Fast Food

What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed was released in 2006, before we launched -- but if you missed it at the time, it's eminently worth playing.

Linus Bruckman is two games that you play at the same time -- sort of. The upper game is Kami, and is the story of a Japanese goddess seeking her freedom from imprisonment. The lower game is DocMcVonSpaceburgers, in which you play a goofy little alien guy trying to run a burger franchise and get his Dad out of debt (he lost everything playing poker online).

It is my considered opinion that whenever a person has the chance be a zombie, briefly, she should do so; in the universe of Cheapass Games, zombies may not have more fun than blondes (mostly, they have less hair) but they definitely have a better time than you'd think. Happily, Lord of the Fries offers 3 to 8 players the opportunity to have fun with fast food and enjoy the delights of the undead workforce.

Paolo Pedercini is a mad bastard, and the McDonald's game is his sharp, procedural satire of how fast food is a corrupt industry by necessity. The game is set up so that you cannot win without compromising. Try it, you'll see. While you can maintain mild growth without using hormones or genetically modified crops, your bosses will not be satisfied. To really succeed, you have to employ what some might call "unnatural" means, though at Corporate, they call it "McFriendly growth measures".