Cruelty Squad is undoubtedly one of the weirdest indie breakthroughs of this decade, a wilfully obtuse and unpleasant immersive sim in which you play a corporate assassin in a lo-fi 3D world painted with vomit.
But wedug its counter-cultural (and counter-mechanical) approach and, following its success, the developer has since been working on a new game calledPsycho Patrol R, which has just dropped a new trailer in advance of its early access launch in a few weeks' time.
Psycho Patrol R is spiritually aligned with, but fictionally distinct from Cruelty Squad, with developer Consumer Softproducts describing it as a «policing and punishing simulator» set in a decaying state called Pan-Europa.
In fact, I'm just gonna drop in the full blurb in below, because it's basically nightmare dystopian flash fiction that really got me stoked to jump in.
You play as an officer of the European Federal Police, a V-Stalker pilot of Psycho Patrol, a special unit tasked with counter-psychohazard operations and neural meltdown prevention using cutting edge criminological frameworks.