▲ Recommended
3 hrs
Surprisingly addictive and fun. NOTE: You don't actually spend any real-life money in-game.
The game is a satirical parody on the entire "loot box" culture that has pervaded our gaming culture in recent years. The actual game is just opening loot boxes of varying tiers. You start out with "actual trash" and work your way up the ladder to "Cardboard," "Presents," and so on. Each loot box class has multiple "skins" and "hats" (of variying rarity: common, uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary) to alter the appearance of your boxes. You obtain these cosmetics by opening the boxes with your in-game currency. The goal is to collect all the hats and skins for each class of loot box.
You obtain this in game currency by selling your duplicate items and by playing "Not BF 2" (a centipede clone within the game). As you obtain more currency you unlock the higher tiers of loot boxes which in turn unlock harder levels of Not BF 2 which give you more currency per play.
All in all, it's pretty simple. Overall I give it a 9/10. Love the humor behind the project motivation and execution is done well. BF 2 needs some work on hit detection but otherwise the game is pretty cute and amusing!
▲ Recommended
163 hrs
Every so often a game comes along that revolutionizes a genre or gaming as a whole. This is one of those games.
With ICBING, there are no gimmicks, no bamboozles. No pre-order bonuses, no DLC, no map packs, nothing. Just a rich gaming experience. The moment you start the game you get right to it. You are greeted by your first challenge. The trashcan. All alone in a stunningly generated room with next gen graphics. From here the game changing design intuitively kicks in as you are greeted with a button. "Open Loot Box" After a few moments of taking in the beautifully generated trash can, I decide to take the plunge... I press the button. Upon the pressing of the button, the trashcan draws in closer and shakes... again... and once more as it erupts like a geyser. Emerging from this amazingly lifelike trash can is what can only be described as gifts from our one and only. Gaben. My rewards for embarking on the journey of clicking the button. To my amazement, it is equally beautifully generated additions for my trashcan. Different trash bags, trashcan lids, thrown out Trump protest signs. I can truly express my individuality through my very own unique and custom trashcan.
But there is a cost. A challenge. This experience of unending satisfaction, suspense, and joy is not free. There is an in-game currency system. Your first couple of loot boxes are on the house. After that, well... you're on the streets, kid. BUT WAIT! Worry not you, adventurous trashcan. This can easily be remedied. What if I told you that you don't even need a credit card? Or even your mother's credit card? What if I told you that you can earn more credits to continue this magnificent gaming experience by simply playing a game.... WITHIN this game? I know. Good thing I was sitting down because I was also astonished beyond belief. With one press of a button you are transported to an entirely new sector of the game. What sits in front of you is a whale. That's you. That gorgeous free creature is you. What is your goal you, trashcan and whale beast of a hybrid you ask? Your job is to consume all other opposing, interfering, ill-advised forms of microtransactions and in game currencies and assert your dominance. You can single handedly save the war on microtransactions by consuming them all. Again, there is a catch. Your fallen currency and micro-transaction foes follow you as you are now their lord and savior. They are your followers, and you are their leader. If you run into one of your followers, the ideals of your other followers collide and cause an implosion so vast that you as a whale simply cease to exist... and you have to start your journey to save the gaming community from microtransaction once again. Fear not for there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You win even when you lose. You are payed for your previous trials and endeavors as a graceful uniting whale. With that currency you just gained you can go back to the riveting experience of opening more loot boxes.
You might be thinking "All this for a trashcan?" Of course not, young Padawan! Once you master the trashcan, once you have seen all that is to be seen, collected all that is to be collected within this trashcan... more awaits. After you have triumphed over the trashcan, after you have made that trashcan a shining, gleaming, radiating representation of yourself, your next challenge is to master the Cardboard Box. I will say no more of the challenges that lay ahead of you. That is for you to discover on your own.
All this can be yours for a single dollar. One dollar is all it takes to unlock a world full of adventure and experiences that are all your own. You even have the ability to prestige and relive this phenomenal experience all over again. Compete in online leaderboards to have the bragging rights of the century. All for a single dollar. In today's day in age, you can't get much for a dollar. A wink and a hug from a scandalous lady behind your local McDonalds? A stale bag of knock-off gummy bears? A crappy fidget spinner from a fad that died long before your time? None can compare to the memories you will have with this game. All. For. A single. Dollar.
The decision is yours, Padawan.
