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RCOT: Relentless City Of Thoughts

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--- Arrow Keys/WASD: Run --- Space Bar: Interractions ---


The city breathes. It breathes in ragged growls. The city cries. The city slides its slender fingers across its concrete skin and drives its fingernail deep beneath its ribs. The city bleeds. You are Trần Công Lan, young second generation immigrant of the great capital city. Life has not been kind to you or your recently departed parents, and yet you still wake up every day and perform the same tasks you did the day before. The city warps and twists in front of you. No one else seems to notice it. You hear it creak slowly at night. You leave your small appartment and prepare for another day. You kick the city with every step you take on its pavements. You curse the city with your every breath. You look up and gaze at the bright purple smog, dancing jitters in the grey-blue sky. You sigh and go do what you have to.


Adrien Dittrick - programming, co-design, co-writing

June Flower - art, music stealing and audio, co-design, co-writing

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The music and text-to-speech voices really take the cake on this one, between the cheery rendition of Creep and that Livin in the City loop, as well as the psychic damage taken when you realize the grocery store music is Toxic sped-up beyond recognizability, and the GET DOWN ON THE GROUND DIE DIE DIE, this game is a surreal disorienting experience anybody living in the urban jungle can relate to. Garish colors assault your eyes in the grocery store just like their irl counterparts' fluorescent lights, as all sorts of batshit unreasonable characters make your life harder every step of the way. I hated playing this after a while, because it was too good at what it portrayed. The more stressed you are the faster you run

adriendittrick responds:

stress does do that!

this is the video game ever

adriendittrick responds:

I hope u did what u had to do!

Get mugged repeatedly by anime girls, run over, stung, gather marinara for Baron Haagen Dazs (because when your company slogan is THE <insert product here> MUST FLOW whatever your product is, it's a detriment to civilization and yet something it can't survive without, and since we already had bacon sundaes inflicted upon us tomato paste ice cream can't be far off. At least that's the headcanon I formed from this), run pointless laps on a track like a hamster from Hamizilla, wander the maze that is Dollar Store K-Mart while being molested the whole time by Butthead as he tries to make you his new Beavis, go home to your cheese box and sleep and do it all again the next day. Rinse, wash, repeat until you do a John and Mary and die. And there are still those in the world who would look at this and say "Damn, your life is good!" Where is Ms. "How dare they build something here!!!" when we need her? Probably getting game jolted by the Eastern Gods. Which sounds far worse out loud than it did in my head (which I didn't think possible), and only gets worse each time I say it.

adriendittrick responds:

that is very true

Honestly, I thought the story in the description was more fun than the game. (then again, that could be the point)

I don't even know. It's kinda a meme game though.

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Aug 2, 2022
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