Perfect Vermin 1.0

Indie games have a long standing reputation of focusing on narrative at the heavy expense of gameplay. It's where the term walking simulator comes from, where the lack of actual gameplay has you needing to have an incredibly strong narrative for players to have any reason to play it. Thus, it's a pleasant surprise when I find an indie game that actually has both gameplay and narrative take the forefront, along with some mind bending visuals. Perfect Vermin is one of those rare games.

To install Perfect Vermin, make sure you have Steam installed, then head on over to this link to get started.

The game's presentation is immediately noticeable and memorable. The title screen with its creepy, distorted music is immediately striking. Once you actually get in game, the low poly graphics don't look too impressive until you break the door that the game tells you to, at which point you realize it's low poly because of the sheer amount of polygons each object has when they break apart. Then, when you finish the first level, your gameplay turns into a small screen that's being commentated on by a creepy man, who is your only companion throughout. No spoilers, but this man becomes more and more important as the game goes on.

The gameplay is also simple but challenging at the same time. It plays like a gorey prop hunt, where you have to look for furniture that's out of place to murder the mimic vermin that are filling the area. 

Perfect Vermin is one of the more engaging indie games to come out recently and it's quite short to boot.