i finished this game, yet idk what is this game about

Sludge Life is a trippy sandbox game where you go around and spraypaint your graffiti tag on various surfaces. It's a lot like Goat Simulator or Untitled Goose Game, where you just walk around, find funny things in the environment, and explore to your heart's content.

The visual style is really nice with the bright colors and design reminiscent of those bizarre 2010s Cartoon Network shows like The Problem Solvers or Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. I thought I was going to get bothered but the camera movement and flashing colors, but it wasn't actually that bad. It also does that thing where the main menu is a desktop and you can click the icons yourself, so that's always a novel thing.

In terms of lore/social commentary, there's very little. The evil corporation owns everything on this heavily polluted little island. Everyone is down in the dumps and constantly fed advertisements. You are a (presumably) homeless tagger that spraypaints, trespasses, spends time on their laptop, etc. The NPCs all mostly have pretty funny quips, but are one-dimensional besides their 2 or 3 set lines. Still, I laughed at a couple of different gags in this game.

I got this when they gave it for free a long time ago back in 2023. Finally got around to playing it. It's like 4 hours max to explore and do everything. I get that it's art, but the asking price of $14.99 is too high in my opinion.

Luckily, the game goes on sale for 80% off very often. At $2.99 it's a much more reasonable price IMO.

This game turned me into a Zoomhead, 11/10, would zoom again.