PPG Game Of The Year 2024 - 45 - Tickling The Funny Bone

It's often quite difficult to get humour right in video games, given the unpredictability of the players agency in any given scenario. Here you'll find at worst a few chuckles, and at best belly laughs that leave you in stitches with happy tears pouring from your eyes.

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Gag Filled Walking Sim
Sitting well enough in the Stanley Parable box, this inexpensive and short walking sim gives you plenty of interactables with narration tied in for a good laugh through.

Digital Audio Wasteland
Post Apoc Exploration With Beats
Explore the world and bring music back to solve puzzles. Bit buggy, has some good writing, is free.

Duck Detective - The Secret Salami
Jovial Detective Mystery
A detective game focused on comedy but still with a decent go at uncovering a mystery. Feels ripe to become an anthology series in the future.

3 Minutes to Midnight - A Comedy Graphic Adventure
Cartoony Point N Click
A comedic point n click filled with puzzles with multiple solutions, multiple endings and gags aplenty in a 1940s setting with all sorts of mysteries to uncover.

Squirrel With A Gun
Squirrelly Shenanigans
The premise is silly, and the dev team understood the assignment. Dodge FBI agents as a squirrel who sometimes shoots things.

WHAT THE CAR?
Level Based Mechanical Jokes
Free from the shackles of Apple Arcade, the follow up to the excellent What The Golf? turns the one off game into a series with level gags and joyful play.

And The Best Comedic Game Of 2024 Is…

Thank Goodness You're Here!
Absurd Comedy Slapformer
I already love the idea of a "slapformer". Very British focused humor where everything is a gag. It is definitely particular in its humor, but the gag per minute ratio is up there, and if it’s your thing, this one will leave you in stitches. Also a wee bit gross at times.