talk to you about how much humans suck and break things. But just mostly, its you and the Buddies...oh, that's right, I haven't talked about the Buddies. Have you read Hyperion by Dan Simmons? No. Fix that. If you have, then the Buddies remind me of the Bikura, only if the Bikura were all midgets, spoke in rhyme, and were infinite supplies of fun. I apologize profusely for the next image, but I have to share the crazy. It's the only way to keep myself sane.

It's a Buddy chain! Wooo! So yeah, FUN is the currency in Cargo, and you get FUN by doing stuff with Buddies. Don't worry, your mind going to the bad place just now...that doesn't happen, I hope. Anyway, you get FUN from Buddies by kicking them (they enjoy flying and will eventually float into the air and explode, giving you lots of FUN) or taking them on boat rides (which also makes them explode) or racing them (you got it, explode) and I'm sure numerous other things as the game progresses. You then use your FUN to buy parts to build things like boats or cars. The system here is very Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, where you get to decide where to put various pieces of the vehicle. Kind of cool.

I mean, overall, the game is oddly fun, a lot of the time because you're just going on this near nightmare fuel adventure to see where it takes you next. Controls aren't the tightest thing in the world and take some getting used to. Oh, there is also this thing with music, where you collect notes and set up little music areas for the Buddies to dance to. The more Buddies dancing, the more FUN you get.

It's just...bizarre. It's $10 right now, and I still kind of recommend it at that price. It has a sandbox mode as well, where I assume you just get the parts and blueprints to build whatever. I'm definitely going to keep playing, but the Captain did just inform me that he has a plan to capture some buddies and breed them. Uhhhh...remember how I said earlier not to worry? And did I mention you get your tutorials in-game from the Buddy Band?

Yup.