last dance on the grey

December 21, 2022 9:49 AM

Skeal is a short (about 3-5 minutes) browser game made in Unity. Sound required for the full effect.

If you have trouble getting it to run, as I did yesterday, make sure you have cookies enabled. Also note that I couldn't get sound to work in Safari, but my version of that browser isn't currently up to date.

I first learned about Skeal at Rock Paper Shotgun, where it is a Christmas tradition.

posted by May Kasahara (15 comments total)

Sound required for the full effect.

Also, keyboard.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:56 AM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

Related: Kiss from a Rose, by seals.
posted by CrunchyFrog at 10:16 AM on December 21, 2022 [2 favorites]

It uses WASD to steer. I got something like 65 pleasure, 7 pain. I would've scored higher, but my thumb kept slipping down off off the A to the Z key. (I type weird by necessity.)
posted by Spike Glee at 10:19 AM on December 21, 2022

Totally needs sound... the audio is the point.

Goodness, I had no idea what I was in for and I loved it.
I've still got a big goofy grin on my face.
posted by digibri at 10:25 AM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

Such weird and wonderful randomness. Love it.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 10:28 AM on December 21, 2022

We're never gonna survive
Unless
We get a little WASD
posted by credulous at 10:34 AM on December 21, 2022 [7 favorites]

No better way to spend 3-5 minutes on a Wednesday afternoon.
posted by newpotato at 10:59 AM on December 21, 2022

This is truly the best of the web
posted by mhum at 11:05 AM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

I was expecting more pain.
posted by biogeo at 11:32 AM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

Not bragging but...I'm an Olympic level Skeal racer.
posted by Keith Talent at 11:41 AM on December 21, 2022

Trigger warning needed for anyone who had to work in retail or any commercial enterprise that played top 40 music in the mid 90s. There was loooong stretch of time where that song must have played once an hour, and listen, it's not the worst song ever, but boy oh boy is it an earworm to rule all earworms.

Now it's in my head for the next 24 hours guaranteed, THANKSALOT indie web game-maker!
posted by jeremias at 12:12 PM on December 21, 2022 [3 favorites]

This game is the first compelling case for VR I've ever played.
posted by Superilla at 2:05 PM on December 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

Only 6 pains!
posted by grumpybear69 at 2:55 PM on December 21, 2022

I thought perhaps the game would end with Seal, dressed as a Yeti, running out to eat me.
posted by Comet Bug at 10:45 PM on December 21, 2022 [2 favorites]

This reminds me of that time I found out the mystery of snakes.
posted by Nossidge at 9:10 AM on December 23, 2022