GET YOKED: Excessive Bodybuilding is a roguelike deck builder about gaining muscle shortly, safely, and totally absurd-ly.
You end up in a collection of body-building competitions, aiming for large prizes of tens of {dollars} for those who can out-flex your opponents. Fortunately, doing so is comparatively simple. All it is advisable do is get extra beneficial properties as the opposite folks. That’s all calculated numerically primarily based on the playing cards you play, so that you simply need to hit sure numbers inside an allotted time restrict. No less than you’ll at all times know that your exercise is selling progress within the goal muscle.
You may’t simply play the most important playing cards you need to outgrow your opponents. Every card has a complete Good points quantity that you just’ll develop that goals for that focus on quantity and goal muscle, but in addition has a Fatigue score. Muscle teams that get too excessive with Fatigue get injured and might’t be educated for a couple of days, so that you danger dropping beneficial properties for a couple of days for those who overly Fatigue them. That mentioned, many different playing cards can alter Fatigue to reduce it, or they will add extra Stamina (as every card has a Stamina value) that permits you to play extra playing cards (and costlier playing cards) every day.
It’s easy however compelling, and that’s largely as a result of GET YOKED lets you develop into a musclebound monstrosity proper from the beginning. Your character downright balloons relying on the way you focus your coaching, creating hilarious bodybuilders in a rush relying on the way you play. Whereas I doubt I might take a bodybuilding sport severely (even one the place the playing cards are simple and enjoyable like this one), sprinkling humor into this course of makes this sport a blast to play as you attempt to win AND develop a really weird creature on the similar time.
GET YOKED: Excessive Bodybuilding is out there now (as a playable prototype) on itch.io. You may wishlist the long run full model on Steam.
About The Creator
Joel Couture
Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is consistently looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games could be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.
