{"id":20351,"date":"2025-10-06T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/consume-me-review-anything-but-empty-calories\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:37:17","slug":"consume-me-review-anything-but-empty-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/consume-me-review-anything-but-empty-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Consume Me review – anything but empty calories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hexecutable; PC
<\/strong>A teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture \u2013 this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat<\/p>\n

If you accept the received wisdom that the Game awards are the Oscars of the interactive industry, then you could say the Independent Games Festival is its Cannes, and the Seumas McNally Grand prize its Palme d\u2019Or. So you\u2019d assume the release of this year\u2019s winner would be widely and loudly trumpeted. Not so. Consume Me\u2019s apparently underwhelming early sales<\/a> and surprising lack of reviews<\/a> speak more to ongoing issues of discoverability (and busy critics struggling with an autumn glut) than the game itself, which is an absolute delight.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, it\u2019s easy to make it sound like something you should<\/em> play rather than something you\u2019d really want<\/em> to. Developed over a decade by Jenny Jiao Hsia (with collaborators AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, and Ken Snyder), it\u2019s a quasi-autobiographical story about an Asian American high-schooler attempting to lose weight while navigating the stresses and pitfalls of teenage life. It involves efficient management of energy and time. A content notice warns about themes of bullying, fatphobia and disordered eating. It\u2019s also \u2013 somehow \u2013 one of 2025\u2019s funniest games.<\/p>\n

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\nHexecutable; PCA teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture \u2013 this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat
\nIf you accept the received wisdom that the Game awards are the Oscars of the interactive industry, then you could say the Independent Games Festival is its Cannes, and the Seumas McNally Grand prize its Palme d\u2019Or. So you\u2019d assume the release of this year\u2019s winner would be widely and loudly trumpeted. Not so. Consume Me\u2019s apparently underwhelming early sales and surprising lack of reviews speak more to ongoing issues of discoverability (and busy critics struggling with an autumn glut) than the game itself, which is an absolute delight.
\nAdmittedly, it\u2019s easy to make it sound like something you should play rather than something you\u2019d really want to. Developed over a decade by Jenny Jiao Hsia (with collaborators AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, and Ken Snyder), it\u2019s a quasi-autobiographical story about an Asian American high-schooler attempting to lose weight while navigating the stresses and pitfalls of teenage life. It involves efficient management of energy and time. A content notice warns about themes of bullying, fatphobia and disordered eating. It\u2019s also \u2013 somehow \u2013 one of 2025\u2019s funniest games. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hexecutable; PCA teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture \u2013 this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat If you accept the received wisdom that the Game awards are the Oscars of the interactive industry, then you could say the Independent Games Festival is its Cannes, and the Seumas McNally Grand …<\/p>\n

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