Yogurt Commercial 3

Try it. You'll like it. The yogurt, that is. What starts out as your first day on the job as the new yogurt commercial actor quickly devolves into absurd chaos in this fantastically fresh open world puzzle game. What I enjoyed most about the game is the interplay between the item system, features in the world, and character buffs that rewards creative solutions to progress through the story. The game practically begs you to break the mechanics in order to progress and is one of the most fun aspects. The story itself is a classic hero's journey with deep existential themes that transcend the mundane premise and the wanton carnage of the YC3 world. The dialogue is engaging and heavily salted with a very peculiar and wry humor that's characteristic of other titles in the Epic Banana lineup. I found myself strategizing this morning over breakfast (sans yogurt) how to exploit the games myriad items/mechanics to get over the next obstacle on the path to create The Ultimate Yogurt Commercial of All Time... I definitely recommend taking a look.

Today I learned what an oubliette is. Funny, dynamic content, with great systems underpinning the mechanics. Lots of personality and humor stuffed into every crevice. Really shows it's stripes as a labor of love.

Yogurt Commercial 3 is one of the best puzzle/adventure games I've played masquerading as a silly nonsense sandbox simulator. While it definitely is that too, fans of old PC adventure titles will find plenty of entertainingly head-scratching moments staring back and forth between some barrier to progress and the modest collection of strange items you've accumulated. For only $10 you really can't beat that and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes fun irreverent gaming as well as people who like to unravel puzzle games. Chock-full of streaming potential. I still don't know if oubliette is just a fancy word for dungeon though.

“Yogurt Commercial 3” is nothing I thought I would ever see. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, I grew up in a single parent household and was forbidden from playing video games or even watching friends and family play them. Despite this, it wasn’t long before I discovered FTP archives hosting indie games that I could secretly run on our ancient, second-hand Macintosh. And that’s where I discovered the first two “Yogurt Commercial” games by Epic Banana. Epic Banana’s games (alongside demos for shareware titles like “Harry the Handsome Executive”) became my benchmark for video games. I loved them all dearly, but Mac games being Mac games, I was always aware that they must be pale imitations of what commercial video games were actually like. If these shoestring projects managed to give the player such a hilarious and chaotic degree of freedom, then what were “real” video games actually like? Then I grew up, moved out, and was free to buy “real” video games. I was devastated. These weren’t anything like what I had fervently imagined as a child. I loved playing games, but a paralyzing depression set in as I quickly burned my way through all the titles that had any creative value whatsoever. I found an ever-increasing number of wacky “simulator” games, but they amounted to nothing more than gimmicky, nonsensical sandboxes with mayfly lifespans. Then yesterday, twenty some odd years later, I discovered “Yogurt Commercial 3”. I started playing after my evening dinner and finished the game in a single sitting, only to look up and realize it was past 6 in the morning. During that time my wife was anxiously trying to assess if I needed a medical intervention because I couldn’t breath and was frantically clutching my abdomen in pain as tears streamed from my face. I can’t remember the last time I laughed that hard. For thirteen blissful hours, as I screamed profanities at people licking regurgitated yogurt off the carpet, I got to forget about how bad the world has become and just be a kid again. That this game is a spiritual sequel to some of my favorite childhood games (“Office Building” and the “A Day at Work” series) is irrelevant trivia to almost everyone. But what I can say is that “Yogurt Commercial 3” allows the player an unprecedented amount of freedom while still, somehow, having a structured point-and-click adventure game underneath it all. I wouldn’t recommend this so highly if it were just meaningless chaos. Until “Yogurt Commercial 3”, I didn’t think it was possible for a game to present so many viable solutions for obstacles while still delivering on incredibly satisfying ‘eureka’ moments. There’s always at least a half-dozen tantalizing new things to try out, and no matter how dumb your attempted solutions are, you’re never met with the standard adventure game response of “try again”. Something hilarious and unexpected always results from your efforts. Thanks to developers like Epic Banana, I spent my childhood pining after an industry standard that didn’t exist. But two decades later, “Yogurt Commercial 3” made that fantasy a reality. People say money can’t buy happiness, but that’s because they haven’t dropped 10 bucks on a game about filming yogurt commercials.

I first thought, wtf do you do in a game about yogurt. Then I lit a table on fire, duplicated 10 eggplants, beat up the biker game, and ate yogurt, all in yogurt commercials. Weird. The mechanics seem to be solid, the dialogue between characters and the insult generator is hilarious and ridiculous, and the art is fun.

Yogurt Commercial 3 is really a game that caught me off guard. When I first saw the price I thought it was asking too much. However after playing for a few hours the amount of detail and passion thrown into this project is insurmountable. The developer clearly has a focus on making the game a fun experience rather than making something according to a template that will make money. The developer has provided a bunch of different missions to test your puzzle solving skills and they range from reasonable to hilariously insane. I really must commend the developer for this game. The amount of things you can mess around with and play with is something I don’t see often in indie games. It really makes me feel like the developer wanted to create a unique experience for the player without just conforming to what they thought they had to do. I think nowadays it is scary to develop something knowing that people might hate it, especially in such an oversaturated market. This developer has nothing to worry about. Their humour and attention to detail has secured them a top place in my books. The writing is not only personable but hilarious, you get the urge to talk to everybody just because you want to know what they have to say. I know it seems like I am just sucking up but it really isn’t that. I have playtested a lot of indie games and it isn’t often I see so much charm and personality in a project. I think this game should be sold for $15 CDN rather than what it is. Despite getting the game for free I would happily gift it to a friend and as a matter of fact I did. If you are someone who likes to take pride in helping out indie developers then this is a project worth putting your money into. The developer clearly not only understands what makes people laugh but they also seem to have a much bigger imagination than what is offered here. I think supporting this dev could end up bringing us one of the best indie games we have seen in a long time. 9/10

You uncover secrets, solve puzzles, and shoot yogurt commercials. Sort of a mix between West of Loathing and the chaotic energy of a mid-00's i-Mockery flash game.

Best point-and-click adventure i've played since monkey island 3 The game is absolutely ridiculous in all the best ways. The puzzle's are a delight as the sandbox nature of the game allows for multiple ways of solving them, making it much more rewarding and less frustrating then other games. Highly recommend

This is, no joke, my game of the year. The amount of love and insanity put into this small game. Wow. It's incredibly easy to pick up, and a continuous provision of new mechanics keep it exciting the whole way through. Solve puzzles like - how do I smuggle a camera into the dungeon of a vampire? Or, how do I defeat the concept of death itself and successfully travel the River Styx? Every single puzzle and solution feels fresh. I found that even by the end I was still getting that "AHA!" moment dopamine rush. So please, play this beautiful chaotic mess of a game. Gain the power a mad demigod time lord hellbent on one task: The perfect Yogurt Commercial.

Playing this game is like eating street food from a shady vendor. You'll either have the best meal of your life or you'll end up in the bathroom.