There’s Poop in My Soup Review

Just by the title alone you’re left with confusion and intrigue. Thinking “how random is that!?” and “I don’t want to look, but I kind of do” and just like one of those deceiving clickbait titles from the interwebs you click to find out more, but unlike the anti-climatic “You won’t believe what happens next!” There’s Poop in my Soup literally gives poop in soup and so much more.

Let’s take a moment to delve into the mind of a game developer. There are creative minds that craft the masterpieces that become critically acclaimed. Then there are the lunatics; the developers that want nothing more than to see the internet go into a craze, but not by flame wars or controversy, but by poo. That’s certainly is what goes through the minds of Rudder Games, creators of There’s Poop in my Soup.

The premise is simple, you play a nameless turd tosser who stands above crowds of passers-by who enjoys nothing more than flinging copious amounts of poop down below. Moving side to side, you have the task of launching your poop in not just soup, but on the people too, in fact you’ve got a whole list of pooping to do, with the appropriately named to-poo list - which I suspect is entirely within the psychotic mind of the pooper. None the less, they offer crude challenges like getting poop into a bin, bounce off a box, knock over some cans and of course get poop in the soup of an unsuspecting diner. The more you check off the list, the more unlocks you’ll be rewarded with - although, I say unlocks but the truth is, it means more poop provided to fling, with the final unlock being a catastrophic power up of poop magnitude, but once you run out it’s all over.

There’s Poop in my Soup is crude and absurd, but you should've known by the title alone, but deep down in the bowels of it all it’s all about getting the best score. The more tasks you complete, the more people you poop on, the greater havoc you cause, the higher your score multiplier. This in turn kicks in the surprising decent chiptune, which gets louder and louder as you build up your multiplier. But watch out below, as if you break your combo you’re back to hearing the screams of panic and the amusing plops of poo hitting the pavement below.

Throughout your bowel movements you’ll get to visit New York, Beijing and Paris. Which are not full of stereotypes at all: with hipsters in New York, French Maids in Paris and Fumanchus in Beijing. Graphically the environments apart from the aesthetics they play out practically the same, but it still does the job in suiting your pooping needs - each having their sets of to-poop lists.

Don’t be expecting amazing AI here, passers-by are crude interpretations of people with long necks and will collapse and tumble very much in the same fashion as another crude game of lunacy: Goat Simulator. As for turd tosser himself, well he’s practically a walking butt with eyes and hair - yet he’s described as a young boy by the developers.

There’s Poop in my Soup is just silly and will surely give you at least 10 minutes of poo filled entertainment. It looks and plays more like a mobile game; you know the kind you’d play to pass the time while you do pooping of your own, but that’s not saying it’s a piece of crap.
At 79p it won’t feel like dropping money down the toilet, in fact it might just be worth owning for the title alone. By the end you never know, you too might just enjoy seeing the world amass in poop, just don’t try and replicate it in the real world.