Explore the psychological descent of a stranded spaceship crew in Mouthwashing, a chilling sci-fi horror game.
The word 'challenge' has an accepted meaning in the world of video games , but in this engrossing sci-fi horror it’s the subject matter that’s confronting. Wrong Organ's Mouthwashing makes terrifying use of low-poly characters, smeared textures and muted colour palettes to generate dread and abjection – and in this sci-fi odyssey they’re also brilliantly utilised to symbolise complete psychological breakdown .
The setup to Mouthwashing is simple and familiar: when a hulking spacecraft crashes in a remote part of the galaxy, the small crew slowly goes insane waiting for a rescue that is never going to come. Not helping matters is their cargo: millions of gallons of high-alcohol mouthwash – which very quickly gets abused by the desperate and deeply flawed castaways. With the captain gravely injured, you play mostly as second in command Jimmy as he takes over the survival efforts. But you soon discover everyone has something to hide, from paranoid medic Anya to bullish mechanic Swansea. Everything on the ship is given a sinister edge from the disgusting food-processing equipment to the huge LED displays continually showing images of romantic sunsets and fluffy clouds. What sounds like a tense thriller, however, is in fact a surreal exploration of social and mental deterioration. Characters hallucinate wildly, the narrative chops from before the crash to after it, swapping between the two in a dizzying chronological dance; the ship itself seems to mutate in response to the paranoid delusions of its inhabitants; the weird vaporwave soundtrack hums and blasts in discordant rushes. There are elements of Event Horizon, Solaris and High Life in the interplay of human and technological breakdown; the way the ship’s U-boat-like corridors expand and contract like intestinal passageways; the way the crew’s psychoses are reflected back at them in smashed screens and ruined control panels. It is grim, fascinating stuf
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