Revisiting Ecstatica - the pioneering survival horror that used its fancy ellipsoid graphics tech to fill its world with dongs

There's a well-known phenomena in video games development known as time-to-penis.

The short version

• It's a somewhat tongue-in-cheek measurement of the time players, when given an exciting suite of new customisation tools, will take to create the first inevitable in-game dong.
• Ecstatica sort of implies it works the other way round too.
• That developers - when giddy with a new tech toy - can't always help themselves either.

What happened

But maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself. And even today its bold, vibrant, and decidedly spherical aesthetic is quite unlike anything else.

Why it matters

And 'curio' is perhaps the best word to describe Ecstatica, with its pioneering survival horror spirit, its ellipsoids, and its unashamed love of slapstick, boobs, and dong.

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