High On Life

Justin Roiland’s Rick & Morty-like video game looked, for a while, like it might just be obnoxious. It turns out, it’s obnoxious and pretty decent fun. A first-person shooter that mocks the genre at the same time as being guilty of everything it’s mocking, with incessant jibber-jabber from the game’s characters, guns, and probably textures, it’s proving to be enormously popular

Aliens have invaded Earth, with a plan to smoke human beings like meth, and you are a teen tasked with orchestrating a very stringent drug-prevention strategy: killing them all dead. Things get Metroid-adjacent as new chatty weapons open up new locations in previous areas, in a game that offers solid platforming, if slightly more repetitive combat. Rick & Morty fans will be utterly delighted with its humor, while others might want to tweak the settings to turn down quite how much the game talks at you throughout.

A Good Match For: Fans of Rick & Morty, getting high, and bright colors.

Not A Good Match For: Those of a more delicate sense of humor, or people who just want everyone to shut up.

Rough Average Playtime: 12.5 hours

Update, 2/2: While High on Life was developed by a large number of people at developer Squanch Games, in the time since the game’s launch and its inclusion on this list, news has come out that co-founder and game voice actor Justin Roiland is facing domestic violence charges, and has left the studio