So I’m just going to come out and say it. I’m a puker. I puke a lot. A passenger in a car? Puke. Driving the car? Puke. Run up or down the stairs too fast? Puke. Rollercoaster? You guessed it, puke. It’s disgusting and awful, and it’s probably one of my most recognisable traits. I highly doubt there is anywhere in this world where I have been and not puked.
By now, you’re probably wondering why you clicked on a game review and instead got a rather gross case of oversharing; well, that’s because the game we’re talking about is pretty much centred around puke—something which makes me feel right at home in its world. Fair warning: If all this talk of puke and puking is too much for you to handle, this game will not be for you.
In Death Trash, the entire world runs on vomit. The technology? powered by vomit. The local dives and hangouts? Vomit themed. If you ignore the vomit, you’re met with chunks of raw meat that seems to fountain out of the ground around you and also serve as your dinner.
Death Trash is absolutely and utterly gross; there is no way around it. But just like me and my puking, the grossness works to add a little spice to a fantastic all-around creation. Death Trash is set on a planet named Nexus. You play as a fully customisable character (think of building a character in Dungeons and Dragons) who has been exiled from an underground bunker they’ve always lived in due to a mysterious illness. Now they have to survive on the surface with the other outcasts, monsters and skinless mutants.
At its core, Death Trash is an action role-playing game that takes you on a journey through a story-based campaign, either alone or with a friend. The combat is real-time and consists of two approaches: Stealth (my partner’s style of choice) or reckless violence (my style of choice). To survive in this perilous world, a combination of both techniques is required with some well-timed dodge-rolling thrown.
Death Trash gives you multiple different types of weapons to pick and collect during the game, and even though I had built my character to be melee-focused, I soon found myself rolling around with at least one of each type of gun I came across. Ammo is limited, and your stamina never seems to quite cut it, so before long, I had turned myself into a trash panda and was hoarding everything and anything I could get my hands on – – just in case.
