10 Video Games Way Darker Than Originally Advertised
3. Bugsnax
Awww they’re little food-shaped buddies! Little friend-shaped foods! It’s all cute and lovely and a fun adventure.
WRONG. You could not be more wrong.
Playing as a journalist invited to Snaktooth island, your mission is to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of explorer Lizbert Megafig. When you look at all the cute little Bugsnax and the fuzzy, funny Grumpuses there’s no way you could foresee what would eventually become of them all.
Grumpuses consume the Bugsnax, each different ‘snax species transforming the Grumpuses’ bodies in different ways. It turns out this was a very bad thing because, as is revealed when the missing explorer is found as a horrible mutated beast, the Bugsnax are parasites.
They transform whoever consumes them in the long term into just another Bugsnax, and Lizbert can maybe consider herself lucky that she was transformed into their queen. Originally the ending was going to be even darker according to developer Kevin Zuhn; the plan was that the Grumpuses would eventually turn into ‘snax-craving zombies, devour each other and then you!
So even if this cutesy adventure turned a little more sour than expected, at least we know Zuhn spared us from a worse fate.