Thank Goodness You're Here! review

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There were a few games last year that we didn't have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we're playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you're reading this and wondering if you've slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don't worry, you've not become unfastened from time. We're just running late.

Thank Goodness You're Here! has an unwavering commitment to eliciting the kind of laughter that makes a little bit of pee come out. From the opening montage of surreal, whimsical and ever-so-slightly unnerving adverts to the anarchic musical number it ends on, it offers no time to breathe between all the guffawing you'll be doing. But it is absolutely worth risking the gag-induced asphyxiation for—it's a small price to pay.

At the end of last year, we called it the Best Comedy Game in our 2024 GOTYs, but for some reason we never actually got around to reviewing it, and thus it falls to me to slap a number on this thing and tell you that you owe it to yourself to spend a couple of hours exploring the fictional Yorkshire town of Barnsworth.

Technically we're in adventure game territory, but it has little in common with its joke-filled compatriots like Monkey Island and Sam & Max. You'll find no tricky conundrums or pixel-hunting puzzles here. Instead, playing as a nameless, voiceless, dogsbody of inconsistent size—allowing you to, say, explore a disturbing meat dimension inside a slab of ham—you'll mostly be finding yourself at the centre of increasingly bizarre skits.

Your task is to help the eccentric residents of Barnsworth with simple problems. Typically, the solution amounts to simply pushing forward, exploring this weird cartoon reality and embracing its lunacy. Sometimes you'll jump on something, knock another thing over, or give someone a playful slap. There's no inventory management to take you out of the world. Rather, you're like a child, randomly touching things with your sticky fingers to see what will happen.

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