The Baconing

The main selling point is the humor, but that's very subjective and ymmv. The actual gameplay is kinda terrible, so I can't really recommend it as a game in of itself. The gameplay is just a very lightweight action-adventure of the style of Diablo or Titan Quest, but without the depth or character building that make those so good. Instead, it's replaced with a melee build with a mostly non-working shield who only attacks enemies you explicitly click on (while the rest of the horde murders you). In other words, there's no auto-attacking at all, so you just sit there spam clicking and trying to shield until you probably die anyway, and then have to walk back to where you died. Death feels cheap, but rather than this feeling kind of like a superpower, it instead just feels like a nuisance. Really, the comedy is the whole selling point of the game. Some obviously love it, as the positive reviews show. For me, well... The first time I played it, I recall really enjoying it. It's a very irreverent sort of humor with a egotistical a**hole hero as the main character. My most recent attempt at playing it, though... The humor just felt rather stale. I think the problem might be that this sort of parody hero has been done to death at this point, deconstructed and reconstructed, and so it's lost a lot of the originality that existed when it first came out. Not as relevant to me personally, but the graphics are also pretty rough. This is pretty unsurprising given the age of the game, and a lot of the backgrounds still hold up pretty well, but this then clashes with the mobs that look like something out of early World of Warcraft, still more polygon than mesh. So should you get this? Eh. It's pretty cheap, but the game play is lousy. Really, it all depends on whether the humor clicks for you or not - as well as whether you're willing to throw yourself against waves of enemies over and over to finish an area and move to the next. Personally, I would skip this and go for another game unless you already know you're a fan of the humor - such as playing previous Deathspank games or watching a let's play or something.