Ironically, it’ll leave a horrible taste in your mouth. There are plenty of games out there if you’re looking to self-soothe in stressful times. The entire cozy games subgenre is built on that idea, and even in games focused on intense action or horror , there’s catharsis to be found in fighting for your life.
But instead of any of those, I’m here to tell you why you should play a game that will make you feel like absolute garbage. Everything that happens in developer Wrong Organ’s Mouthwashing is your fault. Your very first action in the game is to crash the spaceship you’re on.
Before meeting any characters or learning anything about the game’s story, you find yourself with a first-person view of a cockpit, with a screen alerting you of an oncoming asteroid, hurtling from your right. The only option the game offers is to turn towards the oncoming threat, then disable the ship’s autopilot to ensure you hit it. Mouthwashing isn’t easy to stomach, but it’s worth ruining your night for.
From that moment on, your point of view shifts between the ship’s captain, Curly, playing through events before the crash, and his second-in-command, Jimmy, to see what happens after the crash. That’s because Curly was found horribly injured in the cockpit after the crash and is now unable to move or speak. Through this nonlinear structure, you learn what led up to the game’s self-destructive opening and what happens to the crew afterward — and both answers are worse .
