Sometimes the simplest and stupidest games are the best: just ask my younger self why I would so frequently play BMX XXX when there were so many better games out there. Well, apart from the most obvious reasons — we didn’t have the internet in my house back then, alright?
Developed by Billy Goat Entertainment, who you may know for their work on the irreverent Her Majesty’s Spiffing, Supermarket Shriek certainly fits the mould as a guilty pleasure game, which I don’t think anybody should ever take as an insult. We should all make time in our lives for “lighter” experiences, stuff that won’t revolutionise anyone or anything but just give us a great distraction that we don’t have to think too much about. Supermarket Shriek is great for providing just that, especially with a friend in tow.
Gameplay is simple: navigate around perilous tracks in a shopping cart by using the power of your character’s voice. I oversaw the guy in a VR headset and Will, my Rezzed compatriot, played as the goat. It’s a small thing, but I really appreciated the fact that both of those would be inclined to scream, especially the former while playing Resident Evil 7. It looks like there will also be some room afforded for customisation.
Controlling voices is as simple as a single button press; Supermarket Shriek really is a party game for anyone to enjoy. Each character’s shriek controls either left or right; both at the same time will make you go in a straight line. I noticed myself getting more and more like the character I was controlling, me rather routinely screeching at Will to get his act together — I can be too competitive sometimes, but we had a laugh. I think.
I am not too sure what the scope of the game is, but there’s some replayability in getting better times and beating the many obstacle courses quicker. Once our demo time was up, another duo instantly decided they wanted to try and beat our time. Supermarket Shriek is definitely a social game, and one that will be a tonne of fun when it lands on Xbox One as part of Game Pass sometime this year; it also lands on Switch and PS4.
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