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Steam Next Fest is currently underway, and gamers have encountered a variety of entertaining indie games. But, one is particularly notable for its offbeat concept. Called Unko Technica, this old-school styled side-scrolling game lets you play a character that is truly a dung striving to navigate to a toilet. In case you're wondering, "Unko" translates to "poop."

How you interact is simple: you only need a jump control. Throughout 150 stages, battle tough enemies and unlock a shop to buy outfits for your dung hero.

Execute your movements carefully, as a wrong move means starting over. Leap using air pockets to launch your character upward, navigate disappearing surfaces, and interact with triggers to reveal hidden paths. Collect currency for buying more difficult stages in which gameplay intensifies.

Visually, the experience features eye-catching stages and a killer soundtrack. The simple graphics featuring moving basic polygons could recall fans of beloved games like Earthbound.

Although tough to recall previous releases where you play as a coiled turd, interactive entertainment frequently incorporated fecal matter. For instance, in Death Stranding, you can craft grenades from character waste. Titles such as Palworld and Ark: Survival Evolved employ manure as soil enrichment. Unsurprisingly, this theme shows up a lot in Obsidian's role-playing game The Stick of Truth.

Putting aside its humorous idea, Unko Technica has already garnered significant awards, including winning at a major publisher's game competition in 2023. The demo is ready now on Steam, with the final release scheduled to launch on Steam on November 19.