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Get Your Splatterpunk Fix With ‘Hotline Miami’-like ‘GARAGE: Bad Trip’
Dennaton Games’s Hotline Miami and its sequel are some of the best games released this decade. They’re also some of the best over-the-top gorefests. Now, what if you took Hotline Miami’s top-down, kneejerk action concept, kept the gore, and instead of mobsters, you were blowing away zombies/monsters? Well, with the recently-released GARAGE: Bad Trip by Zombie Dynamics, you can.
Inspired by VHS-era B-movies, GARAGE: Bad Trip was originally released on the Nintendo Switch back in May, but has just made its way onto Steam. You play as a former drug dealer named Butch, who wakes up in the trunk of a car inside an underground parking garage. Turns out that a mad doctor has been toying with the dead, which as a result are now roaming around. It’s up to you to clean things up and set things right.
That of course, involves using multiple weapons at your disposal.
The game has that same frantic twitch gameplay from Hotline Miami, and yes, the zombies are a quick bunch. Zombies aren’t the only ones to worry about, as you’ve got things like rats, mutants and punks that will be just as unmerciful. A game that’s truly for Splatterpunk enthusiasts. You can check it out on its Steam page above, or head to the official site.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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