Welcome to the event! On the 28th of February 2026 we will be streaming weird mostly japanese games for SpecialEffect. We are once again putting the power in your hands.
DONATIONS FOR GAMES ARE NOW CLOSED. Please check the donate button and tiltify for other incentives!
As always there will be surprises along the way and fun ways to make us suffer even more under the event. Expect another special guest this year and the return of a fan favourite. Click on the DONATE image to donate.
 |
The finest(?) games 2000 Yen can buy. Donate to see us play classics like "Love⭐Mahjong" and "Boxing"
Donation Code: G1 |
 |
Racing Lagoon is Square's unhinged PS1 experiment: midnight street racing meets JRPG melodrama. These lads feel strongly about their wheels.
Donation Code: G2 |
 |
A dark-but-cute adventure! 5 kids return to their old school to keep a childhood promise... a creepy mystery unravels!!
Donation Code: G3 |
 |
A panic-fueled survival adventure where a luxury ship sinks, everyone freaks out, and your every decision can make it worse!!
Donation Code: G4 |
 |
Rooms! Trapped in several rooms!! The solution to your captivity? Increasingly bizarre conversations with NPCs. Bless these translators
Donation Code: G5 |
 |
An absurd point-and-click oddity where the titular Cookie skips through encounters impossible to describe in 20 words or less
Donation Code: G6 |
 |
A historically accurate portrayal of the first dog in space, keeping all the psychedelic elements intact. Donate for anthro
Donation Code: G7 |
 |
This is here because it's Kojima, it's noir, it's cops in space. Will someone make smoking look cool? Donate to find out
Donation Code: G8 |
 |
Kei and Reina land on a mysterious island to find their lost friend, only to discover it's survival horror!! Blue Stinger flashbacks...
Donation Code: G9 |
 |
Force cats to fall in love so they have to sing pop songs for you. Don't mind if I do
Donation Code: G10 |
 |
It's a hot air balloon game where you do hot air balloon things. Floating, drifting etc. The challenge is staying awake
Donation Code: G11 |
 |
The fifth "Mystery Dungeon" game to be released, but the first with a fat yellow bird as the protagonist. Brand equity
Donation Code: G12 |
 |
It's a hack-and-slash game, it's made by hacks and I want to take a slash on their game design document
Donation Code: G13 |
 |
The little-known indie darling! It's like Undertale if it was Japanese. Donate to signal boost these obscure titles
Donation Code: G14 |
 |
Fire Emblem designer Shouzou Kaga presents this drastically different medieval tactics RPG: the names of characters and places are different
Donation Code: G15 |
 |
A tense survival thriller where the city has gone wrong, paranoia prevails, and your journalistic skills will be put to the test
Donation Code: G16 |
 |
Did that thing just move or was that just the PS1's Affine Texture Mapping? It's a visual nightmare either way
Donation Code: G17 |
 |
The bishy Sci-Fi RPG! Do the magical girl's clothes explode when she loses? It's entirely plausible. Can we even stream this
Donation Code: G18 |
 |
A movie tie-in NES game where a film crew explore the scariest thing possible: a big house. An evil residence...?
Donation Code: G19 |
 |
Adams Adler must solve the disappearance of Doctor Hauzer! Unfortunately the mansion is both spooky and puzzle filled (many such cases)
Donation Code: G20 |
 |
A terrorist plot crashes your plane on a frigid mountain summit, help the survivors descend the frozen peak or perish!
Donation Code: G21 |
 |
A rhythm game with uncanny-looking dog people. The screenshots of this are bad enough don't make me play it
Donation Code: G22 |
 |
FairyTale's first "violence" themed game after getting owned by the Japanese Govt. for their "sex" themed games. Aaaa zombies!!
Donation Code: G23 |
 |
An evolution simulation game where you must adapt to the alien environment to survive. Features interactive pissing!!
Donation Code: G24 |
 |
The isekai classic, famous for its "feminine sensibility" and quirky characters. Mayor Frogcar is a frog in a car.
Donation Code: G25 |
 |
Trapped in the school, a young lad's mates are picked off one by one. Dodge beasties and solve puzzles or die!!
Donation Code: G26 |
 |
In Lunacy, the Savage Dream... in Limbo, the Silent Dream... in Linking, the Sapient Dream... try playing this at 5AM
Donation Code: G27 |
 |
Bandai delivers the atmospheric, moody tactics RPG that dares to ask the question: corridors? (the answer is yes)
Donation Code: G28 |
 |
A kaleidoscopic "tube-shooter" in the vein of Tempest, set in a flat polgon hell with a thumping techno soundtrack
Donation Code: G29 |
 |
A beat-em-up about a salaryman who becomes so consumed with rage he punches his entire office, and then everything else
Donation Code: G30 |
 |
Mizzurna Falls is an odd town where strange things happen and nothing is like Twin Peaks at all
Donation Code: G31 |
 |
A rich kid controls a giant robot with a remote control to beat up the enemy robots. Hell yes
Donation Code: G32 |
 |
A mecha strategy game. Protect your own hexagons and hit hexagons with enemy mechs with a sword. Hexagon
Donation Code: G33 |
 |
Can't decide whether to play Monster Rancher or Beyblade? Thank your Gods for Gangway Monsters! It's Monster Rancher Beyblade
Donation Code: G34 |
 |
A turn-based vehicle combat RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. The protagonist isn't actually called Max, or even the road warrior
Donation Code: G35 |
 |
FMV game where visiting hours at the hospital are interrupted by explosions. Explore the eerie wards, for all is not as it seems...
Donation Code: G36 |
 |
So aesthetic... artist Naohisa Inoue traps you in one of his paintings, which the Playstation desperately tries to render nicely
Donation Code: G37 |
 |
Or "Scary Photos: Tales in Spirit Photography" in English. Check real-life digitized photos for ghostly apparitions ripe for exorcism
Donation Code: G38 |
 |
Keaton Paxman is locked inside Uncle Parkinson's estate. What a faff. Escape or be subjected to comic mischief!
Donation Code: G39 |
 |
It's a quiz game about the USA made by Japanese people, which will only confuse and confound us
Donation Code: G40 |
 |
Action game based on the legendary manga. Pervert bodyguard has ridiculous aim and gets hit with a mallet for being horny
Donation Code: G41 |
 |
Slow-paced post-apocalyptic submarine life simulation game. Scour the seabed for salvage. Maybe have a fight or two. Dive
Donation Code: G42 |
 |
The town of Inzelburg is under attack by a swarm of vampires. Escort villagers to safety before they turn!
Donation Code: G43 |
 |
A dungeon crawler by FromSoftware that reviewers describe as "not King's Field". This game has weapon durability and no music
Donation Code: G44 |
 |
The legendary mecha tactics RPG. Set up your Wanzer, which is a funny word. Wanderpanzer means walking tank
Donation Code: G45 |