A few months ago, I was talking with my colleague Gita Jackson about this bizarre-looking game called Cruelty Squad. It'd started making waves in my circles, and was also leaving its niche status behind, as thousands of ecstatic reviews pushed the game into "overwhelmingly positive," aka rare, territory on Steam. We'd both been playing it a bit, and Gita described the experience thusly: "this shit rocks even tho i suck shit and don't know what's happening."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/93y7az/good-luck-finding-a-stranger-more-interesting-game-in-2021-than-cruelty-squad