The Crackpet Show Is The Happy Tree Friends Game We Never Got

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Welcome to TheGamer’s new weekly column where we write about an indie game we feel deserves some time in the spotlight. To start us off, the twisted abomination that is The Crackpet Show. When I first sat down to play it after work, I figured I’d have a couple of quick runs to get a feel for it and see if it lived up to the hype I’d created in my head - fast forward a few hours to my housemate dragging me off my chair to force me to go and eat dinner.

How could I remember to eat when a terrified mutant rabbit was firing explosive bowling balls at a rabid mole that attacks by spinning mud off of itself? At least I hope that was mud. What if Enter the Gungeon and Happy Tree Friends conceived a baby during some chemsex? And then smoked and drank absinthe throughout the pregnancy? How does a TV show or a video game get pregnant? I don’t know, this isn’t a great analogy. Anyway, that’s The Crackpet Show, a violent, funny, dungeon-crawling roguelite bullet hell from Vixa Games.

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In The Crackpet Show you take control of one of four mutated animals, fighting for fame and glory on a bloody game show set after an apocalypse that has wiped out humanity. Animals have filled the void, and they’re hungry for blood. Each level takes the form of an episode in the show, where you’ll control a rabbit, a cow, a shark, or a rooster with what I can only assume are balls on its chin through rooms filled with traps, deadly creatures, and a cheering audience. An audience you can kill if you want, because what’s the point of ringside seats if you don’t get a little blood on you?

There are multiple paths to take throughout each episode that lead to shops, new weapons, items,