At Aoedipus.net you can find a sidescrolling WoW-inspired flash game with a good pinch of humour. Perfect time-waster during the Bank holiday here in the UK (if you’re not too busy playing WoW). In all honesty, it’s probably better suited for wasting that lunch hour at work! The game is called WTF?! and contains plenty of bad language in text format, so if you are offended by such things, you might want to give this one a pass.

It’s certainly entertaining enough, and you can even save your progress in the game if you would like to. Some kind of strange mix between WoW and Super Mario. Just don’t use your sword near the NPC’s as that will hurt them, and then they will try to kill you…

Scenario: The time/space continuum of Azimuth has enfolded. A Rift Lord’s unwittingly opened a portal from the earthly netherworld, and the place is crawling with infamous historical thinkers, like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Mary Daly, each of whom is trying to enlist your help in effort to figure out WTF Azimuth is all about. And… as you might imagine, there’s plenty of conflict as they attempt to make sense of the ways in which, as Mary Daly puts it, “the game naturalizes a Western militaristic heterosexist hypersexualized patriarchal capitalism, played out in relation to a spiritually infused race war - kinda.”

It’s an ideological revolt, or perhaps it’s just ideologically revolting. Something is definitely afoot. You must choose whom to align with as competing factions attempt to find the means to wrest control of Azimuth away from whomever, or whatever, currently holds power. Think WoW meets social theory meets game studies meets, well… tabloid journalism… since you also dig up plenty of dirt about some of these characters along the way. Woot!

Currently a Demo version is available. In the demo version you can play 2 main characters, quest in 4 unique zones, interact with over 15 NPCs, and advance to level 10-ish... but be patient, it’s ~5.8 MB file that needs to load. The core functionality and game mechanics are present, but only a tiny sampling of the content. And maybe that’s a good thing.

You can find the game here, and if you have any problem with it, try it directly from here instead.

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