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<p>With more games than ever releasing on the platform&#8211;there have been <a href="http://ift.tt/2zyakt6">more than 6,000 new releases alone so far this year</a>&#8211;Steam is full of weird, quirky titles. The upcoming <a href="http://ift.tt/2mnJKxa">Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy</a>, however, might just take the cake when it comes to being the year&#8217;s weirdest.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Getting Over It is a game where you play as an at least partially nude man in a giant pot who navigates the world by using a sledgehammer. This is controlled entirely with the mouse, making for a rather curious control scheme as you try to drag or push yourself along. It was developed by the eponymous Bennett Foddy, who&#8217;s best known for games like <a href="http://ift.tt/2yY6M3I">QWOP</a> and CLOP and says it&#8217;s meant as an homage to the 2002 game Sexy Hiking.</p>
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<figure><a href="http://ift.tt/2mn661P"><img alt="Gallery image 1" src="http://ift.tt/2mkKeEp"></a><a href="http://ift.tt/2yY6OZo"><img alt="Gallery image 2" src="http://ift.tt/2yXqDQt"></a><a href="http://ift.tt/2mkKgfv"><img alt="Gallery image 3" src="http://ift.tt/2mnmfEH"></a><a href="http://ift.tt/2yXqEUx"><img alt="Gallery image 4" src="http://ift.tt/2yXqGvD"></a></figure>
<p dir="ltr">But as you can see in the video above, playing it is a maddening, hilarious experience. You&#8217;re meant to ascend a mountain to find &quot;great mysteries and a wonderful reward,&quot; but doing so is much easier said than done. It&#8217;s easy to lose progress as you fall back down after a mistake&#8211;moments which are punctuated with a quote or music intended to troll you, although you can turn that off if it proves to be too frustrating. Frustration is arguably the point, however; as the Steam page states, this is a game designed &quot;for a certain kind of person; to hurt them.&quot;</p>
<p dir="ltr">Partway through the video, we adjust the camera so you can see the actual physical inputs that are required to play. It&#8217;s at this point that our stream affords you the rare opportunity to actually watch a person acquire carpal tunnel in real time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Getting Over It was released recently as a Humble Original; it was included as part of October&#8217;s Humble Monthly bundle, which it&#8217;s now too late to purchase. However, the game will release on platforms like Steam on December 6, should you feel up to the challenge.</p>
<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://ift.tt/2yXqxbz">GameSpot</a></em></div>
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